I put in for 1 room, 1 night (the Saturday night) and it came up at £59. Not sure what you did to get £99......

Yep- I just popped by and checked. £59/ night

Good stuff!

I think Grrrrr from landyzone/rr.net is going to pop past on the Sunday for the day to say hello aswell. Haven't heard anything more from the others who were interested, and haven't even mentioned it on rr.net yet... Not sure if I will either to be honest!!

Hopefully I can spend a bit of time finalising things in awhile whist I'm out here in China. the last week has been crazy - and I think the next one will be too!

I'm going to get an experienced* mechanic to have a look at the underside of my P38 on Monday and apply the magic crowbar of truth. Hopefully he'll be able to come up with a shopping list to get the beast back under proper control. If it includes ball joints, I'll be asking to join the queue!

*mechanic since 18, he's now 75 and still fixing the stuff he finds interesting.

Sounds to me like this revdave31337 on RR needs the assistance of the Summer Camp. He is only in Brighton too.

Is anyone attending (or do you already have Marty?) able to bring some suitable EAS calibration blocks? It might just be my imagination but I'm sure one side is sitting lower than the other a lot of the time - and I mean all the time, it isn't leaking down etc.

I know I could make some, but if someone already has a set... it can wait till camp!

I bought the 30mm nylon rod a few months ago, I just haven't got round to cutting it up to make the blocks yet. Well, we all know that knowing the problem and having the bits is 99.9% of having done the job. Mind you, my daughter's boyfriend didn't take the same viewpoint when I told him there's no point in changing his slipping clutch now he's bought the parts to repair it......

Haha... I have some blocks already cut, yes - but I am a little bit hesitant to try them as they are only 20mm, not 30mm nylon rod. I did order 30mm but they sent me the wrong stuff and by the time I realised (I should have measured it to start with, I know - but I stupidly assumed that the eBay seller specialising in plastic products would be able to send what I'd ordered!!) I had already cut most of them to length!

I can bring them up and we can try them - I do mean to replace them with 30mm at some point though, more for my piece of mind (and the fact they will hold themselves in the bump stops then!) but it's one of those things 'on the list'!

Right...

So the good news is I'm back, and gearing up for the Summer Camp weekend... I've got a few bits I need to buy to be able to complete my service list on the RR before I get her MOT'd, so hopefully I can get as much of it done as possible on the summer camp weekend...

My list is pretty much as follows:
Replace Power Steering Pump
Replace Steering Box with reconditioned one (i'm sure mine has a LOT of play in it, and it makes sense to me whilst the system is open and drained to do them both!)
Replace ABS modulator block with my spare one
New brake fluid/bleed
Engine oil/filter change
Diff oil change

I've canned from my original thoughts/plans the radius arm bushes and replacing the VC. Gearshift mechanism is something I can do separately when I get a chance, and it's going to be taking too much apart to get to it - so I can't be bothered with that either at the moment.

I also would like to sort through the wheels/tyres I've got up there and swap my current ones for 4 different wheels/tyres to see if that cures my death wobble.

So, parts I am looking to get:
Recon Steering Box
Engine oil filter
10W40 engine oil
EP80/90 gear oil
Dot 4 brake fluid

I know Orangebean is wanting to do some work on his brakes too (BMR kit in the modulator) so will get enough brake fluid for us both to be able to bleed/flush the system.

If you are still planning on coming (Sloth, Gilbertd, Morat, Oldshep?) then if you can just give a rough idea now that we are a bit closer to the time of what you want to look at/get done - then we can all work out a plan on doing it :) Also if you want me to get any parts as part of a bulk order, then let me know...

Right, now onto the bad news... even though I've asked multiple times to make sure that both workshop bays are usable for the first weekend in July, I think that there is still a heap of shit sitting in one half of the workshop, as my mate has been too busy/lazy/whatever to actually get up there and get it scrapped. Even though I've been told numerous times that it would be gone by now. Also, the Green P38 that myself an same mate have a half share in each, hasn't had anything more done to it since I finished putting the exhaust manifold back on and getting that all buttoned up. Luckily it just needs the wheel arch liner and the wheel put back on and it's driveable to move it outside to give us one half of the workshop free.

So, my thoughts are that we might have to either just cope with the one workshop bay (not ideal) or find a way of moving the Disco outside to free up the second bay. I think there is a bit to do to it to get it back on 4 wheels to actually be able to move it, and it is missing engine/transmission/any form of braking - so it might be a pain to get out of the workshop, given that it's a fairly short access and it's a downhill slope...

Also as a side note, my mate wants out of the workshop altogether, so it's going to end up being down to me fairly soon to stump up the other half of the rent on it to be able to afford to keep the workshop space going. Which is frustrating a bit, as I feel like I've been paying for a space I can't use for the last nearly a year that the Disco has been there.... and I can give the space up, as I've got 2 other RR's that I have nowhere to put or no way of moving! I know I'm just ranting now, as it feels like I'm being lumbered with it all, and have no real choice in the matter! but I do think that when I can get the other 2 restored and moved on, I will be looking at shutting up shop there and either finding somewhere closer to home, or just sticking to my electronics side of things that I can do from home!

Looking forward to the 2nd/3rd July...

If you can reply quickly with if you are definitely coming and what you would like to achieve, then we can do a final tally and work out which is the best order to do things in. I've also had word that one of the guys from LZ - Grrrrr isn't coming now as he has a family occasion that weekend and won't be able to get over to us - but maybe next time!

Cheers,
Marty

I'm still up for it Marty. <br>
As I said in an offline chat, I'm up on the Friday so can muck in to get stuff shifted. As far as the Disco goes, if it's your mates and he can't be arsed to move it then we just drop it onto its chassis rails and drag it! No chance of it rolling away down the hill! <br>
Things I'm aiming to do: <br>

• BMR kit (will also bring 5L of DOT4) and bit of a brake service
• steering column tilt/ slide (assuming Sloth still coming with supplies)
• Interior swap (ditto on Sloth)
• LPG tune (if Richard still coming)
• maybe a front driveshaft seal, if time and space permit
• bit of a play with my remote locking and fobs

I'm gonna pop in just to meet you guys, willing to give a hand helping with things,, noticed on Saturday that euro car parts have a special on 10/40 semi synthetic oil, was around £27 for 20 litre container,,

I'm still up for at least one of the days!

If possible I'd quite like to do a fluid change on my auto box? I imagine the level is quite low as it had been slowly leaking from the cooler for ages before I was able to change it, and I don't know when it was last done. I've not done a fluid change on one before so I'm fairly reluctant to do it myself. Was still fairly red mind when I recovered as much as I could from the old cooler, and its changing fine, so if it isn't doable, I'll leave the garage to do it with the MOT later in the month.

I'll need to get a list together of all the bits left from my old P38 to bring with me :)

I'll refresh the list of bits that I'm craving and ping it to you. <br>
Are you going to change your autobox filter as well? May as well while you're under there :-) <br>
Sloth wrote:

I'll need to get a list together of all the bits left from my old P38 to bring with me :)

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Hiya Marty, good to see you back in the UK again. I am going to have to pass on the camp. I have left it as late as possible but the last 10 days I have felt really shit and so cannot commit (I hate wasting money). I am quite pissed off as I was looking forward to it. Fortunately the Beast has been running well and it still only needs a compressor and new tubes on the Cruise Control. I must get round to checking whether it is a short or long cabled compressor and I'll let you know. Gilbert showed me how to change it so as soon as I have checked, I'll message you.
Now I know you're home, I'll sort out sending your Kicker back to you. I have to go to the Post Office in the next few days to pay the paper bill so can send it at the same time.
Health wise, things are crap. I have to go for another MRI as the quacks want to check on my heart and I also have a benign tumour that they want to check. I have refused to let them play with the tumour as it is only benign ....... if it ain't broke then leave it alone. Plus now I have a circulation problem in my legs ........ the lower part turns purple after I have been up a few hours and I have a couple of ulcers on my shin. This time just over two years ago, I didn't have a care in the world, now I'm falling apart big time.

Sounds like there's going to be a few of us there then...

Sloth... shouldn't be a problem to do the autobox fluid/filter.

The disco is going to be moving outside on the 2nd according to my mate... so might have to help get it out of the workshop, but after that will have space again!! I'm going to head up there and get the wheel arch liner and the wheel back on the green RR so it's movable aswell.. which should give us 2 workshop bays for most of the weekend.

No problem if anyone can't make it - I am sure that there will be another one at some point in the future!

Oldshep - no hurry on the kicker - I am not needing it for anything else at the moment. I will have a look and see what compressors I have on the shelf which are finished and tested. I haven't really had a chance to get anything more done on most things RR... This week being back has been somewhat of a strain on the system for a variety of reasons! Still, I got my LPG system replumbed and it seems to actually be running on gas OK now... so happy days there!! Will have to tweak the map a bit at some point - but I'm just happy that it's actually running semi decently on gas, and not throwing the petrol side of things out too much either!

I'm coming! Not sure whether I'll be in the hotel or somewhere else.. (maybe a tent!) but I'll be bringing a nanocom, some hand tools and I'd just like some knowlegable people to have a poke around the Range Rover and see what is going on with the ABS and the EAS. Whether it'll be possible to fix it during the weekend is down to what is actually wrong, I guess. I'm not going to buy loads of parts in advance "just in case" so I'm really hoping to get a plan together for how it can be fixed up during the rest of the summer.
Hopefully my Rover will be drivable most of the weekend so I could be the Go-fer.

I'm not a mechanic by any stretch, but I'll try to make myself useful :)

edit: I've just booked the hotel for the Saturday night. I'll probably stay with a mate on the way down on Friday night so I can be around on Saturday morning in decent time, then head straight back North on Sunday whenever we finish up.

You in the Alexandra House Morat? If so, as well as being a Go-fer, you could double as a Chau-fer if mine is immobilised on the Saturday evening! <br>
I was wondering about the logistics of doing everything I needed to do and keeping it useable at the end of each day.

I am sure we will be able to organise lifts and the likes where needed...

In theory if we can get the modulator swapped and the PS pump/box done on mine on Saturday, then I can also drop people off as Alexandra house is fairly well on my way home anyway - so happy to do that.

I'm still not 100% sure on the steering box, I'll look at ordering that next week assuming the funds allow... otherwise it will just be the pump being done for the moment!

I'll bring socket set, spanners etc, ball joint remover/ installer and whatever other things I think of. Pity, I threw a perfectly good steering box away, thought mine was faulty, changed and scrap bloke came past so I gave to him, grrrrrrr, to find my problem was ball joints. I'm pretty handy with doing things, will also bring trolley jack, chocks to sit cars on,, should be a good day/ weekend..

Yep, in the Alexandra House so I can be chauffeur for people with clean arses :)