Farewell

Dear land Rover,
It's been 25 wonderful years of owning 6 great vehicles from the 90s or earlier over 3 continents.
But I am done for now.
My last hope was the new Defender, but after seeing it in person, it's not for me.
No matter how many land Rover owners lounges you have, I don't care about luxury items or spoiled life. I just love nature and like to go to those few places with something interesting to see or do left.

I know there is a lot of money to be made in luxo-cars, but not for me.
I just want a simple functional 4x4 like my series 3, but modern.
No plans for electric?
The only way I would consider a new D90 would be a simple, utilitarian electric vehicle with decent range, based on what I heard on the LA auto show, there is no plans for that.
So that's it for me.
After the Range Rover incident, I wanted an electric 4x4 since we got the Bolt and the Leaf there is no turning back.
It looks like my only option going forward will be the Bollinger or something similar, in the near future.

So farewell Land Rover, we had a good run

The end?

So some drunk driver decided it was a great idea to wreck 2 of my cars last night.
No one was hurt, and cars can be replaced, but I fear this is the end of this RRC.
Some pics

A Condor watch trip

What better way to test the RRC than a little trip to watch condors.

It was a very nice sunny day and although we only got a partial look at the father and not the chick, the trip was worth it.

The truck worked great no issues to report, quieter and nicer that it's ever been.

A couple of pics

Transfer and exhaust and gaskets and ..... whatever, done for now!

It's been a few weeks, but it looks like all is back in order, test drive later today.

DONE (for now)

bring back the 4x4 diff lock light!

One of the many advantages of the soft dash RRC, is the similarity with the Disco, in this case, when doing the LT swap, you can use the light in the instrument binnacle to make it look stock.

I have gather some of the relevant circuits from RAVE and here are some pics of the process.

You would need to make a metallic clip of sorts to attach the cable on pin #6 since it is empty (way to go LR saving all of 0.1 dollars on that)

As we can see, from the +V goes to key switch, then fuse, then instruments all the way down to ground.

The connector on the Disco has the pin 6 enabled, the RRC has it empty

Here it is:

It connects into this PCB style connector:

It even has the bulb (black one between the blue and black):

So I made some sort of clip from a connector I had around and attached a cable to it (labeled for later identification, since I will forget what the hell this is :) :

And before calling it done, I did a quick test, ran the cable to ground point (ZF box), battery connected back, key ignition and "voila!"

Transfer removal done...

Well, it's been war, some casualties, but I finally got the BW out.
Ready to start putting it back together.

It's a boy!

Never hit am extension wrench with your head... Never!!

Well, hello gorgeous!

It feels so empty...

Transfer swap, chapter 2,

So, I have decided to check the exhaust as well and of course, it has big holes on the last part, I got that out of the way and removed driveshafts. Cables and links mostly out.
Next chapter, BW removal and some pictures for now:

Transfer swap, chapter I, top access

The VC I replaced a couple of years ago, it's bad, and I am done with the Borg Warner transfer, so I have decided to start the swap.
I don't have much time these days, so this will take me some time, for now, I was able to provide access to the top of the transmission/transfer.
More soon.