Agreed, its perfectly fixable. If you want to learn don't stop the lessons too soon. Getting this one to run will teach you a lot.

I use a fuel system cleaner - for the diesel (Series) this is only a cleaner but the petrol one (an old Merc) its a cleaner and an octane booster. I use the redex ones.

OK that looks like an old engine that's been standing a long time, but its not terminal. Keep soaking the stuck pistons and plan carefully on how to shift them. Looking at the bores it may be better to go up and out. Do not hit the pistons in the middle as you can break the crown. Looking at...

Un-leaded and old engines is an ongoing debate. I've ran old engines on unleaded with no problems. Many old engines were designed to run on pool petrol which is truly awful stuff. The low compression, relatively retarded ignition and low power make them tough. If the values do eventually...

OK makes sense. Then correct wheel with we good fit on hub spigot should solve it.

I would still take the hubs off and weld the studs from the reverse.

I'd buy it at that price and those sand ladders will fetch a few £

Go on the Ashcroft gear calculator as you can put all these numbers in and it will plot a graph, very handy! It will plot the gear changes once you put max revs in and you can put in wheel dia. I run 235/85, 3.54 and OD and its fine with a Perkins 4203 but reverse is too high on the S2a box...

Pinking is very distinct and unlike anything else but its hard to describe if you have not heard it. If it is pinking then it will happen when the engine is hot, loaded up in the mid range and in a high gear. Typically on a long hill in top. It is not in time with the engine and sounds like...

Seconded. While you can set fire to your vehicle quite easily with 12V that is small in comparison to the harm you can cause yourself putting 12V across non-rechargable batteries or the wrong type of rechargable. When these things burn they are very hard to put out and they produce a lot of...

Could the thinking go back to the WW2 and North Africa where they found the 2WD drive trucks outperformed the 4WD and went back to 2WD for the long range missions? I think there was more to it than the drive, the 2WD were Chevrolet and the 4WD fords, the Chevys broke down less as they were...

Again, yes, Mine had one under the drivers floor. I took it off as it was shot and fitted a servo on the pedal box, also I was converting to dual circuit and the dual circuit remote servos were very costly. My Perkins engine has a vacuum pump. I would not fit it where mine was as it needs to...

I've now (sadly) been involved in two of these types of cases, one was a scam garage claiming to recondition engines but just painting them, and the other was a family housed by our LA who dealt drugs, drove untaxed vehicles and fly tipped. In both cases it was anything you could get. Photos...

You are 100% right, but its also important to keep the pressure on to protect the next set of victims and that's where the Police and LA come in. Disrupting is an important part to the Police job and they don't do enough of it. Our local scam business was using a lot of untaxed and uninsured...

Agreed, coil could break down hot, could there be carb icing, if its cold damp weather, If the idle was set on an analyser there a good chance its too weak, carbs need a richer idle. Also look for air leaks and stiffness in the throttle linkage. I agree its probably at least two separate...

The grease from assembly goes hard and stops the connection (after 40 years..). You can get a bit of success by squirting WD 40 in and working it to soften the grease and clean the contacts. Worth a try as a stop gap.

Are those 3 tapped holes on a single plate? I can't remember what access is like there.

That's the way i read it. Very lucky not to have had an explosion. There been a few fires in recycling yards where old aa batteries have been piled up and formed a circuit. Once they burn they are really hard to put out.

Agreed. your question is the wrong one, it should be: Can I connect 12v across some old 6v cells and thereby set fire to my vehicle? YES!