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JeffR

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  1. My favourite GPS: Hardware: Not so software: Got me coat and leaving quickly.....
  2. Yup, my local specialists did just that. They found out that their favourite puller didn't fit so a spot of grinder relieving was performed
  3. It will also repeatedly smash your shins/knees (height dependent), go on ask me how I know that, I dare you....
  4. You have patches of floor and wall visible, thats definitely not full. Your shed is full when one needs to be an expert in parkour to get to the door
  5. The thing is, I've had that vehicle longer than my children....and I'm the most stubborn individual you can meet. I refuse to be beaten by other peoples actions and inanimate objects, I am, after all, an intelligent semi-rational human being with a penchant for olympic class tool throwing...... When all is said and done, its a bloody Landrover
  6. Tell your partner that you will be staying in a 5 star all inclusive hotel with spa and gym, then take them to the cheapest campsite you can find in an Aldi tent. Believe me that will be wild camping....
  7. So the great reassemble has begun, slight break whilst fighting with the family cars that have decided to expire and fail MOTs..... Passat finally got through an MOT, then wife hot a chunk of organic debris (read that as a very ex-Roe buck) on the A69 and cracked the already leaking sump ...... Useless bit of info for folks, nerve conductivity tests are not a great deal of fun. If one wants to recreate the effect, grab an HT lead and get someone to crank the engine. At least I now know that the nerves within my arm are fine, the collapsed and bulging disc in my neck, not so fine, but I digress. Been a long couple of months. So the four disastrous words (while I'm in there) kicked in, big time. As the cab is empty and theres no dash I thought I'd do a bit of waterproofing and leak curing. New door seals were perfect, but still had puddles on floor. Adjusted door tops using a combination of shims and violence. When bending adjusting door top make sure windows are wound fully DOWN, or buy a decent hoover, will be finding bits of glass for the rest of time.......... Never mind, faeces occur. Sprays side of vehicle with hose pipe , no water ingress, job done. Rains overnight , puddles return...................... Then I remember that the vent panels don't have the seals (sitting on my desk, unopened), fitted. Fits seals and temporarily fits relevant bit of dash that has lever thingies to close said panels. Struggle greatly to get little M5 screws to start. Two hours and an Olympic class tool throwing hissy fit later remove said vent panel for an intimate inspection. There's no effing captive nut/rivnut in either of the bloody holes (genuine parts vent panels..........) Just install some M5 rivnuts thinks I. Ain't got none. got shed loads of M4,6,8,10 and 12, countersunk, stainless, mild steel and aluminium and hex bodied, but not a single bloody M5. Gets on evil bay, orders some and awaiting arrival. Jams vents closed with wedges to "set" seals. Has a break and a Kitkat (sod the diabetes). Next day (That would be last Thursday) it kinda urinated down in this part of Northumberland. Guess what, floor pan is now a paddling pool. Spends a very boring rainy Friday sat in cab looking for dribbles. Found em, lots of em. The persons of doubtful parentage who did a lot of the chassis swap a few years ago had removed the roof and windscreen frame. Then put it back. They hadn't replaced either of the two seals that are there to prevent water ingress though. Now folks may ask why I never noticed this before, well it sat around with no floor pans or trans covers in place so water had an easy exit, also explains why old dash turned to iron oxides. Now waiting for new seals to arrive and looking forward to taking the roof off, not. I guess the moral is, if you have any work done on your vehicle, check, check and double check its quality.
  8. Heres a couple of links: https://www.nakatanenga.de/en/informative-and-practical/maintenance-and-care-products/5701/side-locker-for-land-rover-defender-stainless-steel-black-powder-coated-on-the-back-left https://terrafirma4x4.com/stainless-steel-in-front-of-rear-wheel-side-locker-110-hard-top-pick-up.html I fitted the ones in front of wheel arch about 20 years ago (damn am I that old) which I sourced from Foleys. Useful bits of kit
  9. Already taken into consideration mate....Its kinda worrying when one is on first name terms with the A&E staff....Buggers are gonna start charging me rent soon
  10. I ended up buying both the small set and the bigger ones, removing the nasty little screws on dash board heater plenum (have you seen the dust n stuff that builds up in there!) became a pleasure. Now tempted by the mole grip version......
  11. WERA are definitely the best at the moment (look at their Koloss 1/2 inch ratchet, only ratchet i know of with built in hammer head!) but stripped screw heads are still a nightmare to deal with. over the years I've tried way too many wonder tools for removing them. these pliers really do the job if access is ok
  12. Refurbing a defender heater box and dash means raving about 1.3million dinky little rusted self tapers. Usual method involves, optimistically, trying a new screwdriver, which promptly strips out the philips/posidrive/torx hole... then resorting to angle grinders/violence and anglo saxon and skinned knuckles. Mentioned to a mate who restores E types (yes I do hate him) and he recommended these: so I bought the smallest ones (circa £15 off the bay of E) expecting them to be misspelled cyprinid fish (Carp....), was I veers wrong. They're flaming brilliant. Jaws are hard as hell and they grip harder than a politician grips their wallet. Definitely worth a punt
  13. The bloody latter for definite, when they make two parts, for the same vehicle, that are supposed to mesh together and they don't........Yes I accept that blue box (or brown box as they now are) do not cost a great deal, however, it would be nice if they actually fitted, even almost fitted would do!
  14. Yup, except they now use brown cardboard....
  15. Im about to do that little job soon, will take pics and post, basically I'm welding in new metal, but its very very thin stuff , under a millimetre, so should be fun
  16. My doors are now primer grey, rest of 110 is some, none standard, shade of blue....Any recommendations for someone to mix me a batch of paint from a sample of bodywork?
  17. countersunk pop rivets can be flatted back beautifully, use cheap ones cos they're quite soft, dab of etch primer and top coat later
  18. So finally got some time to get back onto 110, family car looks like this now: Resplendent with its new shocks (I suppose having oil in them will be way better....), however I have a message for the person of doubtful parentage who tightened the rear sump bolts (m5 or m6 and impossible to get to) with a bloody 1 inch rattle gun and turned a hex head into a round head, however, the mods would take offence at the language. So needs a sump (evidently household silicone sealer is not oil proof, who'd have thunk it) to cease and desist from doing an Exxon Valdiz. What a new sump ? Well I could take the engine out (NOT, repeat NOT gonna happen) or smash a hole in it, carefully, to get to the offending two screws. So waiting for new sump while awaiting the urge to hunt them as did it last time down with a really big stick to dispel. Anyway back to the 110. Door repaired (ish), well good enough for now. Needs a new skin and the bottom section has a couple of extra drain/inspection holes in it, but overall not too bad. Of course I had to remove the door handles cos the snapped key that had rusted into the door lock (now I know why the spare key wouldn't work) was never gonna come out after a decade under very salty water (well how else did it get so rusty?): Mr Haynes - " remove both screws and twist handle to remove from aperture" Reality- waste an hour or so of your life trying to remove corroded/ seized screws (well one has to try, miracles do happen) before resorting to percussive violence and angle grinders. Waste another hour making the hole for the door handle flat again. Open package that Royal Fail or Parcelfarce delivered 104 hrs late ( 48hrs tracked my hairy blonde posterior.... maybe if they fed their carrier pigeons more often the poor wee things wouldn't need to stop so often for a day or two to rest up, just a suggestion like) to find the dreaded Blue Box (actually they appear to have stopped using blue boxes, they're now just brown cardboard, but why spoil a good rant) products in all their glory, sans keys and lock barrels which appear to have buggered off on holiday now that Covid...... But never mind, faeces occur. Went to fit said handle and grommety things: Err but they don't fit the handles, never mind, a wee while in boiling water will make em more pliable thinks I. ALL together in best pantomime tradition "OH NO IT WON'T" They appear to be made of the most rigid, inflexible material one has ever come across, a bloody hot air gun won't touch em, damn it a blow torch won't touch em. They're about 1.5mm too bloody short: I refuse to accept that £1.50's worth of carved ebony grommet is gonna beat me, not today marra, I'm a Geordie and have hand tools at my disposal . Thats what God made needle files for, oh and elastoplasts when you use a modelling knife cos filing takes too long and you stab yourself in the knuckle and swear, a lot. Note to oneself, chisel shaped knife blades are bloody (descriptive phraseology there) sharp. No more photos today, my hand hurts, but the f@£$%^g thing fits now. Tomorrow I get to install the window channels and regulator.....
  19. Once I swapped back to cast iron manifolds and range rover/discovery downpipes, I never had that problem again
  20. Keep an eye on the prop ujs, my v8 headers (Double S) used to boil the grease out of the ujs when sat in traffic even after they were wrapped. Sounded like an angry budgie. Lost my temper and binned the buggers
  21. I've tried something similar on VW tensioners, idlers and viscous fan. Failed miserably, loads of bits of busted aluminium and plastic.......
  22. Courtesy of a mate who was gonna fit em to his Puma which got knicked a while ago so got no idea where he got them from...
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