Glad you’re sorted, messing about with eyes not good, 3-4 weeks ago I was derusting a piece of steel to make a bracket for my vacuum bottle , I used brick acid (concentrated hydrocloric acid) , I wore my safety specs, cleaned up perfect in 2...

Just a note to say..... Watch your peepers!!.... I am 49 and have lived a long life and spent many hours grinding/welding etc......all self taught and whilst aware of the dangers of the spinning discs of woe, never really given a stuff as nowt...

Haha yes landies like that ,one job turns into three! Was going to mention use of a cylindrical guide , so drill fits snugly down hole and keeps drill central, wonder if there was a fault in the stud caused a weakness to make it shear easier. The...

Thanks for reply and advice, yes Jonah is very apt, especially while working on the Landy. Even simple jobs seem to require additional work, replacing injector clamp bolts being an example. Genuine bolts, but think it was torque wrench just...

Looks like you will need to drill it and use a screw extractor , as you haven’t torqued it up, this will help but surprised you’ve snapped it , did you buy genuine or cheapie version At least you chose an appropriate username 😉

Thank you so much @steve2286w and @Wildefalcon i really appreciate the photos and info. Hopefully that will get me back on track 😊

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I’ve gone with steel for now since the other ones seem to be! But saying that the other ones don’t have spring washers on them haha, Putting the nut on has stopped the firebell noise and as a second bonus, made the engine wayyyyyy more quiet!

That above is not the dovetail, just the latch The Dovetail is as in @catmans's pic above, that one is badly out of line and will not do the job of preventing door moving up and down when shut. The brass tail is a cast shaped item that locates...

In your second pic, it bolts onto the bracket under the door lock and when closed, engages into the fixture on the body. I believe they were fitted to support the door when a spare wheel was on the back. by the way its a series 3 1982 swb. A...

No need for apologies, direct is fine, just could not work out where you meant, thanks for pic but looks. Different to mine are you talking about a rear safari door

Can you please use a parts diagram or take a photo of what part you mean on rear door

Find yourself a safe clear space going downhill, then switch off the engine and freewheel down. See if it stops. Take care if you have power steering of course.

Have you got an overdrive , loose washer on gearstick can rattle like that on mine

Gear stick in the correct place,your steering wheel is in the wrong place But it is the correct gear stick for a 2A Off for a part search