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Most garages seem to want easy money jobs such as changing tyres, brakes, exhausts etc. From their point of view, why get involved in anything more complicated when they can still charge £60 per hour labour for the basic jobs. Work on a Series may also involve real fault finding skills. They...

The thread on mine was bent and stripped. I ended up replacing it with a piece of steel rod drilled and tapped for an M6 bolt. That has worked fine so far.

Perhaps they buy it without really realising what is involved. A lot of people have this idea that Land Rovers are indestructible and never break down. The idea that the entire vehicle is all aluminium so they never rust also seems to still be very widespread. Also, not everyone has space or...

There was a regular stall at the Peterborough show with some reconditioned bare engines on display. I noticed that the bare engines from the newer types looked very similar when stood next to the Series types. As I remember, the TD5 block even looked similar to my eyes, obviously longer with...

A bloke I used to work with told me he used to help out a mate of his to swap Nissan Patrol diesels into V8 Range Rovers. According to him, at the time nobody wanted the V8 petrols as they were seen to be too expensive to run. There were apparently also a lot of rusted Nissan patrols with good...

From what I read, if the engine was an original manufacturer option such as a Rover V8 into a 90 it is not seen as a substantial change. My thought about the 1990s era EFI engine was that they came before the electronics got too overly complicated. I believe that Mitsubishi and Toyota were...

Is that the Rover K Series engine that is well known for blowing head gaskets?

Reading into it on the HM Government website, it says if the engine has a different number of cylinders it is likely to be classed as a substantial change. I wonder what happens in that case if you find a wreck of a six cylinder petrol Series missing its engine and start from there? However...

As far as I know it is a points based system. Certain features being changed are worth a number of points. Once so many of these points have been reached, the vehicle no longer qualifies for tax exempt status. From what I have read, the engine is only worth one point. There are a lot of Series...

Thanks for the replies. I was not aware that Rover had done this with a four cylinder petrol, though I did know about the various V8s. I was wondering about something like the 3 litre V6 used in Mitsubishi Shoguns. I would think that a LWB Shogun would be quite a bit heavier than a Series...

This is a thought I had recently due to the increasing anti-diesel sentiment by the authorities. Although it would not be popular with the purists, has anyone fitted a modern EFI Petrol engine into a Series? As far as I know, it would still benefit from MOT, emissions and tax exemption while...

Did you fit a brand new unit or a reconditioned one? If you fit a recon unit you can usually get a partial refund for the old one from the supplier.

Someone who had worked on Series vehicles for years once told me that he had never had to replace a chassis cross member under the bellhousing. They nearly all drip some amount of oil from that seal so that crossmember is said to rarely ever rust.

I fitted a similar filter holder from a 2.5NA Engine. The switch thread was M10x1 which is a metric fine type. The earlier Series switch was an Imperial Whitworth thread, although I forget exactly which.

It is worth trying to earth the sender connection. If the gauge is working properly it should go to max when earthed.

As for the jammed steering relay, Is the old chassis due to be cut up and scrapped? When I disposed of my old chassis, I cut out the part with the steering relay into a section that could be easily lifted onto a hydraulic press. Despite seeming to be jammed in there solid, it slid out...

A lot of the originals have rusted away to nothing. When I restored my Series 3, most of the bottom half of the sheet steel layer behind the vinyl fell out as rust flakes. I have also thought before that there is a possible market for newly made replacements. These would benefit from being made...

When a Series transfer box is in the two wheel drive setting, the front prop is not being driven by the gearbox. However it is still connected to the front wheels via the front differential. The front diff and prop will be rotated by the forward movement of the tyres. The free wheeling hubs...

Are you driving in 4 Wheel drive on hard surfaces such as road asphalt? Unlike many more modern 4x4 vehicles, the series transfer box has no centre differential. When driving with 4x4 engaged, the wheels must be able to slip to a degree. The wheels cannot slip on hard surfaces. This causes...

I thought it worth adding that they are M16 x 1.5mm pitch which is M16 Fine. M16 Coarse / Standard is a 2mm pitch.