a new project

A little while ago, I was sitting at home and an email from Bill C came in asking the Land Rover mailing list around the world to look at a short clip and diagnose an engine noise in his Series Land Rover.  I looked at Bill's clip, immediately felt the enormous yawning gap in my life that comes from not having a Series Land Rover, and went to Ebay.

Sure enough, there was a beautiful 1967 Series IIa ute with an original LR 2.6 litre 6 cyl engine, a shed find from somewhere in NSW, in very original, very straight condition but with siezed engine. These engines are known for developing burnt valves if not set a little wider than original specs, and being IOE they sometimes don't get enough maintenance being a bit hard to reach.

There were no other bidders, and I drove up to see Gary from CLR and brought her home.


Over the years I've owned a number of Series Land Rovers, I guess there have been 5 or 6 of them, my favourite was a series IIa ex-mil hardtop 4 cyl, a beautiful landy that we used for camping and shooting trips.

Anyway, this will be an amateur blog about my amateur efforts in getting the old girl going  - it's going to be very part-time and I don't have any mechanical talent so will just slowly work through the jobs and try to record the steps here.

Comments and advice very welcome.

cheers,
Allen