Nick's Land Rover - Series III Rebuild

With the long dark nights and wet weather of winter, it seemed a good idea to do something to make the car a bit more easily visible at night.  While the wheels are painted silver and the side sills have been left bare in their galvanised coat, the black paint makes the vehicle harder to [...]

The recent accident was a bit of a wake up call to improve my rear lighting. Even though the car that I hit was not indicating and didn’t have its brake lights on, the incident highlighted that clear and obvious brake lights would be a significant improvement over the rather pathetic lights fitted to [...]

Apart from the plastic wheel arch spat, which has a small 3″ gouge, all the accident damage had been rectified. This included fitting new fog and reverse lights on the right hand side, new chequer plates, a new tub cross member and a new reversing sensor system (the old system had a wrecked sensor [...]

Topping up the gearbox was made far easier and far less messy by retro-fitting the SII top-fill cover a while ago, but there was still the complication of needing to remove the filler plug from the side of the box to check the level.
Since the transfer box oil level on SII and SIII Land Rovers [...]

All the repair work is done, and it’s just a matter of finishing refitting all the external parts.

The paint work came up beautifully, with no trace of the accident visible. The chequer plate panels need fixing in place, and without them, the panels look very deep behind the wheel arch (they are the correct [...]