Thanks Richard.
About right with Avenger!
Please don;t make any special trips, only if you're going anyway. I've waited this long, a bit longer won't hurt!
Okay, go given that it is Valour Day today, it's a holiday, so I dragged her out kicking and screaming into the daylight for a little tootle around and amazingly, remembered to take pics!
These are the bits I really need...
Front left carpet finisher
Rear carpet finisher - both sides
Side trims for the load bay cover - both sides
And worst of all - 'cos it's in your face - instrument surround
As said, these are the important bits as they really let the inside down, but if someone was parting out an interior job lot, I wouldn't be averse to buying anyway as spares for when other bits crack! Don't want to get too giddy though otherwise it becomes a pain on your end to pack and courier so the ones pictured above would do me nicely, thanks.
mrabody wrote:
Hah, yours and my new one must have been pretty close together on the assembly line - mine's got a registration date of 31st December 1994.
Build date of mine is 31 January 1995, exported straight to Land Rover France.
Nice.
Looked one that colour years ago, but it was just out of reach price-wise. Damn shame, I loved it.
Cheers guys. Very grateful.
Let me sort out photos etc., and post them up.
Okay, so having ordered, paid and never received a damn thing from the good Doctor, apart from a litany of useless excuses (of course, that could just be me, RRTH would probably say that his bestest mate pissing off with somebody's money is no harm), my interior still needs sorting out.
There's all sorts of bits I need, e.g., instrument binnacle, rear carpet finishers, transmission tunnel side trims, all sorts. More to the point, all sorts I simply cannot get here.
Anyone up for receiving a shopping list, sourcing and a courier? Ideally a job lot from a single breakers for ease.
Lots of places have got 'some' bits, but not all, so then it becomes an expensive mix 'n' match enterprise, shipping each part and, more to the point, paying whatever made up duty they feel like on each bit. A single ship would work out a lot cheaper. It's all plastic bits, no weight, just bulk.
Happy to pay all costs, plus a (good) few beers, by direct bank transfer before shipping.
Interior is G (Tan) as fitted to the early Epsom Green 4.6 HSE.
Ta ever, ever so.
Welcome to you Nick from far, far away.
Used to run my '38 through Rhyl very often when my folks were still going and lived on Anglesey.
For the modulator washer replacement, have a look here...
https://rangerovers.pub/topic/407-modulator-overhaul
Old...
and new-ish...
Enjoy the site.
Interesting.
Rimmers won't/can't ship brake accumulators overseas, but Island 4x4 will. Rimmers use UPS, don't know about Island.
Fitted new condenser and dryer two years ago. Still not fitted o-rings. Must do that and then gas.
To be honest, the novelty of driving everywhere with the windows down all year round still hasn't worn off.
My 4.0L in the UK was LPG on single point and, apart from when it was bloody freezing, never had any issue. then it took a while to switch
Went on a 1000m Macmillan challenge with it, full fuel tank, full gas and people were asking how come I'd not fuelled up yet!
To be fair, given the price of fuel and the mileage I do, who cares? Still happy with 19.
Prices have just gone up on fuel as Mr Duterte desperately tries to find some income - ammunition doesn't come cheap, you know. So it's now around a dollar a litre. Buggered if I know what that works out at into GBP as I only deal in in Dollars these days, Invoice the client in them, paid in them from Japan into Hong Kong, then transferred into Peso back here.
Still sounds cheaper than you guys pay.
Had a run up to Angeles last weekend.
Sunday morning, empty roads, windows down, sunroof open, V8 purring gently. Just pure pleasure.
Got 19 to the gallon as well, according to the computer. Happy with that, as it was her first long run in nearly two years.
Where to go tomorrow morning?
To be fair, I thought my brakes were fine and the work was just part of the slow but sure overhaul she's been getting, and it was the brake system's turn. Sort of, "While you're down there".
However, there was a huge improvement afterwards. although how much of this was down to the new kit and how much due to a full brake bleed, we shall never know. Can't hurt to change out 20-odd year old O-rings though, can it?
The whole job, including new flexi pipes, led me to discover a leak in the pump. The shaft seal was worn and had a tiny, tiny weep. So that's where the fluid was going! Fortunately, it's a common domestic (nearly every house here has one) water pump size, so just under a quid solved that one as well.
Another job ticked off that I should never have to do again.
Smiler wrote:
What is the full price of the thing?
Expensive, but priceless!
GeorgeB wrote:
Gilbertd wrote:
Unfortunately, Teri is in France and the terms decent and electrician do not appear in the French language......
Remind me to post up a picture of a plug fitted to Madam's hair straightener (don't ask, not a curl in sight) by a local "artisan" that she insisted she used, rather than me.
There we go!
Gilbertd wrote:
Unfortunately, Teri is in France and the terms decent and electrician do not appear in the French language......
Remind me to post up a picture of a plug fitted to Madam's hair straightener (don't ask, not a curl in sight) by a local "artisan" that she insisted she used, rather than me.
Needless to say, I took one look, bought a new plug, cut the old (new) one off and made it so you don't die.
Can't do it now as Philippine internet has gone for a lie down...
When it happened on mine, it was the fuse (No4 IIRC) under the seat wasn't making contact properly. Give it a clean and see.
LPG? What's that? :-)
Sounds like a win then?