daily whinge thread...

[beagleONE]

just redid the sump this arvo in the hope that it will fix my leaky d1 (please dont be rear main, please dont be rear main haha).
so obviously new oil and filter...

undo sump plug.
oil gushes out all over the sway bar!
undo oil filter, oil all over me, front diff and workshop floor!!
they may have had the work experience kid on that design day hahahaha.


thats my whinge for the day, what drives you crazy about your landy??

[87County]

next time you'll fold some newspaper over the bar to direct it to you drain pan

[beagleONE]

haha, that i will!
well played, i like that idea a lot...
trying to figure something out for the filter, maybe a 2l bottle inverted with the bottom cut off...

[Homestar]

My whinge today was whilst trying to change the pulley on the front of the balancer - nuts aren't captive and a PITA to get to as you can only undo a couple at a time when they are at 6 o'clock so you have to keep barring the engine over - and I was on my own, so ended up pulling the pin and having a beer instead...

Actually, that is my biggest whinge of all - no captive nuts on ANYTHING!!!

[Chucaro]

haha, that i will!
well played, i like that idea a lot...
trying to figure something out for the filter, maybe a 2l bottle inverted with the bottom cut off...

I use a 2lt milk bottle cutting the top but leaving the handle on it. Work very well.

[cripesamighty]

My fun thing today was getting a fully loaded 3 ton truck bogged in very soft sand on a friend's property....and then having to get it out. After 30 fruitless minutes digging and moving it a foot at a time, we ended up pulling it out with the neighbour's tractor.

If we had only started off a couple of truck widths to the left we would have been fine! Nothing like getting a sweat up, digging and crawling under a truck in 40 degree heat in the middle of the day! Ah well, them's the breaks.....

[beagleONE]

haha, always the way.
"just a slightly different line and we wouldnt be in this mess"

[carlschmid2002]

This thread could catch on. I have nothing to wing about today. I am currently sitting in the QANTAS Club in Townsville drinking G and Ts about to fly back to Melbourne to pick up the wife's car. I might have something to whinge about tomorrow in Melbourne's heat wave. I have a exit seat in the aisle too. No whinging about that.

[Gary S11]

My whinge, why do people wait till there's a wild fire bearing down on them, to clean out all the debris build up in their gutters and roof valleys ..PREPARE and act! ..Gary

[Petetheprinta]

I want to whinge about some of the utter garbage I read on this forum. Some of the Questions/statements are unbelievable. I know the poster doesn't think it's rubbish, but there are so many posts that appear to be there purely for the poster to get his numbers up. Why is it that people feel a need to let everyone know what's happening in their life. Also what's so difficult about looking up the www if someone has a non Land Rover related question (for example...not picking) best this or that, what's this, or my uncles brother in laws sister die, Immigration, boat people. Everyone has the right to say whatever of course but sorry folks I just don't get it, it is a Vehicle web site (not whining about the site, I think it's brilliant and has been very useful to me. Brilliant resource)
As I read just about every single post, it's getting harder to sort the wheat from the chaff. Does anyone else think we may have drifted a tad from original purpose of this site? As I said, I just don't get it.
I also don't understand why so many answers to questions are unrelated to what the OP asked. The posts regularly seem to end up with everyone talking about everything other than the problem at hand.
And please don't bother to say it. I realize it's my fault, I know I can stop reading or go elsewhere for info about LAND ROVERS. (This is a Land Rover forum, the banner says so) and yes I do go to the www for info on everything else NOT land Rovers.
Now having said all that I have done it myself, but that was in my younger days
There, that's my whinge for the day. Thank you for listening.