Thread: What did you do on your Landy today?

Originally Posted by Jeff

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

Great report! Now the question that has to be asked ... did you feed back to Mulgo exactly what you did to make it compatible with the ARB bar so he can modify his manufacture and make the kit a straight forward bolt on affair for people like me without a milling machine lying around under "a lot of stuff" in the shed??? I imagine filing the holes to slotted might be beyond even my patience.

New water pump and belts, the last one lasted 4 months for some reason and the bearings went. New weather shields fitted.
So tomorrow I will be fitting the new tie rod ends. First timer so see how we go.

Dropped it into the sparky to get the uhf sorted out, installing the stereo when he's done with it.

Originally Posted by JayBoRover

Great report! Now the question that has to be asked ... did you feed back to Mulgo exactly what you did to make it compatible with the ARB bar so he can modify his manufacture and make the kit a straight forward bolt on affair for people like me without a milling machine lying around under "a lot of stuff" in the shed??? I imagine filing the holes to slotted might be beyond even my patience.

Not yet, but I will see him in a few weeks when my sill protectors arrive. They are not his products, but Bearmach. I could have used a file or an angle grinder, but I hadn't used the mill for a while and I like the look of machined surfaces rather than what I can do with a grinder. Having said that, you don't see it unless you climb under.

Jeff

A bear's left its mark on your driveway....

sorry......

Dug the spare starter out of the back for Ezyrama. Sounds like Smeg's blown his.

Well, last night both my high beams went dark on me so that will be today's ''What did you do on your Landy today?'' agenda. Suspect fuse.

Easo

Good old Lucas, at it again.