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Ik9 Yes, the headlights, dipswich, and rear chassis sections are all add on extras, if I'm reading it correctly. Fair enough. What didn't impress me is their extra charges for upgrades. Like an extra £54 for a harness made to take an ACR type Lucas alternator rather than the standard dynamo...

54 years has taken its toll, and either major repairs or replacement is required. Autosparks would seem to be the go to solution, but are they as good as they're made out to be ? Too many times have I been promised a top quality product, only to end up with something barely adequate. Is there...

This might be totally irrelevant, but apparently the modern way to do a compression check, or rather, a compression comparison between the cylinders, is to simply monitor the starter motor current while cranking the engine. I've just replaced a two and a quarter diesel, and I could actually...

Many thanks, both of you. I ran into a major **** up when I tried to fit the series type heater plugs into the head on the hybrid 12J engine I was fitting. A trip to a local motor factors yielded supposedly the correct 12mm threaded plugs (actually NGK) which seem to be working OK. Got them...

I've just finished converting a 12J engine to timing chain operation with a vertical injection pump, so it could possibly be one of my threads. Just fitted it over the weekend, it seems to run pretty strong considering the questionable condition of the injectors and pump (mine is dripping from...

Well, I had months to sort this problem out before fitting this engine to my vehicle, but of course I completely forgot about it. Just behind the hole with the brass plug is another hole, a good bit smaller, this is for the heater circuit brass stub. LR used a very fine thread for some reason...

Many thanks for that. It's been many years since I had any dealings with pipework. I spent about nine months welding sprinkler sockets onto steel pipe, but that was about thirty years ago, I've almost forgotten anything I learned.

Hmmmm.........Just been trawling eBay for BSP plugs, the sizes seem to go from 3/4" to 1" with nothing in between, and my plug measures about 21mm across the outside of the threads.

Lots of things changed, and for no apparent good reason. I bought a set of main bearing shells from Paddocks, only the top (block) ones fitted, the lowers were tabbed in the wrong place. Only then I found out that the early engines are different

Many thanks ! It did look like BSP to me at first glance, but I thought no, that would be too simple

I've just fitted this 12J engine to my Series 2A. Can anyone please tell me the thread form/size on this brass plug that fits in the rear upper face of the head. The engine was ex military originally, the early 12J type. Unfortunately, while I have series parts catalogues, I've got nothing for...

Would you please tell me exactly what paint you used ? No cracks in mine yet, the late type wheels tend to hold up much better than the wire spoked type

I'm trying to build up a replacement engine for my 2A diesel, and at present all I can find in my parts stash are four newish looking parallel type heater plugs. I can't find any information on them in any of my workshop manuals, the S3 genuine manual shows the earlier in series type, with the...

I've got Deestones on my daily driver 88 diesel. OK, to be fair they're not brilliant in the wet, but overall they are performing much better than a lot of crossplies I've had over the years, they don't seem to wander about the road like the old tyres of yore, and they even cope pretty well...

I think that the definitive answer has to lie within the official LR S3 parts catalogue. If it shows, or lists three mounting points, with the associated hardware, you've got a case to complain IMHO.

Looks like someone at Richards Chassis had a brainstorm, and nobody checked their work afterwards. I think at the very least, they owe you a bracket, and a fixing system for it. I'd be using rivnuts myself, at least 4 x 8mm to be safe

Yeah, that's what I suspected, decent 2K paint ain't cheap. Maybe if I painted some other stuff at the same time it might work out to be more viable. I'm actually trying to avoid putting another cover on it, although they're quite reasonably priced at about £25, I'd rather have it the way that...

I'm aware that there are people out there refurbishing the wire spoked type wheels from various series ones, twos, and 2A's. No problem with cracks in my wheel, just needs painting, lacquer or whatever. But my experience of cheap paint is that it's really soft, even when fully cured, I don't...

I need to paint the steering wheel on my late 2A, otherwise I will be getting black sticky hands every time I drive it, well at least if it's damp weather. I've just junked the PVC rim jacket that I fitted about ten years ago, the poor thing was falling apart. Now I need to seal in the...

Cheers! , I'd forgotten about LOF, I'll check them out tonight. Got an idea they only do complete kits, but still.