Thread: What did you do on your Landy today?

Wired up my rear floods

And I ain't no auto elecy but they work!

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Still can't get in to the check the transfer case oil though. Read the service manual, found what I think is the right plug, but the half-inch socket spanner won't budge it. Either its the wrong thing or I'm a weakling!
Good thing is I know it got a fill of fresh oil last year, so it might be OK until I figure it out. How often should transfer case oil be changed - same interval as diffs?

Sounds like the right plug if you are using a half inch drive socket wrench. It is at the rear, and if the hand brake cable is in the way you have the right spot.

I changed my fill plug to an external type. I know use a 27 mm ring spanner.

If you can't undo it try it with the unit nice and hot. Alloy expands at about two to one of steel. What can happen is if some one checks it hot and does the plug up real tight, it can be near impossible to undo cold.

Mounted a fire blanket to the inside back door-safety first!


Also fixed a tail light AGAIN.

actually not today; mechanic tomorrow along with new sparks (and indicator switch not yet, nothing wrong with my current one yet but I was grateful for the ebay seller not making me go through with the fuel pump I didnt need so I bought more stuff from him)

Repaired my winch isolator and tried to spool the cable onto the winch under load, wouldn't spool correctly. Useless heap of tigerz
Also tried to remove my windscreen washers as they've stopped working again, but they just wouldn't come out. Buggers.

unpacked some of it from my trailer

Tinkered with the injector pump today to get a little more power for towing heavy boats a bit quicker around town for work.
Also fixed two small dints in the passenger door which have always annoyed me by using a hot glue gun and a simple/crude contraption I made to pull them out.
Looks like I put a dint in the drivers door after mowing the lawn tonight so another challenge with the make shift contraption for next weekend.

Got 'Fred' wet, dirty and muddy yesterday.

With three other vehicles, the work boots they were shod with, were large chunky tyres and 'Fred' had his Sunday shoes on ( new, black, shiny and highway tread ), he didn't get stuck once on the old no longer used, 'Forestry' and 'Hydro' service tracks.

Three cheers for 'Fred', the only time we all turned back was a steep drop down, then up a wet and greasy, clay gully, with a culvert that had partially collapsed in the bottom, I took one look at this situation and drawing on a few years of my experience told the others that there must be a better way.

So around into the bush we went, through the trees on a old timber drag and only found two trees across our track to block the way, one we cleared around the end, the largest a 130 just squeezed through and the Pat-roll machine with it's drop reduction hubs, 2" lift, drove straight over the 30 cm log.

Both 'Fred' and the P38, simply drove around the end of that log, the next fallen tree was a long one and being of a proper size, meant that even Pat with his lifted Pat-roll couldn't get across this one, so without further a-do
Chris our trip leader found a chainsaw packed away in the depths of his 130 and some suitable lengths of firewood was made available for some lucky future wood hooker in a couple of years time ( the tree was green ).

What rock? they all said, after I told them that 'Fred' touched a rock in the centre of the clay mound in the track.
There were four load thuds as 'Fred' went over, the first would have been the front diff housing, and the last two would have been the rear diff housing and the towbar. What was the second noisy thud? I shall squirt the high pressure washer underneath and have a look later today, at least the front wheels look like they are still pointing straight ahead.

Should I get 'Fred' some work boots and a short back and sides camel cut ?
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