silly question have you got oil in the gear/ transfer box

66000 miles the chances of valve seals leaking are minimum unless the engine as been flushed out with diesel to clean it, easy way to check the turbo is remove the bigg rubber pipe off the end if it is burning oil thru the turbo you should see oil on the fins inside the turbo.

pos to pos neg to neg you can bet your life that if there is a booster start on a battery charger it will get used to start a vehicle.

best way of checking oil light put a presure gauge on it remove the switch and connect a presure gauge even tho you fitted another switch it could still be a faulty switch, as for the squeeling does is it squeal when stationary if it does it sounds like thrust bearing on the clutch, or it could...

having been a fitter most of my working life, the biggest cause of fecking ecu,s up is using booster battery chargers and i have never had a problem using jump leads, ive seen damage done by connecting the batterys up the wrong way and also by some tossers using a 24 volt system to jump start...

i would check the gear box mnts first, but you need to take the presure of the mnts by jacking up the box, does the gearbox move when you start off, other problem is oil contamination on the friction plate.

it could also be a gear box mnt knackered

1971 series3 came into production, if its a 1969 it will be tax free, one little thing picked up on the picture was the pop rivets in the passenger foot well. as its a tress point this would have to be seam welded, but it depends on the bloke who does the mot,i would give it a good look over...

first job remove the rocker cover, second job find the valve which is sticking most likely problem is a broken valve sping then take it from there

correction not connecting to the wire, and when you do the test move the wire at the same time

check the spade at the end of the wire or do a contanuity test on the cable, the chances are the spade is connecting to the cable properly or there is a break in the cable

looking at the state of them lumps of alloy if i was doing an mot on it i would fail it, you need to replace the lot. shear them off with a tigh fitting spanner, failing this remove the drum and brake shoes, if its got any, and try to work out where the studs come in to the cylander and drill...

i would do what chalesy said and remove the rocker cover first that should give a better picture as to whats happening

charlesy i checked this bloke as to where he is from, it says over the bridge in bog land. my assumption on this is wales its always peeing with rain here,

if there was a load of gunge in the snorkle how much crap as gone in the engine. also i have see a lot of valve collets come out of situ and the valve is just floating in the valve guide this also causes the popping noise,

where the foooooooooooook is bog land

f.ilter jar another ption have is rebuild your engine, at least you wil know the history of it,and piece of mind , more so than buying a foooooooooooked engine, i would suggest going into paddocks web site and pricing the parts up, you will be very supprised at the low cost of parts incomparison...

sounds very much like it or the fuse as blown

go into companys house web site you should get help from them

tyson take the starter off the landy and strip it down, in fact you should be able to check the brushes inside with out stripping it also if its a 69 landy and its the original the chances are the amature shaft is worn or badly pitted, you said also the starter trys to move when starting this...