Thread: Embarrassment

Hey does anyone have a picture of the door slid on a defender the bit on the bottom of the dash where it slides when you open. I need some realy good pics of them so I can workout something for mine. Also are they welded to the bulkhead or bolted.

Well, that brought a roaring response, Jase!!!!

Hey guys how are you all?

Originally Posted by Landy Smurf

Hey guys how are you all?

Tony, welcome back. We were starting to wonder where you got to.

Yeah Tony, what's happ'n!!!

I have just been very busy over the last 6 months with uni.
Besides that not a lot more has happened. I might upload a few pics from the farm and a few travels around.

Well I've been quiet busy the last few weeks. I was working on the neighbors camper van for a week or so. It was loosing charge in the battery's when it was standing still a couple of days. Turns out there was a stereo in it that didn't work & was draining the whole system. Ended up removing for them. Filled a milk crate with wires from it & a heap of wires that went nowhere. I got it all sorted for them so they happy. Now they need to sort out the injector pump. It's a deisel ford transit.


Spent all this week working on Fred's car. She has had it well over a year now & she has never had any trouble what so ever. Then 2 months ago it went upto the brother inlaws for a service & pink slip. It needed a new throttle body the bit with the butterfly in it. So had the replaced & the service. Last Sunday she rang me as the car broke down. It blew the top radiator hose off the radiator. Couldn't see any water or coolant on the road anywhere just a small amount all over the engine. So put the hose back on & filled it again to get it home. Checked it again when we got home it was empty again. So checked all the oil & trans fluid nothing there at all. It has had water all over the passengers side floor it was soaked & gets some on drivers rear floor. So I pulled all the dash out to check all the pipes under the dash & heater core. Nothing at all. So took the hoses off the heater & blocked them off refilled the system ran the car for awhile nothing. So put it all back rerun the car for awhile still nothing but the fluid was down. Pulled all the splash panels off under the front of car. Nothing no leaks anywhere. So I kept running the car & refilling it till it just was full. So far it hasn't gone down at all & there is no leaking anywhere in the system at all. I think who ever did the service on it didn't fill it up properly & it finally overheated & blew the hose. So far it seems fine. Someone said it could be leaking from behind the engine where the thermostat is. But if it was there would be some coolant on the ground by now with all the running of the engine I did while it was on the cement out the back. Can't see the housing. To change the thermostat you have to drop the engine & trans just to get enough room to change it by brail. Because he car is lowered its been a nightmare to do stuff on. Even pulling the dash out. To lay down under the dash your half in half out of the car so it's like laying on a lump of metal in the modal of your back & bending over the engine so much since its low. I'm in no hurry to do that again. Very sore now. So many aches & pains. I must be getting old. I like my cars you don't have to bend much in the engine bay & you can lay on kreeper & roll under the car easy.

So Fred & Karen just went out but asked me to check the level again. I took the cap off & it was down. So put a little in it. Maybe I'm doing it wrong. It says to check the level at the expansion tank thing. But you can't see where the level is. I'm guessing it's right & as it heats up & pressurises it sucks it out of the expansion tank so the level is correct. & as it cools down the tank sucks it back. Who knows. I hate modern cars I realy do.