Took a while to get this bolted on as it didn’t fit with the existing steering guard so I had to take that off. Will take an angle grinder to it soon and make them fit.
Wiring is now complete. Used 35mm2 welding cable run through 16mm convoluted tubing with bulkhead fittings to protect the wiring. [...]
Archive for April, 2008
New winch fitted
Half shaft snapped
Snapped the offside front half shaft. Lost all drive when pulling away and changing up to 2nd. didn’t hear any snapping noises and judging by the look of the break, it had been broken for some time.
As I had drive when in difflock and the front prop was spinning away, advice from the LR4×4 forum [...]
Land Rover in its natural habitat
Many people seem to be under the misguided impression that a 4×4 is to be used to take the children to school and then off to the shops to have coffee with Melissa and Tarquin.
Well that is wrong and these people need to be shot. Esp the ones in BMW M5’s that seem to think [...]
Couple of pictures of the 200Tdi
Universal joint sheared off
Great, tried to grease one of the UJ’s and I couldn’t get the gun nozzle off. Tried levering it and the nipple snapped off in me hand!
Have been advised to either try and drill out the bit left or just replace the whole UJ. Might go for option 2 as at least it gives me [...]
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