Yesterday did not go as planned. Broken bolt, and a missing exhaust gasket caused a halt in my projects. Today I’m headed out to find a bolt. Funny that a Grade 8.8 would snap like that. It figures that the weather would not hold. I guess I’ll be chilly in the garage finishing up. I[…]
I can’t be the only person who gets that special warm feeling inside when all the tick boxes are filled in on maintenance. I love it when I’ve gone over my Land Rover and done all the maintenance. Fluid and filter swap for the transmission. Also a fluid swap for the transaxle and viscous coupling[…]
A big part of not breaking down on the trail or on the highway for that matter is maintenance. Most Americans neglect maintenance. It’s easy to forget about maintenance. You go out to the driveway you jump in you turn the key and you drive. Our Land Rovers become “magic boxes that take us places”.[…]
That figures. If this Range Rover ever stops “sweating out” it’s fluids I’ll probably freak out thinking that I may have run the particular unit dry. I have reported before that I need to overhaul the transmission. I certainly don’t need it to fail right now. I’ve topped 195,000 miles now on this transmission. And[…]
My best friend’s wife commented on Facebook this week that the term “viscous coupling” sounded real nasty and ask if I should be posting about such a thing. Well I’d have to agree. Viscous coupling…(dramatic reverb)it does sound bad. Well thankfully the bad part is only in the difficulty of replacing one. On the OkieRover[…]