Dead Series III pick up... advice needed

Very artistic, but can you post in a colour we can see?

Welcome to the Landy world. The clutch is a straightforward job so don't let anybody rip you off. Mate of mine did one for me and charged me 80 pounds for the labour. I provided the parts but can't remember how much they were. When it comes to MOT I usually check all the lights, see if the brakes work and the steering doesn't wobble around too much then take it in and get the tester to tell me what else needs doing. Then a free re-test. Hopefully you'll get into the swing of it all and enoy doing most of the work yourself.

Hi,

I have just been given my first Landy, which is also my first car of my own.
As the title suggests it's a gorgeous but dead Series III pick up, apparently the battery is dead and just needs charging but also the clutch has gone. It was given a full service about 8 months ago with many parts replaced, driven for a couple of months but since has sat on a driveway.
It does need an MOT so I am sure we will find more work to be done aswell.
I need to arrange for a truck to pick it up and bring it to it's new home and I have looked at a few garages that would be able to sort the clutch for me but I was wondering if I need to go to a specialist Landy place for this or not. If I do are there any garages that anyone can recommend in Hertfordshire?
I would appreciate any advice that anyone can give me on my new pride and joy, so thanks in advance


Sorry for the orange Davec.

Thanks for that Cabbie, I am looking forward to trying some of the work myself, once my Haynes manual I ordered has come through. I am very nervous though, the only work I have ever done on a car was an oil, filter and tyre change on a ford fiesta!!

VanMamber said:

once my Haynes manual I ordered has come through. I am very nervous though, the only work I have ever done on a car was an oil, filter and tyre change on a ford fiesta!!

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Maybe you should get some one else to do it as i think a clutch swap for a first job maybe a little ambitious.

dint someone recomend mr clutch?

If its only been standing 8 months you can often free it by driving it off and through the gears without using the clutch, but operating the pedal in the normal way. With luck it will be working by the time you reach 3rd gear.
Potential difficulties:
A, I assume you're a new driver and haven't had the opportunity to practice driving without a clutch.
B, you probabaly have no experience of driving a Land Rover with or without a clutch.
C, it won't start.
D, with no MoT you can't drive it around.

One of the delights of being young is that you don't have the experience to realise that what is a minor problem for someone with experience can be a major problem for someone with no experience!

QUOTE OF THE MONTH!

One of the delights of being young is that you don't have the experience to realise that what is a minor problem for someone with experience can be a major problem for someone with no experience!

Ain't that the plain truth?

CharlesY

Yeah, I wasn't planning on doing the clutch myself, which is why I asked about the garages... slightly too ambitious for me!
I have only been driving for about a year, my fiances ford mondeo : / so no experience at all driving a land rover and none driving without a clutch. I wasn't going to try it and seeing as I would have to drive it 70 ish miles back to my place, I don't think its a good idea, apart from the fact that it has no MOT and won't get one unless I get the clutch fixed.

I do have a Mr Clutch near me that I will take it to, I was just wondering if its better to get a specialist land rover place to do it seeing as its older than the average car out there but I guess it's straight forward enough to just get them to do.

Anyway, I am looking forward to being able to drive it for the first time once all this stuff is organised. Thanks for your replies : )

I would have thought that once you have got it transported to your place you could find someone to get the clutch freed off for you (using the method above) one of mine had the same problem and sorted itself out absolutely fine. Took about 15 mins for mine but it had been standing 2 years. Make sure you drive it regularly for a while afterwards though as it will probably seize on again. I'm not sure what a clutch costs (parts and labour) but surely someone driving it about a bit (not on the public road obviously since you have no MOT ) has got to be cheaper. If you don't need to change it, why bother?

A lot of the Clutch places wont do $x4's in general, because of the weight restrictions on the car ramp/lift thingys.

Mate of mine had a sod of a job getting someone to do his Disco clutch.

car ramps in garages generally have a limited of 2 or 2.5 tonnes which is plenty fer a landy.. well over here they are , maybe brit ones are smaller