Nick's Land Rover - Series III Rebuild

It can get very frustrating, trying to do everything to my best ability.  Making plans and choices in good time is imperative, but some choices, usually about the less important items like cosmetics and aesthetics can be difficult to envisage.  The trouble is, I’ll spend ages deliberating about something to eventually come to a decision, [...]

I have improved the storage efficiency of the roof rack and its ease of loading by fitting 3mm 5-series (high quality0 aluminium chequer plate sheeting to the load area not covered by the roof tent bag.   That bag and its ply floor had originally been fitted to the middle of the rack to put its [...]

I wanted to check different colour schemes for the new wheels (Range Rover Classic LSE and CSK, also used on the Defender 90SV), with the options of plain silver (like the 90SV), gloss black centres (like on black LSEs) or matt black centres.  The photo-shop attempts didn’t all come out that well, but the plain [...]

The CB transceiver came back from Thunderpole (Northampton), having needed to new transistors.  The SWR meter that I had previously been using was tested by Thunderpole when I took the transceiver there last week and was found to be serviceable but with the FWD/REF switch wired up in reverse.  With that in mind, I was [...]

Several years ago, during the intitial rebuild, I bought a heated fuel filter for a pound at Old Sodbury.  It is made for the Bosch filter units used on Tdi engines and is used by Land Rover on Artctic spec vehicles, and is just a sandwich plate that fits between the standard filter housing and [...]