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[Mr Ed]

I've been rebuilding the swivel.

  My wife went to bed early, good opportunity to use the kitchen oven, heat the spherical balls for 40 minutes and cool the bearings in the freezer, the bearings entered without effort, and my wife did not know anything ..
I will sleep with a smile.

[Old Hywel]

Spent the afternoon building up a late 2A axle. Wasted far too much precious time trying to work out why the new 2A brake drum wouldn't fit only to discover that the LH corner has a S3 hub...

What’s the problem, we ask ourselves. Presumably larger wheelstuds?

[diffwhine]

Yup - The M16 wheel studs caught me out. I wasn't expecting it as all the others are the correct UNF size. I'll order a S3 drum for that side and be done with it.

[Herald1360]

Picked the SW up from the garage after having a bunch of niggling problems fixed. (Leaking NSF FWH, heavy brakes (split vacuum hose), 13mm alternator pulley to match 200Tdi crank and waterpump pulleys (no power steering!) and ally transfer box plate (might slow down the oil exit)). Haven't had the bill yet. ?.

[diffwhine]

Can't see what all the fuss is about with this slave cylinder access on Series 2s & 2As... All you have to do is remove the bulkhead and access is easy. 

Rebuilding a 1969 2A. Thought I'd change the slave cylinder rather than doing something really productive like new brake lines. Spotted that the cross shaft boot is back to front, but seems happy in there, so I'm leaving it for another day. Looking forward to a delivery from Rob Owen in due course.

[Mr Ed]

Good idea to remove the bulkhead to change the slave cylinder, I don't know how I didn't think of it before ...   


The front prop shaft is upside down too, but I don't think he cares much either ... 

Interestingly, only in Land Rovers I have observed that the front prop shaft comes with the splines on the top, most of the 4x4 the splines go downwards, like the rear prop shaft of the Land Rover. I would like to know what is the reason for this. 

[Herald1360]

Used a "care and support" visit to a friend in Broadway as a handy excuse for a shakedown run. Out via old A44 all the way, side trip over to Evesham to do some shopping (Friday afternoon traffic in and out of Evesham is diabolical with roadworks on Waterside) and back via Pershore then across to Malvern and on to Bromyard to avoid night time A44 resurfacing closure between Worcester and Bromyard. A good NVH fix!

Edit: Technically this was now yesterday by the time I posted