Gidday Mate,
Happened across this thread in my Friday night internet ramblings and HAD to join up and post!
Glad to see you're chipping away at the old girl! I've certainly missed her since selling to you.
We were actually up in the pohangina valley recently, and I remembered where you said you lived so I couldn't resist doing a drive by. I didn't do a lot of work on this old girl (bare minimum to be honest!) but I really got the LR bug from it!
Sold up my Mitsi Pajero, and am in the throes of selling me ol' Toyota Crown at the moment and have begun searching for my dream landy already. Was super gutted i wasn't in a position to purchase your Stage One when you sold it a wee while back! Went for far too cheap in my opinion! Do you still see it around at all?
On the topic of the alternator - it never used to like charging until you gave the engine a good rev. bit odd but I never persued it any further. When I bought the thing, it had a couple of inlet manifolds and carbs on the back, nothing fitted to the engine, and a blown out muffler. I assembled the intake side with what I had and just enjoyed the thing. Was always wanting the spare time to give her a proper tidy up but in reality she just lived down the back under a half tarp a lot of the time - the beauty of having 5/6 cars, you have to spread time so thinly!
Hope to cross paths in the future. I think I've still got your number handy. Should pop up and see the old girl and yarn about landrovers some time.
Cheers
Cam.