Changed diff oils each end, surprisingly still reasonable nick, so breathers are working properly!

Various other bits of fettling, re-painted the rear recovery hook, re-painted the front bumper, bolted on the end-caps and centre plastic thing, and copa-slipped the bumper/steering guard bolts/nuts for when I make a new bumper. Took the cb aerial off 'cos it was about to fall off, removed diff guards, cleaned and primed them, cleaned diff pans with WD 40 then used copper grease on the edges to fill in the gaps when the diff guards go back on, put diff guards back on .. ;)

Got some bolts for the diff housings to make-up 'proper' diff guards/sliders instead of the current bolt-on cheapie cheap things ..

Flushed through the intercooler and radiator to get rid of mud/silt .. it seems to keep coming back! Sprayed the inner wings and headlight areas with WD40, cleaned the throttle linkages and oiled them and the springs and cable, cleaned mud from the steering column joints and oiled them, WD40'd all the steering rod joints, bolts, mounts, bushes etc.

Cleaned around the gearbox and transfer box ready to change oils tomorrow, and before I take the centre console out for a looksee at the damage .. I suspect the Hi-Lo linkage is either clarted up with solid mud or it's bent as the range changes aren't as good as usual, neither is the diff-lock!
 
Painted my landy, what do you think of the colour?

Also fitted new screen, cant wait to put it all back together now.

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Bounced it off a wall, Landy 1 - Wall 0 :)

I was driving along a narrow country back road when a Volva estate came round a corner in the middle of the road, I moved to the side and slowed but he seemed to swerve towards me and I took evasive action which ended in me bouncing into a dyke. My heavy duty winch bumper took most of the dunt and all I got was a few chips on the rim of my front alloy, a couple of very light scratches to my front wing, a very small crack in the plastic wheel arch and some green marks from the vegetation.

Volvo driver stopped but drove off again before I could get his number ..... But, as luck would have it, the next car around the same bend was my nephew who stopped and I got him to follow the volvo and get his number. The auld bugger tried to do a bit of a runner but my nephew followed him to his house and said that I had stopped him, gave him my phone number and asked him to get the volvo's reg number. By the time I got out of the wall and turned around I phoned my nephew who was still following the car up a dirt track road. On the phone I told him to make it sound like he was just being a good samaritan etc. By the time I got to the auld boy's house and had a minor rant, he was very apologetic etc. I told him to go back to the house who owned the wall and deal with the damage. As the damage to my vehicle was so very very minor I told him if my wheel was buckled I'd get a second-hand wheel from a scrap yard for about £25 and he could pay the bill. By the time I drove off, my nephew and I checked the wheel which wasn't showing any signs of buckling as I drove along beside him so when the auld guy returned to the wall, I said I'd let him off as everything seemed to be ok. Later when I passed the wall again, he had obviously made an effort to tidy it up and repair it, so I'm guessing that the owner was ok about it.

I really must start using my Roadhawk when I'm out and about as this could have been much worse than it was.
 
Used it as an anchor whilst I pulled out 30 Conifer stumps with me trusty Tirfor.
Tried using the winch, but the battery was dead after the first 5.
Another reason why Tirfors are betterer than winches.

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The fookers had big roots on em anorl!

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Washed outside and most of the mud out from inside.
Ordered some trimfix spray to fit the foam kindly donated by Pikey.
Once that's here the expedition build commences in the back :D
 
And when we got back I fitted the new drop arm ball joint.

I wanted to fit the joint without removing the drop arm and having heard some people have had trouble with this job I decided to splash out on the tool Paddocks sell for removing and refitting the upper seat.

£12.50+VAT seems quite a lot for what is essentially a nut, a bolt and three machined spacers but it does what it says on the tin, the spacers are exactly the right size rather than "nearly" which I guess could be the case using sockets and washers. The old seat came out easily and the new one went in OK but it did need a lot of force to get it in its correct position.

I used a bottle jack to compress the spring and the circlip popped in nicely. Probably the hardest part of the job was getting the larger of the two rubber boot retainers in place, why they can't use a garter spring as fitted to every other ball joint on the planet I don't know.

I've got a bathroom to plumb on Sunday (wages :)) so I'll tackle the brakes on Monday.

Fettled the brakes, cleaned the calipers and pistons with a toothbrush and brake clleaner fitted new pads and springs etc.

I now have an MOT for the next 12 months :banana::banana:
 
Straightened me rear bumper out .. both ends! North Yorks a few years ago did left side, Strata Florida did right side .. all good fun .. ;)

Captive nut on right side wasn't captive anymore, so had to weld a new one on, left side captive nut bracket wasn't straight, so when I took it off it sprung out and wouldn't go back on properly, so had to remove it, fettle it back to square and re-try it .. all good in the end, after using a Lump hammer and chunk of 12" I-girder! :)

After taking the bumper off I found more than a bucket full of mud caked in between the diesel tank and towbar brackets/bumper/cross-member etc Had to chisel some out, North Yorks clay is good stuff when it's been baked on for a few weeks!
 

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