Thread: What did you do on your Landy today?

As the story goes ................

Polystyrene restrictor plate for scrutineering. Petrol would then dissolve the polystyrene and it would go safely through the engine.

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Had an AU electric fan assembly sitting in the shed, so after fitting the new aluminium radiator used the old radiator on my work bench to cut & shut the AU housing until it fitted like a factory one on the landy. Now to go for a drive to test it out.

Originally Posted by blitz

Had an AU electric fan assembly sitting in the shed, so after fitting the new aluminium radiator used the old radiator on my work bench to cut & shut the AU housing until it fitted like a factory one on the landy. Now to go for a drive to test it out.

Pics??? How is the aluminium radiator. Got the au fans and thinking of going down the same road with radiator.

Originally Posted by disco8

Pics??? How is the aluminium radiator. Got the au fans and thinking of going down the same road with radiator.

I'm too brainless to work out how to post pics.

It's a fenix radiator and looks shmick, the AU takes so serious cutting and shutting to make it look like it came from landrover, I'm probably biased but I think it looks better than the original cowling.

It's a bit to cool to see how it goes yet but first drive it gets up to running temp much faster, I have set the fans to come on at 85c and off at 83c, hasn't gone over 85 but as I said its not hot yet.

Much much quieter with out that huge fan hanging off the front of it, now I can hear the crisp sound of the engine rather than the roar of a 747. It feels like faster response To the throttle and when I sunk the boot in chirped the wheels turning off the hwy onto my road - got some startled looks for that one

The biggest questions will be can it move enough air when towing or labouring off road and what difference to fuel consumption. I tend to drive it like I stole it much of the time but looks like I have a job on the mines so I will be driving it 13 hrs each way 2 on 1 off so fuel consumption has to be factored into it.

So I will remain open minded and see after it gets into full summer

Took on the leaky swivel balls.

I don't think they have been off since put on in 1989! The double hex nuts holding the swivel ball to the axle casing looked prehistoric. I thought they would stop my advance but a propane torch, wd40 and a good quality extra long ring spanner got them turning. The brake caliper bolts were the ones to worry about.. three rounds of heat/wd40 + breaker bar + broken arms is what it took.

Whole hub assembly off allowed me to replace from the rear with all new seals, retainer and bolts ... much better!

Shame the swivels are pitted and will probably start leaking again sooner or later. Another job another time! Replacing EP90 with thicker swivel grease should help, and the pits are to the outer extremes of the ball so I will be parking with wheels facing forward

Originally Posted by manic

Took on the leaky swivel balls.

I don't think they have been off since put on in 1989! The double hex nuts holding the swivel ball to the axle casing looked prehistoric. I thought they would stop my advance but a propane torch, wd40 and a good quality extra long ring spanner got them turning. The brake caliper bolts were the ones to worry about.. three rounds of heat/wd40 + breaker bar + broken arms is what it took.

Whole hub assembly off allowed me to replace with all new seals and bolts ... much better!

Shame the swivels are pitted and will probably start leaking again sooner or later. Another job another time!

Try Lanox, I recon it's better than WD40.

Got fed up with the Classic's idle hunting all over the place...and the odd stall. Took the idle stepper motor out and degreased, carb-cleaned WD-40'd and drowned it a fifteenth time in Carb cleaner. Even cleaned out the hole...

Runs better now with no hint of stalling or overshooting up or down.
-Took longer to locate the 32mm spanner than doing the job. Dunno why I waited...

alrighty, this weekend I put a couple of recovery points onto the front of the bull bar and also re-fitted my bash plate ..but this time better, stronger (tore it off with a small doozy on my last trip)
washed, scrubbed and painted chassis and under my guards.

also today I picked up a set of 3" springs (these are going on tomorrow) and a set of P38 leather seats (full kit) which hopefully I can retrofit into the disco without too much hassle.