What have you done to your DEFENDER today?
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madcowdungbeetle
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Ansley Rover
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Made me think of this:
At the time I took the picture, it occurred to me that I don’t see anybody using them to pull a horse trailer. Then again, I live in the middle of Atlanta.
I had the fun experience of essentially doing my timing belt all over again after having just done it a few weeks ago. Always in the back of my mind was the thought “maybe I didn’t torque the tensioner bolt down properly”, so I finally gave in and took things apart just to make sure. I’m glad I did because the bolt, despite being fairly snug, did tighten a bit when I used the torque wrench on it. The nice part was I didn’t have to time the engine up to do this. And the belt tension seemed the same as when I set it before, so no worries there.
No harm was done because the engine has only driven down my driveway and back since I last did it. I’m waiting on injectors to come back from the rebuild shop, plus a fair bit of parts from Rovers North anyway.
No harm was done because the engine has only driven down my driveway and back since I last did it. I’m waiting on injectors to come back from the rebuild shop, plus a fair bit of parts from Rovers North anyway.
expanse
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This is one of my top fears. I take photos of everything in alignment and tightened with paint pen noting whats been touched.
It’s a great idea. I do have photos of all the timing marks aligning, but for some reason skipped over this. The worst part is that the doubt crept in after I got the timing cover on the first time. It’s such a pain having 14 different sized bolts each needing to be torqued in a certain order that I couldn’t bring myself to undo it all just to check. Lesson learned though.
expanse
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behind all the weird things I do is a lesson or two learned.
glad you got er all sorted out.
rocky
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Absolutely bugger all as they say in England. But I did spend a ton of time cleaning up my barn, finding good stuff, dumping bad stuff. Good stuff like my first GPS unit, which still works. You could only download maps into it. But it got me to a remote campsite in Ottawa in 2001. Seemed crazy to rely on it rather than paper maps and trip tix.
WreckITFrank
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What sliders are those with the step plate?
4RF RDS
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Picked those up at Rovers North years ago when I bought the 110. Not sure of they still carry them. What I really liked is that they were galvie and powder coated and the top plate is aluminum.
I also added “Bully” aluminum side steps which I remove if I off road.Cheers
WreckITFrank
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super cool. thanks for sharing.Picked those up at Rovers North years ago when I bought the 110. Not sure of they still carry them. What I really liked is that they were galvie and powder coated and the top plate is aluminum.
Cheers