Just the usual putting it too work and absolutely piling the miles on it.
Its passed the 175k mark and away too hit 176k its also a weekend of towing my driftcar again,
Come Saturday depending what its sat on that will be over 3k in 3weeks.
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Scotiawhiskers said:
Yesterday, almost recovered now, after a full day at work spent 3 hours under / over / in the engine bay eventually managing to get the passenger side heatshield off the exhaust so I can get the manifold bolts / head off in due course. Dremel with flexi drive and cutting discs - still couldn't get the angle and reach for cutting the bolts off. Ended up with wife's expensive makeup mirror balanced on the chassis leg and a worklight underneath to see / get to the bottom bolts. And gave up on bolts but just cut a groove round them through the outer heat shield until I could work it loose.
Why didn't LR just make the outer in 2 pieces that had tabs / folded over sections at the edge and overlapped in the middle with a pair of stainless bolts into the long mounts off the manifold? Would be an easy 5 minute job then.

Tonight I will be reassembling the first rocker shaft. Shaft in the freezer and the mounting posts will be in the oven after dinner to try to get a little more clearance and easier fitting. Contrast picture afterwards maybe of the un-worked on drivers side (very well done) with the raw state of the refurbished passenger one.
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I believe some get the bolts from the wheel arch with liner removed.
 
brianp38dse said:
I believe some get the bolts from the wheel arch with liner removed.
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Cheers @brianp38dse - I suspect trying to take the wheelarch liner out will be much of the same when we need to do it.....

On the plus side it does look like the heads (and heat shields) haven't been off in the entire 25 year life so far, so it must've been a good one before it started to suffer. He'll be a good one again when we're finished.
 
Scotiawhiskers said:
Cheers @brianp38dse - I suspect trying to take the wheelarch liner out will be much of the same when we need to do it.....

On the plus side it does look like the heads (and heat shields) haven't been off in the entire 25 year life so far, so it must've been a good one before it started to suffer. He'll be a good one again when we're finished.
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The liner is held in with some plastic clips so should be ok.
 
tomcat59alan said:
Well the Kurust arrived this morning so was underneath with the wire brush and cleaned the rest of the chassis paying particular attention to where the shock absorbers and air bags mount thanks @Henry_b ,then gave it a coat of smooth black metal paint. Took the sill finishers off and cleaned the inner sills, bit of welding to be done:( can't find the part numbers for the mounting clips on lr.cat:(bugger.:rolleyes:
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Bloody bad design the shock mounts.

Shame about the sill rust!
 
They normally come off okay and ain’t too bad inside. You pop the head out of the pin then prise out, then they squeeze back in and pop the head back in.
kermit_rr said:
Maybe that's why mine rubs on the wheel
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That’s not normal, Mine don’t rub with 32s. Pick the plugs up most places they are pretty generic once you know what they are. Can’t remember how many perhaps 6 on each liner, you need a few
 
RangeRoller dt said:
They normally come off okay and ain’t too bad inside. You pop the head out of the pin then prise out, then they squeeze back in and pop the head back in.

That’s not normal, Mine don’t rub with 32s. Pick the plugs up most places they are pretty generic once you know what they are. Can’t remember how many perhaps 6 on each liner, you need a few
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It's just the bit round the dock absorber when on full lock going up or down a kerb. Think it's a bit twisted somewhere, all the plugs are in all the right places
 
RangeRoller dt said:
They normally come off okay and ain’t too bad inside. You pop the head out of the pin then prise out, then they squeeze back in and pop the head back in.
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Ours look like they've been salt water soaked and rusted solid. Or bodged with some other fitting at some point. We invested in a bulk supply of various trim fittings a while back as we figured we would need to do bits of cleaning /repair that would involve arch liners. Plus pretty much every interior / exterior body trim clip is worn / missing / damaged on SMBO's Ka, so we need to replace loads of them. Our garage is good at mechanics but a bit shoddy on trim removal / refitting.
 
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