A Blog About Land Rovers in Oklahoma
I don’t understand why people do this. When an ice storm hits the Plains everything gets coated with ice. Pulling your wipers out like that just encourages the ice to make your wipers into Popsicles. At least when wiper is on the window the blade edge has no ice on it.
Truly a mystery.
Here’s some ice art from the past weekend’s ice storm.
Aye, it was cold.
Stay warm. In just 4 days we’ll be in the 60’s again just in time for tornado season.
Thanks for reading and Happy Rovering.
Doesn’t the Big White Bus look good all washed up parked in the drive. Well she looks better with a little mud on the tires and traipsing up and down the hills of Barnwell Offroad Park in East Texas. Yes, it’s close to that time of year again. Its time to prepare the Range Rover for the South Central Area Rover Rendezvous aka SCARR.
Once again there is lots to do. A short list…
Its a short list but an expensive one. Getting the transmission done will be somewhere in the 2000$(US). I’ve known this was a problem for a while now. I’ve turned 220,000 miles and I think it’s time for a rebuild on the transmission. I have a plan for this. Continue reading “Time to Prepare for S.C.A.R.R. 2015 (Post #524) 2/16/2015”
Video Blog.
As I mentioned in the Okierover Video Blog #3, I recently got a Service Engine light.
I don’t see Check Engine or Service Engine lights very often. I forgot that this was not the CHECK ENGINE light. So I rambled on a bit on the video. Here’s how to reset the SERVICE ENGINE light on a Range Rover Classic.
Find the SERVICE Module under the passenger seat. Just remove frustration, move the seat all the way forward and lift it up too.
Turn the ignition on. With a paper clip or other metal bar pierce the paper sticker on the top (it has probably already been pierced) and insert the rod. You will feel the pins and if you look at the instrument cluster the SERVICE ENGINE light will go off when you have satisfied the reset.
Now if I could only find something to short out to fix the ABS / Traction Control problem…oh well.
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I went to a training class today. There weren’t very many people in the class. It’s lonely in the parking lot.
The last time I was in the part of North Oklahoma City it was all pasture and cultivated fields. Northwest 150th and May Ave. All the buildings look just a few years old. Growth is good I guess.
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I haven’t been around this many drums since high school.
Fried chicken, too many fries, and waffles? Yes please.
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Our countries have had a long history. It didn’t start out so wonderful. But I can assure you since 1914 we’ve been the best of friends. Everyone knows the United States and Great are two countries separated by a common language. With all that said, we all love and drive our Land Rovers with pride. Its not about country any more.
We didn’t get along so well until the last of the 19th century. Our two countries began to align their global interests during the Great Rapprochement. In my opinion the last big dust up with Great Britain had to be the second war of independence also known as the War of 1812.
This year is the 200th anniversary (September 14th) of the poem that Frances Scott Key penned that became our National Anthem. Today is the day we celebrate our Independence from a tyrannical rule that undermined the liberty of men.
Many Americans don’t know there are two additional verses of the poem. This is the last…
“Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust.”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!”
Brave and free.
Happy Independence Day Everyone.
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