Djdommyp's Green machine project series 3

Hello all,

Brought my first series land rover yesterday and it's going to need some work so why not start a thread to track progress......

About the car :

1980 series 3, 2.25 petrol van, fairly standard, had discovery steels and old remold tyres.



Brought it from surrey and live in Hertfordshire so only 45 miles..... Easy right ?! ..... 4 hours and 35 litres of fuel later and I'm home, tired and fed up


After a bit of fettling today with stutab have found the culprit and it is ....



So Saturdays job it to install a newer cleaner filter and check carb and pump for any unwanted metal.

Probable cause for this is the car has done 300 miles in the last 2 years so has been stood up unused for quite some time.

THE PLAN :

My intentions going forward are to strip the lovely lime green paintwork back and repainted the whole land rover. Weld any holes etc, new wheels and tyres and maybe a few shiny bits too.

The main use will be for trailing with my local land rover club along with killajoules, stutab and Jai

Looks like you may have fuel tank issues there.

Yup, I suspect a boat load of crap in the bottom, bugger stung me for 10l of petrol yesterday to get him home

Welcome on board.

I think the PO took a dump in the fuel tank.
Does it have kingpin mud tracker tyres that i see on it? I had them they were good.

Right today we have sorted out the fuel filter by replacing the line from the pump to the tank and added in a nice shiny new fuel injected filter which is larger for a better flow.

Also took a few more pics for every one to see



and a set of wellers I collected this morning which will be painted limestone the same as the roof and sides

And here is a couple of pics of the fuel job we've done, thanks Stutab

No problem. Runs very nicely, can't wait to play in the mud with it.

Nice

Does it glow in the dark?

It's visible at night yes haha

Limestone! good choice.....

A 5 main bearing petrol engine with by the looks, a recent Weber. To my mind, as much as you could have hoped for in that department. Score!

Er, unless any of that crud ended up in the carb..... But if it runs fine, no worries!

It runs to well for that. Think the filter was good so blocked everything and starved the engine of fuel. I am very jealous of him having it, but at least I will get to play with it

Yeah it looks like the old owner know it had a fueling / running problem, so systematically changed all the expensive things because it's had the following work done :
New weber carb, fuel pump, spark leads, coil, dizzy cap, plugs

But didn't check the fuel filter that was clearly clogged up with loose metal, as you can see it's quite old and weathered.

Works for me as I get to save a few hundred pounds......

I have just placed an order for the new leaf springs from rogers of Bedford and should be ready by Thursday, and will order the paint later on tonight.

Today i thought i would spend an hour doing a few of the niggley bits on the landy,

First on the list was the Earthing issue i discovered whislt fixing the fuel problem.

Seems to be one of those projects, fix one thing find another item to add to the list ,

So went to the local Motor spares shop, got a short length of Battery cable and bolted it from the Gearbox casing to the chassis cross member,

No i have a fully working fuel guage, and now discovered that the horn doesnt work so thats the next job


Also just picked up the following things over the last week

Winch Bumper ,
7.50 - 16 Extra Tracks ,
16", 7JJ Weller steels

So watch this space over the next week should see some big changes and pics will be added

Who knows how that managed to get broken and intrigued to know where the other half went haha

I read the advert on tinterweb and said it had new gearbox so guessing they never connected that bit.

If that's a new box, I would hate to think what the other was like

Might have had a new box 20 years ago, did seem a bit better today Jules. Drop the oil out and see what's going on

Did the sump plug look like sonic?