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Looking at the photos of everyone else's bleed nipples, there appears to be a bigger gap between the bleed spur and the input pipe than on mine, and getting anything onto the nipple itself is just about impossible, it's so close to the gearbox mount. To make things worse, no adapter in my...

I'm sure you've fixed it by now, but looking at the parts you found, there's a bit missing! There should be a spring seat, a piece of plastic (it was green on mine) which the spring presses against, if this is missing, the spring and cable will mangle up again, on my Freelander it had started to...

Used this thread to help me when my rear window gave up, luckily I'd realised it was about to go last week (when I was changing the driver's door lock due to that other Freelander favourite problem) and had ordered a kit off teabay....it arrived this morning which was lucky as the window dropped...

I took my propshaft out last autumn, and never got round to replacing it (with the re-con vcu and bearings I bought) and even though we've had no bad weather it's been great in sub-zero conditions, where workmates have complained of their cars slipping about on the road. The prop assembly's not...

I used some very cheap stuff from Wilkinson's own line of car car products which had been sitting at the back of the cupboard for the last 10 years, and when that ran out I used silicone spray (which WD40 and Mr. Sheen contain?), a nail brush for the large areas and a toothbrush to get in the...

Just a couple of thoughts on this, firstly regarding drop-link length, secondly the knocking noise. Changing the length of the drop links may alter the effect of the anti-roll bar rate, it's a trick employed on track cars to set up handling, not sure which way it goes, if longer makes the car...

What ever it's worth now, add a grand to it when the bad weather arrives in November ;)

Just changed a pair of driveshaft oil seals on a rear diff today, it was a used one I'd bought off fleabay, just thought I'd share the experience with any one who's needing to change theirs. I'm not sure if it's possible to do them with the diff still fitted, but it's probably easier to remove...

And another hint, check for airbags in the seats, don't know if your car has them, but a seat cover can't be allowed to hinder them if the worst happens or things will be even worse :eek:

The mechanical jack in my Freelander had been sat idle in the boot locker for so long it had rusted solid..............:mad:

When you and I were a lad there was a lot more rubber in the world! The reason many new cars are supplied without a spare wheel is down to the world shortage of rubber. I work at Nissan, and customers have to specifically ask for a spare wheel these days. Having said that, I'm not sure if the...

Mine had some sort of captive (which didn't stay captive) brass thing in the plastic molding, I had to remove the whole battery tray (which may not be easy with the battery bolted to it). It did occur to me that there's enough room behind the headlight to get a Dremmel or similar down there to...

takeaway But it reverse, they came into the factory and took all the Rover stuff back to China....

I have bought a used rear diff for my TD4 and wanted to renew the bearings and seals before fitting it. Is it possible to do the bearings yourself? Has anyone seen a guide on how to do it? There's nothing in the Haynes manual and the RAVE only covers changing the front bearing. The seals don't...

The K series also came as a 1100 and a 1600, so it could have been very worse, or slightly worse. Rover were said to be working on a 2.0l K before they went for a Chinese.....

Thanks nickcc, will give that a go in the morning, all the bolts are out and the rear section and vcu are hanging loose (don't worry for my joints, they're not strained and I may replace them all anyway since I'm going to be replacing the vcu and bearings before it goes back on). Fingers crossed...

I've just done this today, well, almost, the six bolts are out (as above) of the front CV housing but it's not coming off. I've put a bit of Plus Gas (other penetrating fluids are available) in the hope that it may fall off over night, but has anyone else done this and needed to use a little...

We have two English Bull Mastiffs, two Akitas, a Staffy and a Lurcher, he may be interested in the Lurcher, but I bet he can't run as fast as the other dogs can. Needless to say, I had a quick tidy-up so nothings laid about anymore, apart from the Hippolander..... It's a shame we don't have...

As I lay sleeping the day away (I'm on nights this week) a bloke knocked on our front door, and out of curiosity the wife answered to see what he wanted. This fella was a, well lets just say a man of no fixed abode with a caravan and his main form of transport was a Tranny van. What are you...

I was crawling about underneath my Td4 earlier, and had noticed that mine wasn't in a straight line either, so either Land Rover had a lot of off-days or they're all like that.