When we decided to swap the wheels from the old Land Rover to the new one, it seemed like a simple job. I’d loosen the wheel nuts, the Other Half and I would jack up a corner of a Land Rover each, I’d remove the wheels, she’d roll them around, I’d re-attach the wheels and [...]
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Tag Archives: Land Rovers
Va va vooooooooom!
14 March, 2009
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I’ve just returned from taking our newly purchased Land Rover Defender TD5 Dual-Cab Pickup to the feed merchant to collect 750kg of pig feed. The old Land Rover 200 TDi would have growled, creaked, whistled, rustled, rattled and banged all the way there at a somewhat leisurely 50mph. It would have settled under the load [...]
Read morePinch me again!
7 March, 2009
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When we got up this morning, it was with no inkling that we’d have our mitts on our “ultimate” Land Rover Defender before the day was out. Instead, we thought it would be a day of swimming lessons, shopping, fencing, mucking out and tidying the house ready for visitors tomorrow. Everything went much as we’d [...]
Read moreAnother job done
11 October, 2008
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As I mentioned last week, the handbrake cable broke on our Land Rover Defender but wet weather meant I had to delay removing the cable and fitting a new one. The Other Half, who’s the main driver, has had to find level parking spaces and park the car in gear, but was getting fed up [...]
Read moreSnap!
3 October, 2008
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When the Other Half came home from work today, she informed me that the Land Rover’s hand brake had gone “snap!” and was no longer working. I initially suspected one of the clevis pins at either end of the cable had come adrift or that the adjustment had gone. To my surprise, I found that [...]
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