"What NOT to Do"
"What NOT to Do"
This is a thread to help fellow Rover-ists on what NOT to do to their Rovers. Anything from adding parts to what NOT to do on a DIY job. Or everybody's favorite, screwing up your differential in a ditch because you don't know how to use it *COUGH*. Feel free to add to this as much as you like, I'll edit often to keep it all within the first post. Let's try to make it story form? 
CDL Burst Calebbo
One day Claire, 1995 Disco 1, gets bought. She is given as a gift for a lucky 16 year old. This 16 year old fills her up for $70 and is on his way. Where this teen lives he had a freak snow storm a few days earlier and the ground was still icy. He pulls a U-Turn, hits black ice, and slides sideways into a ditch. He does not slam on the brake but tries to guide it back towards the street. Well, this poor 16 year old is stuck, and now he is trying to get out. He can reverse but then gets stuck on the up hill. Next, he tries to accelerate but only gets so far before the wheels spin. So he continues for the next 10 minutes with no avail. He remembers the CDL shifter and tries to engage it in low without any prior knowledge and finally gets it out of Hi into what he thought was low. He revs, no movement. He tries to shift while revving, annoying beeping sound commences. He thinks the car is going to explode so he revs, shifts, hears this loud *CRRRRRNNNKKK* and his wheels spin, but to no avail. 15 minutes later an F350 dually stops by to help the "stranded car". End of the story: he pulls this teen out, laughs because it's a rover, and away the boy goes after the beep reminds him to shift back into HIGH.
MORAL: Know your rig inside and out before anything, you never know when all those special features might actually come in handy..
Oops.. Turf63
When I first blight my land rover I knew so little about it I thought it had part time four wheel drive and that's what the Cdl shifter was for. I pulled out of the lot after buying it and thought "man I have to drive all the back from new York, better turn off the four wheel so I can save gas". Tried to ENGAGE the Cdl to "turn off" the four wheel, just like this 16 year old boy, loud beeping commences, a lot of moving the Cdl shifter in every which direction and finally I disengage it. Stuck in the middle of an intersection no drive to any wheels and no idea how to fix it. I had to push it out of the intersection and read the manual to figure out how to get the truck to drive again.
MORAL: Know thine own rig young grasshoppers
Oil Catastrophe (NOT BP) Calebbo
One day this 16 year old is changing his oil on his Rover. She is a needy beast so he runs and gets the Rotella T diesel oil because it has so many extra "oohs and aahhs", just kidding. Continuing on, this boy lifts up his rover in his garage and places jack stands under for safety. He finds the oil drain bolt and just breaks the tension. He grabs the oil pan, places it UNDER the oil drain bolt, loosens the bolt, and voila! The oil shoots past the oil pan and onto the floor.
MORAL: Place the oil pan more to the left of the oil drain bolt, Rovers are not Japanese and won't come straight down.
Windows? Who Needs Windows? Roverrocks
Here's my bad from just last week in Moab. My dumb testosterone moments. Took a bad line on an optional ledge, swung the rear end out hard right into a juniper, and poked two big holes through my rear window. Duct taped it up and 3 days later broke the whole rear window loose on another optional big ledge I couldn't ever get up. Now I have a plastic sheeting rear window until I receive another window.
MORAL: Dumb moments know no age limits as I ain't young no more.
U-Turns are for the Pros Antichrist
Don't make a u-turn in an unknown driveway with a 'V' shaped entrance when the ground is snow covered. There may be a deep gully in the 'V'. LOL
I did this years ago in my Lightweight. It was so steep I was staring out the windscreen at the ground. Luckily putting it in 4WD I was able to reverse out, which really surprised me given the conditions.
MORAL: LOOK before driving!
OMG..I Sunk My Rig Spencerfitch
If the waters so deep you can't ford it on foot, what makes you think your truck will? Can either cross it by foot or swim out of the drivers window and deep sea dive to get the tow strap on the hitch d ring.
Moral: If you can't go through it, you can't go around, please oh pleeeeaseee don't stick your Rover IN it.
UP UP AND...NOWHERE! Colodisco
I have only had one oops moment so far with my rover. I went 4 wheeling with my new 4x4 club on bill moore lake and got stuck on the first steep hill. Little did I know shifting the cdl shifter up to low did not actually "lock" the cdl. I was towed up that hill and still did the rest of the day in just 4 low not locked. Again.. know how your rig works.
MORAL: CDL has 4 positions that you need to know Hi,Low, Hi-locked, Low-locked
CDL Burst Calebbo
One day Claire, 1995 Disco 1, gets bought. She is given as a gift for a lucky 16 year old. This 16 year old fills her up for $70 and is on his way. Where this teen lives he had a freak snow storm a few days earlier and the ground was still icy. He pulls a U-Turn, hits black ice, and slides sideways into a ditch. He does not slam on the brake but tries to guide it back towards the street. Well, this poor 16 year old is stuck, and now he is trying to get out. He can reverse but then gets stuck on the up hill. Next, he tries to accelerate but only gets so far before the wheels spin. So he continues for the next 10 minutes with no avail. He remembers the CDL shifter and tries to engage it in low without any prior knowledge and finally gets it out of Hi into what he thought was low. He revs, no movement. He tries to shift while revving, annoying beeping sound commences. He thinks the car is going to explode so he revs, shifts, hears this loud *CRRRRRNNNKKK* and his wheels spin, but to no avail. 15 minutes later an F350 dually stops by to help the "stranded car". End of the story: he pulls this teen out, laughs because it's a rover, and away the boy goes after the beep reminds him to shift back into HIGH.
MORAL: Know your rig inside and out before anything, you never know when all those special features might actually come in handy..
Oops.. Turf63
When I first blight my land rover I knew so little about it I thought it had part time four wheel drive and that's what the Cdl shifter was for. I pulled out of the lot after buying it and thought "man I have to drive all the back from new York, better turn off the four wheel so I can save gas". Tried to ENGAGE the Cdl to "turn off" the four wheel, just like this 16 year old boy, loud beeping commences, a lot of moving the Cdl shifter in every which direction and finally I disengage it. Stuck in the middle of an intersection no drive to any wheels and no idea how to fix it. I had to push it out of the intersection and read the manual to figure out how to get the truck to drive again.
MORAL: Know thine own rig young grasshoppers
Oil Catastrophe (NOT BP) Calebbo
One day this 16 year old is changing his oil on his Rover. She is a needy beast so he runs and gets the Rotella T diesel oil because it has so many extra "oohs and aahhs", just kidding. Continuing on, this boy lifts up his rover in his garage and places jack stands under for safety. He finds the oil drain bolt and just breaks the tension. He grabs the oil pan, places it UNDER the oil drain bolt, loosens the bolt, and voila! The oil shoots past the oil pan and onto the floor.
MORAL: Place the oil pan more to the left of the oil drain bolt, Rovers are not Japanese and won't come straight down.
Windows? Who Needs Windows? Roverrocks
Here's my bad from just last week in Moab. My dumb testosterone moments. Took a bad line on an optional ledge, swung the rear end out hard right into a juniper, and poked two big holes through my rear window. Duct taped it up and 3 days later broke the whole rear window loose on another optional big ledge I couldn't ever get up. Now I have a plastic sheeting rear window until I receive another window.
MORAL: Dumb moments know no age limits as I ain't young no more.
U-Turns are for the Pros Antichrist
Don't make a u-turn in an unknown driveway with a 'V' shaped entrance when the ground is snow covered. There may be a deep gully in the 'V'. LOL
I did this years ago in my Lightweight. It was so steep I was staring out the windscreen at the ground. Luckily putting it in 4WD I was able to reverse out, which really surprised me given the conditions.
MORAL: LOOK before driving!
OMG..I Sunk My Rig Spencerfitch
If the waters so deep you can't ford it on foot, what makes you think your truck will? Can either cross it by foot or swim out of the drivers window and deep sea dive to get the tow strap on the hitch d ring.
Moral: If you can't go through it, you can't go around, please oh pleeeeaseee don't stick your Rover IN it.
UP UP AND...NOWHERE! Colodisco
I have only had one oops moment so far with my rover. I went 4 wheeling with my new 4x4 club on bill moore lake and got stuck on the first steep hill. Little did I know shifting the cdl shifter up to low did not actually "lock" the cdl. I was towed up that hill and still did the rest of the day in just 4 low not locked. Again.. know how your rig works.
MORAL: CDL has 4 positions that you need to know Hi,Low, Hi-locked, Low-locked
Last edited by calebbo; Apr 27, 2011 at 01:41 PM.
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Hahaha. Oh man. Hopefully everyone can throw an oops on here. Worst case scenario we all have a good laugh. When I first blight my land rover I knew so little about it I thought it had part time four whe drive and that's what the Cdl shifter was for. I pulled out of the lot after buying it and thought "man I have to drive all the back from new York, better turn off the four wheel so I can save gas". Tried to ENGAGE the Cdl to "turn off" the four wheel, just like Caleb, loud beeping commences, a lot of moving the Cdl shifter in every which direction and finally I disengage it. Stuck in the middle of an intersection no drive to any wheels and no idea how to fix it. I had to push it out of the intersection and read the manual to figure out how to get the truck to drive again.
**know your rig** haha
**know your rig** haha
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This is not a good thing to do, writing a thread for a 3rd. member, much less a 16 year old much less with all that wasted information you put in there.
Can you do a very short, small paragraph, being very specific with exact issues, if not you probably won't get far.
Can you do a very short, small paragraph, being very specific with exact issues, if not you probably won't get far.
Rock Crawling
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This is not a good thing to do, writing a thread for a 3rd. member, much less a 16 year old much less with all that wasted information you put in there.
Can you do a very short, small paragraph, being very specific with exact issues, if not you probably won't get far.
Can you do a very short, small paragraph, being very specific with exact issues, if not you probably won't get far.
I could be mistaken...
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Rock Crawling
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This is not a good thing to do, writing a thread for a 3rd. member, much less a 16 year old much less with all that wasted information you put in there.
Can you do a very short, small paragraph, being very specific with exact issues, if not you probably won't get far.
Can you do a very short, small paragraph, being very specific with exact issues, if not you probably won't get far.
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Chill out Disco Mike. Relax, have another cup of Joe. It's not a big deal. Here's my bad from just last week in Moab. My dumb testosterone moments. Took a bad line on an optional ledge, swung the rear end out hard right into a juniper, and poked two big holes through my rear window. Duct taped it up and 3 days later broke the whole rear window loose on another optional big ledge I couldn't ever get up. Now I have a plastic sheeting rear window until I receive another window. Dumb moments know no age limits as I ain't young no more.
Rock Crawling
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From: Gaithersburg MD
Upon re-reading Mikes post - me thinks he was being humorous...
He knows who C.Bo is...
Mike - My bad!
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Don't make a u-turn in an unknown driveway with a 'V' shaped entrance when the ground is snow covered. There may be a deep gully in the 'V'. LOL
I did this years ago in my Lightweight. It was so steep I was staring out the windscreen at the ground. Luckily putting it in 4WD I was able to reverse out, which really surprised me given the conditions.
I did this years ago in my Lightweight. It was so steep I was staring out the windscreen at the ground. Luckily putting it in 4WD I was able to reverse out, which really surprised me given the conditions.