July 27, 2007 - OKIEROVER.COM

July 27, 2007May 15, 2023

November 24, 2006 (Post #66)

November 24, 2006
I’m working on the new webpage design again today. I will be copying the updated pages to the site later this week.

Bare with me if you see something missing or a bad link. Or worse….a link to a page I haven’t converted.

I think it looks pretty good. Your comments are appreciated.

July 27, 2007May 15, 2023

October 11th, 2006 (Post #65)

October 11th, 2006

I’m working on the new webpage design. I hope to start converting the other
pages to the new format in the next few weeks.

Changed the oil in the Discovery II for the first time. Went with Castrol 10w40 and
a Wix Gold filter. It’s the brand I use on the Rangie and gonna stick with it. When
I got under the front end and noticed the placement I was disappointed. There is a
plastic shield under there. Most likely a cooling thing but it might be a stone shield.
I’ve got some feelers out on that. But there is a little access panel to get to the filter.
And I can’t see how you get the oil and filter out without getting oil on the shield.
When I went to take the filter off it is not on hand tight like on the Rangie. It
required an oil filter wrench and some serious turning.

I got it off and oil all over the bits under there. Again disappointing. I decided
that I was going to put that filter on hand tight and make it easier to remove later.

I got all the oil in and when I was ready to drive I heard the access panel slide under
the Disco and I immediately remembered that I had forgotten to secure it. Good thing too.
Oil was coming out from around the filter like mad. Seems it needed the wrench tightening
I was unwilling to give.

So changing the oil on the Disco is not going to be as easy as on the Rangie.

Time to start on the Rangie
I need to start working on the Rangie. As you have no doubt read below there is a huge
list of projects to get her ready for RovErica to drive. She started Driver’s Education this
past week. I’ll get some parts heading this way soon.

July 27, 2007May 15, 2023

August 13th, 2006 (Post #64)

August 13th, 2006

Well that sucked. Lost a big bunch of updates to the Rover Log. I had some stuff
about the Classic and what needs to be repaired. Let me see if I can list some of them.

Repaint the tail gate, Rust taking over

Replace the rear lift gate, Rusted out

Brakes, Need refurbishing, new brake lines, calipers rebuilt

Stereo, Needs replacing

Air conditioning, recharged or something

There was some other things but I can’t remember them.

We went on a trip to Denver in the Discovery. It rode well and I was a little
disappointed with the gas mileage. We averaged a little under 15mpg the whole way.
We didn’t have time for any Rover stuff due to my wife having a problem with some
anxiety attacks. Kinda weird and were not sure about where they are coming from. We
are working on it.

We planned to visit the local area Rover shops and such but we had to come home
early. The drive home was fun and we visited the Monument Rocks in Southwest Kansas.
You can read about them on my new Adventure pages.

Monument Rocks.

Added some advertising but I got booted for looking at my own site?? I guess I shoulda read the fine, fine print again. I’ll probably try it again if I do anything more commercial.