Sweet sweet music!

Are you talking about vaseline?

And to think if it hadn't been for your wife having a bump in it, you would still be thinking about taking your V8 90 to bits.

|| on10/08/2003 11:17 am, Richard Brookman at || snipped-for-privacy@btinternet.com wrote: || ||| Nikki wrote: ||| ||||| on09/08/2003 9:34 am, Richard Brookman at ||||| snipped-for-privacy@btinternet.com wrote: ||||| |||||| The Landy finally moved under its own steam again today! ||||||||| -- ||||| And to think if it hadn't been for your wife having a bump in it, ||||| you would still be thinking about taking your V8 90 to bits. |||||| ||| ||| Exactly. So she keeps saying. The power of women, eh? They know ||| what we want even before we know it ourselves. ||| ||| -- ||| ||| ||| =============================== ||| Rich ||| V8 90 under reconstruction ||| RR 4.6HSE ||| || Clever lot aren't we! || -- || Nikki || || 1990 Discovery V8i || 1985 Range Rover V8 || 1975 88" Series 3, 2.25 petrol

So you keep telling us!

Actually, she was brilliant. She kept asking what the various bits were for (she had a right to know - there had been no other view out of the living room window for 6 months) and then saying things like "should there be water dribbling out of there?" She spotted quite a few things that I had either overlooked or deliberately ignored (as in, I'll tighten that one later when I get the torque wrench out - and then forgetting).

I'm getting her a boiler suit and a tub of Swarfega for her birthday.

I only know what I want when Mandy tells me. I find it much easier that way.

Well done by the way - I'm about to start building a V8 just to see if I can. I've never gone any further than a spark plug swap, so it will be an interesting project.

Is it practical to do this outside - leave the engine on a bench / stand and cover it with a tarp between swearing sessions? Or will it get damp anyway and be wrecked?

Tim Hobbs

'58 Series 2 '77 101FC Ambulance '95 Discovery V8i

I find its handy to know what different bits are for especially when you trip over them as you go out the back door(old power steering unit off the RR which was replaced by one with no leaks from LRO show last year), and when the bag of newer central locking parts spills in the back of the Discovery and gets mixed up with older bits, at least you can sort most of it out yourself.

I hope you are going to put something nice in the pocket on the boiler suit like a pair of ear-rings or a nice diamond ring. Perhaps she wont mind then!

|| I'm getting her a boiler suit and a tub of Swarfega for her ||| birthday. ||| ||| -- ||| || I hope you are going to put something nice in the pocket on the || boiler suit like a pair of ear-rings or a nice diamond ring. || Perhaps she wont mind then! || -- ||

This is a conspiracy.

I would consider a boiler suit and a tub of swarfega a necessity, like an apron is when you are cooking and a dishwasher to wash the pots up with. Something she should have anyway. My Mum didn't speak to my Dad for nearly a week when he bought her a new washing machine for her birthday. I think she went a bit too far with the hostilities(true drama queen my Mum) myself, but as Dad said, it was better that her nagging him!

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Yes, and the floor is underheated too...... Makes it really nice when working as the heat is nice and even. Rest of it is exactly the same as yours by the sounds of it!!!

-- Simon Isaacs

Peterborough 4x4 Club Chairman and Webmaster

3.5V8 100" Hybrid Suzuki SJ410 (Girlfirend) Series 3 88" Rolling chassis...what to do next Pug 106 (offroaded once!!)

I think my Dad wished he'd bought a tumble dryer and a dishwasher at the same time. I'm glad he didn't as I had to listen to Mum about how horrible he was. He wasn't too pleasant if I recall correctly, but a few weeks later they discovered he had cancer in one of his kidneys, which was contributing to some hormone imbalances. He was a different person once the offending kidney and growth had been removed.