What have you done to your Freelander today

saxavordian said:

It an experienced you can fondly remember that keeps you going. Talking about aircraft flying in Scotland the natives also called them birds with loud noise. Weird that. Strange time doing a tour in Scotland with locals still tending the cattle and sheep. Only to be interupted by low flying jets on training jaunt

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Wasn't it at Lossiemouth where they broke up all the new DC10 early warning planes which had already been paid for by the taxpayer but still deceided to scrap 'em?
I've stayed on HMS Calidonia a couple of times when my daughter was doing sailing instructing with the Sea Cadets & had a good view from there of HMS Queen Elizabeth before the two halves were welded together & the second time when it was welded together. I'd never sailed before & she took me out under the Forth bridge & it was brilliant, the Queensferry area is very nice & I'll have to revisit one day in the LR with tent.

Andy Warren said:

Wasn't it at Lossiemouth where they broke up all the new DC10 early warning planes which had already been paid for by the taxpayer but still deceided to scrap 'em?
I've stayed on HMS Calidonia a couple of times when my daughter was doing sailing instructing with the Sea Cadets & had a good view from there of HMS Queen Elizabeth before the two halves were welded together & the second time when it was welded together. I'd never sailed before & she took me out under the Forth bridge & it was brilliant, the Queensferry area is very nice & I'll have to revisit one day in the LR with tent.

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Kinloss outside forres was the base for Nimrod's later became a army camp I think for the unit from Germany. Lossiemouth had Shackleton's at my time as they was only reliable. The replacement Nimrod's fat nose version kept failing miserably. Due to cost of maintaining both Shackleton's then Nimrod's were eventually scrapped. Eventually the later version of the Nimrod's MK4 was scrapped.
Lossiemouth used to be a RNAS station.
When I left kinloss for my next post to Shetland Islands of unst. Was even a funny camp being on the north tip closer to Norway. We had our first clean Landrover 90s with that fresh smell. Vauxhall's cavelliers Sherpas and possibly the slowest 109 put on this clean earth.. the camp was defended with white picket fences regularly painted until modern version came called barbwire. If you're wondering where I got my cartoon drawing bug it was there.

You know when you have an odd smell eminating from the back. Yep toolbox fishtank was rusty. Treated this a few years back an all. Looking like another stint at the wire brush and paint.

saxavordian said:

You know when you have an odd smell eminating from the back. Yep toolbox fishtank was rusty. Treated this a few years back an all. Looking like another stint at the wire brush and paint.

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Try and seal around the edges of the fish tank. It was spot welded in place but not really sealed hence the water gets in from road spray.
I'm not sure if you could do this from below or would need to remove the carpet to do it.

Alibro said:

Try and seal around the edges of the fish tank. It was spot welded in place but not really sealed hence the water gets in from road spray.
I'm not sure if you could do this from below or would need to remove the carpet to do it.

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I have sealed previously but having looked and clean the seam area. I did notice from the screw holes rust so thinking this also another point of entry. The fishtank itself I dried up and clean. I just given a fresh lick of smooth hamerite paint. Seems more from the hinges for the lid area.

Alibro said:

Try and seal around the edges of the fish tank. It was spot welded in place but not really sealed hence the water gets in from road spray.
I'm not sure if you could do this from below or would need to remove the carpet to do it.

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Carpet wise I think the previous owner must have had a bad day and cut the carpet out but left the box section as a keep sake. Debating whether just ditch it anyway.

saxavordian said:

Carpet wise I think the previous owner must have had a bad day and cut the carpet out but left the box section as a keep sake. Debating whether just ditch it anyway.

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I've drilled out the rivets in mine and removed it with the intention of welding in a piece of flat steel. While removing it I was amazed at the lack of any seam sealer, it seems LR thought the underbody sealer was enough but as we all know this was pretty stupid, mine was quite rotten.
The plan is to use the space recovered from removing it and the exhaust for a battery box but I still haven't completed the fuel tank battery box.
I'm working on the radiator atm.

Alibro said:

I've drilled out the rivets in mine and removed it with the intention of welding in a piece of flat steel. While removing it I was amazed at the lack of any seam sealer, it seems LR thought the underbody sealer was enough but as we all know this was pretty stupid, mine was quite rotten.
The plan is to use the space recovered from removing it and the exhaust for a battery box but I still working haven't completed the fuel tank battery box.

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At the moment I have painted the box the sealing area and captive screw holes. Im trying to dry out the carpet box section seeing the weather dry.

Must admit it does seem a bit of pointless box for what it used for really. Can only get a hairdryer and a few curlers.

Replaced all the wipers on mine (opened the rear window to change the rear one so as not to remove the spare wheel - so lazy!)

But in more exciting news, remapped the 1.8 K-series - I'll start a separate thread on that!

rob_bell said:

But in more exciting news, remapped the 1.8 K-series - I'll start a separate thread on that!

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Yep, more detail on that one please, findings, cost, company, economy, etc etc...

It was a weekend of mixed success with the poorly TD4. I replaced the turbo core, after cleaning everything up. The vanes were in a right state being coked up with soot, and needing quite a lot of force to move. So all nice and shiny now, and move with the slightest touch. - And following a lot of arm twisting, grazing and bruising, the turbo is back secured to the rear of the engine.

So, all the other bits back together, started her up, after having plenty of goes with the injectors disconnected, to prime the turbo core, in addition to previous squirt from the syringe. That relief when everything starts and runs. Then after a minute or so, revved it slowly, and could hear the turbo spooling. Job done!

That's the good bit. The bad news is that the blue smoke is still there every time I take it above 2000 RPM. I drove it up and down in low gear on a bit of couple of hundred yards of private land next door* and the blue smoke is still there (*can't drive on the road still, as no MOT).

Huge disappointment, and sadly I think it's a stage nearer to the knackers yard. The silicon turbo/intercooler hoses felt very sweaty after about half hour of driving up and down, so I was expecting oil to be present again, and it was..., dripping out of that first lower hose after the turbo when I disconnected it :-(

Checked the PCV was working, (it was) and also swapped a spare one I had in. Same result, (with a clean blue filter of course). The blue smoke after driving past 2000 RPM.

So a compression test kit is on order from eBay today, which I think is going to seal its fate, as I can only now think the oil is entering the combustion intake via the seals in the engine.

After everything that has been spent on the fuel system in recent months, I'm not sure I have the stomach (or time and money) to throw more at it. In the meantime I'm pinning everything on hoping the compression test is good, and maybe, what's already in the system just needs to be burnt off in a good run. Fingers crossed! - For although a recon head looked less physically painful on the arms to fit than the turbo was, it looks quite a task. And if it's the piston rings, then it will really be serious think time, although I could do the clutch at the same time, which is probably one of there next items on the list to cause problems.

Fixed (I think) my sticky knobs on 03 td4
used fly and bug remover from Toyota supaguard kit i got when aygo purchased

gjhill said:

Fixed (I think) my sticky knobs on 03 td4
used fly and bug remover from Toyota supaguard kit i got when aygo purchased

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It's horrible stuff when when those dials go sticky. I tried white spirit initially, but it made it worse. So tried meths instead, which worked a treat. Just nice clean plastic now. Sounds like the Toyota bug remover is a good alternative to meths. Must be quite nasty stuff too to dissolve those baked on bugs and blood.

Bought another one. It might be a bit yellow!!

andyfreelandy said:

View attachment 247023 Bought another one. It might be a bit yellow!!

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Perfect colour for a three door! I also liked that electric blue colour they did at around the time your new car was built

I like the yellow. I remember seeing them in the showrooms back in 2003. I think the Masai Mara versions were red, yellow and black.
The bumpers look nice and dark, as does the roof. Looks good

andyfreelandy said:

View attachment 247023 Bought another one. It might be a bit yellow!!

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You have an addiction mate.

Alibro said:

You have an addiction mate.

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I had a clear out and was down to 4!!
Also, lad turns 18 next year, if it looks OK then maybe a birthday pressie, if not so good, well..... Another project I guess.

andyfreelandy said:

I had a clear out and was down to 4!!
Also, lad turns 18 next year, if it looks OK then maybe a birthday pressie, if not so good, well..... Another project I guess.

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I've been looking for a nice high spec, low mileage one with a dead engine for a while but I'm being fussy and there aren't many around over here.
Something will turn up eventually.