With the engine bay complete and the cabin interior reassembled, it was time to test drive the 109. The results are very pleasing: no smoke or worrisome noises, good acceleration and higher top speeds. I was able to reach 50 mph in half the distance it normally took on the local stretch of dual carriageway, […]
Gearbox Top Leaks
Anyone with a Series Land Rover will be familiar with leaks from the top of their gearbox, running down the sides and dripping from the drain plug. The sources of these leaks are threefold. The breather in the steel cap on the centre of the selector rod cover tends to let a lot of oil […]
Leaky Gearbox Seals, and Leaky TDIs
The main gearbox was loosing oil into the transfer box, so I spent Saturday fitting a new main shaft rear seal. This meant removing the prop shaft, hand brake assembly, overdrive, speedo cable, transfer case bottom, transfer box intermediate cluster and oil thrower before access to the seal was possible. The good news is that […]
Another 500
Well, 500 miles have passed since fitting the Roverdrive, so today I drained the oil from the transfer case, fitted the Rock Mountain transfer box bottom plate and replenished the box with fresh oil. The new bottom plate is thicker and won’t buckle and leak, but it also acts as a radiator to keep the […]
Been to Billing
I spent a very wet Friday at the Billing show, and took Helena and the kids again today as the weather was better. It was good to meet several members of a Land Rover forum I use a lot – www.landrovernet.com – a couple of whom came back to the car park to have a […]
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