UpandOver

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• Sep 9, 2023

• #121

Bonnet on and air feed pipe cleaned

 

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UpandOver

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• Sep 9, 2023

• #122

Collected the re cored radiator yesterday and what a great job ! Thanks Kris at North Wales Radiators I can highly recommend!

 

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UpandOver

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• Sep 9, 2023

• #123

Got her running ! But she’s hot ! Very hot! some basic fault finding and its the bloody new £10 thermostat that’s knackered….. grrrr

 

UpandOver

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• Sep 9, 2023

• #124

We what can I say… the maiden voyage was like something from Mad Max … deck chair cushions as a seat, some thrown together bracketry to hold the expansion bottle, cable tied fuel filter and were away down the road ! Wind in my hair, anti freeze in my eyes and lungs full of diesel fumes oh what a ride !

 

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UpandOver

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• Sep 9, 2023

• #125

Results are in….. she’s a runner … oh and a stopper ! All gears found high low and diff lock, brakes a pleanty thank christ as I scared the s@&t out of an oncoming car !

 

UpandOver

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• Sep 9, 2023

• #126

Changed the theromstat for one that worked and the guage was still showing off the scale ??? Put a multimeter on the temp sensor and it reading 115ohm which in defender speak should be lava…. Some more googling and yes you guessed it I’ve only gone and frigging fitted a green Discovery temp sensor !
This does harken back to the same problem that I had with the series 3… lesson learnet

 

UpandOver

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• Sep 9, 2023

• #127

Have to admit the 300tdi is a good looking engine …. It does complement my OCD perfectly

 

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myfirstl322

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• Sep 11, 2023

• #128

UpandOver said:

Have to admit the 300tdi is a good looking engine …. It does complement my OCD perfectly

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The kink in the turbo oil feed must Shirley be doing your nut then?

 

UpandOver

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• Sep 12, 2023

• #129

Hinges back from being blasted and galvanized, t washed ready for some etch primer and paint. Decided to drill and install a grease nipple on the inside of the door hinges along with a small groove in the hinge body

 

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UpandOver

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• Sep 12, 2023

• #130

Next job …. Sort out that turbo oil pipe !

 

UpandOver

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• Sep 15, 2023

• #131

myfirstl322 said:

The kink in the turbo oil feed must Shirley be doing your nut then?

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Replacement pipe ordered today !

 

UpandOver

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• Sep 15, 2023

• #132

Door hinges paint dried I spent the evening aligning the front doors, driver side went on perfectly but the passenger one was another story… after some gentle bulk head adjustment with a ratchet strap and rear tub lifting with a 4x2 were there !

 

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LincolnSteve

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• Sep 15, 2023

• #133

That’s the sort of door alignment that the rest of us dream of.

 

UpandOver

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• Sep 15, 2023

• #134

Tell me now… why does every landy door I fit pull in at the bottom ? Its as if they are twisted??

 

LincolnSteve

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• Sep 15, 2023

• #135

Don’t ask me. The more of mine that I reassemble the more I realise that I can’t get anything to just line up.

 

Bobsticle

De Villes Advocaat

• Sep 17, 2023

• #136

Wasn’t that one of the reasons they became so expensive to make. Computermibobs couldn’t build one. Maybe AI will allow robots to swear and throw things. That helps.

 

UpandOver

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• Sep 17, 2023

• #137

Even Ai couldn’t align doors using a rachet strap, some shims and a row of washers, especially only on one side !

 

UpandOver

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• Sep 17, 2023

• #138

Todays fetteling consisted of fitting the seat box, handbrake and drivers floor. Passenger floor to follow once the cable grommets arrive for the battery cables. Decided to cover all the floor and doors in sound deadening, what a difference its made to the doors ! They dont sound likes some sardine tins anymore. Going to do the same to the roof and rear tub, before I carpet the rear and put the head lining in. May do the rear side panels with some black

 

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UpandOver

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• Sep 20, 2023

• #139

Door check strap brackets cleaned painted and adorned with some shiny new arms and clevis pins.

 

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LincolnSteve

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• Sep 22, 2023

• #140

They're better that the series ones. Series 3 anyway.