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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

25cc/rev sounds the right size for the type R motor , and indeed the std motor too, they are high vol motors . ......are you tempted to go to 3/4" hoses and valves now? What volume is your tank ? and do you run a cooler ? mmm hydraulics cheers Steveb

We first drove that lane back in the early 80's , it should have a county road number as an unsurfaced road , or at least it used to ..... The last time I drove it the section from the reservoir to the then heavily wooded hill descent heading north had been levelled and built up for waterboard traffic to use we thought ? We knew it as the long county road and used it in the same way as you , it cuts out a lot of road miles and is a superb high moors drive cheers Steveb

An excellent project HoSS, and your initial model looks good , the detail on the ECU and loom will be useful to have recorded along with the gearbox control too I'll be reading this as it develops with interest cheers Steveb

Hi and welcome to the forum I have the earlier Mayflower pto winch running on a pto hyd set up some basic info : flow = line speed and : pressure = pulling force you will need a fairly fast hyd motor spindle speed to get a reasonable line speed as the worm reduction is big - 48:1 springs to mind , so a gear motor or a Rexroth bentaxis style ( very £££'s) and an operating pressure in excess of 150 bar to get comparable line pull to the mech set up The off the shelf AC belt driven kit I have seen had a pretty small flow pump compared to my pto unit and electric hyd systems such as ex-tipper truck units are even lower flow There are people on here with big pumps driven from the engine with toothed belts or chain and also driveshaft direct from crank which work really well cheers Steveb

edit to ref the missing f quote @ GBmud ......well I weld for a living every day ........take it or leave it ...........its free advice and backed up with decades of experience Steveb

.....I'd recommend the opposite - sorry slower and less current would mean a smaller weld but big hot welds overhead take a lot of practice , if required a double weld could be run , otherwise your welding looks good oh and clean metal makes the world of difference too cheers Steveb ......and where's the welding smiley when you need it ? edit to say crossed your post Lewis , anti spatter spray/dip is good too but that is wire globule running back to the tip the main thing is practice LN

Phil Bashall? I seem to remember he was active in the AWDC in the 80's ? I tried to buy that Roadless back in the early 90's when it came up for release from service tis a pretty cool little set up he has there , lots of odd variants cheers Steveb

It was ok , but what happened to the patina of age ? Tbh a find in that condition would have looked a lot better cleaned and fixed and put on the road as it was . It now looks just like every other polished up 80". Just my opinion of course. I'm also pretty sure that there are a lot more than 400 80" LandRovers still on the road? The galv drips on the grille really caught my eye too It was good to see Tom Sheppard on the tv as well cheers Steveb