me: so "injury Lawyers for you" you say you can get win me the maximum compensation i deserve..... injury Lawyers for you: yes, thats correct, we have revied your case and on inspection of the homemade lifting device we have awarded you with a big wadge of "wisen the **** up" also a...

what if you make up some brakets that move the engine mount forward abit? i.e. a flat bar bolts onto the engine and carries the mount forward i think my perkins 4203 is fitted this way, it uses the standard landrover mounts. also a friend has a V8 fitted like this. i'll try fit some pic's...

a wee bit of hope; at my work we had a static diesel exhaust catch fire, ended up flooding the thing out with a firehose. 2 weeks later the same engine is running again after some tlc. i know its a bit different when your paying for repairs yourself though!

i'd drain and flush the cooling system if its been sitting a while, as well as checking the thermostat as fenby says. in fact last time that happened to me the fan belt had fallen off!

thats a tight squeaze for sure!! whats the clearance between the engine sump and the axle casing like? i heard it gets pretty tight with some of these bigger diesels. good job though!

nice work!! you need to write a "how to" so that it can be stuck to the top of the forum and no one need ever ask about how to fit one again! :Dlooks a tidy job though, hope she fires up fine!!

you'll need to use your larger set of swear words..... possibly some plasters too!!

i ended up fitted a brake servo on my series 2a and a series 3 clutch master as well, being a fud i sheared the clutch slave cylinder bleed screw and i've never managed to get the clutch to work right since..... just to annoy me more whole clutch has seazed solid!!! your right enough on the...

just a thought, if your bleeding off the brakes to release the pressure could it be that the common reservoir drew some air in and thats whats causing the clutch problem??

similar to sirus's idea, i've seen one of the springs come out of a clutch plate, that lead to some random spurious clutch action!! that was on a wee frog car though...

i'd just like to throw in my landy experiences; i had a standard 2 1/4 petrol SIII, it's reasonably tidy but being a bit of a fanny i didnt give it the love it needed and ended up with a blown head gasket. like alot of series owners i wanted better mpg and better motorway speed, so i...

nice! you can never have enough landy's!! :D i've only ever seen one stage one myself, i'd think parts like the front axle would be a tad expensive these days.

evening! i take it you windows dont fall out when you slam the doors then?? some cunning levering with a couple of screw drivers got mine out but they were lose to beging with (the slidy bits would come out when going round roundabouts.......) :rolleyes:

i'm not too sure on the legal side but on a practical side i'd say you deffinatly need some belts as its not fun sliding around in the back when you take a sharp corner!!!! :D

i think the correct term would be: wooooooooooooooooooosssshhhhh

the axle has only seen a 2 1/4 petrol as far as i'm aware but the axles are in pretty bad shape all round. i've already fitted 24 spline front half shafts/flanges i got off my donor so i'll see what i can get for the rear! the chasis is currently engineless but one day i'll get that v6 in me...

erm, mind if i just hijack eyr thread??? while yer on about axles and such, maybe it was the other thread, i'm in the process of rebuilding my rear axle (standard series affair, nowt fancy or home made) ive found one of the drive flanges to halfshafts has a bit of play. is there suposed to...

i cant get mine to come back up!! :D goes down and stays down!! :( i've not looked into it propperly yet but i've found all the linkages are pretty rusted up (this one's a series 2a) might be a starting point for you!

with those posts we'll let you off! cheers for posting that stuff, were a good read! :D