Rover Parade over the weekend - Spent 4 days camping along "Skyline Drive" in Utah. It's part of the "Great Western Trail"

The Disco in the back is the $500 wonder I helped my Bro-In-Law fix up and get back on the road. He loves it and it's a daily driver.
















Looking at a National Geodetic Survey marker

 

Attempted, unsuccessfully, to install Rovers North diff guards, front and rear. The front guard bolted up nicely but the panhard bar was fully making contact with the guard. Apparently this is a known issue with '04 Discoveries. The rear guard I got loosely bolted up but the geometry and clearance wouldn't allow for tightening all the bolts. I sandwiched the bracket for the weights (harmonic balancer?) between the diff and diff guard, that might be what threw the geometry to the extent that it wouldn't fit.

 

Nice! I grew up driving skyline. Very pretty this time of year. Good in a month or so when the colors change too.

 

Did the @Best4x4 PCV mod today. I could not find the part number FV308 pcv anywhere in stock. Has to use the old Hollander exchange for part numbers and got a Beck Arnley 045-0264 for 10 bucks off eBay. How long do these pcv's last? Is it worth trying to find a spare before they are discontinued completely?

 

They will never be discontinued, came in too many Hondas. They basically never wear out, worst case you might have to clean it.

 

This is what this thread should be; what we did with our Rovers, not what we did to them! Love it!

 

Got to save another D2 from catastrophic driveshaft failure. This is a buddie's D2; he called me a couple months ago complaining with a chirping sound. I discussed it with him and recommended he quit driving it till it could be looked at.

Delayed by other obligations, and by him having a heart attack (triple bypass, full recovery thankfully), this weekend I was finally able to pull the shaft out of my D2 and make the drive up to see him. I pulled it out and it had one bad joint on each end. It looked fairly new, Lucky 8 driveshaft by the looks of it. They get mixed reviews and it's hard to complain for the price, but I styled him with my fresh rebuilt shaft that only had a couple thousand miles on it, and this one will be rebuilt with all new spicer joints to go back in my disco. Thank goodness he had a discerning ear and caught this one.

 

Today, I fitted these little LED lights into the steel bumper. The holes were not made for the factory lights as far as I could tell so had to search around for something that would fill the void. Oddly enough I found these at the local Northern Tool store. I did splice them into the old existing fog light harness so they work with the factory upper dash switch. I need to wait until it gets dark to do final adjustments and get them pointed in a good direction.

 

looks good, how did you attach them? I have a set of fog lights cobbled together that I would appreciate any advice on improving the intall.

 

I drilled a hole and used a 3/8 bolt.