ukadamwest
Well-Known Member
why were they removed?
tomcat59alan
Well-Known Member
frog hopper
Well-Known Member
Gave Buttercup a good check over, washed and polished ready to be loaded up in the morning for a trip back to Blighty to see mates/family/shopping.
He ripped everything apart doing the radius arm bushes. On reassembly he cross threaded a wheel nut and f*cked that too. Found out recently a mate of mine had the same treatment on his L322 at the same place.
ukadamwest
Well-Known Member
A couple of years back my mother took her P38 to a garage as the rear wheel bearing was noisy. The garage replaced the front wheel bearing. Used a metal hammer to remove the disc, not only denting the disc face up but knock two chunks out of the disc. And buggering up an ABS sensor. When she picked it up she drove me to the airport for a flight which uncoversed the still noisy rear bearing vibration on the steering wheel and ahuddering under braking and of course a lit ABS light. After dropping me off she limped it back home and didn't use it till I returned and had a look and discovered the chaos. And that wasn't a cheap 'do it for cash mate' garage.
Aside from already paying for one hub with bearing, the rectification required the correct hub with bearing, discs, pads and an ABS sensor (they tried to pull it out by the cable with pliers and damaged the cable)
Hence why no matter what needs doing I do it myself to the standard I expect. And never leave a car to be driven with a potentially fatal failure. They didn't even have to courtesy to advise the brakes needed attention just handed it back with a smile a bill and 'all done'.
Jet washed about 100kg of mud from the exhausts, chassis, back bumper insides and other dangly parts underneath. 
Got an extra 60mpg..
Very pleased with myself....pißßwet through!!!
Got an extra 60mpg
..Very pleased with myself....pißßwet through
!!!
Depending on the bearing surfaces... It's a lot of work...
Figured I'd try out the heart rate monitor on my watch while driving back to work. I always assumed the P38 was a relaxing place to be, but after 260 miles and a heart rate that didn't dip below 100 (my resting is low 50s), I guess that means I am subconsciously ****ting it every time I drive the ol' bus... which I suppose makes sense, she is a high mileage example of what is said to be the least reliable model to leave the LR stable.
It keeps you out of troubleThe work I'm not too worried..it's gonna take the rest of the year to put back together what I've done already..
.
'cause he's a pillock.
brianp38dse
Well-Known Member
He must not of had a clue, shouldn't need to touch them to do radius arm bushes, hope you didn't pay for the extra work
ovalandrover
Well-Known Member
If you have to replace piston then its not much more work to replace bearings (big end) but you will need to replace the bolts as well as they are stretch bolts.
ukadamwest
Well-Known Member
you're in there change them!
After sitting looking at it for months I finally fitted the £7 jog-unit to switch the P38 RF-receiver on/off. Works a treat!
Still need to find if it fixes the battery-drain issue, I suspect it will not have done so because even with it switched off I heard the door-locks cycle as I was standing there.
So its time to pull the drivers door card and have a poke around with a DVM. New drivers door latch switch pack is sitting in a box awaiting deployment.
Still need to find if it fixes the battery-drain issue, I suspect it will not have done so because even with it switched off I heard the door-locks cycle as I was standing there.
So its time to pull the drivers door card and have a poke around with a DVM. New drivers door latch switch pack is sitting in a box awaiting deployment.
