Tilly the Landrover

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One fresh MOT

Still amused they put an Oil leak on the advisory note. It has 'Land Rover' written as the make, an oil leak is a given surely

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MotorsportTom said:

I grew up thinking an oil patch under a car was supposed to be there.

You mean they aren't? 2 out of 3 of mine leave deposits, was starting to worry about the Focus

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Egg Chaser said:

It's looking great But I've got to say, the red door tops really don't look right to me.

Finally got around to sorting this out


'tis only Hammerite but close enough for the purpose

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and (pre painted doortops) the old bus with my other old girl

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They do from a distance, need a second coat of hammerite

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Time for an update on the old girl.

Many hundreds of miles under her belt and many, many uses including...

Camping


Rescuing these unreliable Japanese off roaders



Towing


General van duties



and even a picnic bench


There can't be many vehicles this adaptable

(Nice pic just cos I like it )

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I was toying with the idea of a normal back door however I have grown quite attached to the cat flap.

With the camp bed in it is the perfect height to lean the bed on and still open the back + with a trailer on the back it makes it possible to still get into the back.

On the downside opening the bottom with the stays on means you have a harder job lifting in heavy objects and without the stays if I leave the towbar on it dents the tailgate badly

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Paul I occasionally take mine for a stroll off piste and the biggest problem it has off road (turning circle aside) is the nut behind the wheel . Everything I have thrown at the old girl has been shrugged off with disdain (the pic where I have towed the Pajero out above - couldn't shift the Mitsu however the Landie didn't even spin enough to get mud on her tyres )

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JimexPL said:

I've got a cat flap on the hard top for my IIa hybrid.
The best thing that I did to it was making the lower tailgate side hinged and putting 2 gas struts on the cat flap.
I also bent the drip rail at the bottom of the cat flap so that there is just enough clearance to open the tailgate separately to the flap.

Now that sounds tempting to do, lose the problem of it hitting the towball without the downside of losing the cat flap, I shall look into this methinks .

West4x4 - registered

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Ahh never mind the neighbours (saying that mine has a dozen cars in pieces in his yard)

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PaulG40 said:

Sorry to Hijack (I'll edit and remove them if not appropiate, but in the spirit of getting down and dirty, a few gratuitous mud slinging pics!!

No problem at all Paul . In the spirit of your post two videos of Landies getting muddy...

Disco getting dirty
Love the voices (can see Tilly in the background )

90 in the mud

and one of my old beast downhilling...
Tilly

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Yep as you can see from the Tilly video I really needed to trust the engine braking rather than the brakes! Amazed me coming down the Long Mynd in 1st high that I had to accelerate down the 1:5 gradient!

Spent the day helping the Hereford 4x4 Response guys doing some training, a 110, my 109 and a Disco 2 in convoy. We got to one little climb that was knobbly enough the Disco wasn't going to risk it, I was a bit sceptical about it but followed the 110 up in 2nd low and I was at the top before I knew what was happing, she treated it with complete disdain

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Sooo we were working on a bonfire and pressed the old girl into action



and afterwards we decided to have a play with the paintball gun, treated the old girl to a new paintjob