TeriAnn

Check the quality of the gauge to fuel tank and fuel tank to ground connections while you are checking the voltage to fuel gauge connections per the earlier posts. You could just be dealing with a very poor electric connection. I don't recall your vehicle year, but the trucks factory wired for positive earth didn't have voltage regulators (at least in the States) so I thought I would provide something else to check.

You can if locked 10 spline axles can not stand up to your driving. I gave up on 10 spline axles after breaking 7 rears, one front and twisting one front. All but the twisted front was done with a 2.25L petrol engine over a 20 year period. Why is the current owner giving them up? A gift horse that turns out to have laminitis isn't much of a gift Now a set of 24 spline ARB's would be quite nice.

According to my measurements I drive a Series II (not A) 111. Before I made a change, my wheelbase measured 109-1/2 from centre dust cover to centre dust cover. I added a 1-1/2 inch offset plate between the rear diff and its leaf springs (moving the diff to the rear of the spring centre). This centred the rear wheels in the rear wheel arch, making my ever so loverly truck even more esthetically balanced and pleasing in appearance and changed the spring harmonic characteristics a little. I will attempt to remain lady like and refrain from bashing 88's. The are after all our 109's little siblings and need to feel loved as well.

The vents are called scuttle vents. The bulkhead area between the bonnet and windscreen is called a scuttle. Geeeeeezzzzz don't you guys speak English over there? In the States, the solution is a lot easier due to the shape of the plates. I thought there was an alternative UK numberplate configuration that was taller and narrower with the number divided onto two lines?

Thanks, I like them. Nope. I'm sitting at home. I currently have 2 trips planned with others, a week long camping trip North along the coast in late August and a week long trip into the death valley area between Christmas and New Years. I'm looking for a new place to live so I expect be exploring likely areas in Arizona and Colorado over the period of a month or so in my Dormobile.

I'm new here and thought I would introduce myself. I'm TeriAnn Wakeman. I live on the edge of Monterey bay in California and drive a 1960 SII Land Rover Dormobile conversion. I have a second car, a 1961 Triumph TR3A. Hobbies that may be of interest to forum members are photography and and writing web pages. My first Land Rover was a 1966 88 which I purchased in 1976. I purchased my 1960 109 in March 1978. She was a broken down worn out pickup that had been sitting under trees for a couple of years. The previous owner inherited the truck and only knew to put oil in the engine. He drove it until the read diff went dry, put it into 4WD and continued in front wheel drive until the transfercase went dry. It happened close to home so he had it towed home where it sat for a few years before I found the truck and had to rescue it. March 1978 right after towing her home Between 1978 and 1991 The Green Rover worked as a farm truck, carrying lives stock, hay, grain and once a month being filled to the roofline with manure & spent bedding. I put a full roof on her in 1979. During this time and afterwards I frequently went on weekend camping trips. But I found that beyond 3 or 4 days I really longed for the comforts of home. So in 1996 I decided to bring home along with me on camping trips. I purchased a poor condition Dormobile kit from a Dormobile that was destroyed in a wreck and set about converting my truck to a motor caravan. Coming home with the Dormobile kit. Over the course of the next year I had the tares in the lifting roof repaired, new sticks made up to replace the rusted out ones, refinished the kit, fabricated a new second wardrobe, a second sink and refrigerator stand. Then I had the truck repainted 1973 Jaguar British Racing Green. The Dormobile conversion was completed enough to be totally functional by late August 1997 and I headed off for a 3 month camping trip when the new paint was barely dry. During the following 52 weeks My Green Rover and I were out traveling and camping for a total of 20 weeks. It was also the 20th year that I owned my Land Rover as well as Land Rover's 50th year. I thought it was a good way to test out a new Dormobile conversion. In 1999 The Green Rover received a 302 (5.0L) V8 conversion along with a Borg Warner T-18 truck gearbox and power steering. Her current drive train consists of: a Ford Mustang 302 V8, Borg Warner T-18 gearbox, Series transfercase with Ashcroft high ratio kit, custom front & rear propshafts with long slip joints and high angle U joints, Rear Salisbury with ARB diff and hardened axles, the front is a Rover assembly with TruTrac automatic torque biasing diff and SeriesTrek 24 spline front axles. The R&P is the stronger 4.75:1 gear set. So that's the bare bone basics. I just like to go out exploring in my motor caravan and taking pictures. My truck and I have been together for over 30 years now and I'm always looking forward to the next trip.

That explains my confusion and at the same time negates the need for a newbie introduction posting. No newbies allowed. OK. Sorry for the thread hijack and off topic questions.

No. Either I'm a total forum dunce, or I don't have permissions to see certain forums areas. The link you supplied returned a page that said the link was bad. When I look at LR4x4 - The Land Rover Forum >, here's what I see: The Lounge International Forum Getting out and about Competing in Land Rovers Tools and Fabrication The Video Shack Tech Archive Land Rover Technical Archive Requests for part numbers Vehicles Series forum Defender forum Freelander forum Discovery forum Range Rover forum Military forum The Market Place For sale Wanted Board Statistics ... Nothing about members vehicles or anyplace that might be used for introductions & such. From what I can see this appears to be a very business like no nonsense forum that is not conducive to personal interactions.

I'm still somewhat lost in this forum's layout. I do not see a members vehicles forum in any of the places I've browsed so far. I've found a members alphabetical listing which doesn't seem all that friendly and a gallery which as of yet doesn't make sense to me. Neither place seems appropriate for a newbie into and virtual tour of my truck. Actually the Mustang EFI is quite good and self adapts to many different engine modifications and configurations. My only problems so far has been unknowingly installing used wrong or out of spec parts to save money and not knowing which thermostat to install.

I was going to do an intro post (Hi I'm me and I'm here) but there doesn't seem to be a place in the forum for newbies to introduce ourselves. Maybe I'm going through a shy phase, but it seemed that a "Here's my Land Rover and look at all its goodies" posting seemed a bit pretentious for a forum newbie. I've had her for a little over 30 years now and to me she is basically a pimped out Dormobile that will go anywhere I care to point her and her tyres can find bight. If there is interest I could give a virtual cook's tour of The Green Rover but I don't want to impose not knowing the social dynamics of this group. I actually need the big fan. There are times when I travel in areas that well over 100 degrees F (38 degrees C) And I have learned something about my EFI system the hard way. The computer puts the engine into warm up mode below 185F (85C) and the thermostat that is supposed to be paired with the computer is 190F (88C). Mine was cooler. When the computer is in warm up mode it runs the engine lean to help it get up to operating temperature quicker. with a lower temperature thermostat the radiator kept the engine below 185. So the engine was running cool but very learn. Which meant very high exhaust temperatures, manifolds and exhaust. I had melted a clutch hydraulic hose, an O2 sub harness and had very high temperatures in fuel lines that ran near the exhaust system causing vapour lock on long trips in hot weather. That problem took me about 2 years to solve as I've never seen the temperature point where the computer switches to normal mode in print. Of course since I live on the cool coast they problem was only noticeable when I ventured inland in the summer. Which is a long winded way to mention that a big fan comes in handy with a 190 (88) degree thermostat in occasional 100 (38) degree plus ambient temperatures.

My wrecking yard search yielded a pusher fan from a V8 Mercedes that is the largest diameter that will fit in front of a radiator in the radiator bulkhead area. Of course I have a relay handling the power, a temperature switch in the core fins to trigger the fan when the temperature gets high enough and a switch in series with that so I can turn off the fan for a water crossing. In case you are curious about that sliver thing behind the fan: It is a custom aluminum cross flow radiator which in turn cools a 1970 Mustang 302 (5.0L) V8 with 1991 Mustang fuel injection.

Answer to the original question: An American by the name of Timm Cooper occasionally makes small production runs of special hubs and swivel housings he designed for a disc brake conversion. The conversion uses Defender/Discovery I/Range Rover classic brake components. I believe there are currently none available. I have a web page that gives a brief overview of the various conversions that are available: disc brake conversions Here is a photo of my front disc brakes (1960 SII, 109) Uses off the shelf GM brake components used on several US GM vehicles.