What did you do with your DII today?
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Finished the lift on my Land Rover, adding the rear spacers underneath the rear air springs. Thereafter, had Nitto Terra Grappler 2's installed - 265/65R18's. Lucky8 was out of Terraforma spacers, so they sourced these nice Britpart 40mm spacers - high quality and the rig sits just about right between the rear and the front. Nice thing with keeping the air springs is I can get an extra 2" of lift in the rear at the push of a button.
I did a compression test to diagnose low power going up grades (difficult to maintain 50-55 mph up 8% grades, like east on I-8 out of SD). Passed with flying colors... 180 psi on all cylinders. Next step I think will be to finish the transfer case re-gearing and re-evaluate.
Bit of oil on the spark plugs. Is it possible to have rings that leak so bad that I'm unknowingly doing a wet compression test? Leading to increased psi numbers. Last trip I checked I'm burning a quart over 200 miles (includes 5 hours of slow offroading). I'm not leaking oil, compression test is solid, so where's the oil going??
Remote starter switches are pretty neat! No need to disable the fuel system, and it lets you watch the compression needle on each stroke.
How do these plugs look?
Last edited by Jeff Blake; 04-29-2018 at 08:53 PM.
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Finished the lift on my Land Rover, adding the rear spacers underneath the rear air springs. Thereafter, had Nitto Terra Grappler 2's installed - 265/65R18's. Lucky8 was out of Terraforma spacers, so they sourced these nice Britpart 40mm spacers - high quality and the rig sits just about right between the rear and the front. Nice thing with keeping the air springs is I can get an extra 2" of lift in the rear at the push of a button.
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Hans L (04-29-2018)
#5248
1100 mile road trip in Randy. Gas mileage so high i'm not posting it because no Rover owner would believe it (suffice to say more than 300 miles between gas stations).
Low cruising temp was 183F. High idle temp was 189F.
Spotify tunes are nice. Backup camera means i can see even when bags are stacked high in rear. GPS on double din screen was ideal.
Freakin love the Crower cam! Sweet power and idle.
AC blower is weak, though. Old. Nice having the Elm327 for realtime engine data.
No false alarms for the new automatic fire extinguisher for the engine bay, thankfully.
Used up a bottle of power steering fluid though...
Low cruising temp was 183F. High idle temp was 189F.
Spotify tunes are nice. Backup camera means i can see even when bags are stacked high in rear. GPS on double din screen was ideal.
Freakin love the Crower cam! Sweet power and idle.
AC blower is weak, though. Old. Nice having the Elm327 for realtime engine data.
No false alarms for the new automatic fire extinguisher for the engine bay, thankfully.
Used up a bottle of power steering fluid though...
Ran tanks of 91 octane fuel and other tanks of 89 octane gasoline during this road trip.
I expected this to be a shake down cruise, but nothing really shook out. Temps were fine.
I did get the temp up to 198F when I ran the A/C and cruised at 80mph, but she stayed at or below 189F cruising at 75 mph.
Best fuel mileage was at night with the A/C off (16.8 MPG!) running 89 octane (75 mph cruise).
Worst fuel mileage was 15.1 mpg running 91 octane with A/C on during the day.
I'm happy with this rebuild.
Now my 16 year old daughter gets this truck.
#5249
Heading out to Moab, Utah (White Rim Trail/Canyonlands) in a few weeks then over to Flagstaff for the Overland Expo. Looking forward to getting some dirt on the new tires and suspension!
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Scripps Ranch area. Funny, I drove out I-8 East today out to the Descanso Park n Ride lot. No problem pulling 70 mph with the new bigger tires.
Heading out to Moab, Utah (White Rim Trail/Canyonlands) in a few weeks then over to Flagstaff for the Overland Expo. Looking forward to getting some dirt on the new tires and suspension!
Heading out to Moab, Utah (White Rim Trail/Canyonlands) in a few weeks then over to Flagstaff for the Overland Expo. Looking forward to getting some dirt on the new tires and suspension!
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