Morning boyos :)

So, pretty late session in the shop last night :eek:

By 2am I didn't fancy any typing so allow me to update y'all now :D

Bit of a late start really which didn't help, was finishing a cambelt job on a BLEURGH Mitsubishi L200 2.5Td, although tbh with it's spring tensioners etc it was a little better thought out than a Land Rover :rolleyes:

So that took til about 7.30.

Then I had to put my Dynabeads in my new tyres, I had washed and weighed the beads I took out of he old tyres during the day, I used to have 8oz all round but now I have put 10oz in the fronts and 6oz in the rear, i think this will help better with any front wheel shake.

If you don't know what I'm on about: Dynabeads Tyre Balancers. The dynamic way to balance your tyres.

This took a while because I was originally planning to send them through the valve on the car but it ended up with taking the wheels off and popping the outer bead down on each one to pour the beads in, so it took longer than expected, as is the law with LR tasks.

The main task for the evening was my headlamp loom, for which the wiring finally arrived after a week, thankyou Royal Mail :(

Fairly straightforward to be honest, I constructed it as a piggyback kit so that if anything fails I could simply disconnect and plug original wiring back into the lamps.

Equally if original lighting circuit fails, I can easily excite the relays to switch on my new lighting circuits with the use of a few short pieces of wire stuffed into the correct terminals.

Anyway, here's a pic

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You can see the old wiring plugged into male H4 connector, this is taking dip and main beam feeds TO the relays, these are now not powering the lamps directly, simply telling either of the relays to switch on.

You can see fatter wiring going into and H4 female on the back of the lamp, this is an earth direct from the battery, and a pair of wires direct from each relay (there is one relay for dip, one for main, each one supplying both lamps)

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So here we have 5 wires at each relay.

They are 5 pin relays, but 4 pin relays work the same tbh, these just have 2 output pins which makes connecting the pair of outputs TO the lamps that little bit more natural.

Anyway at each relay, we have a fused supply direct from battery, an earth direct from battery, either a high or low beam switched supply from old headlamp wiring and 2 feeds to both left and right hand headlamps.

And that's it :)

The only thing left to do which I didn't fancy by the time I was done was disconnect the dimdip relay, this no longer is useable because when engine is running it will switch the dip beam on fully when the side lamps are on, a nice feature IMO and quite vintage but with this new system it will simply switch them on fully, which is no good.

Headlamps are noticeably brighter by the way :)
 
This one has been on my hooge to do list for a long time! nice job tho!
How much did all the bits come to?
And do the beads make much difference?
 
Hi mark

I would estimate 30 quid for the bits tops, I bought some extra bits at same time so can't say for sure off top of head but yeah 20-30 pounds.

Well worth it!
 
Oh yeah and the Dynabeads are very good, don't get rid of death wobble but do tend to eliminate motorway shake etc
 
Great news!

I've been helping Mark L recently with his expedition preparation and this spurred me on to look at a few things we have been talking about, including vented discs.

Turns out vented calipers are larger than standard so will provide a braking upgrade, not just being solely the disc that is different.

Having 10 spline air lockers and generally being a 10 spline fan, I was worried that I would come into problems, seeing as vented only came on 300.

Mark offered me one of his old swivel knuckles and supplied all the new bits to test a mix of new vented stuff, 24 spline knuckles and 10 spline stub axles and hubs.

The result?

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It fits! :D

So, this means I can fit vented discs.

The second part to this is, being inspired by Marks incredible "back to brand new" axle builds, I want to fit new stub axles to get around my regular leaking blues.

BUT!

I do also have the choice to fit AEU2522 CVs, 10/23 spline front shafts and the associated stub axle out of pre 200tdi Land Rover. This is a different stub axle to a disco, so I need to weigh that all up before committing.

Need to check part numbers thoroughly but I'm pretty sure 2.5td land rovers had the same hubs as a disco, just different front stub axles.

This would suit me.

So, watch this space I guess!

Nothing going to happen immediately, have to plan a brake hose setup from Dave @ Llama4x4 yes, plus budget for new rear discs/pads/calipers whilst I'm at it.

My naturally impatient nature is not going to help here!
 
If you just want bigger calipers and pads on the front you can use Defender 110 front calipers. Was talking to a guy at the weekend who had put them on his Disco, said as long as you have the calipers with just the 1 brake pipe on each side they are a straight swop.:eek:
 
Nice little 60 page catch for me this afternoon/evening. Too much awesomeness to list but overall cracking work as always fella.

Liking the new tyres, where did you find them? Tried them off road yet? I've been looking at 33's for mine to fill out the arches a bit, Fedima Sirocco's are top of the list proper mud pluggers :D
Just a shame they are all so we expensive!

Ah that's good, glad to hear you're rolling again. The diesel makes a great daily, the v8 does NOT and do NOT think for ONE second you can afford it because you can't.

Mine sees daylight every now and then and that's enough for me thankyou, criminal fuel usage tbh.

Dads got a 300 which I use for running about in and it's legendary, love the car.

Anyway yeah still fighting thanks mate, absorbing money like a goodun!

Keeps me happy/busy/poor :rolleyes:

Cheers :)

To not highjack the other the other thread I brought this here.
Can see your point about the V8, will stick with the devils juice for now. Hoping to get a job driving attics for tesco's next year, if that happens I'll need a economical car for work so might be able to justify a thirsty toy
 
If you just want bigger calipers and pads on the front you can use Defender 110 front calipers. Was talking to a guy at the weekend who had put them on his Disco, said as long as you have the calipers with just the 1 brake pipe on each side they are a straight swop.:eek:

Oh so maybe the 110 has bigger calipers non vented? And then they fit a spacer for vented?

Seems legit!
 
Nice little 60 page catch for me this afternoon/evening. Too much awesomeness to list but overall cracking work as always fella.

Liking the new tyres, where did you find them? Tried them off road yet? I've been looking at 33's for mine to fill out the arches a bit, Fedima Sirocco's are top of the list proper mud pluggers :D
Just a shame they are all so we expensive!



To not highjack the other the other thread I brought this here.
Can see your point about the V8, will stick with the devils juice for now. Hoping to get a job driving attics for tesco's next year, if that happens I'll need a economical car for work so might be able to justify a thirsty toy

Hi mate!

Yeah a lot of people say that, it's a bit of a long winded read this one! :eek:

Thankyou for the props anyway, tbh I'm well chuffed with the motor these days, it feels fairly complete, but I promise you there's **** loads left to keep me busy & poor!

Regards the tyres, stumbled across the dirty buggers on eBay. Lucky as hell tbh and they were just round the corner too.

Was aimlessly browsing in bed at 8am, spotted them, corresponded with the guy, owned them by 7pm.n

Can't believe it, I'm so glad I decided to do some more through searching.

Not been off road yet but I am desperate to try them. Also VERY anxious in case they rip my wings off when they rub, which they will, and most likely brutally.

Regards your tyres, spend your life on eBay. For instance there's a set of jungle Trekkers on there on Zus (or Mach5s can't remember) that just went on recently, 33s too. Awesome tyres them jungle trekkers.

But yeah unless you wait forever til the right thing comes in eBay you're buggered for price of new stuff!

Also regards your car, as a daily there is just no sense in a v8, which uses 40 quid instead of the diesels tenner, if that tbh.

However indeed if you get your job sorted, get a nice 3.5efi disco IMO, nice and simple and easy to mod.

Decent on on eBay just now actually ;)
 
The width between the pistons would still be the same so any extra disk width would reduce pad thickness possibility

They fit a spacer in between the two caliper halves to allow for the vent.

Back spacing is the same so the caliper doesn't get an closer to the wheel overall, just the front half will protude slightly further out wards into the inside of the wheel well.

Pads are regular 8mm iirc!
 
There's no doubt in my mind it's one of the best Land Rovers I've ever seen, more impressive is its home built. Brilliant stuff.

Cheers for the heads up on wheels, there only 10 miles from my house :eek: might have to go see the guy, not sure what their worth but I'll throw a silly offer his way anyway lol.

Still want a V8, driving mine home last night and it sounded like the diff was going to fall out! So that's grounded till the weekend. Think I need to sell the convertable and buy something quick and rwd for work so I can get a Lamdy with a proper engine :D

Oh and ripping the arches off means till to make some new wide ones. You said its nearly complete, give you something to do :p
 
Lol, you know me too well clearly!

Hopefully it'll just "rub" :D

Quick one regards the tyres, they're not available anymore iirc so they have a habit of being very expensive BUT you might get lucky.

Good option would be buy the tyres only as the wheels themselves will be a dear do.

Best of luck brother :)
 

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