Ian Morrison
Biffo 69
I’ve been busy during the lockdown.So I have done the cornering light mod, and will be rebuilding my air valves next. Also have to refurb my third brake light, did the headlights refurb.
Also looked at some DRL's but I didn't like the look after I split and placed the DRL LED strips, so I bailed and just did the corner lights.
What is on everyone else's list to do during the lock down?
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1st Job I was told I had a very small amount of play on the offside track rod end so purchased two new ones. Both track rods had seized solid and no tool would remove either joint. So I used a heat gun and both popped out easy. Noted the correct number of turns each track rod was screwed onto the inner tie rod and took about 30 minutes a side to do.
2/ Gave Discovery 3, 2.7TDV6 Full Service. Replaced Oil, Filter and Sump Plug. Replaced Air Filter and Pollen Filter. Replaced Fuel Filter. Replaced Front and Rear Diff oil and Transfer Box oil. I’m not replacing gearbox oil at present as after Covid 19 scare is over taking Discovery to garage who flush gearbox out totally using special Megaflush Machine costing between £260 to £300 and takes between one and two hours to do.
3. Replaced Badly Corroded Suspension Air Tank. I brought a new one last year when I noticed the tank on the discovery was in a bad state. The hardest part of replacing the tank was removing the bolts that hold the tank in place. Mine were that seized even using plus gas I found the bolts just sheared off. I already had purchased also new stainless steel bolts and I’ve used anti seize paste on the bolts hopefully stopping them seizing up again.
I’ve been busy but know now my Discovery hopefully should give me now a year of trouble free motoring.