Busted Differential
About a mile later I got a very satisfying crunch sound. “I guess its broken now,” I thought to myself.
About a mile later I got a very satisfying crunch sound. “I guess its broken now,” I thought to myself.
King Transmission called today and they will be getting started building my transmission. I’m very excited that I will have a fully functional transmission. The Plan The plan has been to minimize my vehicle downtime. So I went to Rover Cannibal and picked up a core. I took it to King Transmission on Classen in[…]
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There it was in black and white. Knocking or rattling noise. It doesn’t get more obvious than that. The picture above is from the RAVE CD. It clearly describes the problem I was having.
So here’s the logic of my situation…. […]
If you read “Sometimes Things Don’t Go Your Way” you saw that I thought I had a failing water pump. The “new” water pump was only a few months old so it was quite out of the ordinary for it to be failing. I took the Range Rover to Mickey’s Garage on Monday to have[…]
Ken Arciga of Los Angeles, California, sent me an email recently. He wanted to thank me for the site and to share some comments back with me on things he’d learned and tried when working on some of the same projects for his 1995 Range Rover Classic expedition project vehicle. He has many of the[…]
Back in the saddle again. I picked up the Big White Bus from Mickey’s Garage this past Friday. Mickey send me these pictures telling me the BWB was ready for pick up. As you’ve read in previous posts, the AC compressor they installed originally had a leaking seal. True to his word he replaced it.[…]
Yes, that is a broken water pump pulley.How does a water pump pulley get broken you might ask?That’s a good question. As you know the two pulleys you see here are nested and bolted to the water pump shaft. You don’t expect that to EVER fail. When I saw that today and said the very[…]
I picked up two things today. First was a used viscous coupling from Rob at Rover Cannibal. The second was an air grinding tool from Lowe’s. My Dremel died a few months ago. And I was faced with replacing it for 50 odd bucks or I saw this grinder on clearance for around 16$(US). I[…]
So a year and a half ago I bought a poly-bush kit for the Classic. I thought, “I’ll just go up to JagGuy’s shop and throw these on and be done with it.” I found out this is an eight hour job and mostly not much fun. So I’m looking for a shop that will[…]
October 26th, 2004No console, window problems, leaky windshieldHad to put off putting the console back in. It really needs to be glued properly. I have it sitting in the garage while I finish the painting on the house. The window ECU fried a week ago when I was picking up my daughter from one of[…]