Thank you everyone for the advice on lubricating, bush checking and other precautionary measures before taking the expensive step of replacing the transfer box. The wheel spinning situation explained: I was pulling a small saloon car back onto the road in the recent snow. A friend who was with...

1987 Landrover 90 hard top: my transfer box seems to have failed - in the snow a couple of weeks ago, when pulling out a stuck car, it was observed that the front wheels were spinning but the back wheels were stationary. Not a good sign in a permanently four-wheel drive setup. The...

Tottot - thank you for this advice - only just seen it!

Thank you for info - I topped up the power steering reservoir. The fluid level was actually below the bottom of the dipstick! Power steering improved but still a very slightly perceptible drag as you move the steering wheel off the 12 o'clock position when driving. All tyre pressures checked and...

That's interesting. The PO fitted a new unit recently and I assumed that there wasn't one before because the 1991 ex-MOD 110 we use as a farm vehicle does not have power steering. Apparently, the army ones didn't so I mistakenly assumed my 1987 hard top didn't but obvs I am wrong! Thank you for...

phew! Thank you....

This might be the stupidest question ever asked on this forum but my mind has gone completely blank. It's a 1987 Land Rover 90 but fitted with power steering (which was probably not on the original vehicle?). Is the black bottle in the top left of the pic, adjacent to the radiator filler, the...

Thank you Herr Doktor Merkwuerdigliebe! That clarifies everything for me. So it's a standard four-pin relay, which is a relief... "Mein Fuehrer! I can Walk!" Best film ever....

Ok this is very interesting but I really don't know much about circuitry so I have some dumb questions... 1: On the diagram, I don't understand what terminal 87a is connected to? All the other numbered terminals seem to be connected to a positive or negative wire but not 87a.. It looks like it...

Good stuff! What a clear diagram. I'll give my installation plan a rethink after seeing this relay with incorporated fuse and being able to operate either horn with the push on the indicator stalk... Thank you...

The 70s population must have been half of what it is now and the economy much worse but many agree about the bridge bringing its own problems. Still it’s one of the best places in the world to live. But the battles go on ruining the place for the sake of tourism, locals priced out of housing...

My wiring is weird but useful - the 12v aux plug on the dash is permanently live and independent of the ignition switch as are all the lights, 4x LED spots on the front light bar and the 2x rear LED spots. So the new air horns will be permanently live and operated independently from the little...

All your advice here is really interesting and useful - thank you very much everyone! Alas, here in the UK only the police are allowed side arms, which is really unfair, so the air horns will have to do BUT…..read on, those of you with nothing better to do (like me)…. ‘Deadwood’ is the Gold...

Being 75% English myself (and 25% Jack Russell), I didn't want to point any fingers. But sadly the inability to travel abroad form the UK during the COVID fear has led to 75% of the problems up here. It made me feel sorry for the poor Greeks, Turks, Italians etc who normally would depend...

Yes lynall - two wheels on the potholed 'tarmac' and two wheels churning up the soft, almost permanently soaking ground along the edge. Plus the damage to the edge of the tarmac by being driven over. We have hundreds of miles of single-track roads with 'passing places' often used as 'parking...

Thank you - that is very clear indeed. Expert advice... Watch out camper vans parked half way over the potholed single-track road - here comes your 118 decibel 4am wake-up call...

I'm installing twin Italian air horns from the excellent Rimmer Bros on my 1987 LR90. The air horns come with a relay and the instructions advise a 20-amp fuse with 2.5 sq mm wire from terminal 86 on the relay to the positive terminal on the compressor and 1 sq mm elsewhere on the horn circuit...

The first pic is in a car park near Inveraray and the second in a lay-by near Gengarry… the real potholes, dug out at night in secret by the Highland Council, are to be found on many roads in Skye and are now a tourist attraction for off-roaders.

Luckily, it came equipped with a substantial pig guard. Whether to protect me from the pig or the pig from me, I can only guess.

As requested, here are a couple of pics...