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 […]
Vehicles
Station wagon rear door repair
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 […]
Brake line replacement
One of the rear axle brake lines on the 127 was looking a shade… (drum roll)… rusty. Wow. It’s almost like that’s some sort of a running theme. Thankfully brake line replacement is a fairly quick job to do – the rear axle lines in particular are easily accessible and not very long or complex. You can […]
Series front panel repair
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 […]
Second row door repair
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 […]
A-frame ball joint replacement
The A-frame ball joint is the meaty ball joint sat atop the rear axle on all the older coil sprung Land Rovers. It allows the back axle to pivot about the joint relative to the upper links (which, cunningly, look a bit like a capital A, hence A-frame): What it doesn’t do is let the […]
110 footwell repair
The bulkhead on the 110 has been in need of repair since before I owned it. One of the previous owners ‘fixed’ the top corner rust by riveting a repair section over the top, so I’ve got no doubt the top corners are in a bad way. The plan was to wait until the 109 […]
Wheel refurb
One of the first things needing (loosest possible use of the word) sorted for the 127 was a set of wheels – it was fitted with 9″ wide modulars. Mingin’. Alas, proper 6.5″ wide 127/130 rims (as opposed to 5.5″ rims used on 90’s and 110’s) seem to cost a small fortune now. ANR1534PM are available […]
Bye bye series II, hello 127 Ambulance
After a summer of camping in the back of the 110, I’ve been musing for some time over getting something a bit more suitable for dealing with extended trips in Scottish weather. The roof tent was good, but only really provided somewhere to sleep. There was nowhere to sit around in the evening if you […]
Transfer box output shaft seal replacement
The 110’s hitherto bone dry underside was sullied last week with the appearance of an oil leak. The oil was making its break for freedom out of the drain hole behind the handbrake backplate. For oil to escape here, the rear output seal must be leaking. This seal stops oil getting past the output flange that […]