Could be worse, I spent 15 minutes at the side of the road trying to work out why the bloody thing had stopped before I noticed the coil lead wasn't on the coil. It's not even as if it's hard to see

He owns a series land rover that should already be an indication that he's mad

there about £15 online an bolt to the sill, i vaguely remember seeing landrovers with them as a kid, plus side is if i go off road its 2 bolts to remove them to avoid them betting flattened

atrent those cheaper ones for a defender not a series or would they fit

She can wait till she's a pensioner and get one for free.

Anyone fitted the stirrup type steps on a series, Mrs struggles to get in and I don't want to spend 80quid on the folding ones just to stop shortarse moaning. These are the ones I mean

i will admit it takes a couple of minutes for it to settle down and run smooth

Mine starts first time no choke, only needs choke when it's very cold , 2.25 petrol no electronic ignition. I know this isn't helping anyone solve starting issues, just wanted to boast about it

Check the breather ppipe, filler pipe and the gaskets on the fuel pipe and sender , they're right under your seat so fumes probably coming from there

yesterday I took the hood and sticks off folded the screen down, went for a nice drive along the seafront in the sun, today Im putting it all back on cos its sodding rainy again and i need to use it, this year the hoods been on and off more than a whores drawers -when is the summer coming!!!!

start up a driveway jet wash company and leave the business card at all of your friends houses after you've parked on their drive

Bloody immigrants coming over here and polishing our cars

Ouch, not good for the wallet, mine was just about half a litre

Little update, took the drums off and checked everything, one of the top springs was a bit bent and rubbing on the hub, probably did that somehow when fitting it, straightened that, re adjusted, bled, went for a drive the odd squeal but no where near as bad, stopped to fill up ready for...

on the plus side anything your braking to avoid hitting knows your coming

no steady posts on mine its a swb 1974 series 3, might try taking them off and see if anything looks like its scraping, hard braking no noise but gentle braking its quite annoying.

Fitted new pads, all working very nicely apart from the front brakes are squeaking loud enough to scare passing pedestrians. Any suggestions or do they need to just wear in?

Could be worse I was putting a new filler hose on, easiest way to get it on is remove the filler pipe, spent half an hour in and out the back of the car to put mole grips on the nuts inside so I could use the screw driver on the outside. When I finished I realised it would have been quicker to...

of course, land rover thought the best thing to put on the end of the gear lever which rubs against metal and is hard to get to was a easily worn down rubber o ring

yes its definitely not period correct on it, the bloke i bought it off (who restored it) said the owner before him was going to turn it into a naval shore patrol replica and drilled a couple of holes for extra lights next to the rear lights but never got round to actually finishing it, the bloke...