I joined up with the Dorset Land Rover Club a few weeks back, hoping to make the odd RTV trial at some point this year. They sent me a nice pack of bits consisting of the winter edition of their magazine and a window sticker along with my membership card. Today I thought I’d apply the window sticker somewhere sensible. I don’t understand why a Land Rover club would supply a window sticker. Surely these people have driven Land Rovers and understand that the windscreen is small enough already, and although visibility is already poor, there is no need to actively make it worse. I used a no more nails type adhesive and now it just remains to be seen how well that adheres to the shiny side of the sticker. I tried brake cleaner on what was the sticky side, but once the solvent evaporated it was sticky again, […]
Since fitting the second reversing light I have not walked behind the Land Rover and seen what they look like. I have been using them as I have been reversing around in the drive way a fair bit recently. Since there is no street lighting around these parts, having reversing lights that actually illuminate the world behind is a bonus.
When I last welded the gear stick back together after breaking it a year or more ago I did an okay job. I had been thinking that it could do with improving a little as it was narrow and far from an even diameter where the weld was, weld was burned in a bit deep. So this time I returned to it and added some decent beads of weld over it ground it back. This picture was taken after I had removed my welding mask from my head and returned to the work and realised how cool it looked glowing red hot, so by this time it had cooled a lot. I did give a quick coat of clear lacquer, but I did this too soon while the metal was still hot and I think that made the lacquer go milky. At least it’ll stop it from rusting.
I had this incredibly minor issue where when the Arduino is initially turned on it goes through the setup bit of the code setting pins to be what ever you want them to be and making them inputs or outputs. As it was doing this and where I had relays attached to these outputs, the relays would momentarily come go into the on position before being turned off in the body of the code as the input is pulled down and then the switch position read. This only really became an issue when I get the horn working on the Arduino. Each time the ignition was turned on the horn would just do the tiniest beep. I did some reading on forums and found a easy coding fix for this. This fix was to add the digitalWrite in before the pin is set to be an output. Simple eh? it’s […]
This throttle linkage caused me some issued the other day, it jumped off and left me with no accelerator, luckily this happened at home and I was able to quickly fix it. I realised in that instant at that really I need to do something better and more robust to stop this from occurring again. The old linkage was a 5mm diameter bit of aluminium bar, so very soft and the end links didn’t fit quite snuggly enough. So I purchased some stainless steel M5 thread bar and some M5 ball joints. I made up this replacement rod with ends.. That is not going to drop off I don’t think.. I hope!
I took a trip to do two fords on Gascoyne Lane this afternoon. I had been struggling to find these based on my poor local knowledge. This is the first ford that I came to, very pretty with a good gravel bed and perhaps not that deep, maybe 18 inches or so. This YouTube video is of the same ford. Then I drove on to the next bit of the River Frome here, this is less wide, but faster flowing and deeper, particularly near the bridge where it is more then 2 feet deep. I used a handy stick to dip it as it looked deeper than that and I didn’t want to get wet feet today. This ford was good too, similar to the first one, both lacking a depth marker. I set my tripod up to record this crossing too, dashed back to the land rover and drove […]
Today we visited the village of Moreton where there are many things, but for me, there is just one thing of great interest. There is a ford of some reasonable size: Today i guessed it was about running about 450 mm deep at the deepest parts, over the majority of width it was probably about 300 mm deep. I am looking forward to returning in the Land Rover. While browsing www.wetroads.co.uk I came across another ford down near/in Weymouth; Rather than the route I have proposed in google maps, image driving the river, that is apparently possible too.
Abigail complained on one of our trips out in the Land Rover that the door/window was leaking. It hadn’t done this before, but having replaced the window channel it has started to leak. So I had a tube of silicone sealant and filled in around all of the joints to stop the water from percolating through and coming out of this window stop latch thing. I actually removed it and put a good bead behind it and re-riveted it on again. Filled the external gaps.. I’ll be back here again if it continues to leak, but if not, you’ll likely not hear another thing about it.
I reversed into the garage the other day and got so close to the back wall that there was a crunch. The lamp that lights the registration got squished a little cracking the clear lens. When I checked its function, it was not lighting up. I took it apart and found that the connections inside of the fitting where very corroded and most parts where rusty. The Volt meter was reading just about 2 or 3 volts at the lamp position. So I decided to retro fit some LED’s and wire them directly back to the wiring avoiding this connection arrnagement. Found a couple of LEDs that would fit well. Then I realised that when I fitted my reversing light, I had only fitted once because I didn’t want to run an individual wire across under the tub. When I was in doing the wiring on the inside it was […]
Didn’t start very quickly did it? Although it never does when it’s not been started for more than a couple of weeks. When it started, it was on less than all of the cylinders, this did improve once it had warmed up a little. This could be related to HT leads or similar. I have not looked at the rotor arm in ages. I think I’ll have look at the ignition system at some point in an effort to stop that from happening. I went out for a spin to the tip and then came a random route home partly due to crash on my route home. Here is a picture of the queue of traffic that I turned back from joining.
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