It also doesn't have the requisite number of wheels.

Hmm, not sure when the Freelander got the facelift. I assumed this was a facelift model as it also has the later dash. The rear quarterlights are fully working. The hinge brackets are there to mount them on. Took quite a while to clean up the edges of the openings as the blank panels are sealed in.

I've started a project thread for this now. Here.

It wouldn't be a project without me doing something to it would it? As luck would have it, another 3 door Freelander came up for sale nearby at a price that couldn't be ignored. It was a 2005 TD4 manual with no MOT. It was being used as a farm vehicle with an appropriately filthy interior but I...

With my wife's car suffering major electronic problems a while back and likely to be off the road for a considerable amount of time we needed something for her to use in the meantime. This was a fantastic excuse for me to buy another Land Rover and this tidy 2003 TD4 automatic van happened to be...

KInd of. But it all belongs to someone.

It's just the 5th one I've owned. I only have two currently and it will be one again when I've swapped all the bits over. Unfortunately don't have room to keep it for spares.

And now I have Freelander number 5. This was a total bargain. It was someones hack for just driving around his croft so no MOT and a total **** tip inside. It requires far too much work to be worth putting back on the road but I wanted it for parts anyway. So now the plan is to use the hard top...

It's a standard clause in recovery subscriptions that they will expect you to pay for recovery if you call them out for the same fault again in any subscription year.

I'll take the turbo shield off to do this.

It seems to be almost impossible to buy stuff on ebay these days that doesn't come from China.

I see. I meant the vacuum operated bit that opens the wastegate. Pardon my ignorance. That was going to be the first thing I checked. I can see I might have a bit more work to do then.

Copy and paste works just fine for pictures.

OK, yes I have silicon hoses but they've been on since the rebuild and have given no problems. The pipe I'm talking about is the small elbow that joins the turbo outlet to the long metal pipe that runs to the intercooler inlet. Also, I've done a code read and have an overboost code so I guess...

Disco 2, TD5, manual. Two mornings in a row driving home from work I've had the turbo exit elbow blow off and limped the rest of the way home at about 30mph. Am I right in thinking that this is probably just a sticky wastegate modulator causing overboost? I'm on night shifts at the moment so...

This sequence of pictures shows how I make up brake pipe flares. This was a quick and dirty one for show, as you can see the hole in the flare is off centre. This how I did them all on my disco and I had no leaks on first fitment.

Looks really good. How will it mount? You making mounts yourself or will it bolt to roof bars?

Oops. I seem to have forgotten something today. Sorry about that. I'll try again tomorrow.

I just flared both modulator and caliper end the same. The disc shaped pipe inserts allow you to make good flares every time without collapsing the pipe end. I'll set one up tomorrow on a bit of waste brake pipe and take some pictures so you can see how it works and the flare produced.

Here you go. Once I clamp the pipe up I clamp the clamp in a vise to make it easier to work with. And that's probably the only time in my whole life that I'll ever use the word "clamp" three times in the same sentence.