Range Rover Restoration, April 2023

The Range Rover is continuing to be worked on in my absence.  The chassis and shell have been separated and the exterior panels have been going through their preparation for repainting, including the removal of what little corrosion there was, sorting a few small dents and welding up the hole in the roof that was […]

Range Rover Restoration

The Range Rover has been slowly deteriorating ever since I left the UK eight years ago.  Well, it was deteriorating long before that too, but leaving it half stripped down for restoration in a garage that isn’t as well ventilated as I’d like hasn’t been doing it any favours. The plan had been to do […]

109 Salisbury ATB and 4.1:1 Gears

Well, I bit the bullet last summer and ordered an Ashcroft Transmissions ATB for the Salisbury axle, a new product from them that has been on the cards for them for the last couple of years.  This is made to replace the Salisbury 8HA as used in Defender 110s and 130s rather than that used […]

New Fairey Overdrive

A few years ago, for a project I could do overseas and also to have a spare, I bought another Fairey overdrive.  It was bought unseen as a noisy but serviceable unit.  Yeah… I spent a couple of months of late 2022 stripping and inspecting the unit before deciding what to do with it.  It […]

Uprated Alternator

I have long wanted a better alternator than the standard 65A unit to be able to rapidly recharge both batteries, run the various lights and heaters in winter or run the winch without rapidly depleting the battery, and had planned in the future on fitting one of the 100A upgrade kits (I really only needed […]