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Date: 06 Apr 96 11:11:12 EST
From: Jim Roth <74245.1226@compuserve.com>
Subject: RE:Bright Dims

 "Larry Rubens" 
Subject: Bright Dims?

>There is one thing that is a constant irritant:  opposing 
>traffic always blink their brights or blind me purposely when I only 

snip

and
"Robert Watson (CNA)"
Subject: RE: Bright Dims?

>Me too, I had the dealer realign them, and that helped. (aligning the

snip

I did, too. VERY easy to fix on your own--no need for the dealer unless you
really want to. I fixed it the very first night of ownership. Here's what I did.
First, I noticed this "feature" while driving the Disco home from the dealer
(about 100 miles away in Albuquerque).  I was in front of my wife (she wanted to
drive the Disco, too) driving an old MB station wagon. I kept on glancing in the
mirror and asking myself "who is that SOB with the brights on"?  Well, it was
her.  I asked her if she had had the bright on after we got home and she said
no.  Well, I set both vehicles on a flat surface, the Disco about 30ft behind
the other one, and noticed that the "low" beams of the Disco were aimed very
high in that the cut-off line was at the level of the top of the rear window of
the Mercedes. I could see why folks were flashing (no old-man-in-a-raincoat
jokes, please) the Disco. 

The quick and dirty fix?  Adjust the headlights with the two adjusting screws on
the back of the headlight assy until the cut-off line is a little lower than the
bottom of the back window.  One more or less controls side to side, the other up
& down.  You don't need to remove anything to do this.  Locate the screws and
give eash a turn to see which way they adjust the beam and then put it where you
need to.  No more flashing lights, no more light wars, no more middle finger
salutes, no more bricks (or worse) through your windshield..  EZ to do, even if
you're not particularly skilled mechanically.

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Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 09:32:03 -0800 (PST)
From: David Rosenbaum <rosenbau@u.washington.edu>
Subject: D90 headlight adjustment

The current discussion about Discovery headlight adjustment brings up a
question about D90's:

I replaced the stock lamps with Hella Visons and needed to aim the lights
a little lower because the lo-beam cut off was too high. To lower the
beam, you back-out the adjusting screw. With the screws backed out all the
way (the headlight beams even "jiggle" a little bit over bumps), the
lo-beams are still marginally too high, and I have a couple of loose
screws! Anyone else face this (loose screws related to headlights, that
is)
Best wishes,
David

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Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 17:22:54 -0500
From: rover@pinn.net (Alexander P. Grice)
Subject: Camel Trophy

(This has been posted to the LRO list as well.  I understand the caveats 
about cross-posting, but this is news that I thought *everyone* would be 
interested in.)

For the past eight years, "The Gearbox", ROAV's newsletter, has been the 
first publication in North America to report on results of the Camel Trophy. 
(It helps having a college roomate that now works for RJR!)  For the past 
three (four?) years, I have been posting the daily logs to the LRO list.

This year, the results are being sent to me one or two days late.  According 
to the powers-that-be, the results "are first being posted to Rover's home 
page.  It's www-dot-landrover somethingorother...."  OK, sez me, I'll just 
fire up Mosaic and access one of the 'spiders' like Lycos or Yahoo!.  No 
dice finding Rover's home page.

Got lots of "landrover" hits.  Even some curious ones, like and article by 
the Jet Propulsion Lab that stated that the "Mars pathfinder mission will 
launch a LANDer and ROVER robot..." and one titled "LAND use contROVERsies 
in the American west."  Narrowed the search by including "camel trophy" in 
the search string.  Lots of references to last year's event, but none to 
this year.  If someone can find it, I'd sure like to know.

Anyway, here's what's happened so far:

The 17th Camel Trophy event got under way April 1 with 20 hours of "special 
tasks" held near the start at Balikpapan, Indonesia.  The finish line is 
1,100 miles and 21 days west across the tropic heat and humidity of 
equitorial Borneo at Pontianak.  There, the second set of special tasks will 
take place.  In between, there will be nine major river crossings, two 
mountain ranges and the near constant rain of Borneo's wet season.

The first task was a navigational exercise; after being ferried across the 
Balikpapan estuary, the American team of Ken Cameron (26, a carpenter from 
Eagle, Colorado) and Fred Hoess (29, a motorcycle racer from Stanhope, New 
Jersey) finished the event with but 15 seconds to spare.

The next task divided the competitors into five teams of four nations each; 
the US was teamed with Germany, the Canary Islands and the Czech Republic.  
The goal was to transport four tires and four water-filled jerry cans across 
a very uninviting swamp.  A closed-course driving exercise was next, 
followed by the task of getting a disabled vehicle across a lake on a raft. 
The twist: a vital raft part had frist been dropped into the middle of the 
lake.  The day's final task was a navigational exercise: find the evening's 
campsite - 60 km away.  At the end of the first set of special tasks, two 
teams that have never done particularly well, Russia and Greece, were in 
first and second.  Spain was in third.  The US was in 18th place.

On April 3, Ken Cameron and Fred Hoess were up at 6 AM (after all of one 
hour's sleep).  New this year is a reconaissance team.  Though the general 
route of the event has been scouted and campsites identified, it is up to 
the recce teams of four nations each to choose the best route; that group 
will change each day.  The US was teamed with Switzerland, Turkey and the UK 
and will have three other opportunities to be the vanguard.

Ken Cameron's professional skills as a log home builder were frequently 
called to use.  Virtually every bridge required rebuilding, or at least 
reapirs, before the 20 teams and 18 support vehicles could cross.  
Sometimes, several rounds of reapirs were necessary.

Vehicle travel could best be described as "skating" as sideways motion was 
almost as frequent as forwards travel.  The Polish team rolled their Disco 
onto its side, though there were no injuries and the vehicle was quickly 
righted.

The day's greatest challenge was the river crossing at Sungan Luang.  
Looking like something straight out of "Indiana Jones", the 30 meter bamboo 
bridge appeared to be sticks and twigs haphazardly lashed together with a 
few ropes and vines.  Fred Hoess was the first driver to attempt the span 
and made it across without incident.  The next vehicle, driven by the 
British, was not so fortunate.  The left rear wheel broke through, and it 
was 45 minutes of frantic reapirs before they could continue.

What fun!
      *----"Jeep may be famous, LAND-ROVER is Legendary"----*
      |               A. P. (Sandy) Grice                   |
      |       Rover Owners' Association of Virginia         |
      |    1633 Melrose Parkway, Norfolk, VA 23508-1730     |
      |  E-mail: rover@pinn.net  Phone: 804-622-7054 (Day)  |
      |    804-423-4898 (Evenings)    FAX: 804-622-7056     |
      *-----------------------------------------------------*

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From: rruffer@interserv.com
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 16:26:18 -0800
Subject: D90 headlight adjustment

David asks:
"I replaced the stock lamps with Hella Visons...With the screws backed out all 
the way (the headlight beams even "jiggle" a little bit over bumps), the
lo-beams are still marginally too high, and I have a couple of loose
screws!"

I replaced the headlights in my D90 with the Hellas. They did need a lot of 
adjusting downward, but not as far as yours. Do you have a lot of things in the 
back which might make your D90 ride low? I initially made a mistake when 
installing the lights which made them jiggle--the adjusting screws have collars 
that the light frame fits on to. I initially just screwed the adjusting screws 
in like any other screw. Once I fixed the mistake, the lights adjusted nicely.

Rich Ruffer
Morristown, NJ
rruffer@interserv.com
'94 D90 (#634)

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Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 20:57:36 -0500 (EST)
From: rovahArovah.sdi.agate.net@agate.net (John Cassidy)
Subject: Range Rover steering and Idle

     My '87 RR is exhibiting a new idle problem...for the last week, it has
consistently idled below 500(more like 250) and stalled for the first time
ever when I was turning in the driveway at a call(full  turn with brakes).
Any ideas!?  The thing used to shoot way up to 1,000RPM when first turned
on and then settle  down later...it's not like the weather here in Maine
has become drastically warmer!
     Also,  I am noticing more vagueness in the steering.  Effort on the
wheel will be the normal "squishy," and then all of a sudden I've got 5-10
degrees of what feels like free  play.  In a couple of minutes...back to
normal!  Don't see any fluid from  the power steering box and all belts are
fine.  Mechanic checked the tie-rod ends a few months ago and said they all
seemed fine.  Again...any ideas!?

Thanks in advance for your help!
         John Cassidy  Bangor, Maine

P.S.  Has anyone seen the latest  Gray Poupon commercial...the one where
the gentlemen in their respective autos are discussing whether a hot dog is
a "weiner," or a "frankfurter?"  I almost fell off the couch, I laughed so
hard! :-)

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From: jcirbo@mailbox.iwaynet.net
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 21:35:56 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Tricked-out Defender

>Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 10:58:44 -0700
>From: marbourg@lanl.gov (Douglas C. Marbourg)
	 [ truncated by lro-digester (was 19 lines)]
>Doug Marbourg, 94' NAS D90 #1123, Santa Fe, NM
>marbourg@lanl.gov

Doug,

Sorry to keep pestering you with questions, but I have another.  Were these
4.7:1's still on their origonal carriers, or were they moved to the Defender
castings?

Jim Cirbus 
94 D-90  #730
67 NADA 109

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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 03 04:36:21 UT
From: "Don Grabow" <DynaconDon@msn.com>
Subject: Throttle Sticking on '96 Disco

Any one had any problems with the throttle sticking open--

I had to use all four disks to get slowed down the other day--2000rpm against 
the torque converter untill I got it in neutral -- then in slowed down to 
normal--never to happen again????

All this the day after my 7500 checkup??

Don Grabow

'96 Discovery SE7 with rear speaker fountain option

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Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 02:45:23 +0400
From: mgrove@polarnet.com (Melvin Grove)
Subject: Discovery Lamp Guards ?

Hi folks,
        Im going to pick up my new Epson Green Disco at the end of the
month and Im wondering if anyone has ever installed lamp guard on there
Disco.  I can pick up the Lamp guards for $168 each for front and rear body
and for $58 get the rear bumper guards.  This is the price not installed.
If I have the dealer install them it will cost another $140.  Is there any
special requirements to install these or are they just installed with
sheetmetal screws.

Im not sure if it would be a problem with copy write laws but the dealer
sent me a fax copy of the labor,dealer parts cost, Total parts cost, Total
Cost, and Suggested retail of every LR accessory for the Disco.  If theres
no legalities to posting it I could post the prices.  It would take a lot
of work but Im sure I could evently get it posted.

Any suggestions on the guards would be appreciated!

Thanks,
Mel

All men are great in their dreams,
reality just narrows the competition!

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