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  1. #1181
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    Quote Originally Posted by edddo View Post
    Haha..I also was a surveyor - but have retrained into another field.
    Have enjoyed travelling Len Beadells tracks ( in the D1) and reading about his exploits-driving landies, surveying and otherwise.
    Did you try to get down to the river from the trig point?
    Hey Edddo where were you a Surveyor? Here in VIC or somewhere else? I want to read about those exploits!

    I didn't try to get down to the river no, I just felt like I was running out of time and wanted to get to some other stuff but I'm going to go back and check that steep part out another day for sure. Is it really steep? It's a big BIG change in vertical down there.
    '97 Tdi 300
    5sp manual w/ D-gas, Maxi Drive rear, 245/75/16 rubber, dual batteries, other stuff.

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    Made our D4 smell nice

    Hi all

    Today Jill and I cleaned out the Disco 4 and filled it so it now smells nice. Eight small squares of fresh, sweet, Bylong Valley lucerne.

    Mike & Jill

    Addendum: Posted in wrong thread. Reposted in D4 thread as I can't seem to delete it.
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    Our car: Fuji White MY13 D4 SDV6 SE 3.0 Litre, 8 spd auto.
    My car: Series 2a Workshop, 109 inch WB, ex mil., 1971. To be restored.
    Wife's car: Series 2a FFT, LWB, ex. mil., 1966. To be restored.

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    Fitted my new to me kaymar rear bar, just got to work out the extra reverse lights in the bar, I only have one wire left so going to have a try at getting a live from the reverse lights and hope it's earthed in the light somewhere.

    All in all very pleased though
    P38 Range Rover , the best car in the world, when it's working

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    I had a stuffed tie rod end, one on the pitman arm. So I got a set and did the stuffed one as soon as I got the set, which was Tuesday. Today I did the the other three and also replaced the pinion seal and flange. Just need a front end alignment now. I had the replacement kit for the pinion seal for awhile as the leak was more a weep. Always interesting how a little oil makes such a mess. Diff oil was only just below the bung
    Cheers Hall

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    Only took me two years, but finally did the stub axles (and all new bearings).
    Had some play on the two LHS axles when I did the bearings, bit over two years ago, so got bits to replace them all .. then just sat on the parts for two years.
    The last couple of weeks the bearing noises got too loud, even for me!(and I'm generally tolerant), and with all this COVID nonsense and being home, allowed me time to get all four corners renewed.

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    Front right was stuffed. Couldn't get the inner bearing off. Not that I needed too, but definitely confirmed my suspicion it was bad. I like shiny things! CVs still in excellent condition too.
    To say its outer bearing was knackered is understating it a little!
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    Even worse!(yeah it got worse) .. took three hours to hook up the drag link again due to the thread on the tie rod end getting knackered too! Strange as the nut itself was fine. I stuffed around for too long with the joint in place till I gave up and pulled it out on the vice and finally cut a clean thread! Ahhhhh!
    The other annoyance finally got dealt with on the front end too, which bugged me no end couple of years back.
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    This bracket has to the most incompetently designed piece on anything I've had to work with! Brake line securing thing.
    Why they couldn't design it so that you don't have to remove it completely and disturb the swivel pins when removing brake calipers .. and more importantly!.... how the hell do you set torque on the bolts when a pipe is directly over it! The design defies logic.
    Now with the cut groove, the pipe easily slides out once the retaining clip has been removed .. no fuss, and easy to now set torque on the top swivel bearing nut.
    I was worried that the clip may not hold really tight now that the plate has been weakened, but feels more than adequately secure .. will keep an eye on it tho.

    Rear stubs axles went on without any issues
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    Old rear LHS stub wouldn't allow the inner bearing off either, and this was one of the two I'd done couple of years ago .. again confirming that the old axles needing changing.
    I really am a sucker for shiny new things
    Arthur.

    '99 D1 300Tdi Auto
    '03 D2 Td5 Auto

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    Bah! stuffed the brakes now!
    They used to have a nice initial bite before, feeling better than brothers D2 brakes, but now feel worse than brothers D2.
    I reckon I missed cleaning the discs properly(used all my brake cleaner and then MAF cleaner, then had to use some petrol) so I reckon a bit of grease contamination slipped by me!
    Arthur.

    '99 D1 300Tdi Auto
    '03 D2 Td5 Auto

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    Wow , you reckon the bearings are stuffed. All they need is a good polish.
    Seriously though I don't know how you could ignore the noise that they would make!

    I have seen worse. My daughter rang me one day that SIL Commodore was making "funny noise" so they left it in street outside a house.

    Got there and removed wheel disc etc to find no rollers and inner welded to stub axle. Got my daughter to go home from Avalon to Mona Vale and get my Dremel and cold chisel and hammer and then got her to borrow power from house we were outside. Then got her to go to Autobahn and buy new bearings and pads.
    Brake pads also had less than 1MM.

    Geeez!
    Regards PhilipA

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    Quote Originally Posted by PhilipA View Post
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    Seriously though I don't know how you could ignore the noise that they would make!

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    That was the easy part, and in hindsight(with the problems I had doing the work) .. I should have continued on in blissful ignorance
    Not a lot of noise actually. Only at freeway speeds(90+) and even then not too bad except over a long period(heat?)
    The other anomaly about the noise was that it was louder into a right turn than it was going left(seeing that the worn bearing was RHF).

    Anyhow, my recent unemployment(pre corona) last year and then my new job meant no freeway.
    This is why I ignored the job for a full year too .. zero income required for a few extra parts(noting that I'd got the bulk of the parts before unemployment), and not a lot of driving.
    (I keep a spreadsheet of work I do and costs).
    May'18 I did both LHS bearings and noted the slight looseness in the stubs, retensioned/checked LHF again Feb 19(all OK).

    Anyhow, unemployment 2.0 meant that I really should have got off my lazy posterior and just do it.

    Brakes seem to have come good(just an hour ago). Not as I remember them when new or pre stub/bearing job, but not like last night when they felt woeful.
    I might give them a bit more time before I pull the calipers and give the discs another cleanup.

    And LOL on the commodore .. seen a few similar horror stories myself and even perpetrated some myself.
    Dads 60 series cruiser he bought with a roadworthy, can't remember what we were doing under the bonnet one day not long after he bought it, all I remember was the rag stuffed in under the harmonic balancer to minimise the front oil leak.
    Pulled it out, saturated with oil and it must have lost about a litre per klm after that That one went directly to the mechanic who also found 2 injectors basically not injecting too.
    Arthur.

    '99 D1 300Tdi Auto
    '03 D2 Td5 Auto

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    Got the bushes into the new terrafirma castor corrected arms and got them onto the truck, I didn't realise the difference lifting it made until the castor is corrected, strong feels much more direct now.
    P38 Range Rover , the best car in the world, when it's working

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    1998 Disco V8 .

    Bit of a project during this Covid-19 crisis, helps pass the time at home.. ( shut my Engineering Business ) 1.jpg2.jpg3.jpg4.jpg5.jpg6.jpg7.jpg8.jpg

    4" Lift
    LRA Flares
    33" Tyres -25 offset rims
    Terrafirma +5" Adjustable shocks
    Terrafirma front and rear shock mounts / towers
    Terrafirma Johnny Joint rear trailing arms
    Bearmach 3 degree Front Radius Arms
    Ext Bump Stops
    Tough Dog Adjustable Panhard Rod
    Gwynn Lewis wide angle rear propshaft
    Tom Woods Double Cardon front propshaft
    Detroit Locker Rear Diff
    Maxi Drive Rear Axles and Drive Flanges
    Front and rear Swaybars Removed
    "HELL" Extended Braked Lines
    Drives and handles onroad beautifully ..... Offroad very capable...

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