Land Rover Mechanics Course

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Spartan88

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Not sure if the right place to post I'm looking to study a mechanics course on land rovers I have a land rover 88 don't know much about mechanics does anyone know any info looked at my local colleges but nothing with land rovers
 
Series landrover? Lefty loosey, righty tighty.... That's it... Remember that and your about as qualified as you need to be
 
And a hammer, welder and angle grinder. And a bigger hammer. Some spanners and a decent socket set will also be vital. A large hammer will be necessary too. Not to mention a jack and axle stands. Did I mention that you'll need a BIG hammer? And a selection of other hammers.
 
Join the TA for a year?
Join as a REME veh mechanic, do your basic training which won't take too long (between a month, and a couple of months depending on what time you have free, and how long you spread it out over).
Do your basic veh mechanic course (Probably be about 2 weeks, giving you the basics for Land Rover defenders and close variants... will be almost identical to your 88).

All the while you will be paid.

Once you've been taught what you want to know, you have a few options;
Stay there and carry on learning and training
Leave and take the new knowledge with you
Wait until the end of the financial year, then leave. (This way you'll collect your annual tax free bonus... £424 in first year, and rises every year thereafter.)

Maybe it wouldn't be for you, but it's a way of doing the kind of courses you're after, all the while being paid the queens shilling.
 
I know everyone slags them off, they always show you the long way round everything and are sometimes as much use as a chocolate fire guard BUT I would get yourself a Haynes Manual, at least they give you some direction when you need to change a part or do some work. You might be able to pick one up cheap off ebay.
 
Series landrover? Lefty loosey, righty tighty.... That's it... Remember that and your about as qualified as you need to be

Doesnt he need to know that you cant turn the bottom half of the engine over seperatly from the top half without hitting valves :p
 
I always thought that if you could fetel the gears on a mountain bike then you could do pretty much anything on a series motor, especially if you had a parts and repair manual...not Haynes but the original Land Rover one.
 
And don't go anywhere near most colleges, they will use anyone to teach.

When my daughter was little I did some part time hours at our local one, teaching business, IT and horse management.

Because basic tractor driving was part of the horse management course, they tried to get me to teach tractor maintenance :hysterically_laughi:hysterically_laughi:hysterically_laughi:
 
I'm in Lancashire and would be interested in something similar if anyone knows of anything, all google has thrown up for me so far is college courses which I'm not sure are the best, for reasons already outlined above.

If there's no courses, but any experienced hands would be up for showing me the basics I'd gladly pay or trade some time and do some labouring work on a restoration project etc.

My experience of anything mechanical is limited, I own a 110 TD5 would love to at least know my way around the basics.

I tried to change the rear mudflaps this weekend for example as the existing ones are on there last legs, thinking how hard can it be there only held on by two bolts, several hours later and I was wishing I'd done a search on here first!

Its jobs like that that sap my confidence to tackle anything else, whilst reading in awe some of the resotration projects on here were folk think nothing of whipping everything off the chasis and dangling it from a forklift etc!
 
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