D3 Brake/Clutch fluid flush

Got it the wrong way around. Male is on the adapter and the Motive is the female. I put a valve on there so I can pump it up and then shut the valve. I did that so I could pressurise the reservoir and then swap the compressed air line across to the mity-vac, so I could get a kinda blow-suck happening. In reality I just use the mity-vac as a catch bottle, but the valve is nice as I can pop the coupler off the regulator and then de-pressurise slowly with the valve.



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Originally Posted by PeterOZ

any hints on the special air adaptor you fitted to the motive?

Don't blame you not wanting to get under the D3, I'm paranoid about it. I put the wheels back under so at least you have that width in case of something going pear shaped.

I'll probably flush mine over the Christmas break but will depend on how my sore back is coping.

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Having a look at the bleeders, I'm not sure with the right-angle adapter on the mity-vac that I can't flush them with the wheels on. I just need to get a smaller/thinner 11mm spanner. For everything else I put the car as high as it'll legally go using the iid tool (whatever off-road mode + whatever it'll let me add) and then just put stands under the chassis rails. If I can get to them from behind it'll be easier to do next time, although I still need to take the back wheels off to do the handbrake adjustment.

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Originally Posted by BradC

Lesson 3 : Landrover wheel lugs laugh at my 1/2" pneumatic rattle gun (the one I used to call the "bolt snapper"). It loosened 2 out of 20. The rest needed a 2ft breaker bar and enough manpower to ensure I'll be sore tomorrow.

Lesson 6 : I need a bigger torque wrench to properly tighten the lugs.

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Torque is only 140Nm on the wheel nuts so not overly tight - 1/2" rattle gun should easily undo these. Sounds like the last person to touch them has seriously overtighten them

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Originally Posted by shanegtr

Torque is only 140Nm on the wheel nuts so not overly tight - 1/2" rattle gun should easily undo these. Sounds like the last person to touch them has seriously overtighten them

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Unfortunately that's pretty normal for this vehicle and a big part of why I started doing my own maintenance.