I'm the worlds worst at DIY. I open the box of furniture parts and try to figure out how to assemble it without looking at the instructions (I suffer from a low boredom threshold and hate instructions - (IKEA are good though - all pictures) Only when I get in the sh*t with the assembly do I get out the instructions (usually been thrown into the garbage by then) and read the bit that I'm stuck on, usually end up with a box full of spare bits and screws and nowhere I can figure they go. My wife says I'm far too impatient - WHO ME..........

 

Sounds too much like me but you have one word in your vocabulary that I don't have in mine.. it starts with a 'P'. I can't pronounce it, don't know what it means and haven't ever had to use it

 

Christina I seriously doubt many have a REASON to read the Rave entirely. There isn't one. I have never ever opened the Freelander section because I will never work on one - EVER. POS with a LR badge. D2's are bad enough.....

You need to add "New Rotors and Pads" to your list of stuff I've beaten off Bertha.....

Tom, we've had as of last week over 100" of snow this season. I've had my tc mostly locked for the entire season. No big snows so far but we have two months to go. We've had mostly lake effect every day and night.

 

Ahh Doug..

I never said that I live an exciting life - especially in the winter..

So you don't like working on my DII, eh? Hence why I'm reading the Rave.. or rather the 1529 pages of the DII workshop manual. Although having said that I have to say that the DI manual is MUCH more self explanatory, there are actual troubleshooting tests spelled out to the reader and it looks fairly straight forward. Maybe I should have purchased a DI instead of a DII but then Bertha wouldn't be Bertha and she wouldn't be 'blessed' with me

Winter needs to move on soon - I can't take much more of this.. although I still need a lesson on working my CDL

 

Doug,


Just heard from a colleague that he had 40+ robins in his yard over the weekend. Maybe it will be a shorter than expected winter?

 

I wouldn't get too excited, they obviously where the short bus riders in the flock.......

 

No you don't, instead that responsibility falls on me, I get the exciting parts and you just get a throttle plate heater that makes you melt down. Oh no, never exciting......for once I like not exciting, thrive on not exciting. I like to have an easy plan for my week and stick to it not exciting.......

 

All of us should be very thankful that the "Rave" is freely available to us. Without it, there would be far fewer DII's on the road. The complex nature of the electronics alone, not to mention the quirky British mechanics, would have scrapped most of them by now.


Years ago, I sold a car I was in the middle of restoring because the service manual was out of print and none were available for a reasonable price.


No I haven't read it completely through yet, but if I keep this truck long enough, I suspect I will have read it a page at a time eventually!


P.S. We had 2 inches of your blasted Michigan snow last week in Alabama. Crippled everything for nearly 3 days. I slept at my office for two nights because I could not get home. The interstates were completely impassable because of thousands of abandoned cars.

 

Ahhh, now see what god does to those who 'dis' the Brits.................................he sends pestilence upon you................. Résultats Google Recherche d'images correspondant à http://static1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120406135953/powerlisting/images/2/2e/Pestilence_spirit.jpg

 

well you know the saying.. 'birds of a feather flock together'