The COVID-19 pandemic, while filled with uncertainty and misfortune for everyone has had some positives when you look beyond the obvious.
I was made Furloughed a few weeks into the situation, which wasn’t ideal as I was working on a reduced salary, but I was able to commit all my time to my projects! This meant I was able to spend far more time on the Land Rover than I would have been able to normally, and perhaps ever!
So I tackled some jobs that I had been putting off.
In truth these jobs started mid way through part of the trailer project which will appear in the next post, but this post will be nice and quick and the other is still developing.
Direct to battery Anderson connectors - I’ve always had the idea of installing Anderson connectors front and back to allow jumping / charging of the battery without the need to get at the battery. Well well messing around with trailer electrical connections (next post) I install the front.
Next on the hit list: Tachometer. I’d used this before for testing but never installed it so here we go! First I set it up to make sure I had the right connection points.
Ran all the cables and mounted in, turned out to be fairly easy.
Binnacle mount - just like most Defenders mine suffered with broken plastic binnacle mounts.
So off with the old.
And here is the new.
This is why this job is a pain.
Forgot to get a fitted picture - maybe later……
Alpine seals - when I re-built the Defender all those years ago I didn’t realise that the apline seals came in two parts - outer seal and filler. As a result I used the old filler which was pretty poor back then, really bad now. Since then I’ve always had a slight leak in the cabin, which I suspected was from these poor seals. So time to change out for new.
New installed - with a bit of a clean up too.
And then I’m pleased to say the old girl got a much needed clean.
Making the most of a bad situation.
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