JeffR

The body cappings on my 110 have a few small holes in em. Seems a bloody shame to replace them, when, if I can aquire some not too knackered 2nd hand ones I can simply let new sections in. Now rather than have to remove them to do this, I thought about doing them in situ using this stuff: http://www.frost.co.uk/automotive-welding-tools/cold-front-414ml.html Simple question, does this stuff actually work. Second question, if it does has anyone got a not too knackered capping they don't want?

In my current landrover I found lots of rust and bodges!

Cos God loves me, not a lot, but he loves me!

Regular unleaded works for me! And it smells nice

Sort of repaired mine (was touching the seat back!) by removing the cloth then giving both sides of the fibre stuff a coat of fibreglass resin, then when that was just tacky stuck the cloth back onto the tacky resin. Fixed back to the roof strengthening bars with more christmas tree "rivets" that I got from and autojumble. They are the same shaft diameter as the Landrover ones, but the head is twice the diameter. Google fasteners and you should come up with them in white or grey!

As with most owners, I frequently lose the contents of my wallet and bank account in Landrovers.....

It is biological in origin. Looks like the typical mix of fungi and bacteria. Although as I work mainly with Invertebrates these days, I may be wrong. Fungi are really interesting organisms, some species are able to live in and digest JP4/6 jet fuel (Aspergillus spp), whilst I have come across some which are resistant to 100% Methanol( assorted genera). So a wee bit of screenwash ain't gonna bother em much.... A wee bit of totally useless information for you - the largest living organism on earth is a Fungus that is the size of the State of New England in North America ( I think its New England, I'm a biologist not a geographer....), but as it lives underground.....

Well bugger me! I searched the Woolies site yesterday and couldn't find anything like that. Time to re-boot the old grey matter

Can beat taht hands down, I accidently fibreglassed my youngest son to innner wing of the wifes Mini last year. I was not popular

Cheers!

Has anyone got the dimensions for the glazing felt in landrover sliding windows? Buying the stuff from landrover is extorsion with violence and I need to stop the windows from rattling. Cheers folks

Try insulating the manifolds, it makes a huge difference, dropped under bonnet temps by about 80 degress C on my V8. It is however a grossly unpleasant task...

Then I won't mention the Rotifers that were also in there!.. Not to mention the Tardigrads that live in the moss growing on the side windows, beginning to thonk that this vehicle is a fully functioning ecosystem...

Just had a look at some under a microscope, the majority of the gel appears to be fungal hyphae with a sprinkling of bacteria and some protozoans. Really makes me wonder about the quality of my tap water....

Well, children, this is how it goes to date... Had a flash of inspiration yesterday ( actually nipped out for a pint of Symnonds cider, that always helps) and aquired a set of hinge pins for the rear hinges at a huge cost of £2! And bugger me, all the slop has gone from the rear door. Made one good door lock out of two and managed to fit the wiper motor, did you know that the diameter of the wiper spindle is different on some motors, I didn't, do now though. So wires everything up and tries it out. This time last week, when you used the rear wiper it self parked. Not now... Why? Nothing has been fiddled with. The earth is excellent, there's no new connections/connectors, it just refuses to self park. Oh and the washer is squirting jelly, seriously a clear gel issues from the washer jets. WTF is going on there then. Has it developed a head cold, will Sinex help? Never mind I thought lets fit the swing away wheel carrier (now that I own a spare that ain't a slick...). Now the bloody thing fitted quite well on the old Landrover, but not on this one. Oh and one of the pivots has seized solid and I can't dismantle it.

Well at least I've got the door un-jammed, took the lock off from the inside. Oh and that big bronze striker plate. Then I lost interest..........

You may well regret your course of action. I have rebuilt sliding windows and they are an absolute first class TW*T. When rivetting them back in, treat them almost as you would a cylinder head, that is from the middle outwards, otherwise the buggers will always leak around the frame. The rattle is due to the felt turning to mush on the sliding window, but then again, the fixed pane tends to rattle in sympathy. Do not forget to put the nasty rubber sealing trim that goes on top of the rivets in warm water before you attempt to insert it - will make life a lot easier.

Confession time - Once forgot to put the wheel bearings back in whilst doing a rear axle and could not understand where all the play came from!

Woke up this morning to find my new tyres had arrived, at last no more power sliding round wet roundabouts. So got em fitted, look really good too. Being in a particularly good mood after this , thought to myself, "lets put the new rear door on and sort the rattly exhaust". Yeah, like that was gonna bloody happen. Exhaust prob was nothing more than a loose clamp, give the bugger a wee tweek and TWANG, the bloody thing shears. Never mind got a spare in the garage, so I thought. Wrong, too bloody small, need a 3 inch one, wanders down to local garage, guess what, they aint got any that big. Job stopped, chucked tools in hedge, has a cup of tea. Starts rear door. Notices that the wiper motor on the old door is wired differently to that of the new door, just swap the whole lot over, piece of cake. Big bloody nut on new door wiper motor had seized more solid than a solid thing. Bugger it, get the angle grinder and extension lead out. Flamin rodents in the garage have eaten all the insulation off the grinder cable. Re-wires grinder. Bloody extension cable has an earth fault and keeps triping the RCD. Has another cup of tea and borrows another extension cable. SWMBO comes back from the shop and runs over the cable. F*CK IT thinks I. Buys next door a new extension cable, and removes offending nut. Swaps over numerous bits of wiper associated brackets and begins to feel a tadge happier with my lot. Tries to removes old door from vehicle, shears 5 out of six screws. Finds some "replacements" in the garage, too bloody short by about half inch (buggered if I know what they are off , but they looked like the correct ones... Has another cup of tea. Finds some bolts to do a bodge job. Drops new door on me hand, no real damage, other than the kids have learnt some colorful new phrases... Now starts to adjust the door so that it closes and finds that there is more wear in the door hinges than there is adjustment. Oh and the bloody door is now jammed solid. No amount of tapping/lifting/kicking/twatting with a block of wood will move the bloody thing, oh and the door stay is different as well. I GIVE UP. So as it stands, now got a Landrover where you can't open the rear door, an exhaust that is more wobbly than skip full of jelly and I've got to pick daughter number 1 up from work at 10pm. So tomorrow "all" I have left to do is order new hinges, new door lock (and before anyone suggests that I swap the door lock, one of the reasons for changing the door, other than I happened to have a new one to had so to speak, was that the lock no longer locks. Don't ya just love Landrovers

We rewired my 200Tdi using a Rest of World spec loom from landrover, was actually cheaper than Autospark, also had lots of useful bits included such as the wiring for the electric windows etc, worth considereing as most dealers seem to have the odd ROW loom kicking about that they want rid of.

Bugger, some em look in better nick than the one I drive...

Very suprised you have not had such an accident....

Very suprised you have not had such an accident....

took the kids to Keswick the other day and lots of Landrover drivers waved at me, didn't wave back as was too busy trying to work out just what the new bloody (read expensive)noise emanating from the front end was... Sorry folks nowt personal. So to anyone who waved at the mostly white 110 V8 making one hell of a noise (I really must sort those cattle trucked headers out...)SORRY.

Those wretched little countersunk sel tappers that hold the window channels in place on defender doors, now they really are my pet hate...