Dave Smith's Freelander

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Joe_H said:
Dave mate
that is superb - a total credit to you.. really nice job :D

Joe
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I hope so if I ever finish it!
Still a few jobs to do pre-MOT. I've decided to do the timing belt before it is MOT-ed as the idea of some gorilla revving the nuts off it scares me.
It's the colour that makes it look so good - not ant skills on my part, trust me!
 
Looking good Dave

Was just about to ask about the roof bars!

Set of fog lamps for those lamp bracket up front wouldn't go a miss either :)

Bit of bumper gel should revive those plastics too
 
Awww shucks you guys :D
Detailing can wait. Mechanicals first.
Must..... Have..... Discipline.....
Still never seen another in that colour. Only a photo of a P38.
 
I was getting a bit envious of how well the paint lasts over there - over here the sun destroys it. But......

Then I thought I'd take a flick back over the thread and landed on the posts about your brakes. I'll take a bit of paint fade if it means I don't have to put up with all that rust crap!
 
I'll take a bit of rust if it means I don't have to put up with exorbitant freelander prices..
Having said that, I loved Auckland when I went and did some work at Sky City Casino. It was when Auckland had no electricity because someone forgot to put 50p in the meter (or broke the cable to Australia).
 
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Found the matching colour I think
 
I'm no expert but I think these may need replacing.
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Traditionally the friction material is attached to the shoes if I'm correct :eek:
 
I wouldn't mind but they didn't break taking the drum off. The drum came off quite cleanly and the friction bits were about 90 degrees rotated from the shoes.
I had noticed that this corner didn't seem to be contributing to the braking effort.
Plus the cylinder is wedged solid, beyond the influence of Mr Hammer..
 
The other thing I noticed on my "not on the public highway" test drive was that the clutch was a bit low. Not on the floor but worth investigating.
I need to find the slave and the arm that often gets mentioned on here and see what's what.
Lots of fume smells in the cab too. The engine wasn't running long enough to get below a fast idle and the rear window kept going down so that won't have helped!
Every time I put the window up there was a beep and it went back down.
 
davidsmith1307 said:
I'll take a bit of rust if it means I don't have to put up with exorbitant freelander prices..
Having said that, I loved Auckland when I went and did some work at Sky City Casino. It was when Auckland had no electricity because someone forgot to put 50p in the meter (or broke the cable to Australia).
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Auckland is a beaut city to visit - the harbours etc make for a lovely setting.

The casino's here though are the cesspits of all casinos! They are truly casino's most horribleous - ****ty oversized sports bars. As you can tell, I don't like them much! Lewis Hamilton found out how good Sky City is when he visited before the Aus GP this year - did you see the Twitter message he put up - then quickly deleted when he realised how seriously 'uncool' the whole event was?
 
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