OMFG I need muff and a tight seal

"4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30" (4muddyfeet) 12/01/2015 at 04:39 • Filed to: Land rover

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Because now is the winter of my discontent, and contrary to popular belief, the heating system in the Land Rover works just fine.

What doesn’t work just fine are the bulkhead vent seals, which have been leaking some frosty morning air through the cabin. I put in new lower door seals all round a month ago because the military seem to see warm soldiers as an optional expense. An option that they didn’t tick. This worked well enough through Autumn, but now I can feel the wisps of winter coming in through the front. This would be fine if the heating system could cope with a little influx of cold air, but as it stands, it can’t. Series vehicles and Defenders have an oversized cooling system to allow the running of external machinery through the P.T.O. when stationary. In the real world this translate to an engine, and therefore a heating system, that can’t get up to temperature in anything but lukewarm conditions.

So a muff and some vent seals it is, then maybe I can survive until the heater system fails.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 12/01/2015 at 04:58

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Few things feel better than a good heater after clearing ice and snow off.

pip bip - choose Corrour > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 12/01/2015 at 05:29

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heat’s overrated!

;)

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > pip bip - choose Corrour 12/01/2015 at 06:16

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So says the Aussie!

Cé hé sin > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 12/01/2015 at 06:38

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Read that as “miff” at first.

Tohru > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 12/01/2015 at 07:03

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I had a Mercury Tracer with a lukewarm heater like that. To get any heat at all, I had to drive from October to April with the radiator completely blocked with cardboard.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 12/01/2015 at 07:56

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It's 65* for me today.

Captain of the Enterprise > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 12/01/2015 at 08:00

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“OMFG I need muff and a tight seal”

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > Captain of the Enterprise 12/01/2015 at 08:14

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Sorry. OMFG I need a warm muff and a tight seal.

Frenchlicker > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 12/01/2015 at 08:21

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I went most of last winter before finally gaining the courage to fix my heat in my car. Never again will I do that one. I hated myself afterwards because where The thought of taking the dash out was intimidating but in reality it took less than an hour to do everything.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 12/01/2015 at 08:28

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Much better...

Twinpowermeansoneturbo > pip bip - choose Corrour 12/01/2015 at 08:30

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Muff, however, is not.

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 12/01/2015 at 08:32

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Oh do be quiet.

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > Tohru 12/01/2015 at 08:33

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Pretty sure I’ll be rednecking(?) a fix like that for now too, although cardboard won’t last long around these parts.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 12/01/2015 at 08:42

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It’s going to be pouring rain all day if it makes you feel better.

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 12/01/2015 at 08:58

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It’s not exactly dry here buddy!

But yes, it makes me feel better

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 12/01/2015 at 09:05

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This is the time of year to replace vent seals, because they’re a bugger to condition into the proper shape. You basically have to install fresh, have a friend push on the vents really hard, and latch them as tight as you can... there to stay until the seals have accepted it. Which could be weeks, really, with a cycle of them open and once again forced tight somewhere in the middle. Bottom line, vent seals (on the Series particularly) don’t like to be installed.

uofime-2 > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 12/01/2015 at 10:20

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Just wrap the cardboard in the tape of your choosing (not masking tape obviously) It works surprisingly well.

Tohru > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 12/01/2015 at 17:23

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Coroplast?