Nick's Land Rover - Series III Rebuild

Since getting back from our French camping holiday, the 109 has been laid up for work.
The bulk of it centred around curing an oil leak from a failed gasket between the gear box and transfer box, which was not an inconsiderable amount of work.  It’s not interesting, though, and is only a rerun of work [...]

I finally got the opportunity to fit the anti-roll bar to the back end. I had previously bought a near-complete SIIA military ambulance unit from Dunsfold Land Rover, missing only the brackets on the chassis. Since those brackets are welded in place, they obviously weren’t going to be available, so I had some [...]

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 [...]

I thought I post these images from the workshop manuals of how the 109 ambulance anti-roll bars are fitted. I’m only fitting the rear bar, and as mentioned have had to be a little creative because the main span of the bar normally passes through the area occupied by a 109’s rear fuel tank, [...]

I have bought the new rod ends for the antiroll bar vertical links, fitting them to the rods with some coper grease on the threads to make sure future replacement is easy. The chassis mounting brackets came back from the fabricator and he did a great job on them, including spraying them with Galvafroid. [...]