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Vehicle & Technical => Discovery => Topic started by: karlo on January 13, 2007, 20:30:10

Title: Recovery Points
Post by: karlo on January 13, 2007, 20:30:10: I have a Discovery steering guard similar to this

(http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/6808/steelsteeringguardlargego2.jpg)

can anyone tell me if a pair of these will fit with it please.

(http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/3226/discofronttowingeyeandjky8.jpg)
Title: Recovery Points
Post by: ChrisW on January 13, 2007, 20:36:13: Going from memory, the steering guard fits on the outer sides of the chassis rails - fit the jack mates to the inner side? Might need to notch the top of the steering guard to let the jack mates out though.
Title: Recovery Points
Post by: Bush Tucker Man on January 13, 2007, 22:26:03: Jack-Mates fit to the inner faces of the chassis members (I had a pair on my 50th Anniversary)
Title: Recovery Points
Post by: karlo on January 13, 2007, 23:16:27: Excellent, thanks guy's, just need to get a pair now :D

Anyone got any for sale cheap :?:
Title: Recovery Points
Post by: Timi on January 14, 2007, 15:48:16: Quote from: "karlo"
Excellent, thanks guy's, just need to get a pair now :D

Anyone got any for sale cheap :?:

I got a set from Discoparts at billings, Ã‚Â£40 each.

I had to knotch out the top of my Procomp steering guard although it fits on the inside of the chassis rails.

Timi.
Title: Recovery Points
Post by: Guardian. on January 14, 2007, 16:02:58: Ã‚Â£40, each, do you mean a pair, or for1.
Title: Recovery Points
Post by: Range Rover Blues on January 16, 2007, 15:29:58: Not all steering gaurds fit the outside of the chassis, though that one does. The giveaway is the rear driver's side mount is cranked to clear the Panhard rod bracket.
Title: Recovery Points
Post by: karlo on January 16, 2007, 15:50:03: Dose'nt fit at all at the mo cos i carn't get that bolt out where the rear os side of the mount fits....... :lol:

Its gonna get some air gun & heat :twisted:
Title: Recovery Points
Post by: Range Rover Blues on January 16, 2007, 16:27:55: Gas axe :)
Title: Recovery Points
Post by: karlo on January 16, 2007, 17:06:20: I'm not that well equiped, but i get by with one of these generally

(http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/6908/photo0103eb5.jpg)
Title: Recovery Points
Post by: Tyke on January 17, 2007, 12:44:28: He,He . . . . another so called 10 minute bolt-on job . . . . Don't you just love it . . . :lol:
Title: Recovery Points
Post by: Range Rover Blues on January 17, 2007, 13:39:41: Quote from: "karlo"
I'm not that well equiped, but i get by with one of these generally

(http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/6908/photo0103eb5.jpg)

Ok, do you have the Electric gas axe, aka Land Rover special tool #2 aka angle grinder.
Title: Recovery Points
Post by: karlo on January 17, 2007, 14:35:26: Large or small i have both.............. :lol:
Title: Recovery Points
Post by: hobbit on January 17, 2007, 17:12:14: Had the same problem on the hybrid recently, the one long bolt through for the o/s/r mounting was rusted through the chassis mounting

Loads of wd40, big 3/4 drive socket and breaker bar to crack it off, and then loads more wd and air gun it backwards and forwards for about half an hour to release it from the rust then tap it out, keep spinning and oiling, knocking it back in and out as you go to let the lube penetrate through the mounting hole
good luck :wink:
Title: Recovery Points
Post by: karlo on January 17, 2007, 18:57:02: I tried an air gun Kev, the nut comes undone but the bolt's siezed, i've only a little compressor so i have to let it build up each time, i'll keep at it its bound to come eventually but it is solid at the mo :shock:
Title: Recovery Points
Post by: karlo on January 18, 2007, 13:47:52: Ok i have now invested in one of these

Gas Torch (http://www.bullfinch-gas.co.uk/index.php?page=shop.browse&category_id=7&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1)

you buy different nozzles to get more heat. i've gone for the 1230 nozzle as my gas bottles are only 6kg caravan ones (of course it was out of stock :roll: 2 days by post).

Nozzles (http://www.bullfinch-gas.co.uk/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=28)

So hopefully when then wind and rain stops we can have another go
Title: Recovery Points
Post by: Pete on January 18, 2007, 14:57:39: If you can get the nut off, grind the head off the bolt, then tighten the nut while someone else drifts the bolt out from what was the head end.

Combination of the nut pulling against the rust, and the shock from the drift usually moves the rusted bolt quite easily.
Pete
Title: Recovery Points
Post by: Range Rover Blues on January 18, 2007, 15:23:35: Heat and WD40 should shift it eventually.