The Dark Wob

Better for chocolate and beer then.

Drum wrote: ↑Wed Feb 26, 2020 9:07 pm

MLOR wrote: ↑Wed Feb 26, 2020 7:40 pm

I am not Diesel wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 8:35 pm I currently own 3 Land Rovers. You have my sympathies.

Amateur

5 (but I think they are breeding!)

6 here

I'm not bragging or anything but I has none.

John F wrote: ↑Wed Feb 26, 2020 6:09 pm The silly old sod ripped it off while reversing the car out of his garage, and he tried to blame one of the local cats for "knocking things over" in the garage, causing him to have to reverse out on a different line to usual... absolute bobbins, of course - he'd already managed to scrape every panel of the car's nearside on some part or other of that garage

MiL comes out with bobbins stories too.

I don't like doing jobs on other people's motors, because like a Jimmy Cricket gag, there's always more.

Rewind to Xmas. Battery dead in MiL's 2014 i10, AA man jumps it. Seen as it's Xmas, I offer to bung a new battery in. Go down there, measure it up to avoid doubt of lying catalogues and get another battery for 50 sheets. Job done. Except that she also now mentions that the OS DRL isn't working, so I look up the manual to see which fuse it might be, but it isn't.

Next time she's round and it's dry I look at the DRL, I end up with some of the wheelarch liner screws out and the front bumper half off. The back bowl of the fog light is cracked and a chunk missing and the DRL doesn't work because the plug/wires have pulled out of the back of the connector plug.

The shite story involves denying hitting anything (chinny reckon? The bumper isn't lined up with the wing and the front DRL is pushed in on one side by 1/2") and it must of been reversed into or something. (Aye right, so fucking hard that the back bowl has a chunk out of it, impossible. It's been bodged up on a nixer by some bloke who does a bit of car work and he hasn't bothered his hole finishing the job.)

I need two crimp connectors, but I'll either have to get a complete socket or buy a billion of them.

And Mrs H wonders why her old 106 is still is up on axle stands.

MLOR wrote: ↑Wed Feb 26, 2020 8:00 pm Land Rover used to do a kit to fit 300Tdi into Defenders that started life with a 200Tdi and needed the engine changed under warranty.
Very similar to your system!

I never knew that. Landrover are perverse when it comes to engines what with going through 3 different diesels in the 90's alone. The poor old 5 cylinder was a bit of an orphan- I believe it should have been joined by a 4 and a 6 with similar injection system but they got canned.

Project Iceberg should have been persisted with until they got it right. All alloy V8 diesel, they could have based it on the P76 blocks rather than the UK 3.5 and with a stroker crank made them into a 5l to start with.
Proper motor

ghosty wrote: ↑Wed Feb 26, 2020 9:09 pm Only niggle is it needs a wheel bearing, as it was vibrating more and more on the M6 until it got a rest to cool down, then it eased off again. It's had the nsf done so I bet the osf is fucked.
Dad seemed to be grateful for the day out.
Here's to a keeper though.

Just check if these have the same wheel bearing as the Mondeo which I think they do. If it has you need a special tool to fit them and not just an ordinary press as it fucks the new bearing in no time if not fitted with the tool. I did one a week or so ago and even with buying the decent quality tool to do the job it worked out cheaper than the 400 quid Ford wanted. If you take it to a garage make sure they know about the tool as some will just press it in and bullshit you when it fails. I know I rang National tyres to get a quote and they instantly said they couldn't do it which was pretty honest of them.

ghosty wrote: ↑Wed Feb 26, 2020 8:54 pmI did a buy.

Auto or manual? If auto, get ATF changed as unlikely to have been changed due to sealed for life bollocks.

Wikipedia says it's the venerable AW55 if an auto. Alright gearbox by this age if fluids changed. Volvo say filled for life, Aisin Warner said ~75k changes (iirc and can't remember exact but will be -/+ 10k miles).

DodgeRover wrote: ↑Wed Feb 26, 2020 11:21 pm Project Iceberg should have been persisted with until they got it right. All alloy V8 diesel, they could have based it on the P76 blocks rather than the UK 3.5 and with a stroker crank made them into a 5l to start with.
Proper motor

It was persisted with, TVR had it and turned it back into a petrol. You couldn't make it up.

Drum wrote: ↑Wed Feb 26, 2020 9:07 pm

MLOR wrote: ↑Wed Feb 26, 2020 7:40 pm

I am not Diesel wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 8:35 pm I currently own 3 Land Rovers. You have my sympathies.

Amateur

5 (but I think they are breeding!)

6 here

That's more like it!

Any Advance on 6?

Eddie Honda wrote: ↑Wed Feb 26, 2020 9:31 pm

Drum wrote: ↑Wed Feb 26, 2020 9:07 pm

MLOR wrote: ↑Wed Feb 26, 2020 7:40 pm

Amateur

5 (but I think they are breeding!)

6 here

I'm not bragging or anything but I has none.

And Land Rovers!