Marmalade the IIa

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Originally Posted by Cadas

Question is why was it welded on, the splines may have gone in the gear or the shaft.

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Previous owner probably could not find a grub screw at the time to secure it.[bigwhistle]

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Originally Posted by Ypsilophora

Yeah, I was considering that, there’s a local engineer/Land Rover nut down the road - I think I’ll take it down to him to check out.

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If I ever have to do that to get me out of there, I would normally weld it in such a way that I can undo it if possible. Hopefully whoever did it had the same mentality [biggrin]

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Originally Posted by Cadas

Question is why was it welded on, the splines may have gone in the gear or the shaft.

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After a better clean, and a really good look over, I realised it was welded to the flange, not the shaft, and what I thought was weld on the splines turned out to be on the inside of the flange, and not bonded to the splines (thankfully!) so I took it round to a local fellow with a hydraulic press. And sure enough after a bit of a struggle the gear pressed off the shaft.

Now I just need to get the shaft out!
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Starting to come back together

I ended up just throwing money at someone for a wiring loom - I figured it’d be significantly nice than anything I’d be able to make: Now just waiting for it to arrive [emoji16]

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I’ve been working on the damn door alignment, looking like I’ll have to get some new hinge rebuild kits as at some point someone has replaced the original bolt + ball + spring with some standard bolts. Whilst they work, they’re a little floppy

On the hunt for a few tires.
Was quoted around 1200 fitted for a set of 4 750x16.
The guy at the tire place seemed to think they were a really uncommon size and hence hard to find - I thought they were a fairly typical size fitted to older land cruisers and light trucks.
What do you have on your cars?

Remember you need 5 (one for spare)

I searched for ages for decent 7.5’s and ended up with 235/75/16 as these were ~$130 each from tyroola (Inc fitting)

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The new equivalent version seems to be 225 x 95 x 16.

That's what size standard Landcruiser's come with.

Some good buys to be had if you look on ebay or gumtree.

Thanks heaps :)

I’ve been leaning towards the 225s, it seems they are very similar in size to the 7.50x16s.

Have found some nice second hand ones on gumtree, but they’re all a little far away!

I’ll just keep hunting around

Can I make a suggestion, you need to leave the tyres to be one of the last things you buy for your LR , tyres these days have a use by date so you could find by the time you are ready for registration you may be half way there , also you need to check the date on any second hand tyres you buy & pay accordingly .

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Originally Posted by 1950landy

Can I make a suggestion, you need to leave the tyres to be one of the last things you buy for your LR , tyres these days have a use by date so you could find by the time you are ready for registration you may be half way there , also you need to check the date on any second hand tyres you buy & pay accordingly .

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I’m hoping it’s no going to be too long now! [emoji16]
But I might hold off a few more weeks.