Sounds like a truckload of fun!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bushie
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Sounds like a truckload of fun!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bushie
After suffering a burnt out trafficator on the RRC and replacing it with a new unit followed by a Traxide kit some time ago, I couldn't work out why I didn't have high beam.
Not that I need it now, as low beam is now higher than high beam ever was.
Checked the connections under the dash, as it's common to melt a connection there before the traxide conversion. Nope, all good there.
Found the remnants of a relay in the passenger side battery well. Had a hunch it might have been installed by the previous owner, to service the High beam circuit.
Re-connected the loom wires properly and "let there be light". :cool:
Traced the relays power feed back to an empty slot on the auxilliary fuse box i had installed years ago......... no fuse. :D
I don't even recall redirecting the power there when I put the box in. :confused:
Oh well, at least that's another fistfull of useless wires removed from the engine bay.
Fixed the passenger side headlight which had popped out of its casing, and got my tailgate handle to work :D woo hoo
Changed the Injector wiring harness.
Last week I disconnected the plug at the head and pushed a clean white piece of rag up against the pins in the plug of the harness and.......
very small dots of oil were apparent on the cloth, you could hardly see them but there they were.
This was the modified harness (later version) with so called improved sealing but still starting to let oil by.
So, new harness with epoxy (araldite) added to the inside of the multiplug (as per another thread) and also the injector connectors and into the truck.
A close look at the one I removed showed that the main blue O rings on the outside of the mutiplug had NOT failed but that oil was very gradually getting past the rubber seal inside the plug.
So hopefully fixed, for now anyway:angel:
Cheers,
Paul.
Fitted a steering guard I bought from Mulgo. As I already have an ARB bull bar I wasn't sure if it would fit, and I was right to worry.
The holes are slotted to make up for manufacturing tolerances in Land Rovers, but the ARB bar has bigger bolts than the standard bumper, so I needed to biggen up the holes. This would have been simple, but I hadn't used my milling machine for a while, so had to move a lot of stuff to get to it. I enlarged the slots on the side brackets then fitted the main plate to find it fouled the bull bar. I thought of making spacers and buying longer bolts, then I thought, I used the mill for the side plates, I can use it on the main piece, so milled some slots to clear the bull bar and all was good.
Jeff
:rocket:
please do not show pics like that again for at least several months:eek: It causes me an onset of acute tachycardia prompted by "shed/equipment envy" :p:angel::wasntme: great work!!
Well I've pulled the front end out of the engine bay and got it ready for the new motor going in on Saturday
saturday saw a steel bar onto the front of SWMBOs disco and a Suspension Stuff 2 inch lift kit installed, this week should see some new BFG AT's for the rears. Winch Forgot the winch.... Thats what took up most of saturday, mounting in the winch...
Replaced the clock backlight, purchased and worked out the install of my uhf, next comes the snorkel and duel batteries, then in a week or so steel bar and driving lights.
Also had some ****** put a whopping great crack in my windscreen by tearing past me on a newly tarred road. Not Happy :mad: :censored::bat::thumbsdown:
It's time has come to be recycled, parts separated for reuse in another Land Rover.
The station wagon began it's life on the floor of The Rover Co. LTD. factory in Solihull, England. Designated to be a 109" series IIA Station Wagon fitted with a six cylinder 2.6 litre rover motor. It's chassis serial number 35000742D confirms the original build.
It's body had been cared for in the past, some additions were fitted by a owner to make travel easier, a windscreen washer, a interior light for the rear compartment. A dent was repaired on the left hand rear corner body filler and paint to complete the job.
Why is this car that was once someone's pride and joy, now a wreck, being parted out?
The end came slowly and was destructive, the chassis is now disintegrating into a dusty pile of rust.
My job in it's final days is to find the pieces that can serve a extended purpose, live on in another worthy vehicle. The conclusion will be the return to the furnace of the now left over useless metal, that is to be given new life in a indefinable form.