steve b

Yep , your first post is correct , open holes in the 5 weld nuts on the return at the top . Its simply a matter of fitting a fibre washer under each screw ..........but ffs why not put the correct inserts in OR supply the washers as part of the tank kit , it's a small but bloody stupid failure to conform , Even a damn sticker to say use washers {rant over} Steveb

... a probe - oooer - in the spark plug hole ? a good friend of mine took an Ami 8 and removed the body , banded the front wheels 8" and fitted 10.50 - 15's and made it 2 seater one behind the other back in the 80's and even as a 2wd it floated over rough or boggy terrain better than a swb series we christened it the mud skipper , it did need some mud guards but full waterproofs and goggles worked ok . he even fabbed a scoop to draw the air for cooling from behind the engine at the top to help when splashing I also saw a 2cv racing at Peters pit AWDC comp safari back then and it did itself proud , not last by any means cheers Steveb

Is your steering box in the centre at straight ahead ? And check the wheels/tyres again for balance and run-out , some of the pot holes around here could be more correctly called bomb craters . I'm glad I have 1 tonne/fc steels . Tyres do deform too so a high spot could well be the problem cheers Steveb posted while I was chugging around the keyboard , I'd pull another thin shim or two from the king pins and maybe try another damper , new stuff does sometimes fail

That is indeed an optical trigger Lumenition set up . It mounts to the std points base and plugs into a small amplifier that hooks up to the std coil terminals . Just stick some points and condenser in to get 'er up and running . The main issue with the points set up is the plastic "nut plate" under the baseplate that the gap adjuster screw fits into becomes loose on the thread and the moves while its running cheers Steveb

It's usually retarded injector pump timing due to wear in the skew gear driving it off the cam . There are slots at the pump mount bolts and iirc the FIP needs turning clockwise from above . Loosen the inj pipes first , and move it a bit , re tighten the bolts and pipes and start . Enough is when you have an audble low diesel knock and no , or little blue smoke on acceleration , and maybe a small amount of black smoke You will notice the difference on the road too cheers Steveb

I agree , it's not just voids , but with that poor level of cast there's every chance of inclusions and chilled (brittle) CI . I'd be inclined to measure it all and draw it up then send the parts back for a full refund - postage as well and find a foundry to cast your own and machine up . I'm sure you could do a better job for yourself Soren cheers Steveb edit to add I've assumed that it is CI and not steel , if that is cast steel then that makes the quality even more dubious

That sounds right Ben The ring that goes directly under the bolts is to spread the load to avoid any stress raisers around the bolt head . Check the flex plate carefully for any signs of cracking before it goes in . cheers Steveb

they don't last forever and a bloody pain , big job for a tenner of gasket ,if I do a rear main I do this as well Oil leaks are my major OCD prob , makes me wonder why I gravitated to LR's sometimes ha ha cheers Steveb

is your rear main seal directly in the flywheel housing or in its own small ally housing? the flywheel hsg with seal has a gasket to the block which does go brittle and leaks like a rear main seal cheers Steveb

no bolt in bits on the fuel lines iirc , but that's with the std facet pump which only makes about 6 -8 psi . Just disconnect the electric to the in tank pump and put a low pressure pump in the feed line . cheers Steveb

And 8mm in and 6mm OD out , it's a pressure relief bypass system as std . Chuck the points dizzy in and get it running , then improve as and when you want to mm old skool V8 make sure you have WD-40 for when the HT gets slightly moist ..maybe , I've both versions ,std systems that will nearly go under water and others that will not fire up on a heavy dew in the morning cheers Steveb

The earth circuit ? if the back of the binnacle gets damp the plakky pcb gets pretty ropy quickly and there is a common earth running around it hth Steveb

:i-m_so_happy:Nice pic JU Steveb

My rear heater in my 109 is a 36 row oil cooler plumbed into the coolant with a rad fan off a Nissan Micra to blow the air. The whole thing is only about 400mm x 300mm and about 350mm tall to allow room for directional vents out of some car dash. It works well enough to get rid of all misting and condensation inside in the winter . The fan does pull some amps but moves a lot of air cheers Steveb

that's usually wear in the gearstick top housing allowing the locating peg to drop out of the groove and thus the stick just rotates about like Mary Berry's stirring spoon . if you lift it up and rotate left to right it may relocate , then change gear while lifting it up . These parts are all on top of the box and accessible with the centre tunnel removed cheers Steveb

...if you have fluid on the clutch pedal the master cyl is leaking (unless you spilled fluid topping it up ) . clean it all off- brake cleaner is your friend and check for more leaks. If you replace it make sure your pedal to pushrod clearance is correct . And when you take the slave off hold the pushrod into the arm/clip of doom with some wire nose pliers cos you really don't want to pull the plastic retaining clip of doom off , trust me I'd suggest the gear selection vagueness is made worse by the clutch dragging cheers Steveb

Thanks Fridge , I'll have it when you find it , it's not urgent though . Get the winch on the 109 , you'll wonder how you managed without one once it's installed . My 109 was on the road for 2yrs before I got round to finishing the winch install. I had one of the hyd gensets that I bought from a forumeer and ended up passing on to another forumeer without using it , but a nice bit of kit -3kva 240v / 110v . cheers Steveb

I may be interested in the E-stop and rev raiser system if you do sell it all the value for the main parts is prob about right somewhere between £800 and £1000 , you may make more selling the parts separately . The winch itself is often found on the back of beavertail lorries for recovery or plant moving cheers Steveb

Devils staircase was my idea with caravans .....well it looked interesting on the map ..and got a lot more interesting meeting half a dozen Army LR's coming down Steveb

All round good guy - a top LR mechanic , and always ready to help with whatever he , and they, could offer . The local knowledge started from over here , they started laning in Wales in the 70's while living over here . .. oh and a real petrol head , you have no idea how much stick I got when I turned to diesel... I'll try and make time to scan those old skool photo's and post them cheers Steveb

That's good to read Pat , Dave and Jenny were the ones who introduced me to LandRovers - I had an Austin Champ at the time I met them. Both lovely people and extremely sad that Dave lost his fight with cancer a few years back . My least successful laning week with them and some other old friends in this area was in a 2 door rrc on 7.50-16 alliance AT's , it all turned a bit Darien Gap for the poor old Range Rover when they towed me back to base with two broken diffs , mind you we had just done the ARC national CCVT at Eastnor with it and towed a 16' caravan up some mad single track hairpins - the devils staircase ? 1986 iirc , the RRC was 6years old then Good Days Steveb

The most common failures are rear output seal - behind the HB drum , and less easy to fix , the o ring on the intermediate TB shaft . this is just partially visible to the front face of the TB between the rhs of the gearbox and the front housing of the TB . A really good clean and a healthy smear of sump sealer sometimes stops it . Easiest with the drivers floor and gearbox tunnel out of the way hth Steveb

Yep Always friendly with us when we passed by his place I was lucky enough to do the Monks Trodd once before it was shut down in the late 80's ...if I get time I'll dig out some of the old photos and scan them to get them on here cheers Steveb

........the Ho Chi Min trail ......what a lane that was . Did you know Dave D Pat Pending? we christened that lane which iirc with some legal (back then) forestry roads used to hook up to Anglers Retreat? As you say that whole high Cambrian area used to be littered with fully legal UCR's and byways What a shame it's all gone cheers Steveb

Blimey , 10 litres is a pretty small capacity , but it clearly works . That's interesting to know - what would you say your normal time is pulling at load and the interval between it and the next? What grade oil (SAE no ) do you use ? mine is 46 running a gear motor front and occasional rear MM and 35 litres tank the milky oil may be a result of condensation from repeated heating and cooling? all very interesting cheers Steveb