Changed the door mirrors for auto fold ones. Although they are still manually fold at the mo cos there's no wiring to do the auto fold bit.... yet :)
 
I had the car cleaned at the local car wash.

When I got home I removed the plastic covers off the jacking points.

Yuk.

Loads of wet mud.

Used a hose pipe to wash the mud off the covers and then dried them. Cleaned as best as I could the jacking points.

Put them all back.

Need to keep an eye on these as they look like a good place for rust......
 
Fitted new crankseal and a "new" radiator.

old rad was burst slightly causing an intermittant leak.

crankseal was failing to seal the crank oil from the outside world.

i only took a few pics, you'll notice the use of the official Land Rover belt holding tools i used :)







 
Smnbyt I got the lift kit from a guy called SES is so on here to who owns ASA Fabrication, really well made and fit nicely but do cost £139delivered. They are just very tough to fit the rears without disconnecting rear brakes and removing the hubs, I didn't but hense the struggle. He sells them on eBay too, just search 40mm freelander lift kit and they are the only ones that come up.
I'll post before and after pictures when I finish it this morning
 
ChrisHughes said:
Smnbyt I got the lift kit from a guy called SES is so on here to who owns ASA Fabrication, really well made and fit nicely but do cost £139delivered. They are just very tough to fit the rears without disconnecting rear brakes and removing the hubs, I didn't but hense the struggle. He sells them on eBay too, just search 40mm freelander lift kit and they are the only ones that come up.
I'll post before and after pictures when I finish it this morning
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The rears are the easy ones to fit, you just take the shocker out, fit spacer and re-fit the shocker. Did you trim the front inner wing, and get the tracking done? :)
 
Has anyone done a step by step pictorial guide to fitting these spacer type lift kits? I want to do it but want to know what's involved first with trim removal.
 
Yep, nothing new there- just threads asking about lift kits, then degrading into the usual 'witty' comments about getting a Disco, burning it, scrapping it etc etc... not much help really... ;)

So, JC600, if you know of a pictorial, then please let me know and I'll send you an online virtual bottle of moonshine... :5bcheers2:
 
nowt to it really tbh


there was a good how to in LRO not long back, it looks rather straight forward, the only issue, i could see, was how many camber pins to put in or if they are needed at all!
 
JC600 said:
The rears are the easy ones to fit, you just take the shocker out, fit spacer and re-fit the shocker. Did you trim the front inner wing, and get the tracking done? :)
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I didn't fancy dropping the rear brakes and hub, save on bleeding brakes afterwards. Yeah I filed down the front inner wing about 3-5mm to allow the tracking adjustment nut to clear when suspension fully hung down.
Not got that tracking done yet....will be done shortly before any serious mileage. JC600 did you bother with camber pins or get near enough just by being tracked?
 
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