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I was coming back to the east midlands from Wales yesterday and was delayed somewhat by a massive traffic jam that stretched most of the way around the A5 ring road around Shrewsbury. Eventually we got to the cause of the delay - there was an...

I remember just after decimalisation being given 10p a week pocket money. In those days it was enough for one of those big orange iced lollies. Around a week and a half's pocket money was enough for a Matchbox toy car. Shortly afterwards we...

Plus of course when it is in use the front of the shaft is held steady in the socket in the back of the crank/flywheel, so a little movement in the input shaft bearing can be tolerated. I got a reconditioned gearbox and it was much tighter. But a...

Yes, might as well change the bearings whilst you've got it apart. Hope the gears are looking good and not starting to resemble circular saws!

If you screw it in, away from the engine, it pushes the shoes further apart, whereas if you screw it out, towards the engine it allows the springs to pull them closer together and hence off the drum. I've had some funny noises off Land Rover...

It's over five years since I last had an R380 in pieces, but I don't recall it being too difficult. I put it bellhousing downwards (on blocks of wood so the input shaft wasn't touching the ground) and just undid all the bolts that hold the two...

There's a push rod that goes from the servo to the master cylinder which can be adjusted. If you loosen the nuts holding the master cylinder on, you can usually flex it away from the servo on the metal pipes, and the pushrod can be adjusted by...

Well, your mileage may vary. I'm sure that there are switches who have been mollycoddled with the mere 70 milliamps needed to throw the relay, yet have failed in a few weeks, and lights wired with 35 square millimetre meter tail cable that still...

This sounds a little bit like the symptoms when the switch fails. As the full headlamp current passes through the switch the plastic gets soft and after a while the contacts no longer make contact. I've had this happen a couple of times. Of...

In the past I've filed (or rather used a grinder) the points of circlip pliers to make them fit tiny holes. Is this not possible?

Some disc and pad combinations can yield an unsettling vibration under under hard braking. For example a few years ago I put EBC discs and pads on, having been seduced by all the advertising about better braking performance. All was fine for a...

Well, yes I know that. Having done some of my regular trips in more economical cars than the Land Rover, it's 'cheaper' but only by the price of a coffee and bite to eat in a motorway service station (not that I waste my money on such things, but...

One swallow doesn't make a summer! I thought we were going to have another baking summer last year in the UK after June was hot and dry, but then it drizzled through most of July and August. Just as well too, because I'd planted loads of little...

Glad to hear your experience has been better. Some tenants are like me and try to keep the place in one piece and go round filling holes, touching up paint, renewing tap washers and screwing door handles back on when they fall off. So the minor...

Oh, @marjon's already said something similar.

It's a bit like electrical resistance. It'll lower the effective pressure when the water is flowing - the more you let out the more the pressure will drop. With everything turned off, the pressure will be back up at 8-10 bar pretty quickly. So...

I'm sorry to hear that @gstuart - I thought you were still pretty comfortable in the Discovery for longer periods. I've only driven one of the late model Discoverys once, and it felt like being in a hovercraft on wheels. About as wide as one...

Another thing that I've seen happen in areas which are a holiday destination is that the longer term tenancies may only be for 6 months or so during the quiet period, and in the summer the landlords try to kick the tenants out so they can make...

It probably wouldn't be a good idea to rent a place without looking at it first. Estate agents' pictures tend to make everything look bigger. Plus you can check things like 'Do I actually get the use of that parking space?' and see if it's...

Yes, I was going to say that the wiring diagrams on LRWorkshop.com are very handy. I usually print the relevant page out and take it out with me to work on the car, even though I possess an official electrical manual. But @dag019 beat me to it...

When I did mine, I too discovered that a socket wouldn't go on the nut. However, if you jack the chassis up and let the axle drop it's possible to get a ring spanner on it. I think the axles vary a bit in terms of exactly where the fitting for...

So have you bought one?

The one I was talking about is between the servo and the master cylinder. As above, if you loosen the master cylinder and gently bend it away from the servo, there's enough flex in the pipes to let you see the push rod. To adjust it easily you...

Sounds like you've got a few more spares than you bargained for, but they were very reasonably priced. You'll be needing a new shed at this rate.

I've not got my Roamerdrive fitted at the moment. It's in the shed awaiting a moment when I can dismantle it and see what's wrong. Throughout the time I was using it, it tended to get the transfer box very hot - so much so that I made an oil...

Let us know what you find. I've got some peculiar symptoms on the Honda engine on my welder generator. It'll start fairly easily but then stop after a few seconds. This happens about five times and then it will run fine and I can get some welding...

Found some pictures on the internet. The early style ones look like this: And the later ones look like this: I suppose another giveaway is that the early ones are drilled to accept the screws that hold a brake drum on (if they're intended...

Yes, when they bind, especially when it's just on the point of being too tight, they don't do so evenly. In my case it was mostly the rear ones that were dragging and getting hot. Have a look at that push rod I mentioned above and wind it in a...

Err. . . . I'm afraid I don't have any examples to hand, so I'm running on memory here. I've had a look in my parts catalogue with a magnifying glass, because the diagrams, although very small, are often a rich fund of information about the shape...

Ah, that sounds like something else that happened to me. The first time I rebuilt my brakes I was being a bit too ambitious in adjusting the push rod that activates the master cylinder. I was trying to get the bite point a bit higher up the pedal...