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A few years ago my sister in law took her car to a garage to be serviced, they overtightened the sump plug and cracked the sump by the thread (numpties) so it was weeping oil through the crack. She was skint at the time and couldn't afford to buy a new sump so I patched it up with some chemical...

Blackburn, that's a very kind offer, yes please, will PM you now.

Amazing :D

Tidy looking series there!

Tottot - thank you, lots of work still to do though, updates are in my straight 6 rebuild thread. Mriceman - I think that may be it, apparently it was available as hydraulic or mechanical output, cheers! http://www.lrfaq.org/Series/images/RTC7016.pdf

Been doing some repair work on my Series 3 109 recently and there's a hole in one of the crossmembers that I always just assumed was for a PTO but on closer inspection I'm not sure how that'd work. The hole in question is the one on the left in this picture: Now, this hole doesn't align with...

Thank you very much :o

Aye, it's on the to do list, after spending 3 days lying on my back on the concrete floor I didn't get round to drilling the drain holes, it will be done before it gets painted black. Note to self, bring crawler to the workshop.

I had booked Tuesday - Thursday off of work and was supposed to go to Dublin for the wife's birthday, her birthday is also St. Paddy's day so she's wanted to go to the Guinness brewery for it for years. This year was the year so we'd booked to go with a few friends and on Monday night I got my...

Before anyone comments on it, I've never had a steering column shroud, the fusebox has always hung loose since I've had the vehicle. I think someone tried to steal it when the PO had it as there was loads of shards of broken glass under the seats, in the dash, in the window channels etc when I...

Grabbed a couple of hours this weekend to spend tinkering, was spent bolting and screwing things back together. Repaired and painted bonnet is on, bulkhead vent seals have been stuck down and I've bolted the driver's door bottom back on. Also, got the dash board back together with...

The driver's side seat back was looking a bit tatty so with the left over bit of vinyl I've just re-covered it, have ordered a few more trim clips to keep everything taught as this doesn't have the reinforced edges that the proper ones have.

The wife was away last night so I spent the evening recovering the dash top, it's had lots of splits in it since I bought the vehicle and were just covered with duct tape. Started by stripping the old vinyl off. Filled the perished sections with expanding foam and cut them flush when...

They should be somewhere just off of vertical, whether it's enough I'll only know when I tey to test fit them. If I can't persuade them to fit in the gap then l'll buy new ones but wanted to see if I could save these ones first!

I replaced my driver's side door top three years ago and have never taken it off, when I went to separate the two halves the other week one of the captive bolts just started spinning as I was turning the nut so out came the grinder to cut the nuts off so I could separate the two halves. The rest...

Spent most of yesterday and a few hours today at the workshop, here's a photo of the sill in it's finished state with the overlapping plates and the lip back in place. Got the door seals back onto the bulkhead on both sides and the diff guard fitted, had to remove the track rod to get...

Oh, I just remembered something else I started last night, I had a look at the bottom of the dash panel as bits of it are rotten but not quite enough to warrant pulling all the vinyl off and welding repair patches on as I'll never get the vinyl back on properly and it'll look naff so I bodged...

I wouldn't be taking any master class tips from me! My welding isn't great, it's strong enough but not normally that pretty. To repair the sill I cut out the rotten part with a 1mm disc like so: Then used the old piece as a template to make a repair part from 2mm steel, the top and bit...

Got a few little jobs done yesterday, nothing much that felt like real progress though! Got a couple of plates welded onto the sill repair to span the butt weld and also cut the lip off of the old bit of sill and welded it onto the repaired section so that the protruding lip now runs all the way...

Been a few weeks since I last updated this, since last time I've replaced the driver's side leaf spring and shock absorber, the landy now has a slight lean which it didn't before, I'm hoping that'll correct itself after a couple of bumpy drives. Got both of the wings back on and the electrics...