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[Herald1360]

You must have a big hedge ....

 

A neighbour's 40 odd year old Leylandii hedge to be precise. The bulk of the clippings were from a section about 50' long by 4' thick that was reduced in height by about 18". Today realised another 3 garden bags of normal "haircut" trimmings duly taken to the tip recycling centre. There're also another two dumpy bags full of yesterday's clippings to go! (Too big to fit in the Landy or my "tip acceptable" little trailer, so waiting on a "trailer permit" to allow me to take an 8'*4' trailer in.) 

[Betsy1969]

My first trip out in Betsy in a long time. Down to the local garden centre for some bags of slate and back home . Just over 6.5 miles and happy to report all gears working fine    Also the first time I’ve completed a journey in a long time without crunching any gears.

Andy

ps. I took the missus and we’re still talking 😀

[Betsy1969]

Another photo

[Craig T]

Saturday was a lovely day here, bright sun, 20 something degree temperatures, perfect day to get the Land Rover out, do an oil change, give it a clean, have a look at a leaking hub seal and drive her back home again.
Sunday was a horrible wet day, rained pretty much non stop but felt we still had to go somewhere seeing as I'd just got the Land Rover back on the road so went for a drive to Petworth house.

Craig.

[diffwhine]

I concur... I spent Sunday standing in a field at Beaulieu getting rained on. Not sure if I've quite dried out yet, but cleared out a lot of surplus stuff including much of my collection of knackered door handle / latch assemblies.

[Ironchicken64]

Sorting out the wiring and the instrument panel. I removed a non working aftermarket temperature gauge from the centre panel and now I have a bodged 52mm hole that needs attention.
It might be easier to replace the panel with a better one from Ebay.   

[Peter Holden]

Do you mean the panel with the big clocks

I might have a spare depending on which one you need aphoto of what you have may help

Peter

[Ironchicken64]

Do you mean the panel with the big clocks

I might have a spare depending on which one you need aphoto of what you have may help

Peter

Yes its the main panel. A previous owner installed a temperature gauge (big hole) between the two gauges. It doesn't look bad in the photo but it is actually a fairly rough hole. I could fill it or maybe cover it with something else. It's never going to look great though. 

[Peter Holden]

Richard
I have these 2
Send me a message if you are interested in either
Peter

[LN11AAB498A]

The old girl returned from the garage today with a few improvements. The first 3 were the result of advice and suggestions on the subject a few months back, thank you!

Powerspark electronic ignition kit, sports coil, and double silicone HT leads.
Holden's distributor.
Carburettor Exchange refurbished Zenith carburettor .
New fuel tank.
Prop shaft and UJ.
And a general service.

[Wittsend]

It should go like a bomb now 

[LN11AAB498A]

It should go like a bomb now 

Hope to have a test drive tomorrow. Like a bomb you say Alan, should I expect an earth shattering 0 to 60     

[andrewR]

Nice and warm so took a quick spin to test out a newly hacked/fitted Zenith bitsa carb, the top half from one unit which had a suspected bad bottom half, and the bottom half from a unit that had an odd top half but an appararently good bottom half. Seemed to go okay.

Some amusement followed, as we were pulled over by the Rozzers. As I pulled over I was wondering if it was lack of roof, doortops, perhaps apparent lack of brake lights (they do work but it takes a decent press), lack of seatbelts, or some other issue. Anyway, clearly the cop-van camera/computer had flagged up "lack of MOT", since my last was in April 2018, before the rules updated in May '18. There then followed a 5-minute amiable chat, during which the officers used their phones to google the MOT rules and eventually (with some surprise) admitted that they'd had no idea there was any such 40 year exemption rule. Then followed a brief period when they admired my wheels, before I tootled away, back home to BBQ many sausages for the family :)

[autorover1]

I cannot believe that any officer working on Traffic management should not know the MoT exemption rules by now.

[Wittsend]

That's a bit worrying, even if they were rookies their computer system and their training should have covered Classic Vehicles.