OMG What have I done

wack61 said:
I never know if you're being serious :D

The guy that sold it to me is a farmer and couldn't be more helpful, after we'd agreed a sale price he rang me and said the cambelt needed changing, it was nowhere near the miles but over the time period due for replacement so he knocked another £100 off and has offered to contribute to any safety parts required when I get it MOTd so I think i've done OK

I wasn't expecting to get a mint vehicle and I know it'll want some money throwing at it but i'm happy with it.
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Serious.

Real car.

Groovy...
 
wack61 said:
I never know if you're being serious :D

The guy that sold it to me is a farmer and couldn't be more helpful, after we'd agreed a sale price he rang me and said the cambelt needed changing, it was nowhere near the miles but over the time period due for replacement so he knocked another £100 off and has offered to contribute to any safety parts required when I get it MOTd so I think i've done OK

I wasn't expecting to get a mint vehicle and I know it'll want some money throwing at it but i'm happy with it.
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CamBELT? Isn't the TDi300 a camchain engine?

Crunchy between 1st and 2nd? Sounds like a dodgy synchromesh - double declutching should help but does take a little practise to perfect (my first Landy was a S2a Diesel with no synchromesh twixt 1&2).

Having rebuilt it as a SWB from a knackered LWB donor, we discovered why some pattern parts were so cheap when we had to re-replace them rather too soon. Some parts were even a decent price from a main dealer - possibly to get rid of the old stock. Can't remember which lot it was that supplied the crappo bits but I'm pretty sure they advertised in LRO.
 
Nod said:
CamBELT? Isn't the TDi300 a camchain engine?
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Nope it's a belt, only seems to be about £60 for the kit, everything seems to be cheap, I suppost it's because it's been around for so long, I'll do a lot of research before buying any parts then :D
 
mail order 4x4 are a good supplier they're based out of exeter and we were in there lots, at one point series 3, freelander, 300tdi disco, range rover (p45)
 
Ah, one day I shall own something like this again. I had a '79 SWB Series III, loved it, so many memories. I had it for over 12 years. I can't say how much I spent on it during that time (I don't actually know, but if I did it would probably scare me), but it wasn't getting used as much as it used to, so after it got it's MOT last month I sold it. It was hard to see it go. Cars like that become part of the family.

Anyway, life goes on: the money paid for my 7D. :D
 
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Sponge said:
Ah, one day I shall own something like this again. I had a '79 SWB Series III, loved it, so many memories. I had it for over 12 years. I can't say how much I spent on it during that time (I don't actually know, but if I did it would probably scare me), but it wasn't getting used as much as it used to, so after it got it's MOT last month I sold it. It was hard to see it go. Cars like that become part of the family.

Anyway, life goes on: the money paid for my 7D. :D
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ones with green ovals do :D
 
trencheel303 said:
Now that's a real car... made out of pieces of old warship, not like these plastic contraptions you get nowadays.
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WWII warships were usually steel. When melted down with a few tanks etc thrown in for roughage, the resultant product didn't have the best corrosion resistance, hence my Dad's 1948 Bentley is no more. He swapped it for his Merc after the drive back to Blighty from Mönchengladbach (the defence cuts of a long-forgotten gubberment had made him redundant). Driving through France, kids had pelted the panzerkampfwagen with stones. He also brought a Soviet mail truck over from the Fatherland, complete with bullet holes, to use as a horsebox. At one point he could only afford to run what he called a Goggomobil, but from my happy memories this was more likely a Heinkel or Isetta bubble-car, with door at the front. When the Bentley was back on the road (thanks to the ex-Luftwaffe groundcrew chap who ran the local garage), I would be instructed in Morse code, tapped out on the steering wheel ignition advance/retard control, and estimating ranges of oncoming vehicles.

Apologies for the ramble. As you were...
 
Took it to my mechanic today, it needs a steering box which probably explains why it feels like the steering wheel is connected to the wheels with string, it's also getting a timing belt kit, a thorough looking over and steam clean followed by a waxoil if it doesn't need any welding.

All this was discussed after he'd finished laughing his tits off and had booked a foreign holiday on the unexpected upturn in business. :D
 
Jeez, I can never understand why anyone buys a Landrover. They've got to be the worst 4x4s on the market. When I worked for a large conservation organisation, we had 5, and all developed the same problem with the gear box, and one of them was only a few months old. Landrover couldn't care less. I was lucky, though, I was issued with a Toyota pickup. Never gave me a moment's trouble, and so comfortable!
 
inaneredstripe said:
check it out, but doesnt the 300Tdi need a new tensioner pulley when ya change the cambelt?
theres adjustment on the steering boxes too, i think.
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It's getting a tensioner and new pulleys too, fitted new door locks today so at least I can lock it up now, there is adjustment but not this much :lol: you can turn the wheel 1/3 each way without the wheels moving :eek:

Somelier said:
Jeez, I can never understand why anyone buys a Landrover.
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Marmite, love it or loathe it.
 
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Would love one of those for going off-roading. Looks like a lot of fun.
 
Thats Awesome! My Dad has just done up a series IIa :)

Also, while your local - you should get pally with RWB motors behind the Riverside retail - they are specialists for any help needed :)
 
UAZ 469 is what you want, none of this imperialist junk :D
 
you crazy man
It comes from Solihull just like me... That doesnt make it good....
I used to visit the factory back in the 1980s and they had a motto for their quality control improvement program

"Right First Time"

the guys who worked on them used to say they always tried to achieve it and never did.

their car park for vehicle rectification was MASSIVE

Enjoy it
 
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Land Rover claim that 70% of the vehicles they've ever built are still on the road so they must have done something right.

The biggest problem is rot, dodgy electrics and mechanical items and relatively cheap to fix compared to body rot.

After spending 20 minutes under this one today i'm happy to report the chassis is in tip top condition and has never been welded, one of the advantages of being kept in a heated workshop every night while on the farm.

I've already bought some alloys and a big nudge bar for it :D
 
Or, get pintle mounted machine gun, go for the Iraqi police look and go chav bashing!
 
gazedd said:
Also, while your local - you should get pally with RWB motors behind the Riverside retail - they are specialists for any help needed :)
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Thanks for the tip but I don't think you need a specialist for a 300TDi it's pre all the eco gubbins that cocks them up, it hasn't even got a CAT on it.

I've used a mechanic for the last 6 years who's managed to complete everything i've thrown at him without any specialist tools including a full engine and gearbox swap in my Jaguar XK8, he also swapped the cam chains and tensioners having never seen one before without a problem.

His motto is

If it sucks, squeezes, bangs and blows I can fix it :D

He's just done some work on the landy

supplied and fitted

secondhand steering box
full cambelt kit
alternator
fuel filter
airfilter

total bill inc all parts and labour £305

At the moment he's on with fitting a new back axle to reduce the drive train shunt, £100 for the axle + labour

The only downside is he's 40 miles away in Blackburn but the reason I stick with him is he's helped me out a lot over the years, I used to have a transit pickup with 300k on the clock, whenever it broke down he'd have it on the road the same day.

The clutch went on it once, it was 4pm by the time the AA got me towed there but I drove home that night with a new clutch in it
 
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