retneprac
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Wow, are those hinges man enough!
What have you done to your Landie today.
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Yes, I'm a sucker for big hinges. In fact I got the hinges off Ebay a while ago and have been looking for a use for them. The length of the hinges defined how much shed I had to knock out.
retneprac
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stupid question but I see this all the time, did you put the diagonal braces on the correct way round?
FlyingPete
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Made a start on rigging up some DRLs. No garish strips of LEDs here though- I'm keeping things period-correct on my 90. What I'm doing is the 'Volvo method' using twin-filament bulbs (5w/21w tail/brake light bulbs) in place of the standard front position lights, with clear lenses obviously. When the engine is running and the headlights are off, the brighter filament is in use as a running light. Switch the lights on and they'll revert to the 5w filament as normal side lights.
Turns out the relay in the towbar wiring (which I'm using as an 'engine running' power supply) is dead, but I got most of the actual wiring done at the lights and reconfiguring the fusebox.
Turns out the relay in the towbar wiring (which I'm using as an 'engine running' power supply) is dead, but I got most of the actual wiring done at the lights and reconfiguring the fusebox.
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If that was a door question, no these ones aren't diagonally braced because there is so much horizontal timber on the back anyway there wouldn't be much room. But when I do so I like to put them so as to be in compression as the door tries to sag. With five barred gates you get a variety of styles where the diagonals are both in compression and tension. Again I prefer the compression version as that's what a lot of the older gates had in Somerset when I was growing up and developing my preoccupation with hinges.
Yoyodyne
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Snorkel went on last week - t'morrow it's going in for it's new springs and shocks. Hopefully it will be a simple job - I've been soaking the old rusty bolts in penetrating oil for a fortnight.
retneprac
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A pro with timber! haven't seen many lately.
greyhair
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Done nothing to mine
Although when I got home my injectors were waiting for me
thank you Diesel Bob Fantastic service
Although when I got home my injectors were waiting for me
thank you Diesel Bob Fantastic service
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Sadly no, a mere amateur. But I do enjoy a bit of woodwork when I get the chance.
FlyingPete
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Productive afternoon today:
- Got my DRLs working
- Flushed the cooling system and fixed the leak (knackered hose clips)
- Fixed the exhaust downpipe (sealed the joints with exhaust paste)
- Replaced the split boost diaphragm on the fuel pump.
- Got my DRLs working
- Flushed the cooling system and fixed the leak (knackered hose clips)
- Fixed the exhaust downpipe (sealed the joints with exhaust paste)
- Replaced the split boost diaphragm on the fuel pump.
Snifflebag
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Fitted a snorkel including all of the "adjustments" to change the entry point into the airbox... I'll post a more detailed thread in the Discovery forum 
SeanJ
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Snapped the throttle cable so I had to drive eight/nine miles with what was left poking the vent on the front so I could operate it by hand!!
sp00k
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Changed engine oil and filter. Made a right old mess as the wind was very strong and was blowing the oil stream around as it drained.
RobertP
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Delivered 12 bags of firewood to a friend's house. I was reminded how much better a leaf-sprung 88" rides over speed humps when it's loaded.
RichardIStone
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Changed the rear brake pads on my trialer. What do folk do with the old (in this case very warn) pads? There was a little bit of friction material left on two of them :-o
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Nothing done to the 110, but I finally found a box of gauges ( including extras) that I'd been looking for for a couple of years, how they got from the garage to a hidden corner of the model railway shed I've no idea. They came from a triumph 2000 I scrapped back in 89. Now I can plan my new dashboard....
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Off to Cambridge today for a conference. Now that the overdrive is getting run in the transfer box doesn't seem to be getting quite as hot. So that's hopeful. The A14 road is very like a motorway so it was a nice straight run with some serious overdriving.
I'll be giving it a service before too long. Nearly 50,000 miles since I bought it.
I'll be giving it a service before too long. Nearly 50,000 miles since I bought it.
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Just filled up at Sainsbury's where diesel is 97.9p a litre. This week's travel, which has included a trip to Nottingham and a trip to Cambridge has cost me under £42. Who says Land Rover motoring isn't incredibly good value?
