Thread: What did you do on your Landy today?

Got the better of the exhaust manifold heat shield with a drill. With a lot of help, got the head off the d2. Now to clean all that muck off, head to machinist to check, and back on next weekend. Just in time for Easter!

Have spent the last few days fabricating a trailer to pull behind the series three!

Originally Posted by mick88

Have spent the last few days fabricating a trailer to pull behind the series three!

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Fitted my new water tank in the defender 110! Well its in there and kind of plumbed in! 95 odd litres should keep1396744037690.jpg us going!


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Installed runva winch to non compat bulbar
This involved
remove bar
cut top of bar to suit winch
drill and bolt winch mounting plate to bar where bar mounts to chasse
fit winch to plate
refit bar
find that supplied cables to short
make and fit new cables
the control box was bolted to the bar to give it some protection

Deleted EGR last night.
New FPR, sway bar brackets, engine mounts today.
Sway bar brackets, piece of ****.
Engine mounts, easy as.
FPR?
And the icing on the cake?
I got the superseded gasket for an update regulator and it's still leaking..

Originally Posted by Disco Muppet

Deleted EGR last night.
New FPR, sway bar brackets, engine mounts today.
Sway bar brackets, piece of ****.
Engine mounts, easy as.
FPR?
And the icing on the cake?
I got the superseded gasket for an update regulator and it's still leaking..

Ummm, if that wot is quoted is correct, then it is most likely that the update regulator installed with a superseded gasket will leak

Where was the "update" gasket for the "Update regulator" ; and to have to do that FPR all over again; oh dear!

RF

Spent most of the day investigating intermittent starter problems.

1. Jack car up on stands to give more room underneath.
2. Fold bonnet back against windscreen and secure with ocky strap. This involved findint the low steps - found them in the sleepout where I had used them to install insect netting.
3. Remove breather extension.
4. Remove nuts on clamp round exhaust pipe that is stayed to top outer starter bolt. Having been on the exhaust for over twenty years, spanner all the way, despite the antiseize put on last time.
5. Remove top outer starter bolt. Collect the bits that fell on the ground.
6. Disconnect battery.
7. Remove washer reservoir - 4 and 5 would have been easier with this out of the way!
8. Disconnect stack of wires on main terminal of solenoid
9. Remove slave cylinder bolts
10. Remove bottom starter mounting nut. Move slave cylinder out of the way
11. Remove top inner nut, having eventually worked out what extension and ratchet makes it possible.
12. Start to remove starter - realise that the wire from the ignition switch is still connected. Balance starter in position while searching for the phillips screwdriver.
13. Disconnect wire and lift starter out.
14. Clamp starter in vice and dismantle the cover on the solenoid (need to disconnect the solenoid - starter lead)
15. Problem is obvious. One of the fixed contact is almost non-existent, with almost all the contact area burnt away. The other fixed contact is good, as is the moving contact
16. Look for piece of heavy wall copper pipe. Found it eventually, after about an hour.
17. Cut a bit off it, split it, and opened it out and flattened it
18. Cut and filed the new contact to shape, bent and drilled it.
19. Dress moving contact on lathe, then reassembled it
20. Reinstalled starter, reverse of above, but have not yet tested it - ran out of light.

John