Finally have a landy!

That's great news, about the core plug (not the electrics) and great ingenuity. Make a mechanic out of you yet, not sure about an electrician thought!!!

good to hear about red, do your winscreen wipers work? mine dont

hows my electrical bored doing?

cheers kieran

Tom wrote:

That's great news, about the core plug (not the electrics) and great ingenuity. Make a mechanic out of you yet, not sure about an electrician thought!!!

A little naive of me to assume the apparent problem was the actual problem on a Land Rover, yes. However, I've learned something new - Land Rover missed the lesson about fuses being there to protect wires. Apparently they are there to add a little colour.

kieran wrote:

good to hear about red, do your winscreen wipers work? mine dont

Yeah. Looks like the only non-working electrics (so far) are the nearside rear electric window (doubt we'll need that) and the electric fan (pah, don't need that either).

Will have the radiator off at some point in the next few days to make some changes to the other wiring at the front and waxoyl the rad mounts, so will poke at the fan with a stick, or something... It's only the air-con fan anyway.

kieran wrote:

hows my electrical bored doing?

Polished all the crud off of the solder side, will be replacing the damaged bits and testing it this week.

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so will poke at the fan with a stick, or something... It's only the air-con fan anyway

i saw a massive hammer at the local shop you could use

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Polished all the crud off of the solder side, will be replacing the damaged bits and testing it this week.

cheers, i was thinking i might need the LED's in a couple of weeks as marcs invited me to a frontera off-road day, i might well end up pulling all 35 froteras there out

Just make sure that you and Kieran camp close together then we can all share the barbeques courtesy of Pinky and Red wiring !!

i wouldnt be too smug just yet i do beleive that you have some electrical problems you would like to share

Keith Johnson wrote:

Just make sure that you and Kieran camp close together then we can all share the barbeques courtesy of Pinky and Red wiring !!

It was one piece of 6 inch wiring, which looked fine, between a LR fitted fuse and a LR fitted relay.... and it was in the engine compartment, not the passenger space.

I'm just a bit worried about what's gonna happen when I actually put gas into the aircon. The wiring's really not a worry right now!

FedEx wrote:

08/05/2008 18:24 Items Tracked, Derby
09/05/2008 07:23 Goods Not Received At Del Depo, Leeds

How do you misplace an entire exhaust system in the back of a delivery truck?

Oh, well... One less job to do tonight.

It's MoT day ....

Should have finished the test by now, and no phone call yet, so maybe it managed to pass!

or ther still working oan it.

LOL

Tell you, the MOT?
Its worse than sitting in the dentists waiting room

Hope all is weil Andy

bofa bill wrote:

or ther still working oan it.

Shouldn't be. There were no other vehicles, at all, at the garage ... drove onto the ramps before I left...

Could be that he poked at a bit of rust, it fell apart, and he's now stuck in the bottom of the pit under a large pile of broken disco...

• Nearside sill excessive corrosion.
  
• Offside sill excessive corrosion.
  
• Offside wheel-arch excessive corrosion.
  
• Front offside brake pipes corroded.
  
• Offside rear shock leaking.
  

Fail, fail, fail, fail, fail ...

Bugger.

aw bugger............. did he know that it was a Landy?
Thought that these 'faults' were standard.

mmmmm

bofa bill wrote:

aw bugger............. did he know that it was a Landy?
Thought that these 'faults' were standard.

mmmmm

He said "It's quite good for a fifteen year old disco".

He gets to MoT quite a few disco's from the local farms. Perhaps "quite good" means "doesn't have the usual layer of cow sh*t on it".
(It came from forrestry, rather than farming, so has bits of pine tree growing out of the rust holes instead).

He charges £30/hour for welding work, plus parts, so I'll take a look and if I can't fix it myself, get as much prep done as possible, supply the parts, then take it back for repairs and a retest.

very nice there it is the same colour as ours so there will be matchuing discos on the rally now lol,
Just fiddling with the stupid cb radio now trying to get this wired up to the cig lighter lol

im good at wiring would you like some help

Kieran helping with the wiring ??


Anyone got a fire extinguisher handy ???

Monstar - Sylvia wrote:

Kieran helping with the wiring ??


Anyone got a fire extinguisher handy ???

Got one of those .... and I do need a hand with the wiring ... and a 16mm drill bit. my Draper tapered bit gave up at about 12mm, so the roofrack wiring isn't fitted.

Gutted for you Andy! Ours passed recently much to our suprise!
You'll sort it. When our 90 failed the failure sheet went onto two sides of A4!

Lu and T :bom:

A Disco and a 90, you lucky people.

We've got a Range Rover Classic as well! Our driveway looks like a Sollihull rejects yard - they're all in various states of disrepair! But Tweedie loves them all!

Lu :bom:

Must be something in the air! My poor little H reg 90 failed in a corroded axle tie bar mounting

What a faff....

After paddocks only sent me half a set of shocks last week, they agreed to refund my 'Express Postage' fiver, and sent out another box, to the wrong address. That box did, however, have 2 decarbon shocks in it - so I've got a spare.

My new welder arrived on Friday, too, but the wire feed motor was broken, so Screwfix sent another today, which looks okay. The arc welder has a nasty habit of blowing holes in landrovers, so bought a mig unit in their sale instead.

Wire for the welder's missing in the post, however.

Just ordered some cheap sills from YRM, which I'll reinforce with box section while learning how to use the new welder

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Must be something in the air! My poor little H reg 90 failed in a corroded axle tie bar mounting

YRM do those, too, for £7, if that helps.

Took just under an hour to swap the rear shocks earlier, hopefully swapping the sills out will only be a day per side ... anyone got any advice on this?

Hopefully just brakes to buy bits for now.

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anyone got any advice on this?

BIG HAMMER

kieran wrote:

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anyone got any advice on this?

BIG HAMMER

That's your answer for everything ....

It did work on the offside shock, though. One good whack and the bottom no longer needed unbolting

(It offered about as much resistance as an un-loaded bike tyre pump, when it was in .... apparently no oil or seals in it at all!)