JeffR

Useless bit of info for users of these sprayers, if one has an epiphany and thinks "if I drill a hole in the top, fit an airline fitting , I can increase the flow rate using the compressor" , the stink of EP90 takes years to leave the garage and your clothes are truly never the same again. Probably would have been OK at 15-20 psi, but 100 psi was waaaaaaaaay too much for structural integrity. Still, one lives and learns

Made some progress, brief pause ensued after MRI was reviewed and the "nothing major" morphed into "you need c4,5 and 6 vertebrae fused as the discs have collapsed...." so yeah, nothing major. OK, nice shiny refurbed front axle now residing in its new home: Turrets n shocks painted and adorned with dead flies/wasps , ready to install. The banana that was masquerading as a tracking bar replaced along with drag link - I think I now hold the world record for the longest time taken to remove a drag link, 4 1/2 hours of heating, beating and anglo saxon, replaced with these Actually worked out cheaper than replacing the track rod ends with decent quality ones. Interior now watertightish (its a bloody landrover, get over it) with new door seals. Took ages to get the door seals to fit, just couldn't get the door gaps correct. Then worked out that hard top and sides were not bolted down... just finger tight (not my doing). Airpipe from filter to snorkel was , well, crunchy. The metal bits having self converted to various oxides. So will be replaced with this: New , removable, steering wheel acquired as old one took some persuading to come off (big hammer n lots of anglo saxon) and has become less than round and flat in the process. Front Brake flexis now braided stainless, then on to discs n callipers. Acquired a pair of vented callipers, go faster discs and go slower pads to finish off front end. Before anyone whinges, bought as a set so had no control over what I got, I will say that the kit was very comprehensive for £132! Came with EBC pads, corteco oil seals, new genuine caliber bolts and disc bolts and drive member bolts. Well impressed. Got a door to weld back together( my good door wasn't so good after all) and dash to install, then a few wiring jobs - radiator fans, using the twin set from a Golf mk 4 as they come as a unit and fit like they were made for the job. Oh and they cost me nowt as I seem to have a few of them kicking round (don't ask). Electric windows installed but not wired in, old motors were very very very full of liquid electricity and rusted solid, so tried Disco 1 motors, didn't fit, too long and bolt spacing all wrong so sourced drivers side from a car boot sale (!!!!!!) and had to buy a new one (very painful). Odd that you can buy replacement motors for freelanders, discos and range rovers, but not for defenders. So tons of progress made. Things I've learned to date, check other folks work, putting an axle in on your own with 1 1/2 arms is dodgy at best. But the main one is DO NOT get the wife to help, they seem to lack the ability to distinguish between one swearing at rusty nuts n bolts and swearing at them.

I find reversing a car over them to be a lot more effective at destroying them...

During lockdown counted 63 species of bird in and around my garden, ranging from Goldcrests (chicks are super cute) to Common buzzards. Have 5 species that will take food from my hands Back garden Robins, Blue Tits, Great Tits, Wrens and Chaffinch. Kind of got attached to em. Will have plenty time to get some other species tame later this year after cervical spine fusion puts me on sick for a few months....

Poisons are awful, buggers tend to crawl somewhere very inconvenient die , then stink the place out. 25 caliber better at dispensing high (actually low)velocity lead poisoning. I have problems shooting rats these days as currently have 13 pet rats...all rescues.Not to mention 2 hamsters, 3 cats, the worlds angriest rabbit and two obligatory guinea pigs. Also 4 jackdaw chicks that came down the chimney whose parents decided we could do a better job of raising them than they could. Had the same jackdaws in the chimney for about a decade.Male has a small white flash on left wing

Be careful with single individuals, some of the solitary bees very closely resemble the colonial bumble bees in terms of paternation.... I found that out the hard way...

Currently the white 110 that is in the tree (still....) has a robins nest in the heater opening on the dash, a wrens nest in the top right corner, blue tits in the engine bay, a missile thrush (not a typo...) above the chassis next to fuel tank, blackbirds in tree (thats why it is still in the tree!). The garage has angry swallows, friendly wrens, overly friendly robins all nesting with chicks. Wasps nest (Vespula germanica) removed from garage with extreme prejudice. I miss the Hornet that used to hibernate in the kitchen when I lived in Devon, was a really cool critter

As soon as new screws arrive, will take some pics and show where they were binding, was own a fitful bad temper!

Err I always thought that a landrover chassis WAS the sacrificial anode...

The original screws were all Countersunk No6 x 3/8. On one door....The other door had a mix of No6X 3/8 and 1/2 (but I have a vague recollection of re doing that door in the very late 90's). Both would work fine on the top cos if you shove a measuring wire (OK so it was a pop rivet stem) you have almost 3/4" gap. Got 50 of the buggers (3/8") in stainless from Kayfast ebay shop. A shameless plug for them as I have never got carp from them.

Unhappy days..... OK so progress on 110 has been somewhat patchy (when did Royal Mail revert to carrier pigeons and horse drawn transport - 9 bloody days to deliver a letter sized package first class, 9. To put this in perspective, a friend posted me a small vial of water beetles from Berlin, they arrived in 3 days). So decided to replace (well swap) the doors and replace the window channels. Nice easy job. Rather than mortgage my internal organs and buy genuine, I thought I'd save a bob or 30 and use pattern parts (not I may add in a blue box). So nice big package arrives from SP Panels. Sets to on thursday to remove the old channels (read rust enclosed in rubber) ten minute job. Thats ten minutes per screw and there's a lot of them. Installs new channels, in a fashion. Met with a few problems...... 1. The felt lining is awful, I mean awful and unstable and not really attached. 2. They are about the correct dimensions (they get the benefit of the doubt as , well, its a landrover...) 3. No holes for the screws, drill ya own. So eventually gets the buggers to fit. Installs window. Then the fun starts. The window would not wind all the way up. Was binding. Ha, says I , just remove the shims for a bit more clearance, so out everything comes. Shims removed, everything reinstalled, window back in and things improved. Window goes 2/3 of the way up before binding instead of 1/2. Everything comes out, again, I'm getting good at this by now. Noticed that some of the (new, supplied with the channels) countersunk self tappers were beginning to look very sorry for themselves, they are made of Philadelphia cheese, not even a hard cheese such as Parmesan.... So has a root around in my junk spares pile and finds a couple or three . The screws supplied with channels turn out to be way too big, one requires Countersunk No.6 X 3/8" (or 1/2") not some random bloody metric things that "look" about the correct size... Throws tools around garden and retires in a fit of bad temper. Orders 50 new stainless screws of the correct size. Waiting for the Carrier Pigeon to arrive... Before anyone asks why I didn't re-use the old ones, well I tried, but most had to be drilled out (they're bloody hard metal, ask my cobalt drills if you don't believe me), and the remainder were well on their way to being nothing but rust. Moral of the story is mortgage your internal organs and either buy OEM or Genuine. I've wasted three days of my life making stuff fit.

Friends Disco taken from drive overnight in Stocksfield area, NE43. If seen Northumbria Police Ref NP-20220418-0214 Crime Ref 044928P/22

Bring back Stomils... Carved out of ebony, never wore our, never gripped in either the wet or the dry mind you. Taxi drivers swore by them, everyone else swore at them. Still they taught me what terminal understeer was.

Avoid powder coat. I had a bulkhead powder coated, now its rotting underneath, powder coat is nigh on impossible to paint over when it chips. Bloody difficult to remove too

Happy days, 20kg assorted M6,M8 and M10 nuts n bolts n washers just arrived! No more raking around looking for an M6x20 , strangely, the wife is completely disinterested whilst I'm like a kid in a sweet shop

Get Thee Behind Me........

All I can say is Thank the lord that Fiat 126s had a sunshine roof...

Well managed to get the heater box refurbed and assembled, just a couple of minor issues. When one rivets (Hermes found his sandals...) a heater box back together, just make sure you put the spacer collars back on the flap spindles....Oh and when you paint stuff , if its taking forever to dry do not pop it in the oven to speed things up, cos everything will taste of of paint for a few days and the wife will have a serious hissy fit. Today I get to put some bits back on the vehicle, woo hooo

In the early 80's, after a serious session in the local, someone bet me I couldn't do Lands End to John O Groats in under 24hrs, not being one to back out of a bet....did it in 19 1/2 hrs, in the Clubman Mini, averaged 11mpg . Was a lot younger and much more stupid (well , not much more, possibly a bit more) in those days. Oh and much fitter and supple....

Having driven everything from Alfas to Zastavas (I try to forget the latter) , a well set up Mini will out corner most things, you may need a few sessions with a chiropractor after a long drive, but in terms of grins per pound, you cant beat them.

well I am a 6ft blonde....so no excuses really

Forgot about PaulMc, I'll put it down to having a senior/blonde moment

I've been looking for some electrical female connectors for my window loom, good old JLR only wanted best part of £3k.... as they are part of the main loom and not sold separately, found em for a couple of quid at automotiveconnectors.com

I miss my old 1275gt, arden 8 port, bored and stroked to 1558, gorden allen steel crank, and an lsd that made it almost undriveable....mind you that was back in the early 80's

Dont suppose anyone has seen the courier who was supposed to deliver my pop rivets and self tappers yesterday.... I would like to start putting my heater back together now that it, the cats and the freezer are painted