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I don’t want to jinx it but so far since the works been done it’s been holding on pretty well. They can always use work so if I had a ton of money to throw at it I would. I’ve still got a small coolant leak that’s not showing itself and an oil leak from the oil level sensor. I’ve also had a trans fluid leak that was due to an untorqued transmission pan but that was an easy fix. Cost wise, it’s just a gas hog.

It made a huge difference in the noise and gave me a little bit more stability while cornering. I won’t say it was worth the money and time though, 2 years later and they are already bad again. In the future I would like to upgrade to the heavy duty springs and pull the sway bars.

There are a few videos following this one!

2012 with 5.0l v8

Yes I did, sorry. I believe if they don’t line up rotate them 180 and switching sides, I ran into the same issue if I remember correctly

I believe so but don’t remember honestly

They are on flee and tick prevention, but we still always check them after any outting in the woods.

For all the times I’ve camped out there I never climbed the tree 😂, might have to go back 🤔

Thank you! Deft a much needed aesthetic upgrade. I’m a simp for some yellow fogs on euro vehicles.

@@venturevalzone2799 I’m a sucker for all yellows. Fogs + headlights. It’s very rare. But aggressively amazing

@@bigsacrifice8064 lol fair enough. I’m going to be doing a yellow wrap on one of the headlights on my cbr (bike) in the next few weeks too.

@@venturevalzone2799 nasty work! Sounds sick dude! Make sure 2 upload a video when you do 👍

If you have a Rover then life has become misery. It’s insane how fragile everything is on these motors. They are a decent and rather stout motor for driving but the second you touch something or move something getting to another part it’s like glass. 90% of my issues so far have been from fixing 1 issue.

I thought about super glue but I decided that if it was that brittle I might as well just save myself the heartache and replace it.

I do not have the part numbers anymore, this was a ways back. Look up the Bosch ve4 mechanical fuel injection pump oring kit, I believe it’s the same as the vw pump they used.

Picked it up at 170k, now sitting at 178k

Sadly Tata motors has done a lot to diminish the quality of the Rover line up and sadly the rest of the auto industry followed suit. I hate to say it but the more I drive the range the Rover the more it shows that it’s really a hunk of hot garbage.

More so preventative maintenance. The o rings were old and tired as well as the throttle bodies so I figured I might as well replace them.

@@venturevalzone2799 stupid thing, but please let me know, how to remove box which are above of manifold intake connected to air filter boxes, there are 3 clamp bands (2 to each pipe of airbox and 1 to manifold)?

I’m not posting locations. I have had hundreds of people ask and my answer is always the same for everyone. “Finding places is all part of the adventure”. People will ruin things regardless. We try our best to pick up trash whenever we are out as well. Me posting a video will not change the way people treat our national forest sadly. All we can do is show their beauty and try to be good stewards and relay information on tread lightly and packing out what you pack in. Our goals is always to leave it better then we found it.

Explain the logic behind how you have concluded that the people who currently know where this spot is must obviously have superior "respect" than those who haven't found it yet? Surely the strewn garbage on the spot doesn't constitute such evidence.

@@christopherblaisdel Agreed. All we can do is promote a better way of exploring and hope people follow suit.

@@christopherblaisdel Throughly enjoy your satire. Could you read the signage posted? It’s not odd for us to carry more trash home than one can generate . Thank you for stepping up and helping to keep these areas tidy . By doing so , we can keep these areas open to other public land owners like our selves , kudos

@@jimfarley1096 I definitely believe you. My intent was just to point out the logical fallacy of you effectively asserting that the set of people WITH these particular GPS coordinates in some way have "more respect for the forest" than the set of people like myself who lack the coordinates.

Not for the V8

Where did you buy yours? Why chance you could drop the link here? I need to get the same part and I would like the updated aluminum 1 piece.

@@christinaeaves5534 they also sell the rear aluminum coolant manifold flange as well.

@@Moneychain2 wait where? looked everywhere couldnt find rear one. Please provide a link or refer to a site. Thanks

Honestly I do not remember a plastic clip

Everything that I read about these clips is once they break the epoxy won’t fix it, but if you’re willing to give it a shot. It’s honestly not a horrible amount of work if you know what you are doing. It took me a couple of days to pull it all apart but once I figured everything out I could do it in less than a couple hours. The worst part of it was moving everything around caused a bunch of other things to break like the coolant lines and such so it became a way bigger project then I initially intended. Do your safe a favor if you do replace the cover and buy new injectors off the bat. I’ve got the videos documenting the process for the valve cover. There are a lot of videos that show bits and pieces of the repair when doing timing chains but they aren’t practically helpful. Good luck though!

😂🤣 Small world man. It’s funny cause most people know me from my CZcams channel first.

When are you getting the sport? I’m becoming pretty well versed in these 5.0s so if you have any questions or need any help don’t be afraid to reach out.

They do not. I even deflated the tire and tried to cram it in and the tire is still about an inch too big to fit. It fits in the trunk if I just lay it down but that takes up all the cargo space.

Honestly not really. Just needed an alignment. I think the offset looks a lot better too and tucks larger tires into the fenders a bit better

@@venturevalzone2799 I agree, I cant seem to find the wheel you have here in Australia but i might try another defender one, Thank you

@@dave216dx No problem. Good luck on your search!

My perspective of rovers as a whole is that they are great as long as you are for handy enough to commit to working on them with the expectation that it will always need to be worked on and that you can never rely on it. If you are looking at it for a daily driver and you need to get to and from work with out hesitation any given day of the week then I would avoid it. My wife and I both have motorcycles that we have as a back ups, she daily drives the Range Rover and I daily my disco. That being said they are great vehicles where mileage isn’t a concern. Just know if you pick it up you will most likely have a laundry list of quirks and issues you will need to tackle. Timing chain, supercharger isolator coupler, coolant lines, air suspension, and control arms are the main points I would make sure are sound on the Rover or else you will be in a world of heartache off the bat. I would deft get a gap tool if you plan to buy one or see if someone has one that would let you borrow it locally to you, or meet the seller at an Indy shop and run a diagnostic and inspection on it before buying. If you pick it up you will want to get a gap tool asap, it’s the difference between keeping your cool and going mentally insane over every weird code that pops up which will be often.

In short if you roll your dice on a Rover there is a really good chance you will be getting snake eyes. Don’t let it scare you, just go into it with realistic expectations and as much knowledge as possible.

@@venturevalzone2799 this wouldn't be a daily and i'm able to fix / diagnose / troubleshoot issues. I guess given the age and all the electronics / ecu that it will be hard to avoid not have lights on the dash quite often.

@@rippinmachines Then heck yeah! Get that son of a gun! They are an absolute blast to drive! The sc is a bit more of a pain to work on over the n/a sheerly because you have to pull the sc for most of the maintenance stuff. Other then that just see if the timing chains were done and be prepared to do the coolant lines every 60k miles. The lights come on for random weird things but most of it is either a one time weird thing or miss reading and once cleared you never see them again. A bad battery will pull some weird codes too.

@@venturevalzone2799 even with 94500miles you think the dash will be lighting up all the time? Current owner says that’s not the case but I don’t really believe him. I’d get a code reader if I bought it.

Thank you! Can go wrong with some classical music while camping. Still to this date my favorite camp spot! Our pup lived it up on this trip and thankfully we gave her a life of adventure and love.

I have recently seen the updated aluminum ones in the past month, sadly they didn’t pop up until after I already swapped these ones. Next go around I will be doing the aluminum ones.

@@venturevalzone2799 i only see the aluminum ones for the supercharger. Crickets on the normal 5.0. It has the same problems but they ignore it like a red headed step child.

@@robertchiarizia9463 100%. They are try to pretend like they never existed

@@robertchiarizia9463 Just switch to waterless coolant and the plastic won't burst open because there's almost no pressure in the coolant system with waterless coolant.

@@JetFire9 it’s the o rings, not the plastic. O rings aren’t sold separately. They flatten out over time and need replaced.

Dispersed camping by my understanding is not allowed during hunting season in Ocala Nf. Check out the Nf website to clarify.

plenty of people camp there during hunting season dispersed or otherwise but it is not the safest place during hunting season especially with the dog deer hunting.I live 15 minutes away but stay out of much of forest during hunting season because of the unsafe hunters.

I am genuinely stoked and surprised at the same time that this came out as good as it did, it’s the first time I didn’t spend a whole trip getting footage myself and honestly hardly made an effort at all. It was nice to see more perspectives and less of me talking in front of a camera 😅. All that being said it was a stellar trip and the footage still doesn’t do it justice.

It’s in Ocala nf and it’s one of that you have to find. Quite a few people that spend time exploring out there know the spot but part of the fun and adventure is mapping and exploring which makes spots like this even better.

@@venturevalzone2799 that is part of what you found fun? Or you are deciding for Mike Burney what he should find fun?

@@christopherblaisdel wtf are you talking about dude?!?

@@venturevalzone2799 You posted a camp spot. Mike asked you where the spot is. You said you would not tell him because it was "part of the fun" to drive around searching for it. I simply asked: who would that be fun for? You? Or Mike?

@@christopherblaisdel If you don’t enjoy the exploring part then why would you want to go remote camping in this manner, let alone watch my videos. A top of that there are plenty of options at state parks and local campgrounds that would remove the “fun” that you’re worried about. To answer your question more bluntly, it’s the nice way of saying no I’m not telling, but I would hope that was an obvious.

That isn't lake Dorr

@@mikeburney9282 hard to say but it looks like it but they all kinda look like that in ocala so u might be right .but lake dorr does have spots just like that too

Dorr it’s that clean! The homeless people had taken over on the backside 🤬

Absolutely! Love this spot!

I’ve learned this about 24 hours to late 😂

Lucky8. I don’t remember how much they are, you can check out there website and see.

If I end up doing another bleed in the near future I will. Your best bet is to get a vacuum pump to bleed the system with. For a quick explanation though fill your coolant tank, crank the rig and bring up to 2000-3000 rpm’s and keep it there. Turn on the heater on the truck at full blast. On initial start crack your bleeder nut on the back side towards the battery until you get a steady stream of coolant (only break it loose enough to let out the air, you do not want to do this when it is hot because it will go everywhere and you risk the bleeder nut popping off and causing harm to you or the vehicle. Be careful cracking these as they are plastic and prone to breaking. I would recommend ordering the brass replacements prior to doing this to save yourself the headache of it failing during bleeding or later when you are driving.). Once the truck heats up keep running until you feel hot air come from the vents. The hotter the air the less air in the system. You have to run it until the thermostat opens to cycle the full system. Once you get to this point you can cautiously back the bleeder but on the coolant reservoir to let out air, keep cracking and closing this bleeder nut as air builds up. You should notice a big difference in the temperature from the heater at this point. Keep doing this until there are no more air bubbles. (All of the above is done while the heat is running and the motor is between 2k and 3k rpm’s. This is a 2 person job). Once you feel good with your bleed then turn off the rig and let it cool. DO NOT open anything on the system until it is completely cool, if you do it will draw air into the system and you have to start over. Once the motor cools, about 2 hours, top off the coolant and do it all over again. After you feel the air is out of the system let it sit overnight, I’ve heard some people leave the cap cracked on the reservoir to help let air escape, this will allow the air to settle. The next day top off the coolant and repeat the bleeding process. Your rig should be blowing extremely hot air from the vents once warmed up, temp gauge should be sitting in the middle. Keep a close eye on the coolant level for the following few days to top off incase there were any trapped air pockets. I would recommend being very confident doing the bleeding process, they are very finicky and will over heat in an instant. They are difficult, take your time, repeat the process as many times as you need to until you feel 120%. These motors leave very little room for error. Hope this helps!

You can order them from Amazon, eBay, Atlantic British, lucky8, rovers north, or almost any other Rover supplier. They were about $170us. Just try to get OEM, there are cheaper options and they are junk.

The water is murky due to the river flowing in from local salt water marshes and black water rivers that connect to it. The water does not smell.

Thanks man!

I ordered them off of Amazon on believe but it won’t let me go far enough back on my order history to get details. If you search led fog lights for the Range Rover they will come up. I think I chose the ones with the best reviews.

It was nice meeting you as well!

As poorly as most people treat older Toyotas now a days though I don’t feel like the used market for a yota is much better, especially dollar for dollar. Find me a Toyota at used Rover pricing that isn’t an absolute basket case lol. I love my rovers though!

Thank you! It was a great time! The range will be getting a some a/ts or m/ts in the coming future. The tires that came on the rims were brand new and didn’t want them to go to waste especially as the wife is using it mostly for highway miles currently. They have also been low priority since all the other issues took precedence. Gravel roads are about as much as I’ll be doing until I can throw some on 🥲.

I ordered mine off of eBay. I tried to go through Atlantic British and lucky8 but everyone was out of stock. LR008881 is the Rover part number. I went with the continental one for price and availability. Way better quality then the cheap one that broke into the intake manifold.

@@venturevalzone2799 Did you mean LR087236 ? Or are they same part numbers?

Do you have to program the new MAP sensor to the car?

Learn something new everyday 😅😅. That would have been very handy for the valve cover fiasco! Thank you for the tip!

Timing chains are good, checked them in a later video when I did a valve cover. The noise is most likely dirty valves and old injectors. Also had some bad seals in the intake manifold which was causing it to run really rough