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Blog my ride: Discovery 300 TDi -lowering + sorting
Range Rover Blues:
On your own? my advice is buy a winch kit for your Hi-Lift. Hard work but it does the job and will still work if you loose the engine, alternator or batteries.
http://www.mud-club.com/galleries/Range-Rover-Blues/1713-Laning-with-Turtle-and-Little-Landy/
John Clayton:
Aye, I've learnt my lesson about off-roading on my own!
Later that night I talked a mate into coming back with me in his vehicle. We trundled in from the other side of the stream which involved a huge detour across country and I had a few difficulties trying to even find the vehicle again, which was a few miles down the valley across country in the dark. Also, we had to keep detouring to cross re-entrants (mini valleys) without getting stuck in one of the the little streams at the bottom. We then spent ages trying to get my Rover out with the Snatch rope but I was on the verge of giving up when my mate reversed his machine back just a little bit too far and got his steed stuck in an adjacent boggy bit/trickle stream. 2 vehicles out of 2 bogged in, in the dark. Things were going from bad to worse...
John Clayton:
I've been neglectful of this Blog, but will start updating it again...
We had the following issue:
Driver’s door & boot may not unlock with key fob alarm blipper
Blip as normal (to turn off alarm) but then use the key as well to open Driver’s door (or go in through passenger door and pull door lock’s ‘stalk’ up fully). If door won’t open when inside vehicle then just pull stalk up. DO NOT LEAVE THE KEYS INSIDE THE VEHICLE! If you do –and try to open the driver’s door –it is likely to lock the whole vehicle with the keys inside! If you forget and close all the doors with the keys inside then just open the boot and then the passenger door + retrieve the keys.
which we tried solving with the replacement lock springs off ebay but it didn't work long term. We eventually cured it by replacing the driver's door lock.
[MPA work]
[FIC work]
[Nigel's work]
[Bury St Edmund's work]
John Clayton:
Had a rattle from down below -thought it was something major in gearbox but it turned out to just be a rattly debris cover.
Had a terrible rattle from fan belt area so had to get this replaced
John Clayton:
Fitted a winch and drilled some more holes in the winch bumper's bay to encourage water to drain out [Dec 13 in Norwich]. Also Waxoyled in the bay before fitting it. Winch worked well to pull MG onto blue trailer, and also to pull a rally Sierra rolling shell onto Durham College's trailer in E. London [Jan 14]
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