Used mine to go and check out the chav mobile after it failed to start for the ballast this morning. I rekon the fuel pumps cream crackered:mad:. Luckily I have AA repair cover so it'll only cost me the excess.:cool:

Then I washed the landy off to get rid of some of the salt and cow dung that it had accumalated while driving in the snow. I then fitted some new rear brake pads.
 
Replaced my Heated Rear Window - Christ it was Baltic outside, however I can now see where I've been even with a wet dog/son in the back.
 
blue beasty said:
Found myself in the workshop with a bit of time and some off cuts of oak and this happened.......

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nice work mate looks the muts nuts
 
What I thought would be a nice simple job, put the LED's in my TIM Gauges (Boost, Volts and Water temp) turned out to be a complete balls-up, Broke one of the LED's because they aren't designed to be twisted, even though that's how they go in the bulb holder, and I noticed my boost gauge had been rattling a bit, when I removed it the needle went 'flop' So I've ordered a new one :doh:
 
put a t-max split charger in and put the 2nd batt in the back where the pocket is to keep the jack , and sorting out the amp and new 10 disc cd player and new speakers going to finnish it all 2moz now as it got to bloody cold out there :(
 
Fixed the squealing from the brakes the other day by sorting out the seized guide pins on the pad carrier. Can't hear me stopping now :)
 
Having fitted the new exhaust on the series III 88" the other day in the dark with a torch, today loosened everything off and made sure that this time it wasn't touching the chassis before tightening it off. Much better.
 
after using the wrong sand paper (80) to rub paint down for new paint. spent all day trying to get the scratches out with a finer sand paper. i think is going to take me a week.
 
Touched up the paintwork on my winch bumper ... patted it on the bonnet and said stand by for some more snow my love :D
 
I have bought a Haynes manual- and read it for ten mins -:)

then I did a fantastic bodge job of repairing my bench seat with a roll and a half of gaffa tape - need to replace it so that have some left for other purposes ;)

then I borrowed some silver bolt undoing things and fitted a handle on the back of the door - which snapped off three years ago :)

I am a mechanical genius today and nothing is beyond me now :D
 
Over stayed me welcome in a carpark and got an £80 excess penalty ticket.. but as it's a private company running it..

That'll be another one that int getting paid..
 
Gave the headlight finishers and grille a quick lick of paint (too tight to buy new ones). While taking off one of the sidelights I discovered some wally had fitted it with the little drain gap in the rubber gasket at the top instead of the bottom (I hope it wasn't me). As a result the cover was full of water which had rusted the retaining screws into oblivion!

There is some law of nature that every job on a Land Rover will involve extreme difficulty removing a rusted bolt or screw. This was no exception and they needed drilling out. I'm sure you can't buy hardened steel screws, but I went through a couple of drill bits before sorting these.

Similarly, the grille ought to be very easy to get off, with just eight screws, but of course my A-bar is right in the way of two of them. Very delicately since the heads were quite rusted, I winkled them out at a keyhole surgery type angle.

I don't know how people manage with boring normal cars which don't take three hours to get the headlight finishers off. What do they do for fun?
 

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