As some of you have already seen on my other build thread I decided to buy a 4x4 for the winter while I take the golf off the road to do some engine work etc.
I spent about a month searching with the necessities being: it was lifted, big wheels, has a tow bar and was under £1500. I eventually decided I wanted a land river discovery as they were about the right price and nice and big so can handle towing the bike trailor.
After a long search I found the perfect candidate!
No tax and only a couple of weeks Mot but had only I done 100miles since the last mot and the seller was very positive there was not rust in the usual places and was very solid so we went to go and view it!
My dad in the drivers seat! Haha
It's an absoloute beast! Body lift, suspension lift, extended shocks, sump gaurd, diff Gaurds, dislocation cones on the back, safari snorkel, britpart winch, roof bar with spot lights, lower ratio defender transfer box, tow bar and big tyres!!
The seller was very honest as there was literally no rust in any off the known common weak points!
Sadly I was abit put off at first as it's only a 2.0l petrol but I decided I would have it get it on the road drive it over the winter and if I fall in love with it drop a v8 in there!
A few pics when I got it home!
There was a few little problems that needed sorted which have all been sorted over the last week
Which included:
Bonnet not closing - seized linkage - greased and adjusted
Passenger door not opening - broken spring within door latch
Slightly rusty scratch on roof - rust cure and painted
Rust on winch bumper - cleaned and painted
New wipers
Spotlight covers rusty - cleaned and painted
Numberplate light out - wired in new holder as old one was nackered!
I've also given it a good service and check over including oil, filter and plugs
I have had to do one but of welding as I found 2 small 10p sized holes in the passenger footwell and after a little poke they looked like this
So I made up a plate
And started welding it up
After welding I used tiger seal to make sure it was all sealed above and below then gave it a lick if paint!
I also found that the front springs Wernt seated properly and u put it down to the extended shocks allowing the spring to go loose on full articulation so I purchased some terrafirm spring retainers and dislocation cones, stripped the suspension down and also decided to clean and paint the springs while I was there!
Just a few pics of the little job.
You can now see that on full articulation the spring is loose but gets caught on the cone so then relocates when lowered
I've also ordered a couple of tow straps with shackles and chucked some chequer plate and a hi-lift jack in the boot so we're nearly ready to go out and play!
Mot is next week....just in time for the forecasted snow
