Gilbertd wrote:
Welcome, although you might notice a few differences here from the other place. There's no admin to argue with (or ban you when you do) and we refer to the parts of the car as they are meant to be so you'll need to learn English. So it isn't a hood, it's a bonnet, it has wings not fenders and tyres are spelt correctly.
It'll be a hell of a trip if you want to join us on a summer camp though. But you'd be more than welcome (as long as you buy everyone a pint).......
Don't worry about Gilbert, I think his pet cat was run over by a Cadillac or something. Everyone knows a Fender is a type of guitar....
Well, that was a long time ago... but not long enough to forget how shit Defenders really are :)
Welcome :) I'm jealous of your off-road opportunities already - send more pics :)
I've hit "buy" now - thanks for the offer Chris but I reckon the postage would make it more of a ball ache that it's worth. Maybe if we had a meet up next year... ;)
ahh, nice one. Thanks!
That must have been a hell of a shock!
Thing is, in the diagnostics menu it's seeing satellites - just not working out where it is. It's like it's going from scratch each time instead of reading the almanac data to get a head start. And then after an hour or so it gets a fix and tracks perfectly after that.
But yes - it's still worth checking that antenna connection. Thanks :)
Does this look about right?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0m8vyrzf3u1wfwx/PartsList.PNG?dl=0
Sorry for the crappy dropbox link, I had to reinstall this machine and don't have my FTP password to hand.
The prices could be worse I guess. Obviously I've avoided Britpart and I've had good experiences with Lemforder in the past. I hope they live up to expectations. I was pricing up the LR originals out of curiosity. It wasn't too bad until I got to the Rear Hub Assembly at £500! ouch. I've got an Allmakes hub on the front left which has been on for 20k miles now, I don't know of anyone round here who is happy to press out the bearings on these things.
In light of discussions on the other thread I've gone with drag link and track rod complete instead of bearings, hoping to save on labour. I couldn't find a RHD panhard rod - is it worth looking harder or are the bushes OK to replace on them?
I'm hoping this will all be reasonably straight forward - at least until it's time for the balljoints. I guess that's down to luck and experience!
Thanks Gilbert! I'd never have got Panhard rod from that description.
I'm taking this as good news. I'd rather have a diagnosis to go at so I can get the parts in. The Duchess has been wobbling around far too much!
Goldrush!! It's not the guys restoring the cars that make the money but the ones supplying the bits. Rather like Gold Miners vs Shovel Sellers and Whorehouses.
or something.
hmm, time for coffee :)
Thanks Chris, I appreciate it. It would be nice to eliminate the disk before trying to trace wires.
Although it's probably the wrong speed for rears, you might want to get the rear wheels balanced too (or swap them over to test). I had had a similar issue with a car once and went nuts looking at the front end which turned out to be fine.
Yep, they managed fine :)
New rear disks/pads - the pads were totally soaked in fluid and the disks were pretty well shot anyway.
I've also got a new list! Plenty of advisories which I suspect just might have a bearing on the handling issues... just maybe ;)
So, err yeah. I'm not totally pleased by the drag link as that was replaced within the last year or so but I guess the rest will have to be done. There's a Land Rover specialist called Blackpaw4x4 who aren't too far away so I think I'll give them a try. I'm not as heroic as you guys!
I've got a bit of an issue with the Sat Nav. It's hardly crucial but it's a bit annoying. The location keeps resetting to London, and it takes about 45 minutes to an hour for the system to pick up the location. Once it's on, it's perfect - but then the system loses the location when you switch off. I'm running the latest disk that OB sent me, and stupidly I threw out the old one so I can't test but the problem only started a few weeks after I swapped disks.
Has anyone else had something like this before?
Rear left caliper is leaking past the seals.. .oops!
Couple of rear brake pipes while they're at it.
Let's see how they do with the bleeding!
That was fun, until it wasn't...
She had a new track rod and ends for the last MOT a year ago. I'll definitely check out the wheel bearings. The front passenger side was done soon after we bought it after failing silently so maybe it's time for the other one.
Sunny Scunny the top honeymoon destination? lol
We cry and tow/trailer the thing to a garage!
Don't want to tempt fate but she's been sitting level and behaving herself. I still don't have anywhere really flat to test overnight but... we're going on a 3 hour trip tomorrow so lets see how it works out :)
Just need to get to the bottom of the wayward steering now, wife refuses to drive it anymore so she's stolen my Jeep :(
