About 18 months ago I picked up a cheap MkI (735) Bradbury 4-post ramp on eBay. It’s a properly old machine – they made these in the late 50’s to early 60’s. They’re very nicely made – simple, old school engineering. Pretty much the Land Rover of the ramp world. They are still widely used today, though 2 […]
So the shed clearout is going well…
The 109 has been gone all of 2 weeks (gratuitous 109-when-finished-and-shiny pic): The intention hadn’t been to sell it, but it was finished and I was bored… I was enjoying the new-found space in the shed, thinking about which of the many jobs lined up for the 110 and 127 I would make a start on, […]
Series battery box replacement
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. […]
Second row door repair – part deux
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 […]
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 […]
Idle campervan musings
It’s been 7 months or so since I picked up the Lambo (as the 127 ambulance is now known). For the job I bought it to do, it’s been awesome. The difference between it and previous ‘camping’ setups is night and day. As I’ve no doubt rambled on about before, having an all-weather space to kick […]
Discovery 3.9 EFI fuel line replacement
A friend put his Discovery 1 in for it’s MOT recently. All was going swimmingly (relatively, for a 20-year old Disco) until one of the fuel lines sprung a leak whilst it was up on the ramp. That’ll be a fail, then. Once I’d stopped laughing (but not before I’d stopped slagging him off about it) […]
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 […]