[LukasJM]

I am a student low on funds, but nevertheless love working on my Disco. I of course want a steel bumper for a winch so I can go get stuck in the mud, but I need to do a lot more lifeguarding to get that going lol. So, In the meantime I did some simple bumper removal (to take my mind off pinning my slipped liners) and to get a bit more clearance, becoming less susceptible to smashing plastic bits off on the trail. I wanted to post this just so anyone who was thinking of doing something like it can see what it looks like before they take a grinder to their truck. I like the look of the exposed underneath parts and honestly if you’re not well aquatinted with LRs, and just take a glance, you’d see nothing out of the ordinary. I cut along the line above the foglights and then straight across the front, leaving the black bit above the screen piece but cutting/unscrewing the screen and everything below off. Let me know if anyone has done something similar or your opinion on it! Or if you wanna buy my foglights or trim parts!

 

[LukasJM]

Thanks! And yeah I know, it’s quite the debated subject, but I think it’s the best path for me. Even if it eventually fails, I can probably get a few miles out of it and then can work on getting an LS (or honestly maybe a D1). I’m gonna see how it goes and do my best, to say I at least tried! I’ve gotta have a car that drives now, so I can go get the money to get an engine that will drive tomorrow hahaha. Also our plan consists of sanding/grinding the pins inside the liners so we don’t have to rely on measuring them. We’re also going to do this thing where there’s a wire in the bolt holding it against another bolt rotating in the opposite direction so that it can’t unscrew (or something like that I’m not looking at the blueprints right now). I’ll probably make a few posts on how it ends up!

 

[LukasJM]

Already got that done, replaced most messed up hoses and the t stat. Also I’m doing all the work, so pinning the liners is costing only as much as the pins. And yeah it runs pretty good with it slipping but I’m kinda tired of it sounding like a train.

 

[LukasJM]

Thanks for the concern guys but I think we’ve got it, we’re planning on being one of the pinned ones that run. We already rebuilt/replaced just about everything up top except the heads (Crankshaft, timing chain, gears, lifters, rockers, and the rocker shafts). I’m not quite ready to give up on making this thing run the best it can!