I had a session on the handbrake this morning. It's been getting less effective lately and as I suspected, oil has been getting inside from the transfer box. I'd got a new kit of shoes and springs so I put those on, and a new cable. I got a new seal and flange kit too, in the hope that it'll be...

I fitted one of these https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/313276778283 Seems nicely made. Cheaper models are available, of course. If it's the TD5 you're buying for, it's a 16mm thread you want. I can't vouch for other species of Land Rover as I don't have them!

Just done an oil and filter change this morning. Now I've got such a high mileage engine I don't work out the service intervals by doing sums in my head. I do this in the spring and the autumn instead, so it happens about every six months. I've also fitted one of those oil valves that go...

I know it's a controversial opinion on here, but I quite like the LOF clutch for the TD5. The friction plate is all one piece which is good. I've had problems with the centre boss coming loose on makes where it's separarte, and just staked or peened into a sheet-metal disc. So I'm hoping it's...

Don't forget the bolt between the R380 and the front nose cone of the transfer box. It's easy to miss because it's hidden.

Well, I don't know - I've had cars where the previous owner has powered accessories by stuffing the stripped ends of the wire between the positive battery terminal and the clamp, so anything's possible. There is a fuse bay specifically for the windows. Mine's got manual windows but it's still...

Oil can accumulate on the base of the transfer box from a variety of places. The O ring seals on the intermediate shaft of the transfer box can leak, there's a seal where the output shaft of the main gearbox exits the primary box, and another where it enters the transfer box and if these...

The clutch master cylinders do vary a bit from one to the other, and from batch to batch. I had one once where the thread was poorly formed and the nuts were always extremely stiff which made adjustment difficult. Interestingly, when buying them I noticed that the part number remains the same...

By the time they got to the TD5 they went back to a very chunky cast jobbie with replaceable inserts where the centre pivot and the slave cylinder pushrod go. I've had clutch problems but never the clutch fork.

That oil around the air intake pipe could well be diesel leaking out of the fuel pressure regulator which is just above. Mine has been known to do this. It's doing so at the moment, but not quite badly enough to merit a new one. The existing one is just about to reach its tenth anniversary, so...

As well as injectors, there can be intermittent faults with the ECU. I had one that would start the car only when it felt like it. Eventually this deteriorated to being functional only around 1 time in 10. Mine also has been known to cut out and fail to start when there's oil in the injector...

Well, it's a good ideda to do the slave and master when you do the clutch anyway, so at least you've got those all ready to go. Sometimes when I've changed clutches, the 'fingers' on the clutch mechanism look very worn, where the release bearing touches them. I've never seen any completely wear...

I've had a few things that made squeaky noises. One was hard to solve as it was coming from the front and didn't seem to correspond to anything I could see from looking at things, wobbling things and rotating them by hand. It carried on whether or not I pressed the brake pedal. On taking it to...

The bolts and bushes typically need a lot of force to move them - a lot more than you'd usually need for Alfa Romeo maintenance, anyway. I've got a hydraulic press with a dial on it and it is not unusual to see 10 or 15 tons needed to shift rusted-in bushes. Even that was defeated by the task of...

I'm sure the organisers did say that. My experience is much more like your daughter's. It's lovely when the wind drops a bit and the sun comes out, but equally you have to be ready for the wind-blown rain driving its way through the seams of one's supposedly waterproof jacket.

That sounds very like the weather on Anglesey to me. It's a bit bracing at times. You don't even have to wait for the winter either - you can get incidents like that in the summer too. I used to live there in the early 1980s, mostly leaning over at an angle against the horizontal sleet.

Just had an email from my insurer about my renewal - it's due early next month. I was quite pleased to see that it's £311, for a 2006 TD5 model for 12,000 miles a year. That's good for the current climate. The company has a silly name - 'Quote Me Happy' - but at that price I'm prepared to put up...

Just looking at ECUs for sale on Ebay over the years, there are some that have been cleaned up and garnished with the supplier's stickers (and maybe with a pre-installed remap) which are more expensive, and others which are all dirty and appear to have just been taken out of a scrap car are...

The fact that it'll move in difflock suggests an axle problem rather than a gearbox or clutch problem. Yes, as above, splines can strip, and also halfshafts can break. Put it in neutral and have a look underneath and see if either of the propshafts can be turned by hand (with the handbrake...

Is that claimed bhp at the flywheel, or at the wheels? A difference of around 16% (which is what yours amounts to) between the two wouldn't be unusual.