Recent content by crazyjase

Someone suggested to me that I wire a hidden switch connected to another coil in with a spark plug in the fuel tank of my series one... That sounds a bit messy but I suppose would stop any repeat offending! I just take the rotor arm out of the distributor, but when she's in the garage tucked...

we've got one 1" smaller diameter on ours I think its a mountney, dad loves it and thinks its great, I think its bloomin awful, much much harder to turn, and off road its a nightmare, on road it is ok, but not as good as the original in my opinion, I don't think it was very expensive, I think...

One of those if at first you don't succeed situations! Fingers crossed this time its all sorted now for you

sorry , just remembered, I think the connector for the cps is up near the coil packs... I remember scraped knuckles and lots of cursing things being JUST out of reach for stumpy butchers fingers

its been a while since I've been under there but I think from deep dark depths of my memory, crank position sensor was on the nearside rear of the engine block, about opposite the starter motor, I think the lead from it had a blue pull appart connector and went up in the direction of the...

Which way is it leaning out? Forwards backwards left or right?

every car I've ever worked with that's been lowered has suffered problems yes, the trouble is the manufacturers design everything to work how they designed it, so when you alter one part, it upsets the rest... Can you not lock the air suspension in motorway setting or something? That way its...

Is it these bits? this is what mine looked like, took them off and scrubbed them back and now they look like this (the grey is underseal)

If you enjoy driving it enough to compensate for the bad bits and you feel confident/competent enough to use it daily then go for it, the vehicle is capable of almost anything, the nut behind the wheel is the weak link learn how it all works and get it ready when the weathers nice then...

yes! I'd forgot that, my mates fusebox stank like hot scalectrix when he had a fault, took it to bits and it had a short in the bottom, sorting that out fixed it...

don't forget thermals and gloves and jumper and scarf and a blanket aswell! when I was your age insurance for my '53 86" station wagon on an agreed value policy fully comp was £580 odd, shop around, depends what level of cover you want etc, and they're not like a modern vehicle you can't...

gearbox fault message is first one to flag up when battery or alternator aren't 100%... Is this the symptoms of the known diesel hot start problem? Try searching that maybe? I'm not sure but no-one else had responded to you and I know how frustrating that is! I've not got a diesel but my 4.0...

I used my completely original spec 1953 series one all through the snow last winter, the only modification I made was to temporarily wire a spot lamp on a switch as some of the blizzards were interesting, NEVER got stuck, slid around on Avon traction mileage but to be expected and felt safer in...

drilled the rivets holding the rear floor panel in, removed the floor panel, that gives you full access to the supporting bars and much easier to repairs tops of chassis rails, and do brake lines, exhaust etc. One of the ribs on mine was rusted aswell, and because the ally floor touches the...

There is meant to be some free play in the steering, but I did find that on my truck when I had those avons on it did wander around a bit more, am on xzls now and whilst its not a modern car (you can't let go of the steering wheel and expect it to go in a straight line) its much better behaved...