Nick's Land Rover - Series III Rebuild

I have mentioned on here and on the Land Rover web forums that I frequent that I have suffered significant engine vibration throughout the vehicle, especially at idle.  Those of you who have followed the engine section of this blog may remember my previous attempts at reducing the issue, including trying a few different mountings, [...]

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 [...]

This job was done in the intervening days between removing and refitting the turbo charger, and it was horrible – not so much the amount of work involved but the fact it had to be done outdoors in sub-zero conditions!
I had hoped it’d be a relatively simple affair to replace the wiper spindle boxes – [...]

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 [...]

I got the MudStuff dash back in today, along with the modified Carling Tech switches and the CB and stereo in their new positions.  The CB is wired up except for the antenna, which has been left hanging out of the front of the dash alongside the unit together with a small cable to connect [...]