Well the mpg did fall away and its just under 34mpg
I went to Crook Bros at Houghton near Preston which is just up the road and he had a look over it....
Front steering arm is bent - This is why the steering wheel is slightly skew £20
Front diff casing is slightly dinged - Just live with it but it does demonstrate it's been off road.
Steering box - Has the original older design one and the box is worn, a refurb kit is unlikely to fix this. £160+vat
Gearbox - Yep. It's working fine other than 1st to 2nd syncro. This will only get worse and the only fix is another box preferably a recon £495+vat
Spoke to the seller and pointed out the "superb" and "knackered gearbox" do not fit in the same sentence. He assured me that they would make it so that I was happy. They are currently ringing around looking for a box......
Now unless they supply and fit the box it is no good to me because it they just offer me another box how do I know it's even as good as the current one and after the labour costs to fit it I would not be able to swap it back out again and even if I did I would be back at square one.
Chap from Crook said that the landrover is worth what I paid if the gearbox is sorted and to be honest it would have been worth more than what I paid if it had had a newly reconditioned gearbox...... So I'm going to try for £200 back towards the recon gearbox and then I'll get an Ashcroft box into it and go from there.