Carrying spare parts in your Landy

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How many spares do you carry in your Landy

  • I have enough spares to build another landy, just in case

    Votes: 4 7.8%

  • I have a few spares for stuff that goes regularly

    Votes: 37 72.5%

  • I dont even carry a spare wheel cause that would encourage breakdowns

    Votes: 6 11.8%

  • Mine doesn't run often enough to need spares (Dr Evil option)

    Votes: 4 7.8%
  • Total voters
    51
In the series 3
I have several years worth of spanners, nuts and bolts, molyslip tubes, blue gas seal, 10 amp wire, bulbs,oily rags etc in the dash shelf.

I also always carry a set of quality sockets and spanners, oil and 5lts of diesel and a scruffy cardboard box full of random parts...a small blow torch and a can of penetrating fluid is always a good idea.

an invaluable tool is a copper and leather faced mallet as invariably you need to hit something


In the disco I carry a small get home kit of fuses and wires

In the P38 just the jack but also a breaker bar, a lump hammer, a sharp wood chisel and a 24mm socket. The chisel is to remove the chrome cappings of the wheel nuts should they have rusted and are too fat. The 24mm socket can be wellied onto the locking nut as invariably it goes missing (last one purloined by ATS)
 
Somewhere between shed-loads of stuff and not quite enough ...

'It depends', off-roading stuff in one large basket, tools/spares in another, 'extras' somewhere in the boot .. or floating around somewhere .. ;)
 
I am going to follow your advice on carrying spares. Only thing I need ...does anyone have the number of a minibus hire place in Rugby...gonna have to get the kids about somehow and there certainly won't be enough room in the beast for carrying passengers with all the spares, tools and spare wheels I'll have in there :rolleyes:
 
Brown said:
I tend to think that if you carry a spare part or have a tool for something then chances are you won't need it. I've got fan belts, fuel filters, bulbs, lots of screwdrivers, circlip pliers, standard Land Rover Jack, bottle jack, little socket set, big socket set, spring compressors, viscous fan spanners, allen keys, nut splitters, WD40, bottles of water, a spare fuel pump, pots of grease, rubber gloves and a few rolls of kitchen paper - better than toilet roll. I've also got hand cleaner and Nurofen capsules, circuit tester, multimeter (but it needs a new battery) Locktite, instant gasket, big socket for hub nuts, slim socket for propshaft nuts, stilson wrench, hacksaw, little hacksaw, spare hacksaw blades. Mole wrenches, pliers, balljoint splitter, Nanocom fault reader, hammers. A tin box with assorted drills and screwdriver tips. And in cold weather I chuck an army surplus kitbag in with spare boots, socks trousers and jumper in in case I get stuck somewhere and get cold. Sounds like quite a lot just for popping to Tesco.
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Was it Setright or Persig who said "the quality and range of a vehicles toolkit *esp, bikes* is inversely proportional to the chances of needing it:rolleyes:
 
livers said:
Was it Setright or Persig who said "the quality and range of a vehicles toolkit *esp, bikes* is inversely proportional to the chances of needing it:rolleyes:
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Well, I tend to think that if I take a thing with me then I won't need it. So it's a matter of trying to outsmart the Land Rover. The trouble is the Land Rover has nothing to do all day but think up new ways of breaking down, whereas I've got the day job, girlfriend, house, other projects and so on, so once in a while it gets the better of me.
 
Apart from the usual LR kit, jack, wheel brace and locking nut key, the sort of stuff I carry doesn't include any real spare parts.

I have a big yellow bag containing stuff like a basic dry first aid kit, Kimwipe roll, Swarfega, warning triangle, hi-viz jacket, some paper disposable overalls, a big torch and an LED mag-mount worklight, additional de-icer spray and ice scraper, WD40, jump leads, folding shovel, 5 ton tow strop, a basic toolkit, yellow twirly beacon and some Holts tyreweld.

I also carry a T-Max compressor and a couple of packing blankets knicked off a furniture removers.

I've only had the Disco just short of a year so I haven't yet worked up a list of regular failures.
 
Brown said:
Well, I tend to think that if I take a thing with me then I won't need it. So it's a matter of trying to outsmart the Land Rover. The trouble is the Land Rover has nothing to do all day but think up new ways of breaking down, whereas I've got the day job, girlfriend, house, other projects and so on, so once in a while it gets the better of me.
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Exacterly but don't the G.F. Job, house, other things, probably in that order work the same;)
 
I guess I fit into option 2.5

I carry a few spares (bulbs, bolts), a tool kit, oil, atf, brake fluid....more recantly I am carrying water, ins tape and a few other bits for the car.
I also carry tow rope, jump leads, flask, chocolate, blanket, spare clothes, hi-viz, torches crisps and generally a drink or two. I also carry a VERY conmprehansive first aid kit (sometimes AED also, depending if I have been on call recantly)
 
Well everyone laughs at the amount of stuff in mine. However at the weekend it came in usefull :p:p:p

When David thought he had broken a half shaft he needed a magnet on a stick, and guess what :D, I have one :lol:

And then when Dave broke his donut a crowbar was needed. Now this was even more fortunate, cause I dont have one in my Landy spares :eek:

However I do have one in my "rescue horses from stock wire" kit :D:D:D:D

But Steve999 is one up on that, he actually had spare half shafts :eek::D:cool::cool::cool::cool:
 
Used to carry a lot in my disco before i cut it up. Always had a decent sized toolkit, trolley jack, axle stands, fluids, wheel bearings and small bits and bobs.

Now i has my series which is a truck cab i carry pretty much nothing cos I've got nowhere safe to put anything :( until i build a locker to go in the pick up bed.

Although the likelihood of breaking down now is minimal now i has me dashboard mascot Mater in place to ward off recovery vehicles :D
 
Just done a 350 mile round trip for a weekends laning. Carried a prop, filters, wheel bearings, whitworth/metric/AF spanners, socket set, belts, engine oil, ep90, brake fluid, toolbox with mole grips, pliers, cutters, hammers, lecky cable, RTV, exhaust repair tape, exhaust bracket, trolley jack, waffle boards....dunno what else.

I topped up the engine oil :D
 
I have a vast wish list for tools I need but-
I do carry various spanners and screwdrivers , duct tape, grease and grease gun ,oil, atf , wd40 ,rust dissolver ,some other sprays I cant remember the name of, hammer, mallet, spare wheel nuts, spare bulb , cable ties, bath towel, microfiber towel, tarp, blue roll, kitchen roll , locking wheel nut key, led light, de icer, coolant , screen wash, spare wiper arm and blade, waffle boards, used my spare donut on Saturday , set of ratchet straps, box of nuts bolts and washers, umbrella and if I am out laning a sleeping bag, spare set of clothes and boots , micro camp stove , gas , kettle , water and hot chocolate and lots of cake! I am sure theres other stuff rattling around in there that I have forgotten too:D
 
Depends where I'm going or what I'm doing.

Pay and play, lots of tool oils grease, 2 front drive shafts and cv joints, don't carry rears as I have hd if I break I e then I will have done the diff aswell, water.

I have lots of little things in my tool box like, 2 bits of battery cable some welding rods and jump leads so I can weld with my battery's if needed.
 
Sleeping bag, food, water - for me....
Jump leads, tow rope (to help others :) ), bulbs, fuses, tools (socket set etc), coolant, 5 litres oil (engine),
windscreen washer fluid, belts, filters (oil, fuel, air), plus the usual spare wheel etc.

Probably a few extra's as I tend to throw useful things in the box in back as I walk past.
 
I used to carry a spare gear leaver in my Series III, after my wife broke the stick off at the end of our road (she actually left the Series there and walked back home even though it was still in second gear). I walked down the road and drove the Series back home...Simples !
A few years after that I broke the gear stick off myself, but had a spare complete with mounting plate stowed behind the front seats. I was driving home from work at the time and turned into a side road. It took me an hour to change the stick and I was on my way again... Though I did leave off the transmission tunnel panel to re-fit at the weekend.
 
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