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That sucks man, my good friend builds custom rover shafts for only $295 thats seems like a $105 savings on that and then $189 savings on a muffler. You are lucky that is all that was damaged.
custom drive shafts you say?
today I drove around in limp mode while religiously checking the (nonexistent) tracking on the xyz alignment tool I ordered.
So there I was driving in traffic, went to change gear in my TD5, clutch pedal to the floor, so stopped the car into 1st, let the traffic pull away, start the engine in first, pull into neutral , then reve up into second them third, a slow drive the 15 miles home, so master cylinder out slave cylinder out, and both stripped, looks like the spring Broke in the master cylinder and deformed the cup seal but kits don’t come with springs so need a new one , so to be safe ordered master and slave , well 22 years old now and 152000 on the clock, so I can’t complain, and I still got home, new parts already orderd and hope fully on thier way
just did a 1,700+ mile trip in my lifted '04. pushed the odometer over 200,000 in one of my many jaunts from our hotel in Charleston to Folly Beach. now only one of the four Rovers is under the 200,000 mark. and it has the roughest exterior of them all.
truck ran flawlessly the entire time. a well-sorted Discovery with Cruise Control for the long empty spaces and a 4.6 for passing is a joy to drive on the freeway. not as nice as the P38. but, still fun.
on the way back home to the Midwest we did a little detour through the Smoky Mountains. beautiful place in the spring and because it was midweek there was little other traffic.
did use 2nd gear quite a bit driving up and down the mountain switchbacks.
while Smoky Mountain National Park is beautiful and at times in the misty fog, a bit otherworldly, i'm pretty sure that Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge are proof of the theological concept of Hell.
perhaps a bit on the nose, but there seems to be a metaphor somewhere in our descent from the heavenly heights of the Smokies to the depths of corporate kitsch and crass caricature of Appalachian Mountain culture of those two towns that pander to the nostalgia for a past that never was.
averaged 14+ mpg over the course of the entire trip driving 80-85 mph with the A/C on. i know this doesn't sound great but with a 2" lift, 31" tires, a steel front bumper, two adults, two kids and all our luggage, i'm pretty happy. i guess i'll treat the Rover to an oil, oil filter and air filter change this coming weekend.
05-31-2022, 11:58 AM
