One of these days I’ll write about something that isn’t rust-related. Today is not that day. The subject of todays rust-busting is the 109’s under seat battery box. On earlier models these were tool trays, and were aluminium (the battery was mounted in the engine bay). On later models, the batteries moved to under the passenger seat. […]

After spending many, many hours rebuilding the left hand second row door on the 109″ station wagon (see here), I had a few ideas for how to improve the process for the other door. Firstly, taking all the measurements then building the frame back up ‘freehand’ was an enormous pain in the proverbial ass, and took […]

Seeing as I’ve already done a lengthy post on repairing doors here, and it’s probably not the most interesting of topics, I’ll keep this short. Well, I’ll try at least… The construction of the rear door is the same as the second row doors – aluminium skin and steel frame. The rear door brings an […]

A rusty bit? On a Land Rover!? Whatever next… This time its the series’ front panel (the panel behind the grill, between the wings). The bottom section of this panel is reinforced with a piece of steel angle on the rear. This traps water behind the panel and causes it to rust through. With the front […]

Land-Rover doors were, in the original series one configuration, pretty good. They had an aluminium skin mounted on a galvanised steel frame. The aluminium generally didn’t corrode, and the galvanising stopped the frame from rotting. Brilliant. These are 61 years old and still good to go. Ok, they’ve not been on the road for the last […]

The 109 has been back on the road for a year now, so it’s MOT test time. For a well-maintained Land Rover (rustbucket Discoveries (Discoverys?) excluded), there shouldn’t really be any issues come the MOT test. A pre-MOT check is still a good idea, in case any niggles have arisen since the last check. I […]

I’ve always had a soft spot for a Series II. The one I really, really wanted back before I was even old enough to drive was a 109″ Station Wagon. The idea of getting one didn’t really turn into actually looking for one until 18 months ago or so. I was mostly driving an ’86 […]