Have started to try and repair this front A bar , couldn’t believe how long it took me to position the piece

trial and error as I’ve never done anything like this before , did cut it back a little bit , however think I’ve dropped a clanger on the front , will let the glue go off for a few days and then see if I can using a Dremel if I can cut a V groove in the front

then have some of the correct filler as I thought then I’ll be able to sand that down where I can’t sand the glue

did get some primer even though it says on the textured spray can it can be used without I thought that might be best to use first before the textured spray paint , however I’m not sure of what to use over the top, want like a matt finish and also wondering if I should use some form of Matt laquer

as always any help with this is always so appreciated

many thks

Section I’m trying to repair, then after filling and sanding I intend to spray the entire A bar with the textured spray paint, but got to decide on what top coat to use

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Hicap phill said:

Glad rocky is fine..
Not seen then for a few years. Has Ian ever returned?

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Sorry, i can't help you there as i don't know who Ian is, but Rocky is fine. Still spouting knowledge left right and centre!
I enquired on behalf of a mate who has a V8 Defefender and wants to swap it for a TD5. He just reeled off that he'd need this floor, that loom, something from that engine those from that car etc
Then a rough estimate of what it'll cost him overall DIY, then a rough estimate of what Rocky would charge to do it.
Mayny places i'v heard of would just give you a quote of what THEY'D charge and then keep quiet when you ask for help to do it yourself. I had to ask Rocky what he'd charge at the end of the conversation!

yfo866 said:

Sorry, i can't help you there as i don't know who Ian is, but Rocky is fine. Still spouting knowledge left right and centre!
I enquired on behalf of a mate who has a V8 Defefender and wants to swap it for a TD5. He just reeled off that he'd need this floor, that loom, something from that engine those from that car etc
Then a rough estimate of what it'll cost him overall DIY, then a rough estimate of what Rocky would charge to do it.
Mayny places i'v heard of would just give you a quote of what THEY'D charge and then keep quiet when you ask for help to do it yourself. I had to ask Rocky what he'd charge at the end of the conversation!

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Best tip for visits are.
Take box of tea bags, bag sugar, large milk.
Walk in make them a cup of tea & take a seat.
Do this a few times & the price drops
It’s been a few years since Iv been to see them but they are always helpful.

(Ian is Rockys brother last I heard he was working in bromsgrove)

So after the glue set I cut a groove into the join , then put some filler in, blimey it went off quick

so will leave it now for a few days to let it cure 100% before I start sanding it

also sprayed some of that textured spray paint onto the back of the number plate plinth as a test , fingers crossed I can get the sanding correct , then after will spray a plastic primer then spray the entire A bar with the textured paint

well that’s the hope anyway

Finally got round to fitting my diff guards and steering guard! I've got a set of rock sliders with tree bars to fit next!! Then I've got to rebuild my front prop Shaft and rear propshaft rubber Bush! And also front upper and lower ball joints!! All before the 7th of August and I'm away for the next 2 weekends!! Landrovers are so much fun

gstuart said:

hi mate

hope ur good, indeed know where ur coming from , must admit found using the gazebo so handy in the sunshine as well as the rain to keep the sun off , particularly from the back of ur neck getting really burnt , plse don’t ask how I know before using a gazebo , lol

plus the perils of owning a black car when drinking a cup of tea then casually resting my hand on the bonnet when it’s been in full sun all afternoon @&@@&#*#*/##*@)

ref cider , have u tried some of the blackcurrent ones, must admit some aren’t too bad

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Hi, no haven't tried the blackcurrent so I'll pick a couple of cans up, purely for research you understand, & try it. I do like elderflower cider or wine but struggle a bit to get both.
I fitted a Bushranger awning 2x2.5m to my FL1 roofrack (with the tent that zips underneath it) so I could park the D2 beside the FL using the awning for shade, I would just have to park the end I want to work on under it, then when I've done the work I can move the D2 & drink my ale or cider under it ! got me thinking now.

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Hi, no haven't tried the blackcurrent so I'll pick a couple of cans up, purely for research you understand, & try it. I do like elderflower cider or wine but struggle a bit to get both.
I fitted a Bushranger awning 2x2.5m to my FL1 roofrack (with the tent that zips underneath it) so I could park the D2 beside the FL using the awning for shade, I would just have to park the end I want to work on under it, then when I've done the work I can move the D2 & drink my ale or cider under it ! got me thinking now.

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some of those ciders are like rocket fuel, slowly creeping up on I then like a boxing glove in the mush, lol

that looks good and indeed really handy

Hicap phill said:

Best tip for visits are.
Take box of tea bags, bag sugar, large milk.
Walk in make them a cup of tea & take a seat.
Do this a few times & the price drops
It’s been a few years since Iv been to see them but they are always helpful.

(Ian is Rockys brother last I heard he was working in bromsgrove)

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Ah, your tip sounds a bit like my MOT man. Only with him it's biscuits...

So done a little bit more to the A bar , just needs a little bit more filler , put over a mist coat which showed which other bits I need to do , with it being my first attempt I hope I don’t mess it up, can see the repair is a few mm below the old textured paint finish

will then after I give the whole A bar a primer then after I’ll spray on the textured coat

Andy Warren said:

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Hi, no haven't tried the blackcurrent so I'll pick a couple of cans up, purely for research you understand, & try it. I do like elderflower cider or wine but struggle a bit to get both.
I fitted a Bushranger awning 2x2.5m to my FL1 roofrack (with the tent that zips underneath it) so I could park the D2 beside the FL using the awning for shade, I would just have to park the end I want to work on under it, then when I've done the work I can move the D2 & drink my ale or cider under it ! got me thinking now.

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Cider is made from apples....... APPLES!!!!!
If you make it with anything else then it's not cider. It's a fermented 'what you made it with' drink.

gstuart said:

So done a little bit more to the A bar , just needs a little bit more filler , put over a mist coat which showed which other bits I need to do , with it being my first attempt I hope I don’t mess it up, can see the repair is a few mm below the old textured paint finish

will then after I give the whole A bar a primer then after I’ll spray on the textured coat

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Looking good, great job. Looks like you took one hell of a bite out of the pillar though!!

yfo866 said:

Cider is made from apples....... APPLES!!!!!
If you make it with anything else then it's not cider. It's a fermented 'what you made it with' drink.

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As far as I can tell the elderflower is only used for flavour & still made with apples but as for the mixed fruit versions who knows. I remember going to a place called Lukes cider kingdom in Somerset in the early eighties & staggering away with a couple of gallons of scrumpy, christ that was good stuff floaty bits n all , ahh those were the days

After almost a couple of weeks of having Myrtle parked, I decided to trickle charge the battery for 24 hours with my CTek MXS 7.0.
Before:

After:

02Disco2 said:

Looking good, great job. Looks like you took one hell of a bite out of the pillar though!!

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lol, thought that was the quickest way of cutting a groove into it

many thks , am just nervous of messing it up, just taking my time and getting it the best I can , did use an orbital sander but when I fill it again will just use a sanding block seeing i just need to sand it down level with the old paint thickness , could just feel it when I rub my finger over the repair of the dip

was going to do some more but had thunderstorms so as the temperature dropped thought it best to wait until better weather came back

im hoping to get the filler level with the old paint so that when I spray the primer on it won’t show, particularly with the textured paint, don’t want to see the line of the old and new repair

thks again

JUKE179r said:

After almost a couple of weeks of having Myrtle parked, I decided to trickle charge the battery for 24 hours with my CTek MXS 7.0.
Before:

After:

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funny enough got something similar, wanted to also test the alternator, hadn’t seen about this ripple charge before

Remap time - have just received the file from Storm Tuning so planning to upload that via the nanocom this weekend

Has anyone else remapped with their nanocom and if so do you have any pointers? In particular concerns on power drop - my battery is good but I don’t have an external power source which is recommended apparently

Tuesday...

Just spent two hours replacing the rear door lock in the D2.
I sometimes think before anyone can work on their car they should be licenced, like sparkys are. Or at the very least any car that i'll be buying in the future. Spent half an hour trying to undo the m6 nuts holding on the back door speaker assembly. Would have been easy if the muppet who fitted it had tightened up the nuts holding the 40mm bolts in place. Instead i had to hold the thread of the bolt while undoing the nut because the nuts behind the speaker assembly were loose and turning with the nut
Then it was onto the inch and a half screws holding the driver's side of the door panel in place. One of the screws holding what would be in any other Disco the grill mesh protecting the speakers. In my case no mesh, just another layer to remove. One of the screws was over two inches long!
Then wrestled to get the old lock out. All the rods came apart easily. Just a pain to get the lock actually to leave the door...
If getting the old one out was a pain it was a doddle getting the new one in. Couldn't see what was getting in the way. Lots of swearing seemed to help!
Reengaged the rods, plugged in the electrics, locked it, unlocked it and tried the door handle. All works!
Fitted washers to the bolts that hold the speakers in. Tightned up the nuts. Panel back on, speakers back on, shut the door, opened the door. Shut the door, climbed into the back to open from the inside... Door handle doesn't work. Back out, opens from the outside, screwdriver into the lock mechanism to simulate door closed, pulls on internal handle, doesn't work.
Grabs tools, closes door. Locks car, goes inside. Apparantly the neighbours don't like it when i burst out into tears when a car fix goes wrong...
Googled "Discovery 2 back door doesn't open from inside."
Someone was moaning about why their door wouldn't open and assured. Someone suggested it was a stretched cable from the handle.
Didn't think that was my trouble as it worked with the old lock(which wouldn't open from the outside), then the OP assured readers that he had checked the child lock...
Child lock?
Let's hope it's that!
Can't face the potential disappointment tonight, so will check when i get home tomorrow

Wednesday...

YAY! It WAS the child lock!

Andy Warren said:

As far as I can tell the elderflower is only used for flavour & still made with apples but as for the mixed fruit versions who knows. I remember going to a place called Lukes cider kingdom in Somerset in the early eighties & staggering away with a couple of gallons of scrumpy, christ that was good stuff floaty bits n all , ahh those were the days

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In he early eighties i left school and my first job was on a local farm on a YTS. Youth Training Scheme. Remember those?
After about a month the farmer, Harry, says "if we get (i forget what) all finished tomorrow i'll bring in some home made cider."
Whatever it was was finished and as promised Harry produced a pop bottle full of what looked like urine.
Two mugs were produced and handing one to me he tells me that it'll put hair on my chest.
Well, not that day. All it did was reduce me to a grinning idiot incapable of stringing together words into a comprehensive sentence.
He decided it would be best if i just sat on the hay bales in the barn for a couple of hours until 5pm when it was suggested that i didn't mention this to my mom or the woman from the job shop who would come down once a week to check i hadn't been killed or decided to knock it on the head.
I've always been wary of ANY cider that hasn't got bubbles in it ever since...