What did you do with your Range Rover today

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I used my L322 to recover my brother's L320. That thing is fighting us at every turn and it's getting a bit tedious now.

Parking brake module died - ball ache!
Shoes and back plates knackered -have to press out the drive flange - Ball ache!
On the nearside the top bush was seized, had to cut it off and press in a new one - Ball - ache!
Metal brake pipe rotted out, had to un-seize the unions to the flexi pipes - not too bad really, stop whining.
Got it back together and went for a short drive for diesel and to bed in the EPB shoes. Coolant leaking everywhere!
Lower hose reseated (not sure why it has only just decided to leak) - easy fix.
Still showing no diesel... Odd, another £50 in the tank. Still showing no diesel until you brake and then it goes to full.
Head to tyre shop for 4x tyres and alignment. Fitted, wallet emptied again.
Leaves tyre shop - car cuts out, restarts instantly, drives 100 yards and cuts out. Will idle smoothly for 20 seconds, hesitates and recovers about 6 times then cuts out but restarts instantly, still shows no diesel.

Bring on the mighty 4.4 L322 to tow it a couple of miles. I think we have a wiring issue to the fuel pump/sender unit. I can't bring myself to crawl under it again this week, he will have to wait, I'm taking my kids to France in the L322 for the weekend.

It's all good fun!
 
Blob said:
I used my L322 to recover my brother's L320. That thing is fighting us at every turn and it's getting a bit tedious now.

Parking brake module died - ball ache!
Shoes and back plates knackered -have to press out the drive flange - Ball ache!
On the nearside the top bush was seized, had to cut it off and press in a new one - Ball - ache!
Metal brake pipe rotted out, had to un-seize the unions to the flexi pipes - not too bad really, stop whining.
Got it back together and went for a short drive for diesel and to bed in the EPB shoes. Coolant leaking everywhere!
Lower hose reseated (not sure why it has only just decided to leak) - easy fix.
Still showing no diesel... Odd, another £50 in the tank. Still showing no diesel until you brake and then it goes to full.
Head to tyre shop for 4x tyres and alignment. Fitted, wallet emptied again.
Leaves tyre shop - car cuts out, restarts instantly, drives 100 yards and cuts out. Will idle smoothly for 20 seconds, hesitates and recovers about 6 times then cuts out but restarts instantly, still shows no diesel.

Bring on the mighty 4.4 L322 to tow it a couple of miles. I think we have a wiring issue to the fuel pump/sender unit. I can't bring myself to crawl under it again this week, he will have to wait, I'm taking my kids to France in the L322 for the weekend.

It's all good fun!
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Where abouts in France are you headed?
 
Blob said:
I used my L322 to recover my brother's L320. That thing is fighting us at every turn and it's getting a bit tedious now.

Parking brake module died - ball ache!
Shoes and back plates knackered -have to press out the drive flange - Ball ache!
On the nearside the top bush was seized, had to cut it off and press in a new one - Ball - ache!
Metal brake pipe rotted out, had to un-seize the unions to the flexi pipes - not too bad really, stop whining.
Got it back together and went for a short drive for diesel and to bed in the EPB shoes. Coolant leaking everywhere!
Lower hose reseated (not sure why it has only just decided to leak) - easy fix.
Still showing no diesel... Odd, another £50 in the tank. Still showing no diesel until you brake and then it goes to full.
Head to tyre shop for 4x tyres and alignment. Fitted, wallet emptied again.
Leaves tyre shop - car cuts out, restarts instantly, drives 100 yards and cuts out. Will idle smoothly for 20 seconds, hesitates and recovers about 6 times then cuts out but restarts instantly, still shows no diesel.

Bring on the mighty 4.4 L322 to tow it a couple of miles. I think we have a wiring issue to the fuel pump/sender unit. I can't bring myself to crawl under it again this week, he will have to wait, I'm taking my kids to France in the L322 for the weekend.

It's all good fun!
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Hope you make it back from France :rolleyes:
 
enjoi said:
What symptoms lead you to remove the heads in the first place?

I was really hoping to find something obviously wrong with my headgasket because I have symptoms :(
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Over pressure blowing out coolant, sniff test confirmed it.
Compression test was okay on left bank and rear 2 on driver's side, but nil on the front pair.
Had obviously been blown between cylinders for a while (we'd only had him a few weeks), and now miniscule track through to the water from the front cylinder.
 
Mark Piercy said:
Where abouts in France are you headed?
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Only to Boulogne and Le Touquet just for one night this time (not straying too far with a Range Rover :), nah, I'd drive it anywhere in honesty).

The Nausicaa aquarium is really cool and the kids haven't been (although my wife loves it there so we've been a few times). As she's at a Butlins weekend with her friends, I thought the kids and I could do that as it's close to home and then just found a cheap-ish hotel for the night down the road a bit. It's a bit of fun for us rather than any grand adventure. Folkestone is only 40 mins from our place so we really can "just pop over". Also, the kids haven't been on the tunnel either that they remember so they're keen to see that too. (We used the ferry at Easter).
Rubberknees said:
As far away from the L320 as they can ;) ;)
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This is harsh... but devastatingly accurate :)
 
Pa! do the Atlantic road - as good a test as any, and a great time of year for it too. especially if you do the 'full' route, Kårvåg to Bud and of course the trip there & back...
It's one of the trips I took a Velar on a few years ago - plenty of time to re-explore Norway (including the Lærdal Tunnel), I wanted to re-visit Kvitøya(Svalbard) but seeing as last time was a beach landing with some Norwegian colleagues followed by a hike to the top, it wasn't really something I could do with a company car in tow...
 
backinblack said:
Yep, 61 last Tuesday. Just been to M&S and asked the wife if she'd seen them cone shaped chocolate things with a nut on the top, she said you mean walnut whips :)
Should I be worried.
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At least at 61 you stand a chance of working all the way through the hand book, I was 76 last Monday so I've been on borrowed time for the last 6 years lol. Should you be worried, eerrr yes lol.
 
Graculus said:
Pa! do the Atlantic road - as good a test as any, and a great time of year for it too. especially if you do the 'full' route, Kårvåg to Bud and of course the trip there & back...
It's one of the trips I took a Velar on a few years ago - plenty of time to re-explore Norway (including the Lærdal Tunnel), I wanted to re-visit Kvitøya(Svalbard) but seeing as last time was a beach landing with some Norwegian colleagues followed by a hike to the top, it wasn't really something I could do with a company car in tow...
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Wow! I'm sure it's great and yes if like to get to norway one day but looks like a mission just getting there!! I'd need a holiday once i got back!! Doesn't look like something i could do with my annual leave
 
It's easy! ferry to Rotterdam, nice easy first day up into Denmark, camping or hotel overnight, day two will see you easily into Sweden at the Copenhagen / Malmo road crossing then up through Sweden overnight in Gothenburg if hotelling or up into the woodlands of Gotaland commune if camping. Next day, generally head towards Bergen then follow the coast!
About a week of relaxed driving, ten days with exploring, ending up in wild camping spots like this...
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Graculus said:
It's easy! ferry to Rotterdam, nice easy first day up into Denmark, camping or hotel overnight, day two will see you easily into Sweden at the Copenhagen / Malmo road crossing then up through Sweden overnight in Gothenburg if hotelling or up into the woodlands of Gotaland commune if camping. Next day, generally head towards Bergen then follow the coast!
About a week of relaxed driving, ten days with exploring, ending up in wild camping spots like this...
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That's the thing, 2 weeks off work is pushing the limits
A week's driving just there and back :(
 
Arrrr, I bought some new ujs for my spare propshafts to rebuild, fit and then rebuild the original ones.. I thought they were gkn but no.... Alas britpart.... I do grease them regularly so has any one else any experience with them please? 🤔
 
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