Yes I understand there are often reasons for bodging a job to get it done...just wish it hadn't been done to my Discovery!
I do make a habit of of buying old knackered machinery and rebuilding it to keep it going. I am a blacksmith and industrial power hammers and the like are unaffordable new...This Discovery is worse than most of those bits of kit which largely have worn shafts and bearings...but the worst was an old tele handler which I bought on its last legs and have spent hours undoing the bodge repairs on that...
I am a blacksmith/artist craftsman and have a few decades of "doing it right" in my own work. But nonetheless I always appreciated the twist Oscar Wilde put on the old adage "If it is worth doing, it is worth doing well" his version is actually more realistic and logical..."If it is worth doing, it is worth doing badly"
I can't complain about the Discovery. It has been the least expensive motoring I have ever had. I bought it with 6months MOT for £700 and so far it has gone through 4 MOTs and needed a £35 drivers door lock, a brake pipe and £100 worth of welding. The gearstick was not an MOT fail!
When I first started training as a blacksmith I lived in a Series 1 that I converted with a bed, cooker and sink...best bed I ever slept in! To relive my youth I bought a Defender ten years ago but I proved to old and stiff to be able to drive it...so went on to a £400 MOT write off Discovery which I got part way through welding up, I had rebuilt the off side arches cill and floor front to back, before the current one turned up and I decided not to spend another week or two on the first one....
Alan