After the recent crap weather the sun finally came out today so i donned a woolly hat and took out my old heap for a quick trip around the block to give her a run

Upon my return i discovered that i had a split water hose , i made up a new hose from a scrap bit i had lying around, fired it up again to check for leaks the thing then decided to get stuck in gear, pulling and pushing the gear stick whilst rocking it back and forwards had no affect so i then had to remove all the floor matting, take the gear stick out and peer down into the gearbox to see what was occurring, managed to get a screw driver down the hole and line everything back up, luckily it was only a selector thingy out of line so nothing broken, looks like the gearstick just jumped out the slot, a new gasket also had to be made as the old one fell to bits upon its disturbance, re-inserted the gear stick complete with homemade gasket and hay presto we had a full set of gears again a blast down to the local shops and all seems to be fine now.


Nothing like a old landy with no top on and a Rover V8 to listen to who needs a radio or a roof.

In the end i got about 10 mins of driving and spent the other 2 or 3 hours tinkering, the joys of owing a fine piece of British engineering, the grin factor makes it all worth it

thats some machine there man! I quite fancy one of them myself but the only one I've ever seen for sale was a tad rotten.

Why thank you,

It started off life in the water board as hard top, Its plated for 7020 kgs gross train weight which i think would be a bit scary trying to prove.


I manged to buy another full tilt series 3 very cheap so swapped all the relevant bits over,

Need to do some more work to the bulkhead and chassis as it has its fair share of bad bits as they all do

Stage One is on my bucket list.