have you got the kit to lift the body off complete or are you doing it piecemeal?

well I guess 120k still has a fair bit of life in it. good luck!

I wonder how long the current crop of elderly donor 200 Discos are going to last. The very newest of them are 16(?) years old now ... and most are very rusty. The average mileage on a 16-year old motor nowadays (must be getting on for 200k?) makes the engine not necessarily the sort of thing...

would'a thought a £300 disco is gonna have interstellar mileage unless you get seriously lucky.

with your FWH as Storm says I think there's something under the screw that looks like a nylon cup washer ... you prise this carefully out and it's connected to something that looks like a cable tie which you pull gently out from a machined recess inside both parts of the hub, then once out the...

yeah, deffo sounds like lack of juice. is it charging properly?

Put your chassis number in here: Clifton Scientific Text Services, the Netherlands tells you a bit more about it.

I reckon it'll save you more in oil than it will petrol!

Article about the double-carden joints from Disco 2 here: www.discovery2.co.uk / Workshop :- front and Rear propshaft

layout's right I think - assuming it's an age-related plate that was one of the last few s3's off the line. I've got a chum with an '84 B reg and his back lights are one up/one down like that too ... albeit without the military lenses. I think by then the 110 was in production with the same or...

tha's looking well. props were off a mk2 1991-ish Pajero, although mine were all UJ'd. Double Cardens I have always thought are the double-UJ type things. Never actually seen one in the flesh though.

the rolling 25-year exemption stopped in 1998, 12 years ago ... so if it's a s3 and you've had it 20 years it won't have been ringed (rung?) for RFL exemption before you got it, assuming the registration is 1971 or newer. owners of real early s3's can see if they've got the original bulkhead...

You could certainly buy AVM ones new a while back, I saw them in their catalogue. AVM's are OK if you keep them well lubed, otherwise the little springs rust and it all goes horribly wrong ...

Me neither. But I did reckon that the only bit that would be out of phase would be anything after the last UJ - ie just the little bit poking into the transfer box. Perhaps it might chatter a bit? I don't think the general mechanical caucophany under a Series would really notice. But I've not...

nrg - sounds great but the FWH's for Series are different to FWH's for a coiler. Coiler FWH's are particularly rare because coilers all (I think) have centre diffs, so don't need FWH's. If however you have coiler ones then I would very much like to do trade with you!

someone else was mentioning about not being able to clock the diff to horizontal because the nose hits the rear trackbar. You can, but it's well tight, plus you then can't use the coiler steering damper which bolts on the bottom of the diff. I just about got mine to horizontal but due to...

I sure do fella, thanks for askin' so nicely. If you do a search on this forum you'll find I've pointed other folk to the scoring system many times. Technically I'm afraid you're not quite correct, as the 'steering wheel' forms part of the 'steering system' which does have originality points...

good effort dr.p you've officially got further than me ... no paint on mine!

I've just scrapped a 1980's S3 on which the chassis is was sooo bad it was literally coming away in great handfuls. You're probably safer on originality with a Series 3 lightweight as many of them will have come out with current-at-time-of demob registrations, on which owners will have paid...

I can tell you there aren't many genuine ones! Most nowadays (from what I've seen for sale and trundling around) are quite clearly newer 3's that have had ID's from earlier vehicles put on them.