Nick's Land Rover - Series III Rebuild

The bottom panel and hand brake assembly were removed from the transfer box, allowing the removal of the intermediate gear cluster. This, in turn, allows access to the intenal nuts securing the transfer case to the gear box.
The front bearing cover of the gearbox was removed. This allowed me to see the [...]

Here’s a great photo of us arriving at Gaydon at the end of the 60th Anniversary Run, courtesy of Steve Turner:

The 109 was vehicle 47 of about 120 in today’s 60th Anniversary Run, starting at the factory in Solihull and ending at Land Rover’s head quarters and the British Motor Heritage Centre at Gaydon.
The event started from the “Home of the Legend” visitors centre at the plant, starting with registration and a short briefing.  The [...]

I have bought a very cheap but good condition 1983 Salisbury rear axle.  The main part of it will be kept as a spare, but I’ll be using its stub axles and hubs to replace those on my current axle.  The reasons are two-fold:  first, the current stub axles have a tiny amount of wear [...]

The Classic is in for an MoT test tomorrow, so it had a new rear exhaust today. I also fitted new rear discs and pads as the old discs had become very rusted around the edge. That rust was wearing the associated area of the relatively new pads and leading to a smaller [...]