Recent content by dirty hands

Holy ****, I can still remember my password.

Eye, good engine....

Mine was a squeeling UJ too...

Eye, its usually brute force.

Tut! I'm so dissapointed.

You do hear that Lucas pumps don't like to be deprived of lubrication i.e thin mineral diesel running through them (not thick, badly filtered, stinky WVO ****e). It's been said a lot. So it might be true...

Those pesky little critters....I was convinced that the twittering was coming from the engine. Once i heard clunking as well as twittering I thought it was time to give the UJ's a good grease. The front prop gear box end has loads of play. Thanks for the help fellas.

Jesus, it's taken me a while to get round to doing something about this. I've continued driving it every day and listened to whatever the problem was get worse. I drilled a new hole in the hollow filter head bolt. This improved performance and smoothness but the squeek remained. I tried to fit a...

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It helps that the dirty oil starts from the top shelf in mi shed down a 1 inch diameter hose to the CH pump on the next shealf down. This ensures that the CH pump is always primed with oil, The 80 micron filter becomes blocked quite quickly and it will struggle but once the oil has been semi...

When filtering old veg oil I use the 10 inch clear plastic filter housings with removable filters elements. I have an 80 micron filter which filters out the real big lumps then when the veg oils run through that a 10 and a 1 micron in series to really clean it. I had trouble finding a pump that...

Hell, if it was old when you were a junior member it must be almost legend now after your mamoth 27,368 posts.

Great advice CharlesY, as always. I'll do the checks as suggested. It won't be till Saturday so I'll let you know at the weekend. Storm99...guilty as charged, surely evryone loves an old red land rover? Does anyone know who started the 'red land rovers don't go up hills'? I bet it was Slob or...

Found it! Took the banjo bolt out and the pin hole was clear of blockages. Gave the lift pump a couple of pumps and quickly realised that the fuel filter wasn't full to the top with fuel as it usually is. The problem was the fuel filter rubber seal, there was what looked like a very old...

Thanks CharlseY. I''ll be checking it over this weekend. I'll check the pinhole and purge the fuel system fully. I'll do some testing on the lift pump too. As always, thanks for the advice. Lets see if the 'old bugger' will get me home..