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  4. What Did You Do With Your Rover Today?

    in Show us your Rover!

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    Fan clutch arrived so picked up the fan wrench and busted that thing off. Started to reassemble and the new fan is thinner than the old so I need to grab washers.

     

    Moved on to my rear flange replacement. Removed the drive shaft without issue but then realized I have the breaker pipe back to neighbor.

     

    So hopefully this weekend I'll close these out.

  5. What Did You Do With Your Rover Today?

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    Got the front of the P38 put back together tonight. I had to remove the front carpet because of a heater core leak that soaked the passenger side footwell. The leak was slow and I think it had been going for a while because the coolant that squeezed out of the carpet was real thick like warm maple syrup. Took hours to get it out of the carpet and pad and three days for it to dry. To get the carpet out the center consol, seats, door sills, kick panels and a few other things had to come out. Took me about 3 1/2 hours to put it all back together. Frustratingly, I did end up with two extra screws. And for the life of me can't figure out where they go.

    Just two!! Much better than I am...I probably would have just left it out indefinitely.

  7. What Did You Do With Your Rover Today?

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    I was able to get some time in the garage and replace my alternator. Took me an hour or so as was my first time and had to sort out the proper tools.

     

    Hardest part was getting the belt back on but managed that fairly well.

     

    It's amazing how much quieter it is now. The old one had such a horrible vibration.

     

    So now onto more projects as I'm trying to get it to a point where I feel comfortable driving it good distances as I do enjoy it.

     

    Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

  10. What Did You Do With Your Rover Today?

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    Worked on fixing my rear passenger door on the D1 finally, it's been unable to lock/unlock for a year...little challenging fitting a socket into the door handle to remove the nuts but after that it was pretty smooth sailing.

     

    The plastic round clip had broke causing the lever connected to the locking mechanism to just hang.

     

    For a quick fix used a zip tie to secure the plastic piece and put it all back together.

     

    Little progress here and there...still working on my drive shaft swap out, hopefully I can get that done by DITD.

  11. What Did You Do With Your Rover Today?

    in Show us your Rover!

    Posted · Edited by Jethro

    So I haven't been keeping up on my efforts so I'll a recap of sorts. I ordered my 3" terrafirma long travel kit in late May as well started to order tools and the what not, moved into our new home in June and shortly after the kit arrived.

    Fast forward to July and Sacramento guys came by for DiTD at my place, what better way to break in a new house then leak all over the driveway. They were kind enough to bring me a cake for my birthday and more importantly their tools!

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    So we pulled the Disco into the garage and began disassembling the stock setup.

    Here's the view before starting
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    Made great progress that night and the following night Discobear was able to come by again after work and we put another huge effort in and we had the front driver side back together.

    From there I was able to do the other remaining corners. Unfortunately with work travel and having to work on after the kids were in bed it took me a full month.

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    From that point I was needing some help again, so luckily Discobear was able to help me install the rear trailing arms which required finesse to connect to the body mount.

    Later that week Jason was able to help me with setting the angle on the rear and then we installed the front castor corrected radius arms which was quite a PIA.

    From that point I was able to tie up a couple loose ends, installed a new tie rod end as I broke one getting the radius arms off.

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    I backed it out of the garage as I was afraid it wouldn't fit with the new tires on. Getting the new tires on was fun but a quick trip around the block let me know I was rubbing as to be inspected with 255/85/16s on.

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    So I spent some nights trimming the fends with help from Discobear and Nick I was able to clear some space.

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    After that was all set I was ready for a maiden voyage, so we hit Sourgrass trail while enjoying a weekend with Nick and family.

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    Trail was great, suspension handled amazing and I was stoked to see how the combo of the tires and travel made the trail really easy.

    Was my first time driving a moderate trail in a truck that requires driver input, so thanks to Nick for coaching me and sending the wife to ride with his!

    Had my first trail repair as a break line came loose causing break fade and a mess! But was an easy fix.

    Upon returning home some things worked themselves out and it's apparent my radiator having troubles holding a load. Ran into on the Bowman lake trip some might recall, but was super noticeable this trip. So I'll be doing that upgrade before any future trips. Nick and Jason have recently done it and had great success.

    Also I'm still on the roto flex, I picked up a standard drive shaft Discobear and the attachment from Justin so just need to swap those out.

    Now that the truck has been sitting and I focusing on other new home request I've started to remove the headliner. Looking to fix that plus investigate my leaks and why the sun roofs don't open.

    Then last night I've picked up some type of new leak, guessing it's transmission or steering since it the reddish atf. But it's far up on the passenger side.

    So really stoked and excited about the truck but unfortunately some little things to sort through.

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