At the moment i'm still battling with the brakes...
I bought a set of shoes front and back yesterday. Jacked up the back and removed the wheel.(bloody heavy!!!!!!!!!!!!) Couldn't find my big phillips screwdriver to remove the two screws. Dug out my impact driver only to find the phillips bits missing...
So i thought i'd remove a sparkplug and go and get a new set of plugs and leads. Do you think i could find a plug socket?
So to Plan B.
Long sockets!
Got it into my head plugs used a 19mm socket. Grabbed a 19, 18 and 17mm long socket and tried to remove a plug. No luck! Presumed it was either not long enough or too fat to fit into the head recess. So gave up and grabbed something from the chippy for tea.
A few hours later i was looking through the manual i'd downloaded and discovered the plugs are 14mm...
Went to the Land Rover spares do at Malvern and came home with a vacuum brake bleeding kit, (read that this is the best way for bleeding a 101)a set of round thingys for removing and pressing home seals and bearings(hopefully make replacing the transfer box rear seal easier), a big phillips screw driver with metal running through the hand and a square shaft. Great for smacking with a hammer to shock the threads free and using a spanner for more oomph to undo a screw. Oh, and a plug socket. So i should be good to go!
I took it for a spin around the block again yesterday too with the brake adjusters backed right off. Still binding like hell and despite revving ok in low range pops and bangs and misfires in high range just when you try to grab third gear! To the point that once i find third, it's too going too slow for third! Before i wasn't sure whether the issue was fuel or spark. Now i'm leaning towards fuel. I'm wondering if the fuel pump is man enough for a V8. It's sat on top of the fuel tank, is about two inches in diameter and the same long. The SU pumps in my old Jags were about three times as long. So i might look at a new pump in addition to plugs, leads and dizzy cap. I'll have a look at the access to the points. If it's easy i might change those too. It's got to be about 25 years since i messed with plugs and points! I've been diesel ever since then, apart from a Lotus Elise which i just took to my cousin and threw money at him. FAR easier. I keep threatening to give him the 101 to sort out but his garage is about ten miles away and i don't know how long it would take to drive it there