question, Im going to get my yearly road worthiness test done today. So I am just about to put the transmission brake drum back on with the rear drive shaft and both half shafts removed. What are the chances I burn up a wheel bearing with not having gear oil in the differential. I know it...

correct, it will thread all the way in. I hit a bump and with most of the weight of the plug inside, it fell in. So just imagine a long solid plug screwed into sheet metal. A quick fix would be to dent the threads at top of plug and only thread the plug in no more than 50%.

I guess this diff is solid (salisbury). I was reading about how you can beef up this or that, well I would for sure weld a washer to that filler plug. That seems to me to be the weakest link. Kinda glad that the cover is somewhat thin metal and gave way instead of the crown gear.

I searched for a new plug to buy, and wow, so many reports of this happening to other owners on google search. Must have been 8 or so topics on other land rover forums. What a design flaw. I ordered parts for just about everything except the shims and the internal gears RTC4488. I think those...

Going to sleep on it if I want to try and pull it out to get at pinion.

This guy seems like solid advice/tutorial.

Well, I just finished driving it with the drive train and half shafts removed. Gearbox is fine I think. I have been blowing petrol in with a air tool and then putting in a telescopic magnetic, I have been pulling out tons of metal shavings. Gears look fine but the front where the drivehsaft...

A couple weeks ago I changed the oil in the rear differential. The fill plug was odd I thought, it did not look like something Land Rover would do, so I suspect a previous owner down the line. The plug can be threaded all the way in so it could potentially drop inside the differential. I...

Thanks for the replies. No death wobble yesterday on a 4 hour trip, but I did manage to do some big damage. I think I'm am going to start a new thread on that. Ill have to put this off until next year at least.

My vote goes for keep it original. Unless we are talking about drum brakes that are impossibly hard to adjust, bleed... well I guess it makes you take a look under the chassis and give you some exercise so keep that too.

I just snugged up a bolt under the steering relay unit that holds a bottom arm to it. Its the unit right behind the grill. (2A 109) Well that I think was the cause of whats called the death wobble I have been having. I had the front up on this morning on jacks and while I was pushing and pulling...

There is no grandfather clause? I could not imagine taking a classic car and drilling holes for seat straps. What if next is that everyone needs to install anti lock brakes, ya know for safety? Well anyway I did'nt think a series land rover could go fast enough to need belts, and as for the...

Okay thanks everyone, learned something new.

Does anyone know where to source slave brake cyclinders that are aluminium? I need to replace one on the front of my 109, and the iron replacement one seems to corroid really fast.

I have the one with the tank on the bottom, so I guess its not gravity. I wish now I would have bought one with the tank on the top. Mine is a cheapy, I feel its a little slow but does a decent job.

Its probably too late since the head is off but I wonder if a pressure test would be helpful. Something like threading the hose used for the compression test you did and instead of attaching gauge you hook it up to the air compressor. Perhaps rotate the crank until the piston your testing to...

Sounds like the fan rubbing the radiator shroud to me.

All done, test drove it today. Its like a new vehicle (except for the non existent brakes, thats normal), not like the old Landy. I set static timing (plugging vacuum hose), adjusted mixture and idle. Its so quiet and absolutely no vibration. So much more power. Here is 2 sets of compression...

Got it put back together, it fired, ran it for a couple minutes. I'm going to post compression test results tomorrow.

Your right it belonged to the military according to previous owner.