I have been suspecting that my alternator was on it’s way out for some time now. I’ve been seeing the charge light coming on a lot, my lovely wife got me a new alternator for Christmas. I also changed the oil while I was there.
We spent the final half an hour or so of 2019 in the garden drinking and watching the chiminea burn. Happy new year!
I requested that the tree surgeons leave the decent sized logs for a fella who lives near by as he has a wood burner. So today we moved them to his place in the land rover, it was a good excuse for me to drive on the foot paths. I got to drive down some footpaths:
A tree that was over the back of the fence got condemned on Monday and today they came and cut it down.. That was my favourite of the three trees, first the middle one fell over and now this one is gone.
This oil is well emulsified with the water and mud from when I’ve been taking the land rover wading in water. When the land rover enters cold water the axles cool, as does the oil and air inside the axle, causing them to draw in water past the seals.
This is the stately home that is now a hotel where my Sister in law will be getting married next week. The pictures don’t reveal much, just nice images.
Last night I borrowed a friends 3D printer. Today I set it up, levelled the table and inserted the filament. Had the SD card with the software not been corrupted, I’d likely be printing something now.
It wasn’t as bad a job as the title makes out! I purchased a brake bleeding “kit” from my local motor part factors: the black rubber end that I’m holding in the above picture is a one way valve, so by simply sticking this on the bleed nipple it becomes a one person job. And it seemed to work very well. My brake peddle isn’t as positive as it could be, but then it wasn’t that positive before this exercise, so I’ve giving myself and the little hose the benefit of the doubt. I am also fitting new dash LED illumination lights, as the previous LED’s were pretty dim even in very low light levels, so there was no hope of reading the dash when a car was coming towards me. I designed the black 3D printed part in the photo above, a friend kindly printed it for me in […]
I managed to do the following in about 50 minutes; move Volvo from in front of the garage move Land Rover out of Garage jack the land rover up and put on axle stand remove wheel disassemble brake drum etc remove cylinder loose some brake fluid on floor find grease and rags fit new cylinder brake drum etc back on wheel back on move Land rover back in garage without pressing brake peddle move Volvo back in front of garage Job done! Well not quite, don’t have any Dot 4 so can’t bleed the brakes yet.
The Land Rover has been pulling to the left under braking recently, last Thursday it become bad enough that I thought I’d take a look, as it could no longer be written off as being dirt in the drum or something. Sure enough I have leaking wheel cylinder on the right front drum. I also painted some of the more white parts and bare aluminium.
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