Get whatever is available. Get a parts book, its got all the options spelled out.

Yes. Follow the black wire on the other side.

thanks

Have made a rudimentary bush from a bit of diving stick, it’s hard polyurethane type material and fits very snugly over the ball. Will file it up neatly tomorrow and reassemble! Should do for a while and hopefully stop that bloody awful stick rattle

Black wire in the light fitting through the wing to the engine compartment, and earthed via a ring terminal and bolt to the radiator panel. I think. I've augmented mine.

Chains are cheap. Replace regardless.

Well, you say that but I had two leaking injectors and a leaking injector pump after being refurbished by Diesel Bob. Although he honoured the warranty I do wonder if I would use them again

Diesel Bob

Phone Luke at LOF, he knows Landrover clutches better than most.

Can you weld? Any photos of the chassis?

Definitely. Get the injectors and injection pump rebuilt by an expert. Do the rest yourself.

Or a Toyota Yaris hybrid. They're ace.

http://smithies.co.nz/land_rover/

Get the green Bible, the Landrover series repair operations manual (ROM). And the Haynes manual. The rom can be downloaded from various sites on line.

Hmmm. They might be slow, noisy, etc etc but my series have saved my arse and my families over the years, series got the wife to hospital while having sprog 1 in thick snow when my new merc amg died, got us through flash floods in Spain and...

Timing chain, skew gear off cam shaft, injection pump timing, injectors. That's where I'd focus. After fuel filter, lift pump and fuel pick up pipe.

Yes, it should be a grub screw, I think.

Okay. Up to you, but I suspect the sender isn't matched to the gauge. And getting the right sender with the right thread for there might be a challenge. I've found a significant variation in the calibration of senders that were theoretically...

Well! Not seen one there before. What's at the thermostat?

Can you take a photo of the the sender?

Honestly? Just don't buy it. It's probably okay, but I thought that by 1998 JLR would have been using an automated stamping process, so this wouldn't have happened.

Agreed, coil springs are pants.

Air suspension all day, dead reliable, how often do you hear of d2/d3/4/rr with suspension problems, thats right never!

If you except the Series for what it is then it's a good vehicle. A good original LWB Series 1 is a nice drive.

Exactly, crap.

It is a vehicle designed nearly 80 years ago based on the WW2 Jeep. Both are still one of the best off road. Not many other vehicles that have their base from that era still in use today. Long live the Series.

Depends on your definition. In terms of safety, economy, ergonomics. Yes, crap. In terms of long term ownership, resilience, dependability, avoidance of fragile electronics, and simplicity they are excellent. And coil springs aren't as good...

Or rebuilt on a warped casing?

What, exactly, fails on the diff? What do you get replaced? The whole casing, or just the innards?

Any decision on this? Curious, have similar dilemma soon, hopefully.