What did you do on your Series today?

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Dopey

Dopey

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Well today I managed to get a battery... just charging it up, she has been sitting on the road for about 6 months, so going to try and fire her up 2morrow all being well, winters coming and (I hope the snow) so she will be seeing some off road action soon
 
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Removed rear axle, prop, leaf springs, shocks - Salisbury axle is heavy on your own!

Got the refurbished non-Salisbury axle to go under it and a complete new set of GB Springs Parabolics... sadly i learnt the lesson of buying birtpart parabolics when i first got the Series. New rear brakes, hubs, brake lines, the lot ready to go on too!

It's been off the road for 10 months now, really depressing! But as we've sold the house i'm kinda under pressure to fix it!
 
Put my original carb back on as britpart zenith accelerator pump wasnt working. Needs setting up i guess. Reset static timing as i forgot to nip dizzy pinch bolt up and moved its position whilst fiddling with vac advance!
Took it for a drive and parked it back over its renewable oil retention device ( piece of chipboard)
 
rescues 2 wipac spotlights 1 work light and a 12 volt halogen floodlight from a skip

amazingly they all work no cracked lenses and none of the rubber is perished neither
 
managed to get wedged at bures pit today :hysterically_laughi

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Didn't have time 2day to try and start her up... next week now!! why duz life get in the way of Land Rover ownership?? ;)
 
Dopey said:
Didn't have time 2day to try and start her up... next week now!! why duz life get in the way of Land Rover ownership?? ;)
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good question

in my case i take on absolutely stupid tasks such as sorting a fookin old wreck of an austin for someone who hasnt any patience to wait for it to be done properly but also hasnt got any time nor the energy not to mention the brains to do it himself

aswell as sorting evrything for crimbo family life shopping for the crippled inlaws having to turn paying little jobs down never getting a fookin day to meself never mind the fookin weekend evry fekker is at me with the i want i want i want me me me me now now now and i want it done for nowt and yesterday please and can you hang on fer yer money for a fortnight ( **** taking ****s)

all this **** is beginning to nudge my relationship with the missus onto the ****in rocks and all i want to do with me landy is change a busted sidelight bulb and a new gasket in the drivers front wheel hub

soon as the car is done and off me case itllo be nobody getting **** all out of me from that point on as im just ****ed off to the back teeth with the mither of it all :mad::mad::mad:

:5brant::5brant:
 
I took a pic of the S2 rolling chassis I am in process of buying. Just got to cut down the tree growing up through the middle of the chassis and lift it out of the hedge with a loader...

There are axles in there somewhere...

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Dopey said:
johnny curt 1..... Check out this word, its called NO,

And the chassis... looks mint
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sessame street or what ............the word today is NO :D:D:D

itll be me new fave word from now on and will be me new years resolution for next year to say NO more often :cool::cool:

cheers dopey :smokin:
 
NO is right!

Surprisingly the chassis is in excellent order all things considered, serious layers of paint on it. I plan to whip out the engine (totally ceased), blast the chassis and galvanise.

I have a spare 2.25 petrol I plan to rebuild next winter which will go in. Believe it or not I was given the 2.25 petrol which was then the catalyst to build a Series 2!

Then I may consider looking for a donor vehicle, only I have a 110 V8 to rebuild first...
 
You need to have a close look at the chassis, I have seen some before that have been dipped in lead... and if it was, then I would keep the lead on it rather than galv it
 
me i reversed my series 3 out of the workshop 2nd drive after new clutch and half way out the doors i just lost drive and had a bluddy whirring noise it was -15 at the time and the gear oil is like treacle i know that for a fact but to just lose drive when your bringing the clutch up it engaged and started to move then nothing then i got the whirring noise and turned the engine off put it in first low and nothing at all engine fired just sat there so think the thrust bearing has got stuck in place from lack of treacle in a semi engaged position which would give me my symptoms so any ideas ?
 
Dopey said:
You need to have a close look at the chassis, I have seen some before that have been dipped in lead... and if it was, then I would keep the lead on it rather than galv it
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Interesting and noted! I'll have a good look to see...
 
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