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fitted my south down snorkel and also cut the bottom off my front bumper to allow abit more clearance and fitted my second rear work light and wired them in. but thats it for the lights now as i'm starting to look like bl**dy blackpool illuminations.
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I took the front carpet up..........

Found some rust.........

Treated rust.........

Carpet and sound deadenings still drying outside! Could be weeks!!!
 
On my FreeLander Sport... replaced the front discs and pads with EBC upgraded heavy duty 4x4 brake kit.

Two days it took thanks to ceased bolts!!
 
Messed about with fittin' the bits and pieces tae the o/s wing, stuck me lights in, fitted a td5 bonnet opener, gave the gearbox tunnel a clean and stuck it in, gave the floor plates a clean and stuck them in after fittin' new seals, fitted the fiddly air intake bit and refitted me snorkle. Then ah was gonna take the fuel tank off and thought ah'd hear how the old bus was runnin'... threw me spanners tae feck and shouted and swore at it... the thing wouldn't start!!!!! Spent the rest of the evenin' tryin' tae figure out why not and also lookin' for a photie of the back of the ignition barrel with the wires on. Got the thing runnin' but it wasn't right... started ok, but when ah went tae switch it off it still ran on in one step down from the normal runnin' position. Just found a good clear photie with the barrel wires so will try that tomorrow;):D
 
today I had my first go with a multimeter. checked the ARM to see if it was running ok. airflow was fine but base CO was just iver 2 so turned it down to 1.2. will have to get a go at a gas analyser to check it properly. it solved my idling problem too which was nice. just got to fix the leaking fuel pipe from the fillter to the tank and replace a faulty LPG injector.
 
Finished bolting the middle rear seat belt mounts in and painted the new boot floor ready for everything going back into my disco, long job but it's almost done ready for the end of May and a trip to Holland.

Mike
 
Made a false floor a couple weeks ago. Never made anything before so happy with how it came out. Made it with a wooden frame.

It's going to get revisited later in the year want to take it all apart, make it from a metal frame and finished with MDF, I need to learn how to weld and get some gear for it.

I want to make it modular, in five parts, so that the boot area always has the false floor/extra storage and the rear seats can be left in, folded forward or swapper for extra floor space/storage. The bits where the dickie seats were will be sperate, then the boot space will be another separate part and then the last two peices will be interchangable so that I can either completley swap them out with the rear seats, or if I have a mate(s) that want to come out with us I could keep one of the seats in and have storage ion place of the other. We have the four dogs so having a lot of room is a must and have found when camping or going on long weekends that there is loads of room lost by just folding the rear seats forward they take up a lot of room.

Have a butchers.

The frame which I fixed to the boot floor (the floor was cleaned and any rust spots rubbed down, treated then primed and sprayed)

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Bottom frame covered

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Supports for the next level

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Another frame on top, this was also secured to the body at the arches and where the dickie seats were to help stop it from collapsing when accelerating and braking.

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The man at work ; )

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The nearly finished product

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Couldn't be R'sed finishing properly, as it just gets abused by the dogs. Where the rear seats were there is a hatch which opens for storage. It's great, dogs water, foor, first aid kit, it's great, we go out for the day to Salisburty we throw in the camping chairs, snaks and flask under there and the dogs still have all the room. The bit at the rear has only a hatch on the drivers side, I was initially planning the the passengers side to have two drawers in to be easier to fit tools in for when going out, but have since changed my mind and think I'll change it to a drop down door to put recovery kit in when we go out.
 
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the ram is off at last, :praise:
count 2 broken 2.5m drill bits
countless cut fingers
2 days work on and off and.......
bloody hell it weighs a ton, o sorry its not a land rover its my 30ton!!!! trolley jack but i do lift the landy with it. as i prefere it to bottle jacks,
having some new roller bearings for it 2morro made,
 
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