Thread: Stage 1 V8

I notice you have a cut out under grille.Mine has one too but has an oil cooler fitted,but not connected to anything.It's a 1980 stage one ute.

I pulled out the points and condensor and added this unit:



That red unit and the black 'ring' around the cam are the new bits...


Add the new rotor:


and cover it all up with the original distributor cap - looks all original...


New coil came with the kit, too, and has been installed - bypassing the resistor-based system.

The Holley has finally gone and the vehicle is now back running on 2 Stromberg carbs.

New door tops going in this coming week - along with new door seals.

Time to adjust the brakes, too.

The speedo has gone back to looking like a tacho again. Apparently there is a nut at the back behind the handbrake assembly that needs to be tightened...

Back in February 2013 I wrote about my new Deluxe seats.

Well I am here to report that the pommy bastard who called them 'deluxe' is a clearly disillusioned individual.

At the end of a 530km trip I was really happy to go sit on a more comfortable pile of rocks!

They look good. They are fine for trips up to, say, 200km but a full day of driving is not comfortable.

would be good to hear how you get on with the speedo cable. The needle on mine flaps about something chronic. Did you say yours was a new cable and it still flaps about?
cheers,
D

A common problem on Series Landrovers, and it probably applies to the LT95 as well, is that the nut on the output shaft is slightly loose, allowing the worm that drives the speedo to slip, with exactly this sort of result.

John

Originally Posted by Dark61

would be good to hear how you get on with the speedo cable. The needle on mine flaps about something chronic. Did you say yours was a new cable and it still flaps about?
cheers,
D

Yes, it is a new cable and, initially, seemed fine but some 3 months later is back to being quite bad. Nothing has been done, physically, yet - it's too damn cold in the mornings and too many other things I want to do on the vehicle in the afternoons.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

A common problem on Series Landrovers, and it probably applies to the LT95 as well, is that the nut on the output shaft is slightly loose, allowing the worm that drives the speedo to slip, with exactly this sort of result.

John

Hi John, I've been looking through the manuals I have and online. Several other people have also suggested that it is 'a nut on the back' but I have yet to identify it and work out how much effort is required to get to it to tighten it.

It took me a couple of hours of searching yesterday to discover how to adjust the transmission brake on the LT95

For example, I am guessing the prop shaft gets dropped, the transmission drum gets removed... and then what - is it visible there or do I keep pulling things apart...

It is my daily driver so I can't have any prolonged down time. which is why I still have the GPS attached to the windscreen

If I can stand lying on the cold wet ground for a while I may crawl underneath and make sure there aren't any tight bends in the cable.

You have to disconnect the front of the prop shaft, when a great big nut will be visible. It may be either a self locking nut, or have a split pin. It just needs to be tight. My 110 book says 108-132 foot pounds, 146,5-179Nm, probably the same for the S3 Stage 1, but I doubt it is very critical - you aren't going to damage it, but if loose enough for any movement at all, it will wear, which is probably what happens. It also sets the preload for the output shaft bearings, I think, determined by shims.

John

Originally Posted by JDNSW

You have to disconnect the front of the prop shaft, when a great big nut will be visible. It may be either a self locking nut, or have a split pin. It just needs to be tight. My 110 book says 108-132 foot pounds, 146,5-179Nm, probably the same for the S3 Stage 1, but I doubt it is very critical - you aren't going to damage it, but if loose enough for any movement at all, it will wear, which is probably what happens. It also sets the preload for the output shaft bearings, I think, determined by shims.

John

Thanks John

I'll take a look. I am going to be taking the transmission brake drum off because I want to clean it out in there so I'll look at this at the same time.