what made it worse was when the reversing light didnt work and realising you had managed to disconnect the wire so had to take everything off again to re fit it, although the rattle from the gear lever is now gone - last time I take the floor up just to change the o ring, in future it rattles...

The actual process is spend ten minutes trying to get spring on, realise its been pushed down, pull red lever back then forward again, lift shaft try to fit spring, accidently push it down again whilst trying to fit spring, spend ten minutes not realising you've pushed it down again, pull red...

Nice, a few years standing idle in mexico - nice looking landy, if it had been a few years standing idle in UK it would have been a load of body panels resting on a rusty pile of what was once chassis. I do like the canvas spare wheel cover! Welcome

That is a really good tip, will definitely be doing that

Of course now the car would be pinging a warning and flashing dashboard lights at you because you've only got enough fuel for another 200 miles, and i think we forget how reliable modern cars are with fuel injection and computer controlled ignition - so when something does go wrong its usually...

A little lesson for all of us - before working on car look in mirror and remind yourself your an idiot. Serviced the engine, new points, new condenser, sparkplugs oil change etc. Tried to start it - turned over wouldn't start - maybe i should have connected the wires to the contacts properly...

Hello and welcome (although you may find a lot of us aren't too good with the plug in a diagnostic tool type fault finding, some of us are more hit something with a hammer and if that doesn't fix it hit something else with a hammer to see if that works)

ive probably given him the idea of putting the vin on a ringer and posting an advert saying he's just done 50 years worth of replacing parts in one go and it still has at least one original part (shame the original part is the vin number) :(

I suppose that's the thing intent to deceive, I still might name my landy " The ship of Theseus"

Its a bit of a paradox, there's got to be landys which have had new chassis, then needed new bulkhead, years later replaced engine, new doors, at some time axles and running gear have been changed, bonnet and doors replaced, new seats and tub, wheels damaged so replaced. Gets to the point where...

There were some very nice cars there although mine was the only one you could put a muddy dog in or take stuff to the tip!

Cars Leaving Canvey Island Breakfast Car Meet February 2023 - YouTube If you want a reason to buy one its because you can drive them like this

Agree with this especially drive several before you buy, you will notice big differences between a well maintained series and one that's been neglected. A lot of the things people say are bad about series land rovers is because they haven't been maintained, steering will be vague or more likely...

Im sure he means as purely decorative items and not to be attached to bits of several land rovers put together to look like one that works, and as a decorative item i would say they are worth absolutely nothing

The food probably is cheaper but the price of heating and lighting in the shops is more expensive putting prices up, at least the energy companies are feeling the pinch and aren't making record profits, poor old centrica only made £3.3 billion

If you see an old but shiny green soft top puttering around, that's me that is

Ive posted my thoughts after 6 weeks and 1 month so thought id do the same after 4months So far no breakdowns or major issues, Parts required - rocker cover gasket Things maintained - ep90'd everything (im trying to do a different maintenance job each month so im not in the garage for a whole...

If you post some pictures on here someone might be willing to take her off you, that way you can keep the land rover

To people on this forum that sounds like a great collection of classic cars, to anyone else it sounds like your running a scrap yard

welcome and, as much as i love my series 3, for your needs my recommendation would be - not a series land rover :)