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 […]
More Alps Photos from the Group
Sorry to the Brown and Furnell families for being so slow to upload these photos! The families kindly gave me a CD each of their photos of the trip at the Peterborough Land Rover show, and Peter also gave all of us DVD copies of the video footage that has been uploaded onto Youtube (the […]
Sacrilege?
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, […]
Photos of the Alps trip by the group
For everyone on the trip, please send your best photos (of anything on the trip) to be included here – I’ll update this thread to show them all. Here are a couple Neil sent me of my 109, one climbing up the early stages towards the glacier, and the other in the descent through some […]
The Alps Trip Diary
Saturday 26 July (Day 1) Helena did the first day’s driving. We left Bedford at 0700, allowing an extra hour for the expected three hour drive to Dover, for the 1100 rendevous with the group. It didn’t take long for things to go awry, with a speeding caravanner loosing control and closing down the A1 […]
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