Silverlandy has developed a leak today, light oil type dripping from the front, a few drops on my driveway, noticed it immediately as Silver has not one drip normally. Checked all coolants and oils, as I do every 7 days all fine so thinking air con? Anyhoo I have not the tools nor the brawn so she's in the garage tomorrow first thing. Joy! :rolleyes:
 
Just ordered shocks & springs for all 4 corners after the metal cover of the rear shock departed and started to make odd sounds after going over every bump.
 
New: a-frame ball joint, rear bushes and bolts, mud flap brackets, drop link ball joint, all steering ball joints.
Replaced old brake fluid, changed both diff oil (was ****ed to find rear diff oil was new). Changed engine oil and filter. Replaced all engine pulley bolts. Re-fitted centre rocker cover bolt that was missing:eek: and cured resultant oil leak. New oil pressure switch fitted, another oil leak fixed.
And after a month of solid work the car is back on the road:).
 
got me ground anchor (towbar) off yesterday... had to do it without damaging it though as i wanna replace the bolts to make it easy to take on or off as i do tow frequently... I then put an electrical socket on the wire thats been dangling off my disco since it bust off @ the salisbury plains and fixed it to the rear bumper :)

It must have been factory fitted towbar cos them bolts were SOLID!

all in all, after 3 and a half hours, 3 out of 4 bolts completely nakered, lots of skin removed from knuckles, plenty of swearing and a lot of self control to avoid just taking the angle grinder to it, it was job done :cool2:

so then I moved onto the almakes 4x4 swivel grease... I CAN NOT get them bloody bolts out to drain or fill my swivel grease :censored::censored::censored:

tried breaker bar, tappin with a hammer, WD40, spanners, whacking the spanners... like... i dunno what else to try, the only other thing to do it heat i spose!
 
Fitted my new Richbrook R2 steering wheel complete with the required Rover 214 steering boss. :cool:

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Cut some bits out of the chassis, plated one bit. Then i ran out of cuttings disks, got to pick some up tomorrow so i can finish the welding.
 
Got Silverlandy back from garage....the leak yesterday has disappeared. Very odd but thoroughly checked everywhere and nowt...not one drip. Theory is i either drove through something (unlikely) or a cat ****ed through the grill or something (we have neighbours either side 8 cats in total) and my husband dipped his finger in the puddle on the drive yesterday and tasted it to see if it was coolant :hysterically_laughi
 
Hi there. Ive removed a cheap master brake cyl in prep for fitting a newun.

Thought id have a look at it as it was leakin brake fluid down the pedal, turns
out it was full of swarf as if someone had used a file to assemble it. The lesson for me is Dont use cheap parts:(
 
Made a wading blanket fixed in place but rolls up when not needed :)

I think it looks alright for abit of free rubber :)
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I made one last time we were up Strata Florida ..

Open bonnet, lay rubber on, with holes for bonnet catch etc, shut bonnet, feed bottom of rubber into gap between top of bumper and plastic centre-piece .. Works well!

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