Mrs's Dad is having a clear out and yes it was found in a barn! pictures in gumtree link https://www.gumtree.com/p/plant-tractors/1948-david-brown-cropmaster-genuine-barn-find-project/1343541822 Good tinware, decent tyres turns over freely on starter when battery connected but currently a...

far to much swarf on that drain plug and in between the shaft splines for my liking, something is chewing itself to pieces to cause all that, I know the diff has been apart for bearings but has it been shimmed up correctly ( if applicable) ? is the new shaft the correct lengh? Just another...

Strange how its eaten one side worse than others, almost as it its been parked on sea front with 1 side facing the coast any idea where its originally come from? i think if you put the log book number in the mot history check you can guess what area its from if you dont know from service history

Nice 3cx dont see many early ones in that condition

Nope wont touch them full stop, hates LR's with a passion

Where abouts in derbyshire are you? With welding like that you'd have my business was in the market for some, my father in law can weld to same standard as you but wont touch land rovers! :rolleyes:

That's sounds a bit better, I doubt I'd be doing much if any towing with one as would mainly be used a family wagon although the 2013 shape ford ranger has crept on my radar now more so from a reliability point of view

Is that even on the flat or on hills? tbh bar 1 clutch in my first car ive never had to change another one as I'm quite careful with them

You'd get double that at least banging it on eBay with the tin worm listed with photos

**** me sideways thats def a classic abused motor! Just need to forget your conscience for 5 mins, I've had to do it before when i bought a pup Oh and you can get the sills but not cheap :eek: https://rimmerbros.com/Item--i-LR064259

Problem is, and its always the way that if its due cambelts or other large items etc its worth less but if its had em done someone will charge more had same recently with my mondeo that got written off before xmas becuase it had fsh i got more money for it

Whats other side like?

fingers crossed for ya chief, I'd give the body mount a good going over too not just round the hole, get it good and clean If that done work out I was quoted £80 for a patch on my old D2 about the size of ya palm at infield 4x4 LR specialists near ashby de la zouch leicestershire, our head of...

In a way (an not to crow about your misfortune Smithy) I'm glad ive seen this rust as I know where to look at them if/when i start to go down the D3/4 route Hoep your able to get it sorted as its not the easiest place to fabricate

Just catching up on this thread and i was about to comment on the underside pics saying it wanted a bit of a wire brush and some underseal but glad I read to the end first! ! :eek::eek: only 3 things that would do that to a chassis on that aged car, salt water, cow **** or its been used in a...

drive shaft cv joint then nice and cheap :D

my guess is drive shaft in the first instance and DSC kicking in after tracking re-alignment but the sensor is out of alignment Remember cheap stuff first and a shaft is cheaper than the new computer! maybe not though this forum but is there someone on the d3 forum that lives close with...

Just an update to the disco I drove the other day, lad was trying to improve his mpg so as an IAM driver i suggested he try looking farther up the road to recognized opportunities to avoid wasting fuel braking and accelerating and thus wasting fuel which he tried and he gained 1 or 2 mpg overall...

One of the reasons I'm not keen on an auto

Slander!! ;)