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Campaign to abolish mini-fekin-roundabouts. Ok I just drive over the buggers, but all the stop-start-speedup-slowdown driving just wastes fuel, causes more brake dust and exhaust polution. I HATE THEM!!! They're everywhere in Tayside where a perfectly good T juntion was doing a fine job. Must...

Attached a wiring diagram. Its for a series 3 and negative earth, but the wiring colours are probably the same.

Thanks for the offer of the chassis. Bit too far to travel, and a bit more work to swap than I'm looking to do. ;)

My series 1 disco (in the avatar) has rotten rear spring upper mounts on the chassis. The rest of the chassis is sound, so I want to weld in new supports. As you cant seem to get Disco ones, anyone know which ones for 90 / 110's can be made fit easiest? :confused:

John Crow in Auchterarder is now Strathearn Engineering. All the same guys work there, just under new management. 01764-663020 ;)

Nice pics. I'd be looking for evidence of coolant leak to that cylinder to cause that mess. Head gasket, cracked head / block.

Running on usually heat related. Either mixture too weak on ign retarded. Also associated with the popping in the exhaust on overrun. Check points gap / pitting. Replace if required. Set manual timing at 3deg btdc with 12v bulb between points spring and earth. Should be a good place to start...

Our mad house is home to:- 2 horses - they dont actually live in the house thank god. Enuff mess with the kids!! 1 dog 2 cats 1 goldfish 18 snakes, garter, corn, rat & milk flavoured.

You get two lengths of release spigot on the release bearing depending if you have a rangey or sd1 flywheel. Last time I think Steve Parker or the likes can sell you the right part.

Poor starting when hot is full evaporation from the carb / fuel pipe, as its routed around the hot bits of the cylinder head. Usually if you restart fairly soon its ok, but more than about 5 mins or more it can take a bit of cranking. You can check if this is the problem by manually working the...

Forgot to say that otherwise the heads should be the same.

Its probably been in a lightweight. No heater control. Turn the tap on for heat in winter, turn it off for slightly less heat in summer.

Do you actually mean its binding on or is it pulling to one side when you brake? Stupid question but do you have a pair of backplates? The twin leading shoe brake backplates on the 109 are left & right handed. If one is wrong that brake wont work worth a ****e compared with the other. If you or...

The stud should also be throught one wheel nut hole.

I used mine with the L brackets the other way up. The longer leg then rests on the bonnet mount and the top part then is more horizontal and tightens down easier.