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Ya, the math makes sense. I suppose the real question is should your nav unit do more than just help you navigate? We're starting to see this with Garmin integrating the InReach, MURS radio, and offering other inputs (audio breakout, for example). I suppose unifying all of the crap you mount to...

I've spent the past year trying different GPS units and software and i've come away feeling like nobody has really nailed it for car campers and overlanders. To me, software solutions lack the ease of use and feature sets required for vehicle travel, especially if you're part of a group...

900 mile trip and the truck didn't breakdown! Success! But it wouldn't be a Land Rover unless something went wrong. About a quarter way through the trip, my transmission began sticking in certain gears, hard shifting, and overall acting like something was wrong. I managed to get through the...

Been following this truck since it was first listed for sale. IMO, if you had re-sprayed it and threw a cheap aftermarket radio in, you could probably get $7k for it. I know the re-spray would probably be prohibitively expensive, but nice paint will help sell this thing so much quicker. Overall...

Another long week, but finally some cool things happening! The fuel line repair turned out to be rather simple. It's not ideal, but it works and even after a good beating up Santiago Peak, it held together. All we did was pull the hose over the pin hole, clamped it, and called it a day...

I've put together a collection of all the suppliers, fabricators, and reference material collected over my time working on these trucks. You can check that out here: Land Rover Reference I built this out of frustration with the dying Discovery online community. 10 - 20 years ago, the Discovery...

Those are not Safari Gard bumpers. I'm 99% sure those are built by Tactical 4x4.

Days like today really make me wonder if im cut out to to continue working on this truck. I don't know what it is, but the past few weeks have been nothing but setback after setback, usually caused by my own mistakes. What should have been a simple fuel filter replacement ended up taking 5...

They provide additional support for anything you put up there. On the SD racks (like mine), there are rather large gaps between each metal bar. If you've got a smaller item you want to mount, there isn't a really good place to put it without adding some flooring. It also makes it easier to...

Truck is still in the shop for the new transfer case so I thought i'd work on something that has been sitting around for a while: the chicken coup flooring for my SD rack! All in all, this project isn't hard, just a little time consuming if you want it to look clean. Purchase 4x...

I did find the leak! It was a combination of the door (water was getting into the middle of it via the misaligned glass) and the rubber gaskets up against the A pillar kick panel. Previous owner put what looks like instant gasket around them, but that didn't work so well.

This truck really does get on my nerves sometimes. Take, for example, the seemingly random, unidentifiable clunk, clunk, clunk I now get whenever I make small turns or go over small bumps in the road. I spent hours over the weekend with a GoPro trying to track it down, but the closest I got was...

So why not a rear locker? Seems the popular build for these trucks is air locker in the rear, LSD in the front. I've already got another vehicle with factory lockers front and rear, and while they're awesome, I really only ever use them once a year, if that. For this build, I was looking to...

We did the exhaust today! Check out the compilation of sounds below: stock exhaust, no exhaust, NRP exhaust. This was a really easy install, but you do need a sawsall if you want to get the stock exhaust out quickly. The only issue we had was sealing the Y pipe flange to the new muffler /...

Finally took the truck on a proper trip and it performed just as well as I had hoped. The new diffs helped out a lot going up steep hills and the TrueTracs were absolutely awesome on the loose gravel slopes. Not a single issue popped up, which surprised me, but given the amount of work that...

It was a hell of a weekend throwing the new GBR 3.9 differentials with TrueTracs on. It's not that it's a difficult job, but it's time consuming, messy, and without a second person you'd need something to help you with the heavy equipment...or maybe you just have to be in shape. I went with GBR...

Been a while. Between work and getting married / going on a honeymoon, i've had no time to work on the truck. But the summer is here and that means I need to get moving to get this truck ready for some camping trips. Today I spent some time at the local LKQ and snagged some really nice seats...

I did a bit more research and it looks like the solution is to add spacers to the chassis mount so the bar drops. If you keep it at the stock mount you put the bar under too much stress with a lifted truck. This will cause the bar to bind and will bust the ball joints, like you see in my photo...

Hey man, been a minute! To me, it looks like the stock sway bar isn't adequate to support a lifted Disco. This happened with it only being driven to work and, as you've seen, all of the parts were new and the torque values precisely set to what is in the RAVE manual. This is now the second time...

Thanks man! More to come soon.