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Yeah, back in 2007 I had to have a gearbox replaced in Darwin, I was sent to that workshop as they still had mechanics "Familiar" with Landrovers there.
Big mistake, Huge.
I had to show them how to adjust the handbrake for crying out loud!
Wouldn't recommend going there to anybody.
The Pajero DOHC 3L V6 needs the inlet manifold removed to change the spark plugs...
.. So does SWMBO's Magna. Has had ONE change in over 220K (end of last year)
- But uses appropriate plug$, .... Can live with that, along with the engine's otherwise impeccable behaviour. Runs very smooooth, idles even better (!) - Uses less than a litre of oil between changes, power steering does'nt leak or make noises, Diff, gearbox and CVs still original... :wasntme:
What the hell would you do on weekends if that was all you owned?Quote:
Originally Posted by superquag
Ha, be out and about, scratching around, I imagine.Quote:
Originally Posted by tomalophicon
The diesel Pajero's are a very very good and reliable 4x4 I understand. Always have been. They are excellent tow vehicles and with a lift quite capable offroad.
Mostly trouble free and a good variety of after market goodies.
The usual complaint is not about leaking oil like ours but they develop rattles in the trim.
Not surprisingly, the folk on their forum speak highly about landrovers.
Probably because like us, most other people think they are not right in the head and are looked down upon, but as they say they go about their business with smug content knowing what the others dont know.
I have a confession, I WAVE TO PAJERO'S as well as Landrovers. Ta Da.
Cheers.
Robert.
PS: there was a slver Puma 110 with a tubular front bar parked for a little while in my neigbours front yard a while a go. I went to put clothes on and was going to take a pic and say G'day but the bugger left before I got out there.
- Should'nt have been seen without clothes.... :DQuote:
Originally Posted by olbod
At my vintage, 'bored' is Good...
Gotta admit that my '89 Paj diesel is pretty good. Apart from the truck-like ride, it steers and handles better cruising on black roads than my RRC. Steering box also does'nt leak, or have slack in it after 350+K, though the Pitman arm and some tie-rod ends were been changed 2 years ago.
As another member of this forum confessed... his mate's Pajero follows him and the RRC 'everywhere' he goes, just slower and less comfortably, but more reliably...:wasntme:
Put it this way.... how many RRCs and Disco 1's have completed the Paris-Dakar? - As a support vehicle or competitor. Or placed? or won it ???
Take no notice the blokes a Wally his lucky it that key ways and timing marks at all ford focus has none of these just one example. Ford explorer has timing chains at the rear of the engine and it's an engine out job again no marks and as I found out the hard way the factory manual has a miss print the section for setting it all up again. If he thinks a belt and a clutch on a fender are hard give the trade away. These turkeys give me the ****s and I have to work with them
I hope you posted back to the Mitsi forum that it was an Austin-Rover engine licenced to Kia before it went anyware near a Land Rover!Quote:
Originally Posted by olbod
Holy crap Batman, as a previous FL1 KV6 owner it is not many times you hear people refer to a Freelander as a LandRover.:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies
You usually get the smug remarks like "not a real LandRover" or "it's a Freeloader". Even when I had mine serviced at a local independant LandRover dealer, I have had the remark when I have gone to pick it up after a service, "yes, your Freeloader is ready".:mad:
Because of it's torque and rev. characteristics the KV6 really did not suit a four wheel drive vehicle, I mean max. torque was at something like 4,000 revs, which suited a passenger vehicle better.:) Also, as the KV6 is East/West mounted you need to take off the manifold from the rear bank to change the spark plug thingy's!!!!
Falcon V8's need opposing engine/gearbox mounts taken off so the motor can be jacked up to remove the back plugs,Tarago's need the gearbox and engine unbolted and then the whole powertrain jacked forward to get the plugs out,I've never done it but the 79 series needs 12 hours to remove/replace the starter and my bosses 200 series had a recall on the steering rack and it is a body off job,his vehicle has had the body off four times now for recalls,POS. PatQuote:
Originally Posted by isuzurover