What have you done to your Landie today.

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Done a bit of rewiring, soldering and tidying up behind the dash. Relocated my stereo and set my front prop correctly. Seems to drive so much better now :).

May have discovered a new oil leak though :( on the turbo
 
I've done a bit of work on the electrics. Encouraged by getting the dashboard lights, radio and cigar lighter going the other day I thought I'd have a tidy up under the front seat. Here it is:

There are relays loose in the box which previous owners have tried to restrain with sticky pads, unsuccessfully. There are also wires twisted together. Plus, when I bought the car the seat boxes were full of mud, a good deal of which I've now managed to clean out.
I took a few close ups to remind me which colour wires go on which terminals and set to work:

And here it is finished:

Doesn't look much, but a lot of fiddling about was involved, crimping the wires into new terminals in new relay sockets. Some of them fit onto the tines on the side of the box as Land Rover intended, and the ones holding the yellow relays are screwed on. Some of the other twist and tape modifications have been replaced by crimp terminals and heat shrink tubing. Battery reconnected and everything seems to work. I've scrubbed and Hoovered a bit more mud out of the box as well whilst I was at it.
 
Brown said:
I've done a bit of work on the electrics. Encouraged by getting the dashboard lights, radio and cigar lighter going the other day I thought I'd have a tidy up under the front seat. Here it is:

There are relays loose in the box which previous owners have tried to restrain with sticky pads, unsuccessfully. There are also wires twisted together. Plus, when I bought the car the seat boxes were full of mud, a good deal of which I've now managed to clean out.
I took a few close ups to remind me which colour wires go on which terminals and set to work:

And here it is finished:

Doesn't look much, but a lot of fiddling about was involved, crimping the wires into new terminals in new relay sockets. Some of them fit onto the tines on the side of the box as Land Rover intended, and the ones holding the yellow relays are screwed on. Some of the other twist and tape modifications have been replaced by crimp terminals and heat shrink tubing. Battery reconnected and everything seems to work. I've scrubbed and Hoovered a bit more mud out of the box as well whilst I was at it.
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looks neater now.;)
 
gemsdad said:
looks neater now.;)
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Hope I've headed off a few potential problems with things becoming disconnected, shorting and overheating. Sometime soon I'll be running a new live lead to a new fusebox somewhere behind the driver's seat, so as to power an inverter and various other appliances.
 
gemsdad said:
well what you have done can only be for the good.;)
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The Land Rover was only six years old when I got it, so I'm amazed how much the previous owners managed to butcher it. Clearly they owned a big terminal crimper and a soldering iron, but aside from that sticky tape and a strong sense of one's own capabilities seems to have guided their electrical engineering. That and a tendency to lose bits and pieces.
 
Brown said:
The Land Rover was only six years old when I got it, so I'm amazed how much the previous owners managed to butcher it. Clearly they owned a big terminal crimper and a soldering iron, but aside from that sticky tape and a strong sense of one's own capabilities seems to have guided their electrical engineering. That and a tendency to lose bits and pieces.
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so you mean a bodger with a tool kit.;)
 
Well, previously it belonged to Swansea power station, so the wiring was modified to accommodate various extra equipment, and maintenance was carried out by power station technicians. In doing so, they obviously lost every screw, clip, grommet, washer and bracket they could, and if it was essential to hold the car together, butchered something approximately the right size into the hole instead. Plus all the cavities were filled with grey mud that was really hard where it had dried out. Ash from the power station presumably. I think I've got rid of most of it by now, but it has been a slow process.
 
Brown said:
Well, previously it belonged to Swansea power station, so the wiring was modified to accommodate various extra equipment, and maintenance was carried out by power station technicians. In doing so, they obviously lost every screw, clip, grommet, washer and bracket they could, and if it was essential to hold the car together, butchered something approximately the right size into the hole instead. Plus all the cavities were filled with grey mud that was really hard where it had dried out. Ash from the power station presumably. I think I've got rid of most of it by now, but it has been a slow process.
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ok,so it was a bodger with a very large expensive tool box then.lol.
 
Just done my first track rod end and learnt how to take the play out of my steering............now who designed the puma engine and why did they decide to put it all on top of the steering box :eek:
 
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