Thread: What did you do on your Perentie Today.

I'll let you guys know what I decide to do.

What have they been selling for at auction recently?

I believe it would sell readily being repairable, so doing that and installing an electric winch of your choice could be a viable option.

You may consider installing a dual battery system. It can be useful if you have an electric winch.

Just to change the topic slightly:

Did my steering box oil today.
came up with a few cheap hacks to get oil out.

Fyi - oil cap is 17mm head. Ratchet spanners are magic for that.

Used blu-tac, empty glass bottle and some vinyl tube to extract oil - see image.

Some "suction" required. We won't go into that bit.

Filled and removed a few times to flush

Filled with 80w90 gear oil.

Not driven yet - will report back but old oil was definately past it's use-by date, see image.

Then the kids spotted me and asked if they could "decorate stuff".

Not sure if I regret saying yes yet...
Also see image.

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Just getting back - steering much better.

Old oil looked like this:

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Originally Posted by dranoweb

Just getting back - steering much better.

Old oil looked like this:

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about what mine looked like.
took 3 changes (300 ml removed each time) to get it to look like new oil.

I went to the chemist and bought a 'flushing syringe' (got some sideways looks when I ask for a syringe but when I explained what i was doing the guy was really helpful) for $1

went to supercheap and found some clear plastic tubing that fitted over the end (stocked with the fuel/vacuum hoses in my local store)
poked around a bit with the tubing and managed to squeeze it a bit past the roller and pulled 300 ml out 20ml at a time.

Steering is definitely much, much lighter. actually makes me concerned how much damage was/has been done to the steering box with the black water that was in it.

<edit> filling the box is a bit difficult due to it's location. I have a plastic jug with a really long, thin spout that was perfect to pour fresh stuff in without getting it everywhere - something to think about if your going to change your oil, which I highly recommend doing.

I definitely need to try this. My steering is worse turning right than left. Not sure what would cause this. Maybe one face of the worm gear pitted and corroded more than the other? Are there rebuild kits available for the manual box?

I used a $2 sauce bottle for filling.

Normally i get giant syringes from the local $2 shop - for filling cakes and doughnuts with jam.

150ml jobs. But none were available on a sunday avo this time.

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Originally Posted by Ashleylipus

I definitely need to try this. My steering is worse turning right than left. Not sure what would cause this. Maybe one face of the worm gear pitted and corroded more than the other? Are there rebuild kits available for the manual box?

you can source a replacement, though they are getting hard to find and quite expensive.
I'm sure there must be somewhere that can rebuild them, lord knows what the cost is.

what exactly is "worse" when you turn right.
the suggestion would be check everything you can.
start at the steering shaft connecting the steering wheel to the steering box - check the linkages make sure they are tight and not sloppy.

the steering box - change the oil, then get under it and check the pitman arm - grab it and give it a good pull up and down and side to side, there should be no movement. up and down means the sector shaft in the steering box is probably worn, side to side means where it attaches to the box is worn.
have a look at the (3) tie rod ends (ball joints). The standard land rover ones are not greasable, so they tend to dry out, rust and break, which in this car due to it's design is very bad. check the rubber boots, give the steering rods and good twist and pull and see if you can feel the ball joint grinding or scraping, if they are, replace them with some good ones that have grease nipples (good news is even good ones are less than $75 each)

that should keep you busy and probably will find the problem. If it doesn't
the you would have to start looking at a swivel hub issue.