Badger,
There were a few photos of D3's having body off services on mud-club. ISTR it's body off if you put petrol in the diesel too.....
Many dealerships had to have upgraded ramps to take into account the body off servicing......
Dunno on that vehicle but I know on some cars, once they get past a certain age the owners or mechanics tend to cut access panels in bodywork to get at the more stupid bits. An example of that is in some versions of the Lotus Esprit, they cut an access panel between the engine bay and the passenger compartment to allow them to change the cam belt without having to lift the engine out. The cam belt is at the front of the engine, which is about an inch from the firewall between the engine compartment and passenger compartment.
The body isn't structural on the esprit though, it's about as stiff as wet lettuce, not so sure on the D3.
Must admit, I haven't heard of it before Richard. But from other comments by Neil, it would seem it's been designed that way deliberately. Crazy. Badger.
Indeed - patricularly for a supposed off-road vehicle that can cope with all environments, as long as there's a fully equipped workshop handy. Like in the fastest growing market, China, where *eveyone* has a TestBook and Engine crane in their back pocket. Never mind the Africa. And India. Oh, and South America. Austrailia I'd imagine has the engine crane to hand. Eastern Eruope? I'm sure thay have TestBooks on every street market (well, thinking about it, they probably do!). So the market is Europe and the US then! Off-road vehicle. Ha!
Richard
Land Rover have made it easy to do this, since there is still a separate chassis, making this kind of operation easier. You see my point, only a few disconnections as mentioned above, don't understand why it takes 4 hours though. Gordon>
beamendsltd uttered summat worrerz funny about:
Nah, you can corner a market here in roof mounted winches, Simply drive under the nearest Tree and Bobs your uncle ;-)
Lee D
On or around Thu, 2 Nov 2006 09:30:43 -0000, "Badger" enlightened us thusly:
cut an access panel...
On or around Thu, 2 Nov 2006 10:32:54 +0000, Ian Rawlings enlightened us thusly:
sounds like the thermostat on the hillman imp.
Yep, after stripping out the whole of the dash, the heater box, soundproofing etc etc.... it might just be quicker to remove the body! Badger.
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