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[Larry S.]

Grover was used as "eye candy" to draw attention for a farmer's market and vintage / craft market.  Couldn't miss him from the road and he did draw attention.  You could say it was a dry run for the upcoming 4th of July festivities as well.

[g6anz]

Changed the plugs to the correct type Denso W16ES-U which for reason I had in a drawer, used but good. Swopped from Champion N12Y which are for 8:1 engine. Refitted the home made capacitor discharge ignition system and went for a run. Some whine from the overdrive mainly at 40mph +. With it out it's quiet. This has been discussed a lot on the forum and I think its just gears finding their new meshing points.
MOT due Wednesday.

[Birdsnet55]

I checked the fuel tank 109" rear. Found no fuel, just an orange sludge and the gauze blocked. See picture.

Paul

[diffwhine]

More door seal fitting - very satisfying.

Went to fit the passenger (LH) door - gap was too tight.
Shielder chassis and a Rob Owen bulkhead with SP Panels doors. Plenty of opportunity for a big tolerance stack there. Managed to shim the bulkhead forward, but the gap between bulkhead and outrigger was huge. I had to ditch the standard outrigger bolt and fit an M12 x 200 bolt instead. All sits well and lines up now, but if I had more time, I'd be trying to find out why the LH bulkhead outrigger is in the wrong place... I also think that the door itself might be slightly oversize so I've had to compensate for that.
Aside from that, I have to say that the chassis is very good and everything else lines up perfectly.
Not ideal, but a successful day in the end.

[Genem]

Not exactly Series 2 but related, repairing my "landrover" "film director" ex MoD seats, bought as a "lot" from Withams a while back. Of the 5, 4 were usable, one was damaged, bent. One of the usable ones had a torn seat. I decided to make 4 good ones from the 5... 

I'd noticed that several had canvas seats/backs, the remainder some sort of very similar looking nylon. Anyway, dismantling the torn canvas one needed a screwdriver and a 7/16th spanner on the "hinge" bolts. Went to take the nylon seat off the bent one....and found it was M8. I suppose I should have guessed the more recent ones would be "modern".

( Hey, it was a quiet day...) 

[Eskvalleyboy]

Finished painting the rear quarter panels to match the reskin-ed back door, just need to paint the rest of her.

[GRMac]

Collecting bricks, unfortunately the trailer has too many land rover bits piled in it    I was surprised at how little difference there was with 400kg in the back.

[TimV]

Removed one spark plug - the colour was fine, so put it back in.

Now for the front springs, getting a bit stiff. Cleaned them up, they are now hanging with the dampers removed ready for some squirty motor bike chain grease.

[chipbury]

I finally got around to fettling the carburettor today, it had been quite 'on/off' from the throttle & running rich and smoky which is a bit embarrassing in todays green climate!

First off I found the idle mixture screw did nothing and the manifold vacuum at idle was 10", also the gaskets under the carb looked a bit iffy (I sprayed easy start around but couldn't find any leaks though - maybe it's too old and lost it's volatility?).

So I replaced the three gaskets under the carb, gave the carb a clean where accessible and went for a test run - still poor.

Then I took the lid off the carb cleaned and blew through anything I could see, checked the O ring and put it back together.

Now the idle mixture screw had an effect on the engine so I set up for a nice idle at @600rpm, which gave 20" vacuum.

A quick blast down the A36 and a pootle through the village and it feels much nicer.

[Wittsend]

Removed one spark plug - the colour was fine, so put it back in.

Now for the front springs, getting a bit stiff. Cleaned them up, they are now hanging with the dampers removed ready for some squirty motor bike chain grease.

Try flexing them with 400 kg of bricks 

[Devon2a]

So this weekend was Cornwall and Devon LRC charity trial so Marshal duties means a chance to drive around the woods



And just before that it was 'All hands on deck' to get the hay bales in before it rained.

[TimV]

Try flexing them with 400 kg of bricks 

On the front?

[diffwhine]

Managed to get my SP Panels doors to fit properly... Happy with the result, but between a new bulkhead, new chassis and new doors, this took some adjusting.

[Bloke]

Managed to get my SP Panels doors to fit properly... Happy with the result, but between a new bulkhead, new chassis and new doors, this took some adjusting.

I can definitely sympathise! I've just done the same with mine - new chassis, new doors, repaired and galvanised bulkhead. Took some levering, shimming and swearing to get it all into place 

[g6anz]

MOT time. Passed with one small advisory, slight weep from the steering box. I suppose they had to find something 😄 Otherwise all ok.