That's a mystery, there isn't anything like it on the carb I have squirrelled away and it isn't shown on the pictures in the links that Blackburn has provided.

You can see from the pic that one of the leads to the headlight is in no way long enough. I have the relays mounted on the inner wing as near to the headlight as possible and it's still about a foot too short. What is less obvious is that the lead to the other headlight is also about a foot too...

Maybe I've got a duff one but it is definitely too short at both ends. If you had had to extend any wires you would sure as hell remember it. Where did you position your relays and did you get a mounting bracket? Just ordered some wire to do the extending, that's another tenner spent. Paddocks...

These were on Defenders though? The harness just isn't long enough to reach on a series. Thank you for the reply, good to hear that it is a worthwhile conversion. I just burned out my Lucas dip switch and my main light switch was getting hot so I reckon it's time to get this done, been...

Definitely going to have to make the wires longer, neither will reach as far as the lights, even if I could get the plugs through the various holes. The beauty of this system is that the original loom is untouched, no cutting required. All you have to do is plug a male plug into one of the...

In case of confusion, I mean this: https://www.paddockspares.com/boomslang-performance-headlight-loom.html NOT boomslang.com which I think is a different company altogether...

Hi Rob, you might say that, it is pretty good but I think it is more aimed at the Defender. The H4 Plugs won't go through the headlight bowls and the off-side one looks too short to reach. I think I'm going to have to cut the wires and lengthen them.

The one with headlight relays...If you have, did you have to modify it much to get it to fit?

I have a 019 battery from Tayna on mine, in a non-standard battery box though... It's great. That one of yours is suspiciously cheap though, mine was £100 a year ago.

Personally I like polybushes but I confess I hadn't thought of this possible problem, glad I saw the video and will bear it in mind if I ever have to replace my front bushes. Sorry about this thread being posted three times, internet very slow that evening and didn't post it at all, making me...

A very interesting problem that I hadn't come across before but it makes perfect sense. Have you found this to be true?

A very interesting problem that I hadn't come across before but it makes perfect sense. Have you found this to be true?

A very interesting problem that I hadn't come across before but it makes perfect sense. Have you found this to be true?

I can't comment on Britpart clutches, never had any experience with them but I know that Britpart gears are ok. I canvassed opinions on them over on LRUK before I bought any, the consensus was that they are perfectly serviceable and I have found them to be so... Britannica Restorations, (find...

It's good that you are mechanically minded, you need to be with a series LR - or rich. Rebuild the gearbox yourself, try to get hold of another gearbox and rebuild that so that you can just swap them when the time comes. I use Land Rover Direct for gearbox parts. Don't be afraid of Britpart...

Use four or five feeler gauges all at once.

I think I would go for taper bearings too, shimmed with a bit of pre-load, I reckon about 4 thou would do the job, same as the main bearings on a Velocette motorcycle.

The objections to my new idea were forming as quickly as the idea itself... I like the idea of deep groove bearings though.

Yes, there would be a need to be able to adjust to compensate for wear..., but, what if you fitted the taper bearings with the wide openings facing inwards towards each other, then you could use a spring to take up the wear automatically like for the tufnol bushes? This thought has just hatched...

I've often thought that a modified steering relay, fitted with taper bearings would be a better idea but there would probably be a need for a steering damper to be added. Such a modified relay could be filled with one-shot grease and I think it would be a big improvement over the original.