Recent content by AWAC

Thanks. I changed out the tire with the most wheel weights (left front) with the spare, which is also a brand new Terrafirma steel rim and Cooper STT pro tire. No more shimmy. Smooth as British, mud terrain laden silk. I will take that tire back and have them try it again. They are a good...

I took it out for a test drive and I am getting a little bit of a shimmy between 40-45 mph. It is smooth above and below that area. I noticed a lot of wheel weights on one of the tires (front), so I am going to swap it out with the spare and see what happpens.

I got some work done today. 2” Lift, terrafirma shock towers, terrafirma steering dampener, Baja rack, terrafirma steel wheels, Cooper STT pro 265/75R16, Steel rear bumper.

I appreciate your thoughts. Since I last posted I have had it on a lift and gave it a thorough going over. Overall this is a clean machine. I do believe that I have a small head gasket leak (coolant very slowly lowering / slight white exhaust on start up only) so I will be diving into that...

That is so true! I have about a month before all my stuff will be here. I plan to use that time to freshen up all of the fluids and filters and give it a good going over. It is not my daily driver, so it will get pretty light use until I get it fully sorted. I do have an intermittent 3...

I ordered a crap load of stuff today. From Atlantic British, I ordered a baja roof rack, 5 terrafirma steel wheels, 2" terrafirma lift, shock towers, steering damper, rear bumper, cargo (dog) barrier. From RTE I ordered the rock sliders w/ round nerf bars and a front bumper. And I ordered a...

Hello all. I purchased my first Land Rover yesterday. After a lot of searching, I found a very nice clean example. It is an S model, so no sunroofs. I did enough research to be pretty confident in pulling the trigger on it. I did a fly and drive to Virginia from Illinois to get it...