Thread: Marmalade the IIa

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.

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

Originally Posted by Cadas

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

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!

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



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)

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 .