Thanks guys, we will do all that, or rather he will. is there any way of checking TDC without the drama of having to pull the crank pulley? Simon

Distributor - 1 coil .yes all leads in the correct order

Gents, Having just completed the head gasket change on my sons Freelander (1.8 petrol) we now seem not to be able to get it to start. We checked the timing on the cam sprockets before and as we hadn't moved the crank at all until we rotated the engine by hand to check it I'm pretty certain that...

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Ouch, i feel your pain, I had the same years back and bought a complete set from ebay same time as i did the headlight rewire with the relays, the Jaeger type you can get for like 30 quid, there are also LED ones about i do believe. Simon

Shhh don't tell anyone but i got rid of the Disco2 money pit and replaced it with a Pathfinder but the hounds of hell couldn't get me to lose the SIII mate ;)

It's an 88, yes I have bigger tires on it (general grabbers)

West Sussexian refugee actually :) My thing up here is hills and more hills followed by rather steep mountain passes and I have a trailer so i'm after a bit more pulling power like a steady 70 or 80kmh would be nice as this is the speed limit on such roads. I am also assuming that i'll have to...

I did the carb already and reading the blurb from ACR seems like doing the whole set should bring it up quite a lot. The back story being in Switzerland is it's an almost impossible to get a series 3 with a TD engine upgrade through the Helvetian version of an MOT, you have to virtually have the...

I'm considering doing this in the spring, has anyone else here done this and if so how hard was it and what to look out for. Thanks Simon

Hi folks, previously we (my son actually) had a non starting F1, so thanks to the help here we replaced the dizzy and rotor and got her running. However previously he had an overheating escapade when the hose from the expansion tank came off and he ran her dry, but she was running. Now its got...

I have done this twice now on my 5mb and the mistake I made was not removing the flywheel housing the first time, replacing the "O" ring behind it and fitting the main oil seal while the housing is out make a huge difference, the first time I didn't remove the housing and just pressed the new...

Sadly not in Switzerland even from the Landrover dealers they take advantage, for a country with only 9% VAT they cry import costs, storage costs and blah blah. The assumption is that if you live here you must be earning vast amounts of money which is no longer the case with even the big banks...

Yea we found them . Here's the scary part, the swiss Britpart dealer wants 56 quid for the cap and 40 for the rotor ... plus local postage we would be at nearly £100.- So the parts are speeding their way from Paddocks. Thanks for the help. Simon

Well after a finger freezing half an hour it turns out that the dizzy cap and rotor are to blame, the spring loaded center pin that connects to the rotor is in a million tiny pieces and the rotor looks like .. well 20 years old which i guess it is. Having no looked on paddocks i'm struggling to...

it's an early 1.8 and looks like normal plugs, no coil packs i saw.. i'll be there after work so thanks for the fuel cut off tip, how do we reset that if its been triggered?

Thanks .. what type of spark plug can I use .. why is that the swiss parts shop want the vin number to order that .. can i really be so complicated?

This is my faithful F1 that I have donated to my Son who just passed his test, it was my daily driver ( I confess I'm now running a Pathfinder) and all was fine until Monday morning (it was running on Sunday night), turned over but no start, he has bought a new battery (swiss winters can easily...

Guys, a swiss mate of mine with the same series D2 face lift has managed to wipe out the front end and i mean its a real mess and we cant seem to find to find much in the way of body parts online for these. Any pointers? Wings, inner wings, front valance, headlight panel and and and ..

is the moral of the tale here get proper tools? a white dot with tipex and 50p protractor is not the solution right? Are there good bolts and bad copies? i'm kind of starting to think that whilst cheaper parts might work on the Series that your better off using as good a quality as you can on a...