I love my Disco because...

[cmondieyoung]

...before my trip to Canyonlands, I had a CE on, a bent radius arm, tie rod bushings that were flopped over, what appeared to be warped front rotors, a fuel pump that liked to turn off whenever it proved most inconvenient to me, and a nasty squeal from the rear shocks.

3 days and nights of hard wheeling, and I'm back in Boulder.

One car wash later:

- My CE is gone.
- ABS is working again. Stuttering from "warped" rotors gone.
- No more vibration-on-acceleration from radius arm (I swear, the bend I saw last week is gone)
- Bushings don't look as bad as they did a week prior.
- Crack in motor mount has also disappeared
- Fuel pump doesn't whine like a bitch
- Rear shocks don't squeal


Only in a Rover.

 

[marc olivares]

WTF did you do to bend your radius arms?
that some seriously stout forged shit...

 

[cmondieyoung]

You're telling me.

After I posed the question on here last week, someone mentioned it... I remember looking, and seeing what looked like an incongruity down where it holds the bushing in place.

I have some rock-rash on the same arm from this weekend, so either it wasn't bent to begin with, or I somehow bent it and re-bent it back into true.

Either way, I'm satisfied.

 

[Ho]

yep, thats' how it goes. "beat it up" and it behaves well.
now, please note the term "beat it up".... should really be... "ENJOY THE DISCO"

 

[curtis]

Kinda reminds me of a little suare' we had in Moab in March. Arney, Wolfe, & a few others limped thier Rovers into town with hefty use of bailing wire. All ran the required trails, had a good time, and made it home with thier Rovers in better shape than when they left.

I did get a little light on how difficult it is to maintain and wheel with 110's though. Man, those are some pasted-together, gigantic, frankenrigs. Vehicles truly created by whatever was lying around the shop at the time...

 

[cmondieyoung]

I'm utterly convinced that Rover owners are the only wheelers blessed with these miracles..

All the Jeep/Bronco/etc war-stories are how beat up their trucks got, and how they fixed them at the end of the day.

Ho's right, next time something comes up... to the mudholes!

 

[Ho]

stay away from the mudhole thing. look at what happened to the freelander in MAR.

 

[cmondieyoung]

P'shaw. That's not even real mud. Nothin' like good ol' SW Colorado clay-cement, anyway.

Buncha Yankees out there---dunno what to do behind the wheel.

 

[dave_lucas]

We have mud in colorado?

Learn something new everyday

 

[DeanBrown3D]

cmon,

Could you drive my truck for a week?

I have to agree though, things seem to fix themselves on mine also, I think its just the wet drying out over time. Maybe

 

[rovercanus]

Two words for you dieyoung, RED CLAY. The appalachians are made out of it. Once it touches you, you're stained for life!

 

[bri]

We have mud in colorado?

Learn something new everyday

Hey, this year there was a lot of mud out there. Especially right now. I ran wheeler 2 weekends ago and there was plenty of mud.

 

[agro1]

...One car wash later:

- My CE is gone.
- ABS is working again. Stuttering from "warped" rotors gone.
- No more vibration-on-acceleration from radius arm (I swear, the bend I saw last week is gone)
- Bushings don't look as bad as they did a week prior.
- Crack in motor mount has also disappeared
- Fuel pump doesn't whine like a bitch
- Rear shocks don't squeal


Only in a Rover.

Don't kid yourself. Problems don't go away by themselves...They just manifest themselves in different places. Next thing you know, you'll have:
CEL indicating a misfire in cyl # 4 with a slipped sleeve
ABS pump will start leaking
shocks will start leaking
motor mount will disappear
fuel tank will develop a leak
rear brakes will start to squeel
And to top it all off you'll get a horrendous vibe from 30mph to 70mph.

 

[bri]

I love my Disco because... its paid for.

 

[Peter-man99]

because its not a conservative sensible family car

 

[fergy]

I'd like to think mine is more of a love/hate relationship. Love it when it behaves and gets me from point A to point B during the week. Hate it when I spend most of my weekend ensuring that it'll make it thru the next week. My 97 has its own quirky personality all to its own.

fergy

 

[LostInBoston]

because its not a conservative sensible family car

and no one else ever wants to borow it.

whenever i get back from school my truck has some random problem, wopers dont work, wierd squeal, etc. 1 trip to the pineys and its ack to normal.

 

[Blue]

my Disco hasn't broken down since February. I love it.

 

[MTNHDWR]

..........because it runs like brand new every time I replace the valves

 

[RoverChic]

I love my Land Rover because now the rear main seal has developed a serious leak. A leak that will take up all of my weekend. **sigh** Oh well wheeling with the TexasRover's next weekend will make up for all the shortcomings!