What have you done to your Landie today.

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And this weekend, I will be finally wiring up my lightbars......

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20170303_120130.jpg t20170303_120148.jpg Fitted one newly painted wheel, l rather like the black rather than cream so l'be doing the rest weather permitting : )
 
Got my handbrake warning light working at last. My 90 never came with it fitted, and there was no place for the switch on the lever. So I swapped it with a take-off part with the switch in place. The donor part came from a newer vehicle and was slightly different, so needed a bit of modification with a hacksaw to fit the seat box. Ran a wire from the empty space in one of the bullet multiplugs to the new lever, and job done! Nice easy job.
 
Upgraded my piddly washer jets to these in my lunch break; http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/201661218144?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

I managed it without removing dash. I left the centre, now defunct jet in place, routing the new hoses out of the 'other' grommets nearer the wipers. It gives a nice spread and pressure is good. A few tweaks needed but overall, I'm impressed with the difference and especially as it only took 40 odd minutes. However, if I ever remove the dash, i'd fit the more OEM looking double jets on both sides.
 
Off to Wales again this weekend just gone. Fortunately the weather obliged with a fall of snow:



It was like a winter wonderland:



All looking very pretty. Then we went to the coast:



and looked at how time and tide mock the vanity of our labours:

 
Washed it and thought about the difficulty of getting paint to stick to Land Rovers for any length of time. Paint is coming off in a number of places - the door mirror arms, the chequer plate along the sills, the roof around the gutters and a few other places. Paint obviously doesn't like Land Rovers, or Land Rovers don't like paint.
 
Used it to follow a friend into the unknown.
Turned out to be a field where he keeps his horse box.
got my wheels dirty : (
 

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wired in a reverse dash cam and let my wife drive BERT for the 1st time and she fooking nailed him hard one thing I will say about my wifey she can drive hard core and she reversed him back in what a fooking pro
 
It's a lovely spring day here, so I had a look under the Land Rover. I'm getting a bit of a judder when braking at motorway speeds so I wondered whether a disc was running out of true. On taking the wheels of and spinning the hubs, I can't see anything untoward. They look pretty true to me. I didn't clamp a dial gauge on, but I used to do a lot of lathe work so I tend to be able to see things like that by eye, by lining the rotating object up with a static marker and looking for movement as it goes round. Absolutely straight. The brake pads I put on three years ago are wearing down so I'll get some more and see if that makes a difference. One of the front flexis looked a bit polished on one side so I wonder if it is fouling the tyre on full lock. I bent the brackets slightly to angle it inwards. I can't get it to foul just moving the wheels from lock to lock but maybe it does so when I'm driving and it is vibrating around. There seems to be some oil leaking from the rear of the transfer box and getting thrown around by the handbrake drum. Could be time for a new seal.

Other than that, just a few spots where some surface rust is showing through the Dinitrol. I'll give it a touch up later in the spring.
 
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