I've just been going with this on mine today. One little wrinkle made the mixture adjustment screw do absolutely nothing - and that was that, on removing the screw, the groove down it was COMPLETELY blocked with old varnishey muddy gunk. MOT fail on mine was very low CO (~0.15%) and slightly...

It's now idling, and seems much happier on mixture. I've not got a gas machine, so it's a bit guesswork - mix screw fully in, out 1.5 turns, set idle speed as low as it'll idle at (still sounds a bit busy, but...) then mix screw out until it sounds happier. It's still not perfect, but somebody...

The speedo illumination is definitely just a dead switch - it's bypassed for now, probably for ever. Am I _really_ going to want to have a dark dash with lights on...?

90% of it, yes. And much of the rest is on my "learn soon" list (including welding), now that I've got somewhere proper to work in - the garage has only just been built in the last couple of months, and there's a lift going in it by spring. If I wasn't fortunate enough with that, I've got a...

<grin> Already done. When did they change? The week they built this! There's a surprising amount of metric on it, including brake pipes with one imperial union and one metric... Very much still live! In fact, I've just put it back into the garage ready to start this pm on some of the MOT...

Zenith, with fuel cut-off solenoid and EGR (blanked off). The little moving contact in the end of this one is rusted absolutely solid! Definitely the speedo! According to one of those handy road-side speed-check signs, 30mph is just where you think you might want to change down from 4th...

Ah! That makes sense...

And the MOT man, he say... "Bugger off". Two things I knew about or was expecting :- * Outrigger - I'd taken it for the test BEFORE getting that welded in, to see what else needed doing. * Emissions - CO 0.15, HC ~1500. No great surprise - it's not idling once warmed up and off the choke, but...

Because whoever did the brakes last time couldn't be bothered to put them back... I can't see it being a big problem, tbh - yes, it should be there, but once the drum is on, there's no way the shoes can come off the support at the bottom - there just isn't enough movement.

Yeh, I test-drove one. That was, frankly, enough.

It's insured, I've put ten miles on it now, and the MOT is booked for Thursday. The clutch bites VERY high, and it won't idle when it's warm. But - apart from that... It's slow, noisy, bouncy, cramped, uncomfortable... and I bloody love it.

DVLA don't normally have manufacturing date, unless it's been explicitly provided for some reason (such as this). By "31/12/75", they just mean "1975ish".

Ah, life has moved on. With the help of all those who've answered a couple of other threads, we now have a Landy that's on all four wheels and damn near ready for the first attempt at an MOT since 2010. It's got to swing by a mate's workshop first, to stick the new outrigger on, but the half...

Well, the new springs were visibly shorter and feelibly(?) stronger... and sho' nuff, it works just fine.

Yep. Even backed right off, it's doing it. The adjuster is, of course, on the other shoe.

I've chamfered the top of the shoe on one side today - and it doesn't grab any more. No, it just chatters badly instead. Definitely needs a better spring!

So long as you can find 'em in the post-01 font, there's nothing to stop you putting them on brand new cars now.

Anything first reg after 1/1/73 has to have reflective, but B'n'W would have been the exception, rather than the rule, for quite a while before then. Reflectives were introduced in the late '60s.

Thanks, guys. Yes, the upper spring is only on the front shoe, and the back is more-or-less left to fend for itself. The lower springs are fairly weak, too. I've got some new ones on the way, and might even double-up, plus a bit of chamfer.

Foglight is required on everything registered after 1/4/80. Our late '80 (V-reg) 88 has the plate on the left and fog light on the right.