Changed my rear prop as my old one has seized and also changed the coil.. trying to overcome the random misfire (another one!)
 
Changed all the oil apart from gearbox and it passed it's mot just sitting down now waiting for the champions league final to start.
 
Pushed it out in the rain and sat on my favourite chair having a cuppa.
not fit to do anything here today:)
 

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After 2 new ride height sensors and a new airbag, the compressor has packed in. My fault for not spraying the bag properly and carried on watching her go up and down for a month. I have today converted to coils and the pleasure of not worrying about the sls is bliss. I may convert back when im rich.
 
KelvenV8 said:
After 2 new ride height sensors and a new airbag, the compressor has packed in. My fault for not spraying the bag properly and carried on watching her go up and down for a month. I have today converted to coils and the pleasure of not worrying about the sls is bliss. I may convert back when im rich.
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I'm thinking of getting a P38 or a L322. Do you notice much difference between coil springs and air bags. I know air bags can be pricey when they go wrong which I believe is about every hundred thousand miles. I'm just wandering whether to budget for coils or renew the Air bags.
Would appreciate your comments.
 
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Seeing as it has stopped raining I did a couple of little jobs as it'll need an MOT sometime over the next couple of weeks. I put some p clips on the rear brake pipe so it looks like someone cares about it, and tightened the handbrake adjuster nut. I think we're nearly ready now. Driver's door shuts and stays shut, windscreen washers and wipers are more or less reliable, and the brakes still work, as do the lights. Then I took the wheels off and gave it a good clean underneath with the pressure washer, and got as much mud as I could out from the sills and chassis rails. So that feels better. It tipped off the bottle jack as I was undoing the wheel nuts, so I got the big trolley jack and stands out. Just shows how easily it can happen.
 
Brown said:
Seeing as it has stopped raining I did a couple of little jobs as it'll need an MOT sometime over the next couple of weeks. I put some p clips on the rear brake pipe so it looks like someone cares about it, and tightened the handbrake adjuster nut. I think we're nearly ready now. Driver's door shuts and stays shut, windscreen washers and wipers are more or less reliable, and the brakes still work, as do the lights. Then I took the wheels off and gave it a good clean underneath with the pressure washer, and got as much mud as I could out from the sills and chassis rails. So that feels better. It tipped off the bottle jack as I was undoing the wheel nuts, so I got the big trolley jack and stands out. Just shows how easily it can happen.
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Did you not crack the wheel nuts before jacking it up?
 
Saw a nice (non landy) 4x4 at the local P&P site today!




1942 ex uk military willys jeep. sat in a barn for about 30 years. wonderful condition!
 
A few adjustments and fettling here and there, greasing points and tidying up. It's running sweetly so treating it to another set of filters and oils shortly .. rather keep it sweet than give it a chance to bite me back!
 
took the new engine out the trailer as well as the gearbox, eventually got it into a new resting place and then loaded up the trailer with ****e for the scrap yard before unhitching it
 
Just changed the expletive generator, others may know it as the A frame ball joint! Joint wasn't too bad (think its original 1996) but the boot was perished so needed doing.
 
jackmac said:
Did you not crack the wheel nuts before jacking it up?
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I was using an impact wrench, so no more jumping up and down on wheelbraces for me. No, the bottle jack just gently tipped over without any provocation. No harm done in my case, but I put it in here so people might see and be reminded that it can happen. Proper stands, folks, even if the car's only going to be off the ground for a few minutes.
 
installed my mates cb welded my chassis crack and adjusted my side exit exhaust. renewed mates handbrake shoes then went and got muddyish and found a mound of stone (guessing it had be delivered to hide the potholes) so we both tried out the articulation of my standard suspension compared to his 2" lift. quite impressed with the articulation of mine with the anti roll bars in place got the rear wheel right into the arch to the point of loosing traction or the full extension rear wheel :D
 
managed to snap my rear halfshaft on my yellow tdi and blow the front diff its now currently in a forest 15 miles away as the clutch has gone on my td5 too :(
 
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