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| JWL Member Since: 26 Oct 2011 Location: Hereford Posts: 3443   
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Today as a favour to a friend who has allready been ripped off on her purchase of a Jap pickup I spannered some bits on her Isuzu pickup. She had bought a 55 plate Rodeo last November to replace her early Disco II. She had the Disco for close on 7 years and apart from a bit of welding on the rear of the chassis last year has been trouble free, she had downsized her horse trailer from a tri-axle Equitrek to a slightly smaller twin axle and the Isuzu being the 3l version was well capable of towing it.
Since November it's been off the road for 2 months with a fuel injector pump problem which was sorted by the garage she bought it from, which was the same garage that had looked after her Disco and did the trade for the Isuzu. She has had a complete change in how she transports her horses spurred on by the problems with the new motor so when it came back "fixed" last week she got in it to drive away and it was in a type of limp mode. So she parked it up and made the decision to get shot of it. The MoT was up so her hubby was dispatched with it to the testing station and it failed and that's where I came in. It had failed on rear spring shackle bushes, a shock absorber and a hole in the rear silencer box. It's taken me a couple of days to get the bits together, shock absorbers weren't too bad, quick look on europarts and £91 each! I went to my friendly local motor factors and the same for £47 +VAT. The shackle bushes were a bit different as none of the motor factors by me did them saying it's a dealer only part. Thankfully the local dealer isn't too far away and they had them on the shelf at £5.20 each, then you find that it is £5.20 for each half as they come in two parts! That's 8 of the little blighters as there are two bushed bits to the spring shackle and the two springs to do! So there's a shade over £50 just to re-bush the shackles on the rear springs! It also turns out that the motor is a grey import and when I had it up on the ramp I was horrified at the corrosion and rust on the underside, it must have spent a long time on the deck of the boat when it came from Japan! God knows how anybody is going to use the spare, that's if they can get the carrier to let it go, all the wheelnut chamfers are heavy with rust, not just a surface rust but full on corrosion. I wouldn't trust the nuts coming loose as they wouldn't seat properly. Whilst underneath I saw the fuel and oil filter in a position I least expected, you think that the LR idea of putting the fuel filter in the wheel arch was crazy but at least you can get at it without jacking it up. On the Isuzu both of them are on the inside of the nearside chassis rail in the middle of the motor, plastic fuel lines all over the place and rubber pipework for the remote oil filter, judging from the marks on my 110's chassis rails I know for a fact that I'd catch them. The remote oil filter is a good idea, I had one on my Classic Range Rover that had a 6cyl York conversion and we put a remote filter on a Mazda 3.5 we did on a 90 as otherwise we had to fabricate a notch in the chassis to give room for the filter but at least we put it somewhere you could get at it without relying on a ramp or pit. I'm so glad after working on this Jap thing today that my passion is for Land Rovers, the proper ones anyway, I don't need to take the body off to change a fuel pump belt! |
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13th Mar 2015 11:42pm |
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| Dave-H Member Since: 08 Feb 2011 Location: Surrey Posts: 1507 
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Spare a thought for me .. being a mobile mechanic for a huge leasing company ......
I have to work on a variety of jap pick ups most weeks 
But also a few Defenders  ... Along with the multitude of panel vans 
Always gives me a glow when i know its 'Defender day'  Guns and Landrovers .... anything else is irrelevant. |
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14th Mar 2015 9:55am |
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