Member Since: 14 Oct 2013
Location: 'Sunny' Zomerset
Posts: 9424
Great updates as usual Darren
Quick question, I now have a lazy tailgate after fitting my ladder, what struts did you use, were they heavier duty ones?
Iggy/Ieuan
Current LR =
2015 RR Sport Autobiography
&
1992 Land Rover Defender Camper
- Gone but not forgotten:
MY10 D4 GS
MY05 Disco 3 'S'
MY14 FL2 HSE manual in Blue
MY15 Disco 4 HSE Lux in Santorini Black
MY08 Disco 3 SE manual in Buck Blue
1960 Series 2 88" (No idea why I sold it!)
15th May 2015 8:27 am
LandRoverAnorak
Member Since: 06 Mar 2014
Location: Surrey
Posts: 1172
Thanks
The strut was a standard one bought from Advanced Factors and is rated at 480n. I know others have talked about fitting uprated ones but I reasoned that after 8 or 9 years the originals were probably just a bit tired, so new standard ones would probably work.
It really needs two new ones to get the full benefit, but the difference with just one leads me to believe it was a good choice.Darren
"You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!" - Princess Leia
Member Since: 14 Oct 2013
Location: 'Sunny' Zomerset
Posts: 9424
Iggy/Ieuan
Current LR =
2015 RR Sport Autobiography
&
1992 Land Rover Defender Camper
- Gone but not forgotten:
MY10 D4 GS
MY05 Disco 3 'S'
MY14 FL2 HSE manual in Blue
MY15 Disco 4 HSE Lux in Santorini Black
MY08 Disco 3 SE manual in Buck Blue
1960 Series 2 88" (No idea why I sold it!)
15th May 2015 12:13 pm
Biker Pete
Member Since: 23 Jan 2014
Location: Gateshead
Posts: 513
Just read this thread again as I think a change of diff oils would be a good idea now I have rolled past 100k miles.
How's the vinyl on your sills holding up?
Great thread btw
Right time to stop putting it off and go see if I can find the wiring issue which is stopping my handbrake working ..... then sort the wiring to make my fronr fog lights work again.... then give her a clean ..... then, did someone ,mention pizza earlier in this thread
25th May 2015 10:10 am
LandRoverAnorak
Member Since: 06 Mar 2014
Location: Surrey
Posts: 1172
The vinyl's doing ok. Here are a couple of snaps I took earlier:
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Darren
"You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!" - Princess Leia
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25th May 2015 6:07 pm
LandRoverAnorak
Member Since: 06 Mar 2014
Location: Surrey
Posts: 1172
Towing Electrics Cover
Another little task that I completed recently, inspired by a post here, was to add some lugs to the towing electrics cover retaining clips. This means that they can be twisted easily by hand to release them. The inspiration used, IIRC, cut down washers but I decided to use some rectangles of thick-ish plastic that I cut off something or other. These were almost as thick as the grooves on the existing clips and were Araldited in place. Then I gave them a quick blast of primer before painting them yellow, as you do:
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Darren
"You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!" - Princess Leia
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25th May 2015 6:19 pm
LandRoverAnorak
Member Since: 06 Mar 2014
Location: Surrey
Posts: 1172
Extended Roof Rails
Finally managed to fit some extended roof rails today, which is one of the few mods that I knew that I wanted to do when I first bought the vehicle. The kit was an eBay special and, whilst I'm happy with them now that they're fitted, it suffered from a lack of attention to detail. For example, the rails require four fixing bolts each but the kit only included six. Also, the supplied washers were too big to go through the access holes to the fixing points in the rails. These were not insurmountable problems, but annoying nonetheless.
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Anyway, first job is removing the existing short rails. These are held on with three M6 T30 torx head bolts concealed under plastic cover caps. The latter are easily levered out with a small screwdriver, although they are quite brittle and one did disintegrate. (Excuse the dust. It was clean yesterday but came out this morning to a coat of yellow over everything )
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Next is to remove the aluminium cover strip on the front lower part of the roof. This is secured with one of those plastic fir tree fixings, which can be removed with a trim tool, and a push-on concealed friction clip near to the front:
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The hole in the cover strip needs to be enlarged to reveal the flat shoulder of the fixing point. The instructions say that the new hole needs to be 19mm diameter but I managed with 13mm:
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The channel underneath the existing rails and cover strip was filthy with years of accumulated road dirt, so a quick clean up was in order before fitting the new rails:
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With the cover strip pushed back in place, and having resolved the lack of fixings in the kit, it's relatively straightforward to bolt on the new rails. I really like the look but the real purpose is a practical one - I have a long roof box for my Oztent called an Ozpod, which is nearly 2.5m long, and these will enable that to be mounted more centrally along the roof.
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Darren
"You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!" - Princess Leia
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28th May 2015 7:14 pm
Famousfive
Member Since: 12 Aug 2014
Location: Southampton
Posts: 1831
Great thread ... makes me realise how hopeless I am with jobs I'd like to do on mine.
What are your plans for the short roof rails as I've been after a set just like the ones you've taken off Stolen - D4 Loire Blue
D4 Bali Blue
28th May 2015 9:53 pm
LandRoverAnorak
Member Since: 06 Mar 2014
Location: Surrey
Posts: 1172
Thanks
The short roof rails are going to be for sale - I just ran out of time to work out the postage cost yesterday. They can be yours for £50 plus whatever the postage is, or come and collect them if you get to my part of the world.Darren
"You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!" - Princess Leia
Member Since: 17 Nov 2014
Location: Plymouth
Posts: 5
Great thread, some great things to do to my Disco. Keep the good work up Java black D3 TDV6 HSE
Three flash indicators/Clock on dash / Reversing lights on (walk home) / Privacy glass / Halo lights fitted to front fog lights
Previously:
Range Rover '73
Land Rover series 11a
29th May 2015 10:58 am
LandRoverAnorak
Member Since: 06 Mar 2014
Location: Surrey
Posts: 1172
Thanks, Ken.
In between showers today and just for the hell of it, I managed to take this snap:
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This was on the way back from the tip having disposed of a complete garden shed. Putting it in the back of the Discovery was only necessary because they wouldn't accept exactly the same stuff in my trailer Darren
"You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!" - Princess Leia
Mods:
Original Beanie Narpy Grill, Black lettering, De-Tango'ed, Side steps, Hids LEDs upgrade, Halo DRL, Smoked side repeaters, D4 Bluetooth upgrade, Flacks magic with the fault mate, Upgraded D4 compressor, ERG's blanked, Tints, D4 rear lights, Short rails & cross bars, LR Ladder. Reversing camera (needs activating!!)
29th May 2015 8:52 pm
GLYNNE
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Location: KENT
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