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 […]
Driving Training
For our tenth wedding anniversary, Helena bought me a day’s training at The Land Rover Experience training centre near Milton Keynes (she got me the winch course last anniversary – apparently I’m easy to choose gifts for). I had an excellent day, starting with a short briefing, followed by five hours of of road driving, […]
Anti-roll Bar Schematic
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, where […]
A Bump in the Road – Antiroll Bar Glitch
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. The […]
Less Seats, More Storage
The two fold up seats that formed the third row of seating were practical but rarely used – we only used them twice and in both instances could have avoided doing so anyway. They were easily demountable, but their hinges and seat belt anchors remained in the way of fitting the custom made storage boxes […]
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