Recent content by CJK

@GrumpyGel Thanks - I have tried swopping various replays and wiggling various wires that I can get access to, but cannot reproduce the snag! Thanks - I have tried swopping various replays and wiggling various wires that I can get access to, but cannot reproduce the snag! Strange that it only...

I occasionally have a similar snag on the instrument binnicle. No gauges function, but those lights come on. It happens randomly when the engine is running and driving. Worse in the winter.... Recycle the ignition and everything works again. I cannot find the issue, learnt to ignore it. This...

Thanks, that's my concern! Fairly handy with the tools, but don't have the lifting kit to do an engine out! Going to try cleaning it up and using epoxy metal putty! But even then, it's all by feel! Thanks.

Freelander 1, 2002, TD4. Investigating what I though was a thermostat housing leak, turns out the leak is a pin hole in a core plug situated just above the thermostat housing. Looks fairly inaccessable and only viewable via a mirror! Cannot find a diagram showing the core plug. Is this...

When I did mine, just replacing the tubes - I cut new plates from aluminium sheet and wedged them in place! Worked fine! Chris

Both parts found and ordered. Thank you.

Brilliant - thank you.

Freelander 1 TD4, 2002 manual. Can't get to it to get a picture, hidden under the inlet manifold, had to use a mirror to spot the drop forming!

Eventually managed to track a minor coolant leak. Top radiator hose goes to a plastic connector on the engine block above the starter motor, there is a small diameter pipe which comes out to connect to the metal rail that goes up to the heater. This connector is dripping at the attachment to...

This happened to me - the shoe retaining pins had corroded/come lose allowing the brake shoe to move and come off the piston. No effective brakes, and brake fluid everywhere!

Removing the hub will damage the bearing. Replacing the bearing is a pig. I have just done mine on a 2002 TD4. Won't do that again in a hurry, everything was rusted in solid, and removing the long cross bolt was a real pain in the arse! If you can cut the bolt down slightly, that would be my...

Mine is a 2002 TD4.

I have an intermittant dash failure, all dash lights come on, needles go to zero, apart from the fuel guage I think. Sometimes when it happens there feels like a momentary loss of power. Couple of moments later all works again apart from two amigo. A sharp tap to the right hand side of the dash...

Sounds like the alternator, mine lasted about 200k before intermittant flashing of alternator light and then on constantly. Bushes had worn through slip rings..... It's not a bad job, serpentine belt and hooking a/c compressor up out of the way are the only awkwards bits, rest is just nuts and...