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| Vitesse Member Since: 21 Mar 2014 Location: Sussex Posts: 381   
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continued with the bespoke headlamp wiring upgrade... connected up the off side lamp and positioned the conduit across the front. Just need to make final connections under the drivers seat for the relays into the Blue sea box.
2015 90 XS Santorini BlackLast edited by Vitesse on 10th Aug 2015 11:34am. Edited 1 time in total |
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10th Aug 2015 11:30am |
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| bluebottle Member Since: 08 May 2015 Location: Not in my Landy enough! Posts: 705
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Washed it and polished it with Autoglym yesterday - seems to have made the greenlaning bramble scars a little better... 2005 110 XS - Cairns Blue "Bertha" - Gone, and sorely missed
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10th Aug 2015 11:33am |
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| PDH Member Since: 03 Dec 2009 Location: Shropshire Posts: 179
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Ordered myself a new BAS2 RRC tool, new intercooler and silicon hose set
All I need now is the 90 to arrive so I can actually fit them...nothing like a bit of predelivery shopping though  Puma 2.2 90 Stationwagon |
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11th Aug 2015 6:13pm |
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| mrd1990 Member Since: 16 Aug 2012 Location: Wales Posts: 600  
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Out until 3am enjoying the perseid meteor shower.. foldup seats and a flask of tea highly recommended for this type of activity. I regret not bringing gloves and a hat as well...
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11th Aug 2015 8:35pm |
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| grumpy old git Member Since: 16 Nov 2013 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 153
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Oil and filter change, gearbox and transfer oil change..... then I was called in for dinner
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11th Aug 2015 9:16pm |
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| Swac3 Member Since: 21 Feb 2015 Location: Aberdeen Posts: 363 |
Finally got around to fitting the new rear anti roll bar links that have been sat in the barn since last years MOT, oh yeah and booked this years MOT
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11th Aug 2015 9:28pm |
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| Pickles Member Since: 26 May 2013 Location: Melbourne Posts: 3783  
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Love the old red telephone box,....Haven't seen one in Aus for AGES. In Aus, those sorts of facilities are the subject of terrible & widespread vandalism, graffiti etc. Pickles. |
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11th Aug 2015 10:00pm |
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| ROBBONTHEROCK Member Since: 23 Jun 2014 Location: Aberdeenshire Posts: 637  
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Had a good days spannering on the Landy today
Completed:- 1) Fitted new Snow Cowl from Mud Stuff; 2) Fitted new fan belt; 3) Fitted new idler pulley c/w bearing assy; 4) Fitted new idler pulley c/w bearing assy (where the air con I think is meant to be mounted); 5) Fitted new LUX LED Indicator light to the stern of the landy (still had original fitted all others are LED, for some reason this one was still left as original; 6) Fitted new front LUX LED indicator - old one was cracked and had a few LED's out; 7) Fitted new LUX LED Fog Light (old one wasn't broken - doh, just broken wires, so fixed the wires and sod it put the new LED on instead  ;
8 ) Fitted new rear washer fitting; Had a chance to play with my new TD5 Fan spanners i bought off of eBay back in March - fantastic - refitting the belt is soooooomuch easier with the fan out of the way
So now just got to figure out and order a new set of wheel bearings, seals, half shafts and driven flanges for the rear axle. Will do those next week - maybe. Thought my Diff was badly worn, but took a wheel off yesterday to get rid of a stone trapped on the disk and noticed that the slop between the half shaft and the driven flanges is obscene. That needs fixing before any further long drives!!! I'm an ex diesel fitter, now an engineer sitting at my desk all day in Aberdeen, so it feels so good to be exercising my old trade skills 
Cheers Andy |
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12th Aug 2015 4:01pm |
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| Vintage Claret Member Since: 26 Jul 2015 Location: Worcestershire Posts: 19  
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Today I fitted wheel cover which I had painted for 40 quids! . . Added the side steps .... Roof light bar next and some drls...
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12th Aug 2015 5:51pm |
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| Swac3 Member Since: 21 Feb 2015 Location: Aberdeen Posts: 363 |
Just a short mooch round, after fitting new rear discs and pads, left hub was a be-ach to get off the hub rhs was cake go figure.
Gary 3 Landrovers |
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12th Aug 2015 6:04pm |
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| cozz Member Since: 15 May 2013 Location: nottingham Posts: 535 |
is that a rigid wheel cover with vinyl sides
Im after one, seems there is not as much choice as there used to be, must be going out of fashion |
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12th Aug 2015 8:19pm |
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| JWL Member Since: 26 Oct 2011 Location: Hereford Posts: 3443 
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Did a bit of a garden tidy up today. Demolished the boys old playhouse that I had made about 12 years ago and moved a couple of garden sheds into the space. Pulled a tree stump out with the winch and then winched our old Freelander into the garden to free up space out on the front. The Freelander is one of those projects that I'll get round to one day, it had a spectacular cam belt failure and my ex wife kept trying to start it on the key. I do have another engine to put in but as it's only worth £250 when all up and running with MoT it can wait until the boy is old enough to drive or if my 110 has a big problem it wouldn't take much to put on the road so the 110 can be fixed properly.
It certainly turned out to be an interesting winching, as it needed to be "backed" in requiring the winch cable to be anchored from a point behind the Freelander then running the cable under the motor back to the winch. It certainly gave the boy an education in parallel parking, well it was hot and my temper suffers  |
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12th Aug 2015 9:29pm |
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| Bastion Member Since: 08 May 2014 Location: London Posts: 35
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I drove mine for the first time today.
After years of thinking, months of planning and building, weeks of waiting. It came down to the two of us, an ipod and open lanes under a setting sun. And it was good…. The experience for me can best be described as 'Active Participation'. From gear selection to road reading to then consciously navigating everything from traffic to potholes to flooded roads and broken asphalt, there is involvement and gears turning upstairs as the wheels do down. The vehicle is weighty but not 'heavy' it moves when asked and although I still don't know what first gear is for, second makes a case for existing and third wants to be friends forever. It's a hugely interesting drive. Unlike most of the vehicles on the road today, it demands a driving profile that is distinct. By this I mean that whilst you can get out of a Mercedes and into a BMW or Lexus and drive them the same way, you can't do that from a Land Cruiser to or maybe any other vehicle to a Defender, and surely not one that you've modified in any particular way. I've driven a handful of manuals but to a degree it's almost like starting anew. There is nothing generic about it. And over the course of a few hours, roads which were previously rambunctious, throwing around smaller cars, were tamed, oncoming drivers itching with impatience calmed, and after an evening's driving I can say if the rhythm was music, it'd be the hipest funky jazz. I can't believe I hesitated.. Actually that was all yesterday, but it counts because it was so good, with almost nowhere to go, I did it all again today… one problem though that i noticed yesterday and was quite a bit of an issue today.. The transfer box jumps out of hi-range into neutral. Yesterday I thought i may have inadvertently nudged it but today i'm sure I didn't. Yesterday i was going about 20 on a quiet road, today I was doing about 60 on a duel carriageway when I lost drive. This is a problem. I'm not sure what the issue is, gears not meshing properly or something with the transfer lever.. I've always engaged the transfer box whilst at a standstill. It's a bit of a dampener and since it's happened on each drive i've been on it's clearly an issue and needs to be sorted out because the vehicle can't go anywhere without me being confident that it won't happen again. I haven't even been on the highway yet and i'm not sure that I can at the moment. Also anyone know how much punishment the transfer case can sustain? The vehicle doesn't even have 40kms on it and i've had to put it into hi-range from neutral while going about 20-30. It really didn't like it but i'm sure would have liked it a lot less if someone had smashed into the back of it. Ah.. Defender ownership ey.. |
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12th Aug 2015 10:34pm |
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| Venomator Member Since: 25 Aug 2014 Location: Peterborough Posts: 2087
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Now that I really do like...
And certainly worth a serious look at just £40... 
By the by, if you open your pics in your Gallery you have the option to Rotate to the correct orientation before posting them... Rog... 
The GREEN One... MY2016 Urban Truck Build Thread - http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic40548....al[/color] |
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13th Aug 2015 6:45am |
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