Recent content by lrjohn

Thank you, much appreciated. I did find the spec for the valve dimensions, 1.9 inches unloaded, and they are all at that length so that is excellent. Good recommendation on the camshaft, I will take a look. I did buy valve stem oil seals, only required on the inlet valves. They are slightly odd...

Thanks for your advice, measuring the springs makes sense – I will find the specification

Th Thanks for the advice!

I would appreciate your thoughts – I am rebuilding the cylinder heads on a 3.5 v8, carb version, from a Discovery 1 which has 75,000 miles on the clock which I believe to be genuine. I am going to re-grind the valves which all look good and no play in the valve guides. Question - is it necessary...

I posted previously about my Discovery 1V8, carb model, losing coolant and the difficulty of finding the problem. In a previous post I mentioned noticing that one of the cylinders had exceptionally clean spark plug compared to the others which were all sooted up. This has led me to remove the...

Thanks for getting back to me. No, I just checked and ran a razor blade scraper around the head and the block there is nothing evident. There are marks indicating there was a head gasket in there at some point but definitely not now. I also doublechecked it hadnt fallen away when I removed the...

I posted earlier about the suspected head gasket leak with coolant getting into two of the cylinders as the spark plugs in those two were washed clean as opposed to the other cylinders which are sooty. So I have gone through the process today removing the right hand cylinder head (it’s a V8...

I have a D1 on carbs which has been losing coolant water and I can’t work it out! There are no obvious leaks anywhere and as it is not a regular use vehicle it’s hard to determine how much coolant is going though I am guessing around quarter to half a litre on a 50 to 60 mile trip. There are no...

I have a D1 on carbs which has been losing coolant water and I can’t work it out! There are no obvious leaks anywhere and as it is not a regular use vehicle it’s hard to determine how much coolant is going, though I am guessing around quarter to half a litre on a 50 to 60 mile trip. There are...

I’m still trying to finally confirm with the choke control should be on a 1990 V8 with SU carburettors – someone kindly suggested it should be mounted on left of the upper steering column shroud but is there anybody running a V8 that can finally confirm this before I try and look for the part...

Thanks for the responses, I checked the official LR manual can't find anything regarding automatic chokes but it very definitely shows and discusses the manual choke.

Can someone with an early Discovery 1 V8 tell me what the choke control should look like? Picture below shows choke knob exiting from dashboard, it looks to me like there was originally a plate or something like it behind it as it looks like there's an impression of something oblong having been...

Thank You!

I'm trying to get a wash/wipe stalk switch for my D1and I found out that the same switch is in early RR classics, only they are also difficult to find. However, Land Rover Treasure Shop Cyprus has them NOS, but I have never used them before and in these days of scams are they legit?? Anyone used...