Thread: Twice my age, crosseyed and can't hold her fluids in but ain't she sweet

Sure having your share of problems mate. It's a long time since I tinkered with series donks but I was wondering if you had checked the vacuum advance on the distributer was working properly. A long shot but worth checking. It wouldn't cause a single cylinder to miss but all of them to sort of run rough especially under load. Also have you done a compression test on all cylinders. This would rule out leaking rings/valves.

I'm not familiar with LR or Series motors but this reminds me of a problem with a different motor some years back where I had the plug leads in the wrong FO and while it idled not too bad, as soon as a load came on, it started seriously missing on 2 cylinders. Took much head-scratching and effort somewhat like yours to solve because the FO was in my head and I didn't think I needed to look at the manual or the manifold stamping. (Needless to say I beat up on myself for weeks afterwards ).

.... cheers.

Hello gentle readers,
Lucas, Prince of Darkness and short circuits has (briefly at least) turned his back on Dirty Mary!

Geoff (Quarks) rocked up around lunchtime in a shiny TD5 110, to be helpful and smart. We made a start fitting up the bits of a soft-top frame up, working out how it fits and wondering why the first hoop after the door has been cut up into two pillars with no roof bow...
So then we had a crack at the tub wiring. I always thought I was good at electrical stuff. Until Geoff took over. Then I realised that I am mighty good at confusing myself and making suppositions that would get me a seat in parliament.
Wasn't long before we'd worked out there was a short somewhere in the brake/tail lights, we'd tagged wires and made good headway.
Enter Geoff 2 aka The Booger.

A green former fighting machine pulled up out the front, its commander jumped out with test equipment at the ready.
The two Geoffs sorted all the rear electrics out, added wires, fixed bits, worked out that one of the two fuses was actually blown (brake light) whilst wondering why the third fuse didn't seem to have anything connected to one end (It is a spare). I did a great job standing there and grinding stuff with the dremel. It made me damn happy to get that rather intimidating sparky problem sorted.
Then it was to the engine. Earlier in the day I'd attempted to move the old codger into the sun, but couldn't even get her to rev over idle.
Geoff 2 (The Booger) suggested it was sucking air somewhere. Aerostart was wielded, potential leaks shot. Nothing made a difference. 'til the vacuum advance hose was heard to hiss. The flexible rubber coupling wasn't tight on the bundy tube- squeezing the end stabilised the idle. It could then rev up freely, though it was still missing. Brian, you were so close to the money...the vac advance works but wasn't, because of the leak!
Geoff 2 reckons that the timing will be out a fraction, hence it runs so nicely and quietly when it is firing on all four and develops as much power as a computer mousewheel. It is most likely retarded a little, like duck's feet.

So the course of action is to check timing, seal the vacuum line, put a new blinker housing/lens on one side and a new lens the other, get an unperished windscreen smearer blade (GaryCLR's don't fit the arm), oh yeah and adjust the brakes and hope that's sorted it for the Blue Slip.

Geez I've learnt a lot about engines and systems recently.

Thankyou so much to the people who have helped these last weeks, Sam, Geoff and Geoff; John, Charlie, Bob and Brian in particular have been tremendous help with the fault diagnosis and support. My Landy confidence is returning. And thanks Shonky for the lend of your Rangie!

good to hear that your nearly there and that you have learnt alot about it all

Good to hear mate. Looking forward to ABD!

Wish I could have come and joined the fun!

Then we could be confused by electrickery together...

FYI - going to have to put the Ranga on the market soon, but it's yours until it sells.

No worries Andrew, I have the huyundai to drive around anyway, only reason I hadn't given the Rangie back was in case I need a tow vehicle to get Mary to ABD...

LOL!

Keep in mind the tow hitch is only 1,600kg rated, and very high...