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A former RAEME fitter of my acquaintance told me that when diving into the engine bay of a Centurion tank, you grabbed the tools you would need and tied them with string to your wrists, belt, etc. If you dropped anything down there it was lost until the next time the engine came out.
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Originally Posted by INDABA
I think you will find you WERE comparing land rovers to Japanese "stuff".Quote:
Originally Posted by INDABA
On the whole I find Landies quite easy to work on. One thing that really annoys me though is the stupid little clip holding the front brake lines in place, which is bolted down using the swivel bolts... Any time you want to remove the caliper you need to remove those 2 bolts and leak swivel oil everywhere.
Put a jack under the swivel and put a little weight on it.You won't leak a drop. Pat
next time seperate the brake line and then while its out cut 2 vertical notches in the mount a micky hairs wider than the thread on the hose.
to remove the hose at a later date simply unwind the locking nut from the shoulder without seperating the pipe from the hose.
:eek:You know my secret:(Quote:
Originally Posted by PAT303
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Got any others? Pat
I do that when I can - but often the jack is in use... My point was, if they had spent a fes cents more they could have made it muck less of a PITA to work on.Quote:
Originally Posted by PAT303
Dave - yes I have done that on mine, but when working on other people's vehicles...
There's problem Ben.......If someone ask's you to do that job you tell them, I can tell you how to do it but you can do it while I stand there drinking your beer :DQuote:
Originally Posted by isuzurover
Teach others to work on their vehicles, dont do it for them, they dont learn anything then :p
Might be why people dont ask me to work on their cars all that often, it's too hard for them ;)
Hi INDABA:)
Have you been getting my pm's??, thought there might be something wrong with the pming system;)
CHEERS TIM.