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    Death Valley with LRCSD - 2023

    Between me trying to avoid old places and winter floods destroying half the roads in Death Valley, this trip may have been tamer than previous ones. Still, I visited a lot of places where I haven't been before. Enjoy - https://3rj.org/DeathValley2023/
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    Range Rover Classic head units

    Posting the circuit diagrams of two types of head units - Clarion and Pioneer (latter used in soft-dash Classics, and a version of it - in Disco 1), as well as a couple of other connection diagrams.
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    Where to stop? (Timing cover job)

    Here's my little quandary: most likely, I have to pull the timing cover off the Classic #4 to re-seal it. The bitch leaks like there's no tomorrow. But there are multiple "mightaswells" - Should I replace timing chain and sprockets? Should I replace oil pump (it is in the cover, Disco-style)...
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    Happy New Year!

    What it says, boys and girls. Hope you have a happy and prosperous 2023, and enjoy the unreliable, capricious, and hard to keep on the road, collection of parts and pieces of the finest British craftsmanship! Missing some snow action - here's some from exactly 8 years ago; if the video is...
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    Another 4HP22 question

    Every time you thing you've seen it all, life surprises you. Just drove my friend's 95 LWB. It has a few quirks, and this is one of them: - while coasting in Drive, at speeds about 30 mph, no throttle input, it would downshift (engine speed would go from 1200 to 2000 rpm @ 30 mph), then upshift...
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    What If?

    Back in April of 2013, a few miles from Hanksville but already on dirt, I heard a slight tapping from my D1's engine. Everyone I asked about it laughed me off, saying there just wasn't anything that is called "tapping" in Land Rover world. Five hours later, in Fishlake Nat'l Forest, the tapping...
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    Shitheap redemption

    https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a26765589/message-of-redemption/
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    PSAON never dies.

    Some things deserve recognition. This gem lives in Borrego Springs, California.
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    Death Valley - from Ashford Mills to Darwin

    https://3rj.org/DeathValley2018 I may post a few photos or entire thing here, if you wish.
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    Merry Christmas y'all!

    What it says. Hope the last year was good for you, and the next one's going to be better!
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    Is there such a thing as a non-leaking steering box?

    It is a rhetorical question - I know the boxes are nice and dry in my jeep (a "76-series" Saginaw box) and one of the 95 RRCs. The others (LR4 excluded) leak. Not a whole lot, but enough to spot the brand new garage apron. I know that Meridian rebuilds are a dead end - even when they don't...
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    Aftermarket Keyless Entry

    Here's a write-up. I'll update it if/when I squeeze more functionality out of two extra buttons on the remotes.
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    Rattlesnake Ridge

    Are any of you dudes close by? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/21/us/washington-rattlesnake-ridge-landslide.html
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    Merry Christmas!

    Merry Christmas, you lot of miserable grease monkeys!
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    TDV6?

    I read about this extensively on Russian LR forums - I guess despite JLR's assurances that this went away with 2.7 TDV6, it didn't: NHTSA ID: 10106102 TSB ID: SSM 72578 Issue: crankshaft/crankshaft bearing failure ? 3.0 tdv6 diesel engine. engine makes a loud ?rumbling/knocking? sound when...
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    Happy Birthday!

    you know who you all are :)
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    GM Power Steering Pump conversion

    Fresh off the grill - http://3rj.org/Auto/LandRover/PowerSteeringConversion/
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    How on earth do you...

    ... remove the ABS brain box on a D1? Does the bottom lip of the dashboard (where the glovebox attaches) come off? Edit: Never mind, page 70-22 of workshop manual. I know what it says, but I still can't see how it will come out. Edit: It does, like a charm. The ABS light is off, I guess until...
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    Fuel pump or harness?

    2010 LR4 - died today in the middle of nowhere. Spit out codes P0232 and P025C - both related to fuel pump, and both kind of hint of a short in the fuel pump circuit. The fuel pump 25A fuse is blown; replaced, blown again within a second of ignition-ON. The engine almost starts and dies...
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    Napa Auto Parts hacked by China?

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