Category Archives: Video (misc)

Truth in Advertising

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Written by David Chiavegato and its director, Tim Hamilton, Truth In Advertising is a genuinely funny comedy that was nominated for a Palm d’Or in 2001. Colin Mochrie, best known as a regular on Whose Line Is It Anyway? in the US and UK, is the boss in an advertising agency where everybody tells the embarrassing truth about…advertising.

No four-wheel drive

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Tomorrow will be two weeks with The Truck and I finally got around to playing with four-wheel drive. According to the owners manual (and lots of YouTube videos) you just push the lever with the yellow knob down and your in 4WD. I never could get 4WD engaged so I asked my pal George Tergin to take look. After several hours of investigation he thinks the problem is worn linkage.

We found this illustration on the Rovers North website and George thinks he’s ID’d the OEM part numbers. Trying to find and order these. I don’t expect to do any serious off-roading but I’d hate to have the only Land Rover in North America that doesn’t have four-wheel drive. Hoping to have this resolved before first snow.

215808 clevis complete 4WD lever – #27 on schematic
268847 gearbox high range operating lever – the part below #24 and #25 on the schematic
232464 selector transfer, locating pin 4WD lever – #24 on schematic

Short video clip of George ‘splaining the worn linkage.

Land Rover walk around

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Mr. Wolf thought I’d like to hear the sweet sound of the 2.25 liter diesel engine that will drag my saggy ass around town. He’s been working long and hard on getting the engine right. If you look closely you’ll see some smoke. Not as much smoke as the mosquito fogger that patrolled our streets during the summer nights of my youth… but a little smoke. What the fuck, I’ll buy some carbon credits. I’m hoping there will be less smoke once the engine gets some miles on it. That will happen as soon as he gets the brakes sorted out.

When I opened the brakes up I found some things I didn’t like, so I’ve ordered all new OEM wheel cylinders, new adjusters, and new shoes. Even high quality parts are so cheap for this thing I figured we should just start fresh with nice parts.

If you don’t know shit about old trucks, and I don’t, you need someone like Mr. Wolf. You’d like to think the folks doing the restoration would get everything right… but they don’t.