Dave Smith's Freelander

davidsmith1307 · Jul 4, 2017

Skinny Mike said:
I have a 1.5m breaker bar and an extremely fat friend, he makes Jeff Capes look like he's got anorexia.
As yet, this combo has never failed. All it costs me is a bag of Donuts. Bargain

Mike

Sounds like the donuts are an investment in case of future fat-requirement.

LUKBENPHI · Jul 10, 2017

davidsmith1307 said:
Get a Freelander they said..... Everything is a reasonable size and easy to work with..

Yeah i fell for that one too!

Have you tried putting an old socket on the nut then smacking the socket with a large hammer to shock it free?

davidsmith1307 · Jul 10, 2017

LUKBENPHI said:
Yeah i fell for that one too!

Have you tried putting an old socket on the nut then smacking the socket with a large hammer to shock it free?

Sounds satisfying. I'm in!

Alibro · Jul 10, 2017

LUKBENPHI said:
Yeah i fell for that one too!

Have you tried putting an old socket on the nut then smacking the socket with a large hammer to shock it free?

Ouch! Sounds painful to me.

Right nut or left nut?

davidsmith1307 · Dec 19, 2017

Just to let you know I'm not dead!
What with working notice at my old company and then starting at the new one I have hardly been near the car for months (apart from clambering around it in the garage).
Decided that to get things moving again I'm going to get a local mobile tech to do the pump/belts and then I can MOT and actually drive it. That'll get my mojo up and I'll be up and at it again.

Skinny Mike · Dec 19, 2017

davidsmith1307 said:
Just to let you know I'm not dead!
What with working notice at my old company and then starting at the new one I have hardly been near the car for months (apart from clambering around it in the garage).
Decided that to get things moving again I'm going to get a local mobile tech to do the pump/belts and then I can MOT and actually drive it. That'll get my mojo up and I'll be up and at it again.

Hello there.
I know the feeling, after replacing the chimney etc, the wife's now got me decorating, replacing radiators, building wardrobes and working down a very long list.
The Freelander keeps giving me dirty looks through the dirt that's all over it.
Ah well, I'm sure we'll find some time in the new year

Mike
P.s merry Christmas and all that

davidsmith1307 · Dec 19, 2017

Skinny Mike said:
Hello there.
I know the feeling, after replacing the chimney etc, the wife's now got me decorating, replacing radiators, building wardrobes and working down a very long list.
The Freelander keeps giving me dirty looks through the dirt that's all over it.
Ah well, I'm sure we'll find some time in the new year
Mike
P.s merry Christmas and all that

You too. Work really does get in the way sometimes!

Alibro · Dec 19, 2017

davidsmith1307 said:
Just to let you know I'm not dead!
What with working notice at my old company and then starting at the new one I have hardly been near the car for months (apart from clambering around it in the garage).
Decided that to get things moving again I'm going to get a local mobile tech to do the pump/belts and then I can MOT and actually drive it. That'll get my mojo up and I'll be up and at it again.

Take a look here for recommendations if you don't know any mobile techs. They'd have a job like that done in no time.
http://www.mg-rover.org/

davidsmith1307 · Dec 19, 2017

There's a guy local to me who seems to know his beans but I'll certainly have a look on the mg site first. Cheers @Alibro

LUKBENPHI · Dec 19, 2017

http://www.mg-rovermobilemechanics.com/

Dave give these guys a ring very knowledgeable about MGR and K series, will travel and all the mg forver forums and fb groups highly rate em £150 for cambelt + travel costs from their website

davidsmith1307 · Dec 19, 2017

LUKBENPHI said:
http://www.mg-rovermobilemechanics.com/

Dave give these guys a ring very knowledgeable about MGR and K series, will travel and all the mg forver forums and fb groups highly rate em £150 for cambelt + travel costs from their website

I saw them come up. A simple belt & pump change looks a bit trivial for them

It'll come down to the cost of going so far off-piste.

LUKBENPHI · Dec 19, 2017

i follow them of fb and regularly see simple belt changes and the thank you messages they receive

davidsmith1307 · May 27, 2018

Well, after getting stuck and then being out of action due to work I am back on it.
Getting the engine mount bots out was a PITA and to this day only one has come out. The other snapped my breaker bar and has not budged.
I'm going to take the whole mount off (both halves) and split them in comfort - having to use an extension to get on the big top bolt makes it hard to apply adequate thrudge without the socket coming off the head.
So I'm moving again - metaphorically if not literally, and glad to be back.

Skinny Mike · May 27, 2018

Hello

Now stop making excuses

Mike

davidsmith1307 · May 27, 2018

Skinny Mike said:
Hello
Now stop making excuses
Mike

Sorry Mike

LUKBENPHI · May 29, 2018

keep up the good work Dave you'll get there eventually

davidsmith1307 · Jun 2, 2018

So...

I got the whole thing off but still can't shift the bolt as I don't have a suitable vice (just alcohol and Land Rovers).

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Other PITA is that the plug cap on cylinder 4 has slightly disintegrated leaving loads of bits of plastic around the plug and wedged at the bottom of the plug well.

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Alibro · Jun 2, 2018

davidsmith1307 said:
So...

I got the whole thing off but still can't shift the bolt as I don't have a suitable vice (just alcohol and Land Rovers).

Other PITA is that the plug cap on cylinder 4 has slightly disintegrated leaving loads of bits of plastic around the plug and wedged at the bottom of the plug well.

That hand is far to clean for a LR owner.

davidsmith1307 · Jun 2, 2018

See the glove in the first picture. That is my "mustn't get ****e on the posh phone" hand.

Alibro · Jun 2, 2018

davidsmith1307 said:
See the glove in the first picture. That is my "mustn't get ****e on the posh phone" hand.

I wear similar gloves all the time but the cotton bits get soaked in oil and grease in short order so that my hands get dirty just putting them on.

And of course I'm too tight to chuck them out.

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