Recent content by LUMPYBUTT

A long time ago, for some reason or other I acquired a bent starter armature shaft. The damned thing still worked okay for a few months until the same noise you have, appeared. A swift change of starter motor and away she went again. How the armature got bent is anyone's guess but bent it...

Now that drawing is very helpful thank you.

When, and if you can find much paint on my series will you frame it for posterity and photographs please...... I know it is original finish 1965 military. !! Nice finish on yours though, excellent buy, well done, now enjoy and get noticed.....

Now that is a turn up for the books if they are, I know the chap selling them is anxious to rid himself of the burden due to selling the property they rest at currently. He has a Landrover front wing as well that was changed ages ago, I asked him to measure the depth at the front end, but he...

Thanks to you guys for the replies, it really helps me to make decisions I think..... The wheels on offer have now gone to four of, apparently the chaps dad fitted them to a cobbled together tractor he made some years back, it featured Landrover axles, hence the wheels. The tyres were...

To save a lot of grief and travel is there anybody who can tell me what wheel rims for a series 2a are the same as other models, I have an offer of a couple of wheels, with traction tyres but he did not know which model they are from...... would they/ might they be the same as a Defender say...

For the record, and for anyone else who finds themselves stuck in a similar quandary, the thread for both ends of the 2a, and other wheelstuds is 9/16th B.S.F. A tad obscure in usage but quite obtainable in taps and dies if one looks hard enough............

As an aside to the original question, I now have replacement studs and a few double bevelled wheelnuts of dubious history, however `i need to recut or at least attempt to reclaim the hub threads before welding in situ. Does anyone know the thread sizes of each end of the studs please. I could...

Thanks for all the replies guys, the offending nut/stud is a military type with the bevels on each end, so it isn't easy to chisel it all the way through because of any hammer blow is negated by the sheer looseness of the stud. It is such a trial to sort out but at least the track rod is done...

Thanks for that, that had occurred to me earlier today, but it seemed a bit of a hassle what with the inclement weather and all and, me being stuck outside in it..... I really must get a cover of some sort, I lost the old barn, although dark inside, one could, at a pinch get things done with...

An interesting development on my onward journey into the unknown again today. In 'oozy' mud where 'Gertie' resides I found a N.S.F. wheel needed coming off to facilitate trackrod end, ball joint replacement. If I had a flat, dry and lit area to do this job I would not need the wheel off...

Damn this sounds familiar to me. Years back in a much older Landie I had such an annoying tapping from the rear quarter. I know this is probably no help to you what soever, but, after the then wife complained about it enough, I tried for weeks to source it. A previous owner had replaced the...

A long time back, maybe 15/20 years or so, the daughter of a friend of mine was going out with a youngish chap who actually owned the, I believe I am right, Series 1, SWB Landrover that was used in the Great Train Robbery back in 1963. I checked the registration number and it was spot on, the...

I sit here now, once again enjoying life in it's various forms even if I have lost an eye, reached a decent pre-retirement age and become redundant for the first time ever, but am I dismayed, not at all, it just means I can indulge in a new way of life....... This is the second, nay third...