Land Rover Rustorashun and other shit

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Re: Land Rover Rustorashun

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last part tonight, all on Sandy the S3 Landy 109 Van

grease soaked hub! rear seal had failed
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rebuilt the hub and assembled
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next up is the very stiff steering, levering and pulling the top arm off the steering relay
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3 steering arm, 6 ball joints and only 3 of them are dead 8-) alas the relay is the root cause of the stiff steering. damn and blast
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now that I can move the steering I can see the horrific condition of the swivel balls
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arselington dangleberries
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More to come next week
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Re: Land Rover Rustorashun

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They'll be ok with that liquid grease, put some leather gaiters over the top and don't worry
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Re: Land Rover Rustorashun

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Looks like you're keeping busy down there.
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Re: Land Rover Rustorashun

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richardthestag wrote: Fri Feb 07, 2020 7:15 pm

open fronted barn is not the best but I do acclimatise to the shit weather


brakes next, this is the off/drivers side, stripped it down ages ago, opted for a complete Britpart rebuild kit, lets see how good it is
Is it worth rigging up some "curtains" of Visqueen with a weight at the bottom to keep the weather out?

Suggest you pull the new slaves apart and give them a good clean and red greasing.
The muck that is in some is extraordinary.
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Re: Land Rover Rustorashun

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MLOR wrote: Sat Feb 08, 2020 9:29 am Suggest you pull the new slaves apart and give them a good clean and red greasing.
The muck that is in some is extraordinary.
I was about to suggest that was a little extreme then I twigged you were talking about slave cylinders not humans
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Re: Land Rover Rustorashun

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DodgeRover wrote: Sat Feb 08, 2020 6:51 pm
MLOR wrote: Sat Feb 08, 2020 9:29 am Suggest you pull the new slaves apart and give them a good clean and red greasing.
The muck that is in some is extraordinary.
I was about to suggest that was a little extreme then I twigged you were talking about slave cylinders not humans
Depends on the human...


GreetingThundercunt for example :lol:

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Re: Land Rover Rustorashun

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richardthestag wrote: Fri Feb 07, 2020 8:18 pm
More to come next week
Are you still down there?
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Re: Land Rover Rustorashun

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MLOR wrote: Sun Mar 01, 2020 8:09 pm
richardthestag wrote: Fri Feb 07, 2020 8:18 pm
More to come next week
Are you still down there?
just arrived today, here for next 10 days, updates on their way
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Re: Land Rover Rustorashun

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Updatez

1994 Aegean Blue project for a customer

Found relay for supply to heater motor was removed, had another in the stash to tested it before install
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Alas all it did was set up an arc on the wire connecting it to supply :shock:
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removed the fan speed switch and connector for feed and terminal were heat distressed
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heater needs to come out, getting good at these :lol:
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the customer supplied a doner heater unit from a Disco1 but the motor in that was shagged out too. Opted to make one decent unit out of the two
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The motor that came out of the RR heater unit had overloaded big time. insulation around the field windings had been on fire and the carbon brushes were melted into their holders. When this thing let go it must have filled the car with some pretty acrid smoke.
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Next up was to sort the passenger side exhaust manifold. Those who have seen the vids on youtube will know it was blowing badly. None of the bolts were tight, the locking tabs were missing and one bolt had gone altogether.
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And theres more
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Re: Land Rover Rustorashun

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Next up for Aegean Blue, that damned ABS light, luckily you can easily diagnose the root cause using blink codes
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Turned out in this case to be front drivers side sensor. Removed it, cleaned it and reset it and all works fine now
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getting Aegean Blue ready for MoT, replaced a few bulbs and fixed the screen washers
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It failed but only on a steering ball joint and one rubber cap. However the driving experience was somewhat marred by the fiendishly heavy throttle pedal and the lack of any performance over 3k rpm.

The throttle pedal should be a straightforward fix, pedal, cable or throttle housing. Or as it turns out all three.

The lack of performance will most likely be down to bunged up catalytic converters.
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