Thread: What did you do on your Landy today?

Got my Hawkeye plugged in and working.
Pulled some dead bulbs out of the dash and replaced them.

Fitted my scan gauge to the TDCi. Pat

Replaced my top hose today after it decided to do an impression of a steam train. I'd like to give a big thank you to Tony Leahey Motor group in Orange for having one in stock.

Looked into hoists, don't think i'll ever finish this car with out one. Well that's what I told the wife:-)

Bloody sheep... should of run the dumb bugger over! GOOD IDEA FOR THAT SHEEP. Ask who-ever owns the sheep if you can spit it up over the coals and feed the family and helpers at the end of repairs party!

Originally Posted by wrinklearthur

Poor Tucker truck was in trouble, Graham swerved to miss a sheep ----- all was not good ------.

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Originally Posted by DT-P38

Bloody sheep... should of run the dumb bugger over! GOOD IDEA FOR THAT SHEEP. Ask who-ever owns the sheep if you can spit it up over the coals and feed the family and helpers at the end of repairs party!

That sheep can go back to its owner! a hobby farmer in the next valley.

Long tail, full mouth and double fleeced - yuk.

What I did today.
Hooked my trailer onto 'Fred', emptied the blackberry vines and the wormwood pruning's.

Now they are ready for a trip to the other end of the island tomorrow, to pickup a 2A diesel motor that's minus it's injector pump.
If that motor is good it will go into 'Pat' the diesel flat tray, that Land Rover I retrieved from near Saint Patrick's head, a mountain near the East Coast town of Saint Marys.
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"What did I do on my Landy today" you ask?
Well, I pulled the plastic (??) mudguards from inside the left (??) front wheel well so I could remove the snorkel. With the snorkel off I then fitted a couple of thread inserts (Rivnuts) into the A pillar to replace the flogged out plastic jobbies in there. I then repainted (??) the A pillar, as it looked pretty shoddy since I repainted the roof some time ago but didn't do the A pillar at the time due to the snorkel being there. With the snorkel back on I then cut and polished (??) the whole truck. This story doesn't sound right does it?? This all happened on my Nissan Patrol ute. It relates directly to the projects I have lined up for my D90 though, because as soon as the Patrol sells I'll have some spondoolies to spend on my Landy's (roof rack, roof tent, tow bar, bull bar, roof console, ExBox, twin sill tanks, window tint, etc). So, in a slightly removed kind of way, I see it as a weekend spent working on my Landy.

Took 'Fred' the D1 to Bothwell and picked up a shearer his name is Peter, and made our way up the Highland Lakes Highway, through Golden Valley and then the Bass Highway from Deloraine to Sassafras, just past the Fergie on the pole.

Peter's problem, his 3/93 D1 V8 auto had chewed the back LHS stub axle off, wrecking the hub and half shaft (10 spline).
He was returning from the mainland to do some shearing around the central highlands sheds, trying to nurse a very noisy wheel bearing since getting off the Ferry, the report was, it gave up in a cloud of smoke !

The D1's center diff was locked in, (name and fame time), then dragged it's self into the Caltex Sassafras servo, where the servo's proprietor couldn't be more helpful. Thanks Mate .

Peter's D1 was there for a total of ten days, until yours truly arrived with parts arranged by John (who's surname rhyme's with that Hood bloke from Sherwood forest).

The stub axle and half shaft had been already removed and the diff housing on the LHS was left perched on top of a couple of fence post remains. I placed a couple of large boards on the ground and with my workshop trolley jack soon had the whole thing secure on my axle stands.

Dropped the NSW flood water out of the diff and flushed the frogs out of the diff housing with some kero and then filled it back up with proper EP90 oil. We then proceeded to rebuilt the axle, checking first the other side, that was nicely lubricated and only needed the bearing's preload nipping up.

After rebuilding the LHS axle with second hand parts and a new seal. all the site was cleaned up so you wouldn't have known that the D1 was there.
Peter went to the ATM to get his money out to pay ---- and ---- there wasn't enough!
So back down to Bothwell we went.

'Fred' being a 300TDi manual, I got Peter with his V8 auto to go ahead when we arrived at the bottom of the Western Tiers before we started the climb up through Golden Valley. I was interested how the diesel compared performance wise with the V8 on the steep climb, 'Fred' had no trouble keeping up with Peter's bus at all around the switchback corners and the steep climbs in between.
The flat straight runs on the plains down past the Great Lake, well that was different, the V8 showing me a clean pair of heels. ( I won't say how fast he was going, on the grounds that I may incriminate myself ).
His boss, a shearing contractor met us in town with a few dollars, so I was fixed up as well, phew!!

I arrived back home doing 450 Klm's and used only 40 Ltr's of Diesel, good on you 'Fred'.
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