Thread: What did you do on your Defender today ? (well, this week anyway)

Drove into the village & picked up the parcel from All Four x4 containing a clutch slave cylinder. Spent the afternoon fitting it. The designer of this setup obviously had smaller hands than I do!

Still having issues getting it bled (as usual).

45 minutes..to remove ancilirys and find out turbo heat shield bracket is snapped and the bolt is 1/2 inch not 13 mill...same later with turbo to manifold bolts[imp not metric] ..[just in time b4 bolt destruction].
3 snapped manifold studs..mate spent 4 hrs [on and off] removing them with drills, ground down screw drivers a high quality easy out that provided totally non functional. ..2 of the 3 studs were removed by drilling and grinding/filing down various tools including Allen keys...wood bits[most usfull]..high end German screwdrivers and a asorted probed, picks and swearing/praying..Tim quote ”that’s the problem...they won’t let you charge for that but anything can be don given tim beer and thought[lr trained mech from the 80’s[ulr in vic]...from 10 am onwards I’m on the manifold ..sand paper a flat board and a strait edge[20 past one now with a pint of 50 /50 Jim beam and coke as a night cap..and 1/ a mil of plum..........flip some sheckles to machine shop and that’d be done[however I’m on a pension and could afford glass sheet and emery paper and drill bits.....pain in the arse but it’s Saturday, we’re both cheep and persostant......AND MOST IMPORTANTLY WITH A HAND DRILL IN THE BACK OF THE TD5....ITS 2 days sleeping on the side of the road ,and you’re on you’re way
That’s why I love the box cars....Monday I’ll be trying to get the breaks working on the 1955”defender” so that if it flash fry’s down from the alpine national park I can get both cars out

Every day in a Land Rover is an expedition, that’s why we love em
Time for more sanding and another pint of 50/50 bourbon and dry
Best cars in the world, hand tools all the way

Got the clutch on the County bled. Took most of the morning, but the majority of the time was spent making a reverse bleeder, having been unsuccessful in the search for the one I made last time (about ten years ago!)

As 2 posts above, I’m astounded at the improvement in drivability sorting out the warped manifold/snapped studs resulted in....not to mention the quitening up of the engine in general. In hindsite it felt like driving with a gearbox with mismatched ratios
Cheers mark

Well, I didn’t do it but a large branch (25 meters long) feel on my 300Tdi squashing the bonnet, doing damage to the right side of the vehicle ripping the snorkel away from the A pillar, somehow smashing the push button on the drivers door handle and smashing an indicator and side light. The bull bar seemed to protect it from significantly more damage. Am unable to open the bonnet but the engine is running fine!



I guess I will be looking for a bonnet (with spare wheel bracing) and a right mud guard at least...and probably other stuff

Damn!

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Damn!

Could have been a lot worse I guess!

We lived in a place in Sydney with a massive gum in the neighbors back yard which extended over the majority of our yard. The Defender was kept in our back yard under a cover to stop the gum sap etc staining the paint.

Every windy day I expected the bloody thing (tree that is) to drop a branch. We were there for two years. I'm amazed nothing fell onto the car except a few larger twigs.