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| By Nathan Chantrell, on November 2nd, 2003 Normally I don’t have any trouble starting her up, first turn of the key and we’re away, but last weekend I had a couple of instances I came to start her up and the engine would fire on the first turn of the key, cut out and then not fire at all. The first time it started after about 5 minutes before I’d even had a chance to fiddle with anything much but the following morning it just wouldn’t go… I got it going after about half an hour, I’m not convinced yet but I think it was a dodgy corroded LT connection on the coil. Have to wait and see, it’s not happened again since anyway.
I’ve been dragging my feet with the fitting of the air horns – got all the bits I need now just not done anything further yet and the dark nights aren’t helping. By Nathan Chantrell, on September 16th, 2003 Fitted a K&N performance air filter tonight which has freed up some room under the bonnet for the set of “Dukes of Hazzard” air horns that I picked up on Ebay last week (yes, I know I’m sad, and yes, I know they aren’t legal to use!). Sounds a bit more ‘throaty’ now and seems to rev a bit free-er too but best of all no more horrible oil bath filter to clean out!
Also got a set of front & rear rubber floor mats to tidy things up a bit inside. By Nathan Chantrell, on September 14th, 2003 Finally got round to painting the rear crossmember in black Hammerite smooth this morning, looks much better now. Also swapped the CB aerial for a Thunderpole Trucker 80 which looks more the part!
 By Nathan Chantrell, on May 25th, 2003 Replaced the broken radio aerial and installed a radio cassette this afternoon. Stereo went into the cutout to the immediate left of the steering column (not the centre guage area), it sticks out about half an inch as expected but doesn’t look too bad with a bit of black tape around it. I put a pair of Blaupunkt speakers I had around into some old pods and mounted them on the back of the rear bulkhead behind the seats.
Whilst cutting the hole in the dash for the radio I found behind the clocks two petrol receipts from 1985 (one from a garage in Oswestry) and a receipt for a calf from Oswestry Cattle Auctions dated 5 November 1980. So it looks like my Landy started its life with a farmer in Oswestry.
Oh and I found the starting handle behind the seats as well. By Nathan Chantrell, on May 1st, 2003 Wheels are on and they look fantastic. I only needed two new tubes in the end so the bill wasn’t too bad!
 By Nathan Chantrell, on April 30th, 2003 Order from Paddocks arrived today, fitted the steering wheel and seat bases tonight and I’m booked in at the local tyre place to have the exisiting 750 tyres swapped over onto the new rims tomorrow. I need new inner tubes as well apparantly as the valves are wrong for the new wheels. Also got some front and rear light grilles from the Land Rover Supermarket in Speke yesterday. Those will be fitted at the weekend, when I also plan on doing a bit of Hammeriting, the rear crossmember in particular needs some paint. By Nathan Chantrell, on April 25th, 2003 Ordered a set of five Mangels 8 spoke wheels, a 15″ Mountney steering wheel and two new seat bases today from Paddocks. Delivery on the wheels wasn’t so bad after all at just £12.50. By Nathan Chantrell, on April 20th, 2003 I’m not keen on the standard LR steel wheels so I’ve been looking at the options. I’ve decided to get some of the ubiquitous Weller style 8 spokes, Paddocks and other places online have them but I want to check to see if I can get them somewhere more local first as carriage probably won’t be cheap on a set of 5 wheels.
Another thing I want to do fairly soon is to change the steering wheel for a slightly smaller one with a thicker rim. Not sure whether to go for a fancy Mountney one yet or go down the Montego or Maestro wheel route. By Nathan Chantrell, on April 15th, 2003 It’s been many, many years since I’ve gone for a drive ‘just for the hell of it’ but that is what I did today! I’ve now got to grips with most of the little eccentricities that an older vehicle picks up on its travels, I can even find 2nd gear reliably now! Picked up a copy of a Hi-Lift jack (actually a 60″ “Farm Jack”) on Ebay today for £28. The Haynes manual has also arrived from Amazon. By Nathan Chantrell, on April 12th, 2003 Wow, insurance is cheap! Went with Lancaster Insurance on a limited 3000 mile classic car policy in the end, £138 TPF&T including breakdown cover and that is with zero no claims bonus (been driving a company car for the last few years). The best the mainstream insurers could come up with was The AA with £307! Also ordered a Haynes manual from Amazon and downloaded some PDFs of the Land Rover Owners Manual. | |
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