yea I noticed my gear lever had no spring to prevent accidental reverse. anyway I grabbed a few spanners and took that top bit off, cleaned everything up and greased it, and put a couple of new springs on. it made the world of difference. now it doesn't grind (sand in the gearstick lol) and I...

yes avo is an avocado. and smoked fish was NOT a fruit manuka smoked is good though, manuka makes awesome honey as well (the flowers)

yea, not that there is much rain.

the lady who was selling the fruit didn't know much about it, other than it was her husband's and he knew everything about it. lol

at Mt Maunganui right at the beach :D

haha you are keen :) landrovers are a bit like that though, I got mine and I am probably never going to sell it lol.

Just a little update on the engine, the current Isuzu has been rather badly damaged when it was knocking around, so im going to put a 2.3litre turbo diesel in instead, it will fit my adaptor plate and the fuel mileage should be upward of 30mpg (the isuzu it came out of was a similar weight, had...

sounds like you're going to be having fun, good luck and take a few spanners and screwdrivers, etc just in case

ah another New Zealander. anyway its an Isuzu C190 Diesel doesn't put out a lot of horsepower, but is very reliable. sometimes I wish it was just a few years older, because then I could get the cheap rego, but if I keep her for another 5 1/2 years then I can :doh: I am planning to tidy...

the whole attraction for landrover's to me, is that they can be modified so easily the local wreckers yard doesn't share my enthusiasm, today they said I "didn't know what I was getting myself into" and treated me like a nobody because the vehicle was "old" I think I have worked on...

maybe it was standard for NZ then, because my dad's one has a trip meter too edit, you are right a lot of them here don't have trip meters as well.

I thought a trip counter was standard for series 3's ? as for the gearbox, Im not sure, how do I identify it?

I have never been to the South Island, I am hoping to get there this summer maybe with the local LR club and do bit of offroading even :D did you hear about the earthquake in Christchurch we had on Saturday morning? anyway has England gone downhill a lot recently or was it always that...

yea thats a pretty good price, over here in NZ we are paying around £45 of your euro's for 5gb and a phone line

bit of a project, but not a lot of work really. she should be running pretty quickly. mostly I need to replace all the brake wheel cylinders and make her all nice and tidy I am in South Waikato. in a tiny little town called Putaruru. its winter over here so it looks a bit yuck in those pics ;)

I got her for a bargain, probably about a half of what she is worth over here. some earlier pics, from the day of arrival. and I couldn't resist posting a few pics of my Dodge Truck project which is nearing completion ;)

Hi everyone, I thought it might be time to upload a few pictures of my Land Rover ;) she's pretty straight overall, no rust in the bulkhead, the chassis is great other than a couple of small spots in the rear cross member which I am going to fix soon anyway the pics :D

2.0 litre isuzu diesel (I think its a C190) sounds like the flywheel I have is a Landrover one, although it doesn't have the locating dowel you mentioned

can anybody tell me how many bolt holes the standard landrover series 3 has on its flywheel? I am putting an engine back into a Landrover (its a conversion to a non landy engine :mad: )and whoever did the conversion gave me the wrong flywheel. there are 6 holes evenly spaced and a timing hole...

yea the tunnel cover is off, I did try pulling up while moving the red lever back. no joy :croc: