Thread: More work on the Game

Well I got brake parts on Friday and yesterday morning, front wheel cylinders from one supplier and rear and a set of shoes from another. Master cylinder I got stainless sleeved and picked that up yesterday morning.

While fitting the rear wheel cylinders the brake lines would not screw into the new cylinders (one of them was quite difficult to get out of the old) so I checked them out a bit closer and the threads are very second rate, one side will not screw in even after cleaning the thread up a little with my tap and die set. So off with the brake lines today and I will take them off to get new ones made up tomorrow. I will get a new flexible line as well a little bit longer to allow for the extra height of the parabolics even though I still have the check straps on so probably don't need it.

Haven't actually taken the front drums off yet but I will probably need to do something with them too.

I put the parabolics back on the back as well today and I will set them a little differently, I will set them an inch or two above the settings in the book for standards rather then just letting them sit on the cars weight and then tightening them up. We will see how they go then I suppose.

Also took the fuel pump out today since I have been having trouble with the engine dying on any slope that tilted the car right hand down and had made sure everything else was ok. The fuel bowl had a mass of crap in it. Looks like all sorts of stuff, even sand, and quite a bit of water so that has now been cleaned out and the pump put back. I will empty the fuel tank completely before putting it back and see what rubbish is in the bottom of that.

In a couple of years I will probably have replaced the whole car piecemeal if I keep going the way I have so far .

TimJ.

Originally Posted by Sleepy

I have noticed my series 3 has a definite lean to the driver now (about 1 inch difference under the opposite guards).

Springs (Standard) are new - so I am hoping they are just settling in

I guess one option would be to swap left to right

I would check to make sure (unless already done) that there is not some tension on one or more bushes tilting it. Slacken all the spring shackles slightly, go for a short drive and retension with the weight still on the wheels.

Series Landrovers almost always lean a bit, the result of long travel suspension (a little bit of change in weight on the spring results in a lot of deflection) and no sway bars, coupled with uneven weight side to side. They try to get it sitting level by more camber on the RH springs to cope with battery, transfer case, driver and fuel tank on the right, but it will only be right for a given weight of driver and fuel tank contents and in any case the RH spring will settle more rapidly as they are bent further from their unloaded camber in normal use.

John