Thread: BADLY DESIGNED

Originally Posted by INDABA

I am not talking aboutCamry, mitsubishi, Nissan or anything else
I am talking about our L/R`s

Originally Posted by INDABA

WHAT bad design, at least jap stuff can be taken apart, REALLY bad design

I think you will find you WERE comparing land rovers to Japanese "stuff".

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.

Originally Posted by PAT303

Put a jack under the swivel and put a little weight on it.You won't leak a drop. Pat

You know my secret

Got any others? Pat

Originally Posted by PAT303

Put a jack under the swivel and put a little weight on it.You won't leak a drop. 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.

Dave - yes I have done that on mine, but when working on other people's vehicles...

Originally Posted by isuzurover

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.

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

Teach others to work on their vehicles, dont do it for them, they dont learn anything then

Might be why people dont ask me to work on their cars all that often, it's too hard for them