Thanks for the replies. No death wobble yesterday on a 4 hour trip, but I did manage to do some big damage. I think I'm am going to start a new thread on that. Ill have to put this off until next year at least.

My vote goes for keep it original. Unless we are talking about drum brakes that are impossibly hard to adjust, bleed... well I guess it makes you take a look under the chassis and give you some exercise so keep that too.

I just snugged up a bolt under the steering relay unit that holds a bottom arm to it. Its the unit right behind the grill. (2A 109) Well that I think was the cause of whats called the death wobble I have been having. I had the front up on this morning on jacks and while I was pushing and pulling...

There is no grandfather clause? I could not imagine taking a classic car and drilling holes for seat straps. What if next is that everyone needs to install anti lock brakes, ya know for safety? Well anyway I did'nt think a series land rover could go fast enough to need belts, and as for the...

Okay thanks everyone, learned something new.

Does anyone know where to source slave brake cyclinders that are aluminium? I need to replace one on the front of my 109, and the iron replacement one seems to corroid really fast.

I have the one with the tank on the bottom, so I guess its not gravity. I wish now I would have bought one with the tank on the top. Mine is a cheapy, I feel its a little slow but does a decent job.

Its probably too late since the head is off but I wonder if a pressure test would be helpful. Something like threading the hose used for the compression test you did and instead of attaching gauge you hook it up to the air compressor. Perhaps rotate the crank until the piston your testing to...

Sounds like the fan rubbing the radiator shroud to me.

All done, test drove it today. Its like a new vehicle (except for the non existent brakes, thats normal), not like the old Landy. I set static timing (plugging vacuum hose), adjusted mixture and idle. Its so quiet and absolutely no vibration. So much more power. Here is 2 sets of compression...

Got it put back together, it fired, ran it for a couple minutes. I'm going to post compression test results tomorrow.

Your right it belonged to the military according to previous owner.

Got the new valves in, some duck egg engine paint on the springs I noticed. Wonder if that is from factory or some previous paint job over spray. Last picture is my set up for trying to get that goddam dog of the pully. I did have it in gear but the clutch must be going bad. I wanted something...

update: Finally got the valve seat cutter I ordered 3 weeks ago. A little disappointed it only came with the exhaust cutter. The tool works very nice though, but the book said exhaust seats are 45 degrees, the tool driver its printed as 46 degrees. Its a Newway valve seat cutter kit - Land Rover...

Couple pictures of where I'm at now. Not sure if that is normal wear. Also found every 1 inch long bolt on the water pump cross threaded. Waiting for parts again with correct unf type thread. Also waiting for deep socket large enough for the flywheel nut.

Are the seat belts required? I thought there should be a "grandfather" clause in the rules.

update, Got held up today when looking at the three cooling water cast pieces. Lots of scale/corrosion so I tried to lap the gasket faces by hand with sand paper until they where mostly flat. I know now why the three long bolts where half the dia. they originally where. Ended up using a...

Ckl Your right, the roller assembly was flaking off chips. At least 1-2mm difference between new and old. The rollers are mostly in great shape. The new sliders don't say "front" on them, so I am guessing they go either way. Ah its fine, I thought they may have had hardened seats already. I...

I have mine off at the moment so I looked, Not sure if my radiator is stock or not but the connection at top and bottom of radiator is 35mm, The part on the engine that houses the thermostat is also 35mm, the bypass hose connection below the thermostat looks like 34mm. Those are the 4 I measured...

Update, Cleaned up the head little by little, to me it looks like I have hardened seats pressed in already. Is that assessment correct? Brother-in-law says my seats are fine, just need to be recut on the bad one (exhaust #1). He thinks some debris, or object caused the malformation on the...