Nick's Land Rover - Series III Rebuild

The swap to later axles is raising the diff ratios from 4.71: to 3.54:1.  It would be quite possible to fit the 4.71 crown wheels and pinions from the SIII axles to the new units, but since the Tdi should cope with the 35% gearing increase fairly easily, I have chosen to benefit from the [...]

My family and I are going to France for a camping holiday this summer – nothing as adventurous as last year’s trip, but it’ll be a fun and relaxing break. We’ll be taking the 109, so I’m doing a few little jobs to make sure it’s ready.
It have given it a service, and while [...]

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 [...]

I have retro-fit the gear box top-fill cap and retainer spring from a SII gear box, together with a modified SII transmission tunnel cover. This means I can now fill the gear box from directly above, no longer requiring the messy, time consuming and awkward use of a length of garden hose or the removal [...]

I have just bought a new selector shaft for the 109’s gear box to make the selection of third gear a bit more positive – the detent grooves in the existing shaft are a little worn, and the gear stick moves about a quarter of an inch when mashing the accelerator or backing off completely, [...]