What have you done to your Landie today.

burnt off a disco...

fixed me compressor up ready for some serious repairs then sat and watched the fire burning and supped some tea.

nowt

test drove it and brought it off ebay for £600 bargain

Fitted cb and a oil and filter change ready for core chichester off roading experience site

Popped round redwingslandrover to modify my bull bar,well he modified it!

Hope your ready for tomorrow.Hows the spots are they ok now.

redwingslandrover said:

Hope your ready for tomorrow.Hows the spots are they ok now.

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Yer thanks they were fine all along it was the bull bar moving backwards and forwards that was making them shoot to the stars.:doh:

See you bright and early in the morning.Just broke the news that we are out all day tomorrow,shes not happy wants her painting done.

redwingslandrover said:

See you bright and early in the morning.Just broke the news that we are out all day tomorrow,shes not happy wants her painting done.

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easiest way to get out of painting is walk it all through house on bottom of ya shoes and she wont ask ya to do it again lol

Becky B said:

easiest way to get out of painting is walk it all through house on bottom of ya shoes and she wont ask ya to do it again lol

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Or you will have to finish the painting and buy a load more carpets

No wont get away with that

Stuck two rivnuts in the Td5 bulkhead just tae see if what what Trewy and Pikey said was right... and they were, cheers guys
Also bought some seam sealer stuff that ah'm hopin' tae stick on the morn.
Other than that, ah just drove the bus tae work and back the day

went down to paddocks in it to fetch a new front propshaft, thats a rear diff and a prop ive busted this week!

I found another big rust hole in my Discovery.

p*ssed about in the snow with the poxy tailgate regulator, still not fixed, but too damn cold to sod about anymore.

Brian S said:

I found another big rust hole in my Discovery.

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I found one of those back in June of last year. just a little one on the O/S inner front wing. Upon futher prodding, the hole ended up all the way back to the bulkhead on both the drivers and passangers side, inner and outer sills both sides, 'A' piller both sides, 'B' piller both sides, boot floor, most of the floor pan, inner rear arches both sides, and a decent amount of the roof.............




Good luck.

Preped a couple of small areas of the roof that i had missed and applied a coat of Karust. Applied another coat of 456 to the area above the windscreen and also realised that I hadn't masked up enough. DOH! Looks like i will be busy with the thinners to clear the white mist from the glass and door handles. Bloody hell, even though it is in a large workshop, that stuff doesn't half float some distance.
Borrowed a 2" drive, 6ft long torque wrench, with a 2" - 1" - 1/2" to 3/8" adapter to finally remove the bloody gearbox fill plug, (it's only supposed to be torqed up to 30lb/ft). I was going to fill the box up with fresh ATF, (the pink stuff), but it looks like the recently sacked YTS lad had been fooking around with the labeling on the tubs.
In one tub, (somoa thingy), was supposed to be normal manual tranny fluid, but I could see lumps of grit floating in that. In another labeled 'T5 & seqeuntial box only' was supposed to be a 50/50 mix of ATF and normal tranny fluid for the TVRs and race cars boxes, but this was bright pink, and the one that was supposed to be ATF was a golden brown in colour.
The recently sacked YTS youth was so dim, that when asked not to carry around a 5 litre tin of hammorite in case he knocked it over, and instead put some in a smaller container, this kid decieded it was best to scoop it out with his hands rather than use an old funnel and pour it into an old brake cleaner canister cap. yep, you read right. He really was that dim, so god only knows what on earth he has poured into all the transmission containers.

Jobs for Monday include;
Filling up the gearbox fluid
A bit more exterior painting
Locating the ECU and getting a Tupperware box big enough to fit it inside, (in order to waterproof it)
Tidy up the rest of my wiring looms

Tuesday;
Collect my new upper windscreen rubber from Gordon Lamb Land Rover Chesterfield, (many thanks for all your help Paul). A great bunch of guys on the parts desk there, including many LR owners. And their original parts are competative with the likes of Paddocks and other motor factors as they are willing to do deals. No snobbery from the parts department, unlike from Guy Salmon in Sheffield.
Final, (7th), coat of 456 in the area just above the windscreen. Second & third coats of 456 in the couple other small areas needing painting on the roof
Fit my new rear door seals and upper windscreen seal, (front door seals on order).
Get my floorpan back to bare metal, (it currently has just a coat of karust which was put on pre Christmas), and get at least one fresh coat of Karust on it.

Wednesday;
Secondary coat of Karust and first coat of Hammorite primer. although I am not sure if my rubberised safety paint with gritty bits is going to be compatable with this, so I will have to just paint a small area first, incase the rubber paint 'lifts' the primer.
Fourth and fifth coats of 456 on some small areas of the roof.

Thursday;
Sixth and seventh coats of 456 on the roof.
If the rubberised paint hasn't 'lifted' the hammorite primer, then hammorite the rest of the floorpan in the morning
If that primer has dried by lunch, then with fine paper, 'key' the primer ready for the rubberised paint on Friday.

Friday;
Add rubberised safety paint. This is quick drying stuff, (about 1 hour), even on cold concreate, (so I was told by the supplier and a couple of my customers who have used it in their factorys.
Re-fit the absolute bloody jigsaw that is all the interior bits and bobs. As I rushed to get it all striped out, and have since moved out, I am certain that I will have lost most of the bloody screws etc that I need to put it all back together again.

Saturday;
Wash, wax and polish
Add my new rubber mats and load bay liner that I bought of E-Bay that is supposed to be tailered to fit, but will actually need a bit of trimming to fit around the seats.
Collect and clean all my tools together to take back home
Tidy up and clear the bench and ramp that I have been using since June of last year.

The following Tuesday;
Take the Disco down for it's final steam cleaning session, then waxoiling.

The following Wednesday;
Back to RT Racing to add extra thick doses of waxoil to specific areas.
Add stickaflex along the length of both the upper and lower sides of the rock sliders. This very small gap between the rocksliders and the bodywork became a trap for a hell of a lot of muck, and I would rather seal it up than it become another bloody rust trap.

Then, untill I have saved up enough pennys for snorkel, wading kit, new rear bumper, fuel tank guard, secondary battery and fuse board, and a couple of 12v points in the boot, that 'should' be it, all being well.

Then I will have at least one of my babys back, as I have been without both my toys since late June 2008, (Le Mans weekend to be precise).
And if you think that all of the above seems extensive, then you should see what I have got planned for the Chimaera. I just hope that finishing that little project doesn't end up costing me my marriage / sanity, (delete as appropriate).

is that all.......

...oh i washed mine......