To be honest, I idle my LR3 a lot when overlanding often with AC on. With the variable orifice compressor I am much less worried about wear or issues. To me the car engine is not terribly different from a large generator engine and the AC not much different than those used in refrigeration services. There is no real reason they should not be able to idle for long periods.

The sunroof plastics certainly crack. I have a few cracks in my arms which might be why it never seals well, especially I am on the highway and close it - its very loud until I get down to city speeds. And it does not sit quite flush even though I have calibrated it several times.

 

LR3 I trust to sit at idle, my D2's nope I've watched the temps go from 195F all the way up to 215F and it will just continue to climb. To small of a grill opening and the little aux AC fan paired with the mechanical fan clutch just can't keep up like the computer controlled unit on the LR3.

I sit at idle in my D1/D2's but I also monitor my temps vs my wife who just monitors her iPhone lol.

Sunroof wise the main adjustments = the 6 screws that attach the glass/frame to the main frame. You can loosen them and open/close the sunroof and it will get the front/back aligned nicely. Then you can push up on the sunroof glass to get it to sit flush with the roof and tighten the bolts. I'm LR3 sunroof certified now. The unit I got was in far worse shape mechanically vs my old unit that's for sure. If I had to do it all over again I'd have just bought the glass.

 

Mine rattles in the tracks so I assume it is cracked as well. Thinking of just using flex seal tape on top to make sure it doesn’t leak and call it a day. Not like I use it anyway

 

Mine must have been sealed so well that's why it exploded lol. With the design of it there is absolutely no sealant between the sunroof frame & body of the vehicle. If the drains back up at all they can't keep up with the flow (severe storm) it's going to leak.

I got the LR3 all sorted then my wife like 15min tells me oh honey I think the AC isn't working inside the house... I've got to find where these money tree's come from. Nothing is a money pit like a house!

 

Buttoned up the skid plate, I think it's ready.

 

Well,
Instead of few needed preventive measure maintenance items, that need to addressed rather sooner then later, although I replaced front and back suspension components recently on the driveway, I had taken my LR3 for spin out on West Coast. Loaded a borrowed RTT on Prospeed roof rack, took 2nd and 3rd raw of seats out to accommodate gear and traveled for three weeks straight covering 8000 miles through Wyoming's grand Tetons, Yellowstone, Montana, Idaho, Utah and Colorado from NJ. We got snowed in a few times in Bryce Canyon and encountered a rain and hail for two days on White Rim trail in Utah's Canyonlands NP, but overall a great trip with no mechanical hiccups with exception of a suspension fault when we drove on WRT for 100 miles in low range. Little bit of right rear wheel heating up possibly due to corroded hard lines in two spots causing a rear caliper to act up but with minimal braking as I was shifting and engine breaking 99% of the time, I got home safe and sound this past Monday night. All I can say that, although our 2005 LR3 does a health dose of regular off roading on east Coast, from Vermont, upstate and Winter Romp in Maine, now it really became a solidified member of our Family. It really is a excellent vehicle for traveling, off roading and Overlanding.It really puts smile on my face when I shift back from Low range to High, air up and continue exploring this beautiful Country for another few thousand miles without any hiccups. Now a rear window really deserves a few stickers. Cheers!

 

Good stuff! Sounds like a great trip....what was the cause of the Suspension Fault? Sometimes there are just "comm" faults; which mean little to nothing....

 

You should do a trip write up and share some pics in the events and outings

 

Houm..
I don't really know yet. I could try to pull codes but it was orange not red. It happened when I started driving off road with low range and suspension up two inches with just a Mudtech computer as I did not raised the suspension with a off road hight switch, left it in general setting as well. I would reset at every start up and reoccur shortly after a few hundred meters of driving and stay on. When I pulled out of the trail, aired up and lowered to highway setting it would still be on all the way to Moab. After hitting local Mexican place for dinner and later starting up the engine and drive up back to NJ it would never came back.

 

I should ArmyRover, I know I should...right after I clean and dry everything after our trip and clean and dry our two tents, RTT and Nemo Wagontop that we have used extensively. Unfortunately weather in NJ is not cooperating right now ..lol, then I will be off to installing my two new Tactical Rovers bumpers that I have LineX'ed. Should be fun..