ok its charging now with batt + to chasis. New problem, My carb was leaking , bought the very expensive gaskets from Zenith , Exacte same leak , when i put contact on , the fuel pump pumps . and like 4 or 5 drips come out of the shaft in front of the engine , butterfly shaft has No play what...

Just had a big 'oh ****' moment... apparently i need to connect + to GND , and - to the other side.... hope i didnt screw anything up

Yes im dutch , Thanks ill have a read trough , i found a new dynamo not to far away so i maby collect it tomorrow if i cannot get mine working.

Question , in 2 days i got the big scary MOT , but it doenst charge , everything is connected , when i take off the belt , and connect 12v+ to the fat terminal (D?) then it turns like a electric motor , cleaned the brushes , bought a new repro lucas voltage regulator, i tried to polarise the...

Okay ill stay out of this , sorry. but the comment #261 got my blood boiling from the minimum wage thing

i dont know ur situation WSR, but not all youth is like this. im 'only' 32 but i work my ass off and love tinkering / learning new stuff daily. most people i know are like this 'c*nt , dont wanna work , expect everything handed to them , and moan and complain all the way.

This kid prob doenst wanna fix his car , so he can moan all he want on this forum. ive read this forum from page 1 until here , what a drag that was. a basic compression test , like 20 people bin asking is too hard for our 'honor' student. damn i was fixing mopeds when i was 12 years old. even...

Mounted 2 new indicators today , took off the mickey mouse type ontop the fenders. and started with the olive drab. paint. I also played a little with the starter , its a bad spot on the flywheel , i found the hand-starter in the back of the rover. and when the 'grinding gears' and i move the...

So today i took off the starter , heavy thing with 1 hand. looks brand new , teeth on the starter look fine. but the teeth on the flywheel dont look that good :( Is that a sepperate part like a teeth ring that u can get , or does it need to replace the whole flywheel ? Took no pics , sorry :)

Hey. Took some photo of the oil filter ? Its infront of the starter , if i loosen the gland , will i loose all oil ? Haha. its gonna be painted soon in olive drab again, i dont the multiple shades of green. Haha. En front marker light are gonna be in de fender like the serie 1. Yes i have...

Hello , my name is Eelco , 32 years , living in the netherlands. Bought my first land rover Minerva on 29 July 2024 , stood still since 2004 and has some small jobs. Before the land rover i had a military DKW MUNGA , its a german/dutch 4x4 army jeep , 2 stroke , was also very fun but parts are...

Hello , My name is Eelco from the Netherlands , and yesterday i bought my first land rover Minerva , copy of the Series 1 ? For the belgium army i think ? Anyway i have some questions , My starter motor doenst engange 9 times out of 10 , i think its the old LUCAS type. or Bullet type , i dont...