Okay, that title is little rich. I have some old phones which have only partly given up. This particular one (a Samsung Galaxy Note8) has an issue with the screen where it fails to light up the screen, so that it will accept input via touch, but you can’t see what you’re doing or it does light up but the bottom bit flickers really badly, as per the pictures. The camera and apps all work perfectly otherwise. So it occurred to me that I could mount the phone such that all I had to do was it turn it on and leave it recording and I’d have a dash cam! I folded up a bit aluminium (notice that I haven’t even taking the plastic backing off), used a hammer to beat the edge around the phone, risking smashing the phone even more. I realised as I was doing this that […]
I thought I would just have a test of my welding skills, to see if I think I am of a reasonable skill level to take on the repair to the church gate. I have been asked to repair a gate hanger at the church. I have taken advice from a building conservation specialist who suggested it was best to make the repair as permanent as possible and also in keeping with the original design. So I shall be welding in some new metal to beef up the worn out pin. This is rather than drilling and tapping out the pin and using a bolted connection. The result of the welded option should be better in his opinion. Of cause if the weld doesn’t take well then I can always revert to drilling and tapping. These two welds were at very different amps, the lower left one was at about […]
Having fitted a new front prop-shaft I felt it best to go around with the grease gun and put new grease into all of the other places that have grease nipples, such as the steering joints and rear prop.
At lunchtime today I set about trying to see what affect articulation has on the propshaft length.
We had some snow during Wednesday 18th, this is what it looked like: By the time the minor snow fall was over it was looking like this: I went to collect my daughter in the Land Rover and wound up driving other people to more inaccessible places also, which was great fun. This morning the snow has not melted.
I have installed yet more Dodo matting to the dash, this time it’s the wiper motor box bit.
I put some more of the Dodo mat into the Land Rover last night. I have stuck it to the inside of the dash panels and over most surfaces which I thought might drum or rattle due to vibration. For the first time I remembered to get a video for some audio of the before and after effect of adding this stuff.
Well.. this is interesting. So the new prop came with a phase alignment of 30° out of phase. I was aware that any misalignment of of the yoke would cause vibration. But the bring diff nose points down, by perhaps 15°, so this misalignment I imagine caters for that and cancels out perhaps. Also, the splined end of the shaft has to go at one end, now I did a little googling and no one could agree on which end. Haynes manual says splines always go to the forward most end, but many say that splines should point to the transfer case. Who knows, I put with splines to the transfer case. I may well flip the front prop as I think that the other way will allow water to leave the splined end. The old propshaft was incorrectly phased for a front propshaft.
My new prop turned up today. Along with a 15mm spacer. I discovered that the prop should be 45° out of phase to remove some slop or slap or whag ever. Alan told me this, I think i need to fix the rear prop now, as i think that’s wrong also. All fitted up it is 24mm opened up. I imagine this is okay. I can’t imagine that it’s going to close up more than that and should now have some added space to open up.
I have started sticking in the sound insulation now. I also visited a CB Radio place, which shares it’s premises with a PC repair place. The CB guy was not in, but the PC man was very helpful and suggested how I might fix my poor CB radio range. Turns out that I had isolated the aerial too well from the body work. He explained that the negative of the aerial should be bonded to the body of the Land Rover as the body acts as one half of the antenna. The silver part in the image above is the negative and is now electrically connected to the bracket and body, where as the copper centre part is the positive is isolated from the body. I have not yet tested this configuration, but I have my fingers crossed.
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