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Lucky’s lucky no more – Long Live Dorothy
The Disco has gone. Not to be replaced. After struggling for a couple of years, chucking more money at it than any reasonable person should have, it finally bit the dust. It went to that great insurance-write-off-heaven in the sky – and finally did something useful for my wallet, instead of sucking it dry. OK,…
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Well, that escalated quickly
I shouldn’t be surprised. Although I’m probably more surprised that I’m surprised. I thought we’d got away with a lot of the shit I was expecting from Dorothy’s bulkhead. Turns out I was way off the mark.
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This week at OLR HQ…
This week saw the repair section on Dorothy’s radiator panel finally finished off. It’s not been without its woes though. Busted angle grinder… ‘Wrong’ thickness plate… Busted welder. It was another of those ‘fighting you at every turn’ jobs. But we got there in the end.
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Third plate and rain stops play
…and by ‘rain’ I mean: busted angle grinder. The work on Dorothy continues at its own pace. This week’s been focusing on plating the radiator panel, after cutting the rust out – of which there was enough.
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The “Great British Roof Tent show”?
Last weekend saw the arrival of “The Great British Land Rover Show” at Stoneleigh’s National Agricultural and Exhibition Centre (near Coventry). It’s been a while since we went for a wander around a Landy show so I booked a couple of tickets for Dick and myself. Lucky (my D2) appreciated the blast up the M69…
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Discovery 2 driving light hack
Nothing wrong with my driving. It’s everyone else. Words I’ve uttered a few times since relocating to the Midlands. There must be an epidemic of colour blindness because red lights no longer mean ‘stop’. They mean ‘proceed at full speed if you think you can get away with it’. And the number of cars spotted…
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More new brakes
Not the ideal day to be crawling around under an old Landy. But is there ever an ‘ideal’ day to be doing such stuff? After last weeks discovery of a new leaking brake pipe – while fixing another newly fitted, but leaking, brake pipe – sorting this was always going to trump an ideal day.…
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New brakes broke
Some good news, some bad. In case you didn’t know, I’d had to replace one of the brakes pipes on Lucky (my Discovery 2), from front to rear. I was sat at a set of lights, on my way to work, foot on the brakes – as you do – when the pedal went… ‘pffft’…
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Leaky Lucky no. 3
Another day, another leak. This time, however, it’s been sorted. And it’s not what I originally thought it was. To be fair, it wasn’t so much letting water in as letting the outside air rushing in. Summer time wasn’t so much of a problem, because it was warm. The only real pain in the backside…
