Stalker62
Well-Known Member
I do.
Having only recently had my 110 returned from a major bit of TLC - which cost me an...
I (naively) thought I would be 'good to go' for a wee while. Not so.
Couple of weeks ago, a major incident on the way to a shopping trip I did not want to go on - Mole Valley Farmers since you ask.
A loss of forward motion in the old truck, and we roll gently backwards into a grass verge. Lucky it was in the middle of nowhere and traffic was very light.
I cannot engage any gear, and shortly thereafter I cannot find my good humour which I seem to have temporarily mislaid.
For reasons I did not understand (at the time), I was, with diff-lock engaged, able to engage gears and obtain traction and then forward motion.
We limped home. Although the diff-lock was engaged, it did not drive as though it was - I didn't care, I just wanted to get the thing home.
The old girl made it home (who was it said that a Landrover is the only car that will still drive 'broken'?) and she was parked up on the driveway for a couple of weeks, whilst we waited for a slot with the 'man with a spanner'.
Monday sees me start the old girl up, and head off towards the garage. It is ten miles and somehow she makes it. Actually found myself encouraging her and tapping her (new) steering wheel in appreciation when she arrived successfully.
Later in the day I get the phone call. I was already teeing myself for a Diff-lock replacement and was wondering how we were going to fund that.
Turns out it is 'good news' (always relative). One of the rear half-shafts has stripped and the other is on its way. The truck is twenty years old and so this comes as no surprise to anyone other than myself. Whilst she is up on the ramp, I get them to check the front half-shafts and they are good.
Apparently it is the rear half-shafts that do most of the 'heavy lifting' in a 110. Who knew?
So there we have it. She is currently (metaphorically) 'up on bricks', whilst they await the arrival of two shiny new half-shafts...
Considering how this could have gone, I will take this as a win.
Due up in Scotland this June, and the thought of this having happened halfway up the M6 does not bear thinking about.
Landrovers.
Love 'em or hate 'em -
Just cannot be without mine.
Safe motoring everyone...
Having only recently had my 110 returned from a major bit of TLC - which cost me an...
I (naively) thought I would be 'good to go' for a wee while. Not so.
Couple of weeks ago, a major incident on the way to a shopping trip I did not want to go on - Mole Valley Farmers since you ask.
A loss of forward motion in the old truck, and we roll gently backwards into a grass verge. Lucky it was in the middle of nowhere and traffic was very light.
I cannot engage any gear, and shortly thereafter I cannot find my good humour which I seem to have temporarily mislaid.
For reasons I did not understand (at the time), I was, with diff-lock engaged, able to engage gears and obtain traction and then forward motion.
We limped home. Although the diff-lock was engaged, it did not drive as though it was - I didn't care, I just wanted to get the thing home.
The old girl made it home (who was it said that a Landrover is the only car that will still drive 'broken'?) and she was parked up on the driveway for a couple of weeks, whilst we waited for a slot with the 'man with a spanner'.
Monday sees me start the old girl up, and head off towards the garage. It is ten miles and somehow she makes it. Actually found myself encouraging her and tapping her (new) steering wheel in appreciation when she arrived successfully.
Later in the day I get the phone call. I was already teeing myself for a Diff-lock replacement and was wondering how we were going to fund that.
Turns out it is 'good news' (always relative). One of the rear half-shafts has stripped and the other is on its way. The truck is twenty years old and so this comes as no surprise to anyone other than myself. Whilst she is up on the ramp, I get them to check the front half-shafts and they are good.
Apparently it is the rear half-shafts that do most of the 'heavy lifting' in a 110. Who knew?
So there we have it. She is currently (metaphorically) 'up on bricks', whilst they await the arrival of two shiny new half-shafts...
Considering how this could have gone, I will take this as a win.
Due up in Scotland this June, and the thought of this having happened halfway up the M6 does not bear thinking about.
Landrovers.
Love 'em or hate 'em -
Just cannot be without mine.
Safe motoring everyone...
