Cool. If I'm mobile and not busy I'm always happy to try and help. There's a good bunch from the Nottinghamshire GLASS group which get together once a month in Papplewick. Fair few Landy owners amongst us. Rich

This afternoon I have cut some more car off... Then I added some new metal back on. Fit for this bit was even worse than when I made the same one for the Range Rover so I still have to do some bashing and bridging gaps but it was too late to be hammering so that will have to wait for...

Give it a go. Get yourself a welder and some steel and have a practice. Nobody has ever taught me to weld but with a half decent MIG (mines an old Cebora I got for £50 off eBay so nothing special) it’s mostly point and pull the trigger. Biggest improvements I’ve made to my welding are...

Thanks to everyone who keeps liking and commenting on here. Nice to know I’m not talking to myself even if nobody is telling me how I should have done it. Rich

I've also been practicing welding things apart... Seat bolts I broke off when I changed the seats just after I bought the Discovery. These were actually surprisingly easy. Will actually be able to bolt the back seats down properly when I'm finished. Manifold to downpipe stud on the...

So with the Range Rover away being painted it's time for some attention on the Discovery. I should have learned not to set deadlines with the Range Rover, as I never seem to meet them, but I had planned to have the Range Rover finished and on the road before the MoT ran out on the Discovery...

For paint finally! Completely forgot to photograph the whole affair given that I only had a few hours off to fetch trailer, load car single handed with no steering box, take it to paint and return the trailer. Discovery managed nicely and the trailer was brilliant again (Startruck Trailer Hire...

Well the Range Rover is gone...

Still plodding along. Really need to get this away to have the engine bay painted if I'm to have a hope of it being finished before the MOT on the Discovery runs out. Unfortunately, I'm currently stuck on the slow and tedious work of grinding all the welds and making sure I'm happy with...

Hi, That looks a bit familiar! Underside of the chassis at the bottom of the dip either side of the fuel tank? I had to do the inside faces there too on my Range Rover as well as the bottom from about where the tow bar/tie down points are to the anti roll bar mounts. Just keep plugging away...

Ok. Looking back it seems between the previous post and now there was actually from progress during the frantic run up to moving that I missed somehow. I welded the O/S inner wing on. Not quite sure how I missed that. To start with I welded up the holes in the top of the bulkhead/footwell...

So I've been a little distracted... '98 Discovery 1 ES with a 300Tdi and ZF 4HP22. Within about two weeks of moving 100+ miles away work informed me that as the pandemic seems to be over the hump they want to see people attending the office again. With only one car on the road this...

Will definitely check that. I think in autos the gear selector cable can also act as an earth. Similar results of smoke, dodgy smell, electrical gremlins and a stiff gear selector. I think injection timing has a lot to play in EDC engines reputation for not being good starters. P38 diesels for...

Will do that before winter. Going to go around with the lanolin rust proofer as well so will do the earths before I do that. Much nicer cleaning them now then in the cold and wet when they play up! Rich

Cleaned the earth in the driver’s footwell up and she fired up. Hopefully that was the problem and it’ll behave from now on. Rich

thanks for putting me off ripping the dash apart to find the spider! Going to have to sit and work through it methodically with the troubleshooting manual I think. rich

Oh dear. Apparently not battery. Took the disco’s battery off charge and fitted this morning - no change. Yuasa from the RR is reading 12.45V this morning which is only slightly less than the disco’s battery and I would normally consider healthy. In any case it behaved exactly the same even with...

Fingers crossed. Is wipers etc not working a normal thing on these when the battery is low? Rich

Hi All, Day three of D1 ownership is going well! This morning when i had to move the car it started as normal but the CHECK ENGINE lamp stayed on and the wipers wouldn't work. Parked on the driveway and decided to charge the battery from the Range Rover (long term renovation and currently...

Bit more progress has been being squeezed in between final planning for wedding this weekend and to move house over the next few weeks. I patched up the O/S battery tray. Good enough to reuse. Finished making all the replacement panels from YRM as close to the originals as I could be...