Stoneycraft
New Member
Hi folks, knowing from experience that removing the top nut on the starter motor is not the easiest job, does anyone know if the solenoid and contacts can be replaced with the starter in situ? Any help appreciated.
Here is my thread on it, which may make it easier to remove said top nut.
I think just replacing the contacts may be possible with it still on the car but I think it would be a neck-breaking task.
Anyway, best of luck.
https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-ro...or-on-td5-auto-replacing-contacts-etc.357169/
brianp38dse
Well-Known Member
Hello and welcome
oops never realised this was in the "introduce yourself " section.
So, yes, welcome to the asylum.
(Now you can post again in the Discovery section.)
So, yes, welcome to the asylum.
(Now you can post again in the Discovery section.)
Just noticed you hail from Bath.
I lived there for years and loved it, '63 to '75/6.
If I had the dosh I'd move back there, or near there!
I lived there for years and loved it, '63 to '75/6.
If I had the dosh I'd move back there, or near there!
Stoneycraft
New Member
Hi Stan, you're the man! Honoured to be welcomed to the Zone by one of it's most prolific posters, your knowlege has been of great help. Had a chuckle at your photo of the disco in front of Buachaill Etive Mhor, Glencoe being my ancestral home!Just noticed you hail from Bath.
I lived there for years and loved it, '63 to '75/6.
If I had the dosh I'd move back there, or near there!
I got to Bath in 75' when it was a run down sooty city needing lots of renovation. Only meant to stay for a few days, but it's ended up being almost half a century, with me becoming a stone mason for my sins, lots of skilled work for not a lot of money, so no keeping up with the Jones's, this place is now a World Heritage site and a millionaire's playground, yet I still manage to love the place and the Bath stone.
Semi retired now, so I spend a lot of time in the summer at the wheel of my Disco, hauling a trailer full of stone and kit to various venues in the UK and running stone carving workshops offering hands on experience for youngsters and oldies alike; it's been 30 years so there's tortured bits of Bath in numerous gardens nationwide!
Just passed the 200K milestone, and going like a dream when I can get the engine started, now it's the solenoid clicking. Got the kit so hoping to get it sorted tomorrow once I've devised an extension bar and ground down socket of the right length to get THAT bluddy nut off! Landies do sometimes make you lose the will to live, but the mother of invention usually turns up before resorting to the services of a very expensive mechanic!
So you arrived a year before I left to do a degree in London!
I do indeed remember lots of companies, many fly-by-night, going in for the stone cleaning biz. Basically a bit of scaffolding a few hoses and a lot of water flowing to wash the years of soot off the stone facings! But Bath deffo looked a lot better for it. I lived in Beaufort West for most of that time, growing up, then moved out but then back in again to share a house in one of the minor crescents with incredibly steep gardens. Saracen's Head on a Wednesday afternoon before licensing laws were repealed, and the Monaco rooms or Nero's after the pubs shut.
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/whats-on/gallery/remembering-baths-best-loved-nightclubs-7876682
Very happy days!!
I can only be a few years different in age to you although I have been retired for the last 7. Who knows we may even have shared time together in a pub or two, although I never knew any stonemasons then.
Anyway the best of luck with it all. Good to hear of someone who actually uses their truck for work. We bought our first Disco 1 to do long distance towing and then the Disco 2 to do the same thing. Despite the electrickery on the more recent one, they have stood us in good stead and enabled us to furnish and fit out our place in France. Towing a huge box trailer. Job done.
all the very best mate.
Cheers
Stan!
And weirdly I went to boarding school a few miles down the road from you for 4 years. 4 years where the times were pleasant but the teaching was utter sh!t!
Wish I'd gone to senior school in Bath! My mates all did better there than I did!
The one in stonearse!
Wycliffe college. Up the road from me. My daughter swims there.
Yep!
Stoneycraft, sorry or hijacking your intro!
Can’t help with the starter issue. Hope it’s sorted soon.
