The Landy has finally gone Didn’t even have to advertise it, a mate of one of my neighbours bought it to move his boat about on Anglesey.

It started without help as well… after being left stood for 4 months! Was well impressed with that!

Good luck to him anyway! He’s gonna need it!

This is what passes for work at our place sometimes!
It’s a 500cc 4 speed auto with selectable 4 wheel drive and road legal (just needs registering).

Seeing as I’m going to driving a bit more now our office has moved I decided it was time to get sensible… so I’ve bought a Vauxhall Astra… diesel! It’s very boring but a good move I think. Looks like the Landy will shortly be history!

A complete in car PC that is the same size as a standard car radio and a touchscreen monitor.

It has a 1 Ghz CPU, 512Mb RAM & 30Gb HD

Have jacked the wing out so it’s not as bad, will do until I pick up the replacement I bought on ebay.

Ordered a new bumper (£30), a new wheel (£25) and a chassis leg repair section (£18) so that’s not too bad. Welding for the chassis leg won’t be so cheap though!

OK, so I guess I haven’t been keeping the Landy tales up to date but nothing major has happened! Since April I’ve had to replace a broken rear spring and the starter motor again! Not certain what is going on with the starter motor but the bendix was siezed, I suspect it might be clutch dust causing the problem, the thrust bearing is very noisy now and the clutch sticks slightly in the morning sometimes. Ouch!
MOT was in early December, typically, the tailpipe fell off the exhaust the day before and the middle pipe was blowing so both of those were replaced. It failed on rear brakes (needed a clean), a wiper blade and front shocks (needed replacing), not too bad really. I’ve also bought a full set of plugs, leads, points, distributor cap, rotor arm and condensor so I can treat her to a bit of a tune up in the new year.

For some time now I’ve had a problem where occassionaly, usually after having not been used for a day or two the starter motor just spins and doesn’t engage the engine. Up until now it always worked on the second or third try but this week it has started doing it all the time. Sounds like the enertia doobrey (bendix gear?) is not moving out. Had to hand crank it a few times this week, dead easy when it is cold, usually get it on first or second try but when it’s warm it’s a different story… not easy at all, lots of effort required and I can’t half feel it all across my shoulders today! Hopefully all it needs is a good clean.

Dare I say it… clutch all sorted again.
I’ve been thinking of fitting some sort of speaker box and an amp as the stereo could do with a bit more oomph, should be able to get something cheap & cheerful from work, I’ll have a look next week. Also still got to finish those air horns off (yes, the ones I started in October!).

Spoke too soon… with the increased pressure required to operate the new slave cylinder the seals blew in the master cylinder, well a lot of people do recommend replacing them as a pair for this reason… seems wise in retrospect! Back to my friendly local garage for a new master then, no point pissing around in the back alley in the cold and dark when it can be someone elses problem for a small sum.