Life With A Rover

Cleaned up the threads! Ready to refill the radiator fluid. Thank goodness for Amazon!

It’s been about a year since the last post. Time just gets in the way! Now that I have good light I can continue after dark. This week was radiator fluid change. Met with a problem, the riser on the heater hose is corroded. I tried to clean it up to no avail. Going to decide what to do tomorrow

So I decided to get myself a press. What a life changer! I should have gotten one sooner.

My dislike continues. The finally bearing on the entire driveshaft and this happens. See the small broken needle bearing at the bottom.

I hate doing universal joints.

Well that took forever. That was just 8 bolts. This may take longer than expected.

Finally getting at least something started. Old bolts are nobody's friend.

Big beautiful bright yellow sway bars delivered today.

I may have exhausted my parts fund for the rest of the year but I have a lot of work ahead of me. Paddock spares saved me a ton of money!

First oil change in about 8 years. Luckily it still had oil in it. The old saying is "if a rover isn't leaking it's empty."Later is axels, power steering , swivels, trans and transfer box.

Getting prepared for some work next weekend. Lots of rusty things but not as bad as I thought. I ordered a new poly bushing kit and galvanized shock towers from Paddock Spares. The low price of the Pound is helping me quite nicely. As you can see, my two helpers aren't very helpful today. They cant wait until I finish. You can see my nice shiny new stainless steel fuel line. It's about the only shiny thing on it.

Since 1994 me and my little #defender90 have been together. As a younger man we went on plenty of adventures. Once marriage and kids came along it had to take a back seat to life. Now comes the hard part of getting it back into share and being road worthy. #bearvalleylandrover in Alpharetta got it starting and stopping, now the detail work has to be done. As always in life, time and money are the greatest roadblocks. Step one was to get it ready for servicing. The new @quickjackusa portable lifts are key to getting easy access. It looks like I will have a little help along the way.

I've had this account for a long time and just never used it. I guess I should have at least one post up here.