Category Archives: Landy Project

The rebuild of Project Sandy, a 1985 Land Rover 90 original v8

Project Sandy – GPS System

06/05/2011 – 12:05 am

For the Land Rover project I wanted to build some type of navigation system, I had a looked about but couldnt find what I wanted within a decent budget. I went for the idea of a tablet pc rather than building a custom car pc as when you start to add bits on to a read more »

Tags AC to DC, Globalstat Bu353 Sirf III USB GPS Reciever, GPS, HP, Land Rover, Multimap, Navigation, Tablet PC, TC1100, TouchScreen | Comments Off

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Project Sandy – Drain plug, oops

16/04/2011 – 8:03 pm

Land Rover 90 V8 Transmission Drain Plug

Today I changed the transmission oil (not the gearbox oil, just the transfer box at the moment). I have never seen the magnet used on the drain plug before but today I see the need I don’t know when the last time the oil was changed and i have done some hard offroading recently read more »

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Project Sandy Brake Pipes

09/04/2011 – 8:10 pm

Today I replaced the front brake pipes on the Land Rover. I decided to replace the pipes with some Goodrich +2 inch extended pipes as I will be looking to increase my suspension height in the near future so I though I may aswell go for the + now rather then later. I decided to read more »

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Project Sandy Track Rod Replacement

20/02/2011 – 10:25 pm

I have finally got around to sorting out my track rod issue on the Landy, we ended up gettings a heavey duty track rod and steering arm from John Craddock (part number DA5502) . As you can see the difference in the bars is quite allot, It turns out the replacement bar we purchased last read more »

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Project Sandy – Snorkel Time

15/01/2011 – 1:12 am

Ok, I know it’s a v8 and they don’t do aswell in water, if anything at all, compared to diesels but we got a pretty much brand new Mantec wingtop snorkel at a bargain and just the one I would have wanted.

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