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« on: December 22, 2003, 20:54:33 »
I thought that it might be agood idea to post pics or give stories of damage caused to our beloved motors.

I am gonna start the topic off by posting the pics of the time I snapped shocker and my rear coil spring came out.

here I am climbing the hill, with a fair amount of axle twisting at pace...
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« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2003, 20:55:51 »
.....and now the piccy of the motor minus one rear spring and at a slightly reduced ride height!  ..........
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« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2003, 20:57:18 »
...........and finally the bodge

You just cant carry enough rope, or cable ties
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« Reply #3 on: December 23, 2003, 10:14:08 »
The only bit of damage I have caused whilst off-roading was when I had the Disco, I creased the rear wing, whilst driving a muddy hole and cross axled the motor, causing the wheel/tyre to catch the wing. All the other damage was due to a driving instructor hitting me at 40mph while I was stationary on a roundabout, causing a lot of damage. That’s another story.
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« Reply #4 on: December 23, 2003, 10:15:50 »
Sorry forgot to attach the photos of the damage.  :oops:
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« Reply #5 on: December 23, 2003, 19:04:11 »
Ouch...............
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« Reply #6 on: December 23, 2003, 20:30:41 »
I did the same thing to my last Discovery,
Didn't take any photo's of it..... :cry:

I cut the arches out larger when I did the repair... :wink:
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« Reply #7 on: December 23, 2003, 20:33:44 »
Dave,

What time of year did you do that...?

Was it SPRING.... :?:   :lol:   :lol:   :lol:   :lol:
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« Reply #8 on: December 23, 2003, 20:57:02 »
Paul,

ha ha ........... actually not far off...summer!!!  lol
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« Reply #9 on: December 23, 2003, 21:07:15 »
No physical damage inflicted thus far into my laning career, but damage to what's left of my pride has been pretty damn frequent!! :)

Take for example the situation below...

...where a moments lapse in concentration (caused by the need to politely ask noisey children in the back to please be quiet) led to neglecting to engage diff lock and getting well and truely stuck in a nice deep Land Rover eating rut! :shock:

However, had a nasty shock when I managed to reverse the wife's Vitara into the front bumper of my 90 when returning from Xmas shopping the other day - Ouch!!! :cry: ... broken light and dent in the rear quarter panel - but no mark whatsoever on the 90... which was some comfort 8)

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« Reply #10 on: December 23, 2003, 21:10:16 »
Heres a piccy of a scratch to a very very new disco after a little laning jaunt thru Northants.

the owner at the moment shall remain anonymous, but he/she is a member of the mud-club, and may own up after this.

After much T cutting I believe the scratch to be a little less 'angry looking' now.

 :wink:
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« Reply #11 on: December 23, 2003, 21:12:00 »
Nick,

I cannot beleive that this is you!!!!

lol  :D

Dave  :wink:
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« Reply #12 on: December 23, 2003, 21:20:17 »
Dave,

Hard to believe, eh? :wink:

The truth is that on that particular day every single other member of the group got stuck - 'cept me. Soo, to retain my human (as opposed to God like) appeal I thought I'd deliberately get stuck too... funny how not too many people believe that modest explanation of my bad luck! :lol:  8)  :lol:

Ho Ho Ho, Merry Xmas to all Mud Clubbers,

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« Reply #13 on: December 24, 2003, 13:12:40 »
............and now I cannot resist the posting of this one

The famous antics at Aston Cantlow of 'Top man' brother Colin, with Mick pulling him out of a hole whilst Colin is reversing against his superhuman strength!!!!!!  He managed after diving into a big hole to displace all those components south of his Discos bumper!

this will be one of the most famous pics of all time - probably

hope u dont mind me posting this Colin? :wink:
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« Reply #14 on: December 25, 2003, 03:05:13 »
Informe informe they've all got it in for me  :!:

Nice one dave but you fogot this one:
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« Reply #15 on: December 28, 2003, 19:46:26 »
Jasons 'claimed' mother of all rear bumpers was tested today by draggin a disco up a muddy hill,  herewith the result!    
  :wink: he he

next job is to get the mother of all bumper mounts!
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« Reply #16 on: December 29, 2003, 02:53:16 »
Ooops !!!!!
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« Reply #17 on: December 29, 2003, 08:01:27 »
Ooops!!!1 Bad luck Jason  :D
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« Reply #18 on: January 19, 2004, 22:01:52 »
My damage from Tixover

a puncture to the nearside front tyre - only goes down whilst driving!?

dislocated my rear springs - back in now (thanks Sam & Scott)

lost my towbar pin  :cry:  

broken front no. plate

all in all could have been worse!

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« Reply #19 on: January 19, 2004, 22:05:16 »
i wiped out another alternator ( pass the silicon someone  :) ) and had to be recovered from the A47 when my batteries whent flat .
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« Reply #20 on: January 19, 2004, 22:15:56 »
My damage from Tixover

I lost my front number plate.

I also had a failed alternator and left at 3pm
to get home in the light, The charge light went
off after 5-6 miles of leaving the site... :D

All in all a great day out...
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« Reply #21 on: January 20, 2004, 00:18:35 »
how about this. i blew the rear diff, the gearbox, ripped the rear axle of, crushed the inner wings, bent the roll bar, twisted the chasis, bent the flange on the diff, broke both trailing arms, the ball joint and destroyed a rim+tyre and nearly all the body work!!!

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p.s i will get another image tomorow
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« Reply #22 on: January 20, 2004, 08:52:29 »
My damage from Tixover 18th Jan 2004:
    Drowned ECU

    Even more bent sidesteps

    Slightly damp carpets (not from stalling in the water though)

    Loads of scratches from that little run at the top (I knew there was a reason I didn't do that one last time  :? )


Still, looking forward to the next one . . . . . .
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« Reply #23 on: January 20, 2004, 09:35:09 »
Mike !!!

how on earth did u do all that?!?!   :shock:
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« Reply #24 on: January 20, 2004, 13:14:37 »
I made my own extreme suspension kit which put to much strain on the radius arms. basickly i was in a deep hole and hit a verticle slope backwards which snapped the trailing arms etc. then after this everything broke!!!
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« Reply #25 on: January 20, 2004, 17:38:35 »
Dave,

I remember you doing that. Very entertaining as i remember :lol:  :lol: . Pretty much what that Disco did on Sunday although he bent a trailing arm as well. Was waiting to happen. The shock had rusted though :shock: .

Unfortunately no pictures of me with damage :( . Being such a skillful off roader I've never damaged anything :lol:  :lol: .

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« Reply #26 on: January 20, 2004, 17:58:16 »
Back on the road again now  :D , managed to make one good alternator out of the two duff ones , but now i'm definitely going to carry a spare alternator .
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« Reply #27 on: January 20, 2004, 20:17:17 »
I have alternator problems everytime I'm at Tixover. Basically muck gets in and jams the brushes therefore stopping the alternator from working properly. I find that putting the jet wash on it followed by lots of wd40 and a quick whack with a hammer sorts it.

If anyone is having persistant problems then extract the bit with brushes in and clean out. Tixover mud is like grinding paste ans will destroy the brushes in no time. I go though 3 sets a year.

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« Reply #28 on: January 20, 2004, 21:34:12 »
on my disco im putting on the cranked trailing arms from scorpion racing as hoopefully these wont bemnd or break.
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« Reply #29 on: January 20, 2004, 21:34:29 »
on my disco im putting on the cranked trailing arms from scorpion racing as hoopefully these wont bemnd or break.
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