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[diffwhine]

"What did you do with your Series 2s today...?"

Er... Still nothing! Stood and looked at it. No gas to do any welding and no space because of other people's projects in need of intensive care.

Stripped a 2A head back measured the amount of warpage and talked the owner into letting me get it skimmed. Spent the rest of the day looking at other people's Series 2s and making a wish list for Newbury tomorrow.

[Malcolm R]

Stripped down my steering box and found some interesting marks on the bottom plate. Anyone have any ideas how they could be caused because as far as I can tell the main shaft (column?) shouldn't be able to touch it. Luckily nothing looks very worn and there's no pitting that I've found so thats good. Only other thing was the guide roller that sits in the machined slot on the side cover was quite stuck on and doesn't want to rotate smoothly. Hopefully some sanding will deal with that.

[diffwhine]

I reckon that some time in the past somebody dropped a ball bearing into that on assembly. Easily done.

[Malcolm R]

That's would definitely make sense. It seems to have slightly marred the edges of the bearing race on the inner column but apart from that it seems fine

[diffwhine]

Looks like you dodged a bullet there. Surprising nobody felt that roughness in use though! I would have thought that would have felt horrible.

[KLR875]

Checked the towing capability ready for the trip to Ripon …. All seems well so far..
Lucy

[oddjob]

Drove it up a hill.

[Genem]

I think its a tolerance stack with the after market pumps. In my case, I also think the cam is a bit worn, so don't want to open up that particular can of worms.

I too have an annoying "tick" noise... I wonder if that is it. It is certainly not the tappets as they've been adjusted/reset a number of times...

[diffwhine]

Listen along the head with a solid bar or long heavy screwdriver. If its more pronounced around tappet 6 or 7, the chances are that this is the issue.

[Tim_Moore]

New spark plugs, adjusted valve clearance, went through and found a bunch of loose bolts to nipped them all up.
Exhaust disconnected, needs a packer piece to make it seal up to hopefully top this "puffing" out the exhaust.

Carburettor next, need to sort out the accelerator pump, think the spring is duff so its not really doing anything!
Going to buy a vac guage to give it a more accurate tune up.

Then pack and ready for a 9 day camping holiday!

[autorover1]

I too have an annoying "tick" noise... I wonder if that is it. It is certainly not the tappets as they've been adjusted/reset a number of times...

I had a tapping from the head of a 2.25 L and it was a worn rocker shaft and bush in a rocker , no amount of adjustment would alleviate it.

[TimV]

I too have an annoying "tick" noise... I wonder if that is it. It is certainly not the tappets as they've been adjusted/reset a number of times...

I put the stethoscope on each of the bolts that hold the tappet slides in - that way I could isolate the noise down to one tappet. All were making a similar noise. Then I put the stethoscope on the fuel pump - that was where the noise was!

[crumbly65]

Finishing off a good service, just got my refurbished dizzie still to fit and new plugs.

Changed the air filter to carb hose and, quelle horreur!! It had completely de-laminated inside, meaning absolutely no air flow at all to the carb!  It's a wonder my old S2 was running as well as it was.

They can take abuse and neglect these old Series Land Rovers.

But I do feel thoroughly chastened and ashamed I'd let it get to that state, for the sake of a bit of time and around £10......

[Genem]

^^^^ Years ago I bought a 90Td from a local estate. The staff hated the vehicle, said it was dangerous, engine was gutless, all wanted to drive the Ford pick-up. I got it for a fairly small price...

Replacing the knackered suspension bushes and in particular the badly worn joint in the steering column transformed the drive and the ride. Noting that the air-intake pipe was some random bit of tube....which flattened when the engine was revved - and replacing it with a genuine part transformed that too !   

[Daisythelandy]

After the problems with the knackered battery and the regulator box I decided to use the vehicle today. A round trip of about 12 miles with three stops, first taking some stuff and the knackered battery to the council coup then to the chemist in the village and then over to Bothwell for the post office and home again, all went without a hitch and a bit quieter too after refitting the 'hardura' over the gearbox tunnel the other day.
Yesterday the rear mudflaps were repaired by cutting the top 20mm off where it was badly cracked and refixing the steel angle further down, once fitted to the motor one didn't notice the difference.

Dave.