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Wheel studs
Nick Bradshaw:
Thanks very much for the advice. I have bought twenty from Paddocks; they charge £1. 76 each. Good, I thought.
Now all I have to do is a half door and an MOT and PLY99L hits the road again. Long wheelbase Series Three, 2.6 petrol. All the joys of motoring plus twelve miles to the gallon!
Bob Ajob:
Do you have any pictures? (vehicle really, I know what studs look like...)
If you click on Photos by your post, you login on the next page and upload pictures to a gallery which we can view. Is it a hardtop, or soft top, or station wagon?
Nick Bradshaw:
It's blue, has a hard top, side windows; but John Skentleberry in Ivybridge, Devon ( a Land Rover doctor who trades as 'Relentless Rovers' and excellent bloke; he's got a yard full of Series Land Rovers and is one of the best Land Rover mechs in the country) has a safari double skin roof with top windows, which he's putting on for me at the moment; rest of it is pretty standard; wheel mount on bonnet, but I've got a spare plain bonnet as well, for field work.
I have just had the engine completely re-built at enormous cost, by Paul Inch in Plymouth; reground crank, new bearings, rebored, new pistons, all the gear, valves, head, all faces skimmed and so on. It seems good, but the oil light has started to flicker at low revs; so I hope it's a dodgy switch, and nothing else! It's had a half-chassis, and the side pillars for the hinge hangers went but instead of the full pillars, found enough good metal to take patches. I'll replace them eventually.
I'll take some picks as soon as I get it back. Thanks for the interest. Anyone got any ideas about the oil light?
Bob Ajob:
About the oil light, being as you've just had the engine rebuilt, I suspect you're on 10w40 grade oil. How many miles since the rebuild? It may be the engine has worn in a bit now, and so at low revs the oil pressure is now a bit lower. If you're due another oil change you may want to switch to 15w40 to see if that makes a difference to the oil pressure & oil light.
hobbit:
Hate oil warning lights, prefer mechanical oil pressure gauge, more reliable
electrics + landrover = :? :cry: :x
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