G-day folks,my name is Iain Macc and I have joined this forum tonight (my time) to hopefully have some contact with like minded landrover people. My main interest is my current gearbox project that I'll get into more detail in another post. but in short I broke 5th gear in my discovery 1, 1999 version while traveling from Melbourne to my home in northern victoria. Luckily for me I was still able limp home in fourth gear. I pulled the gearbox out and found that 5th gear broke off at the middle bearing while under load heading up an incline on the Hume highway just short of Seymore. More of that later.
So as I have implied I live in Victoria Australia, but was born in the UK in Portsmouth 59years ago. Never been back but even though I was brought out with my parents when I was 6yrs, I still feel British. Hope you don't mind. Anyway I trained in the australian army as a mechanic but didn't consolidate my training because I got out and got into another profession. But motor mechanical stuff is like a hobby now that I still enjoy doing. I have several vehicles that I keep going, a Zetor tractor 6211, a VZ commodore currently my daily drive, a couple of motor bikes and other farm equipment. I also own a 1967 series 2A ute but it's in storage at the moment.
Thats about it, married with grown up children. and if I can afford it I might retire one day.
cheers
So as I have implied I live in Victoria Australia, but was born in the UK in Portsmouth 59years ago. Never been back but even though I was brought out with my parents when I was 6yrs, I still feel British. Hope you don't mind. Anyway I trained in the australian army as a mechanic but didn't consolidate my training because I got out and got into another profession. But motor mechanical stuff is like a hobby now that I still enjoy doing. I have several vehicles that I keep going, a Zetor tractor 6211, a VZ commodore currently my daily drive, a couple of motor bikes and other farm equipment. I also own a 1967 series 2A ute but it's in storage at the moment.
Thats about it, married with grown up children. and if I can afford it I might retire one day.
