Nick's Land Rover - Series III Rebuild

I am taking the wheels to “Pristine” in Woburn tomorrow for their refurbishment.  They are suffering from the typical corrosion of old alloys, especially the odd-one-out Discovery wheel which suffered more because its face and rim were diamond cut after it had been sprayed in Anthracite grey to give it it a two-tone grey/machined alloy [...]

It’s that time of year again…
For those of you outside of the UK, the MoT is the annual safety inspection carried out on behalf of the Ministry of Transport for all road vehicles over three years old.  Naturally, it couldn’t go entirely without a hitch.
The MoT was at 10:00 this morning, but on the way [...]

The washer jets fitted to SII and SIII Land rovers are fairly meagre.  They do the job, but much of the initial spray just hits the wiper arm and gets splashed around everywhere but the screen itself.  They are also very prone to freezing up in winter.  Even worse was the popular conversion using agricultural [...]

Having a small amount of time on my hands, I decided to finish off a  little accessory job I started a while back – the brush wires from the bull bar to the roof rack.  I used stainless steel wire and fixings from the local chandler’s store, with cut down battery cable crimp-connectors to secure [...]

The Roverdrive has been rebuilt with the new front casing.  Changing the casing over required the use of a hydraulic press, but was a simple enough procedure. The job has highlighted that the front bearing is actually alright – it felt a little rough by hand, but that was because the bearing was dry after [...]