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  1. 13th May 2007, 09:53 PM #1
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    Lightbulb Bloody LUCAS, the king of darkness

    About a week a go i was driving along and noticed that the Volt meter had dropped to zero, I turned the ignition off and the Volts went went up again. When i turned the ignition back on again, white smoke started spewing out from the dash (Time to pull over me thinks!)
    I managed to pull the Very hot wire off the fuse box, and was able to get back home. Once back home I took the Instrument panel off and try and make some sense of the birdnest of wire, and find the short.

    After doing a bit of tinkering around behind the dash I decided to bite the bullet, re-wire the whole lot and build a new panel out of checker plate.

    A week later and here is the finished (well nearly finished) product.



    Just a few more lights, and auxilary switches to go in. All the fuses have been replaced with circuit breakers, each system having its own circuit.

    I will post more pics once i put it back in the Landy!
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  2. 14th May 2007, 06:57 AM #2
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    Nice work mate, looking bloody good.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MacMan View Post
    ha ha that one is a classic

    I'll grab a jar of that, plus a few genuine Land Rover replacement oil leaks
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    well, I finaly finished installing the new pannel into the dash board, best of all every thing still works properly, what are the chances of that! looks like Lucas lost this battle here are the pics:


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    good job......looks great......

    i bet it goes faster now too.......
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  7. 17th May 2007, 01:00 PM #7
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    Don't forget some water leaks and rattles... wouldn't be a Landie without those !
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  8. 17th May 2007, 05:20 PM #8
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    Looks good, I have been called many things but prince of darkness is a new one
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  9. 17th May 2007, 05:41 PM #9
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    Nice one Paul. Looks good.
    There is a place for checker plate, in a Series Landy, besides on the floor.


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    Quote Originally Posted by shorty943 View Post
    Nice one Paul. Looks good.
    There is a place for checker plate, in a Series Landy, besides on the floor.


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    Ha, there is a place for checker plate everywhere on a landy.... But i think a steering wheel would be a bit of an engineering task
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