Thread: New boy wants to get his landrover going

Start by getting a manual (on CD) from the bloke who runs this site.

I reckon the right one might be this one: Dave's Interesting Things - LANDYCD

Less than $20 so a good bargain.

HTH
David

If you go to the SeriesIII forum Series 3 - Australian Land Rover Owners in the Sticky's section at the top you can dowload the manuals, it's in 7 parts, Regards Frank.

the easy way is to just drop the thing in so that the vac advance unit is in a position that you can easily plumb it up, adjust the manual adjustment, and still do up all the retaining bolts on the dizzy.

Remove the Plugs and leads then turn the engine over till the #1 pot is at TDC (with the rocker cover off pot 4's valves will be on the rock) between the compression and power strokes.

remove the cap and note the position of the rotor
rotate the dizzy until the rotor points to one (it doesnt matter which) of the 4 outer lead towers on the cap. This is now the #1 firing position
turn the engine over with the crank handle 1/2 a turn and note the position of the rotor this is the #3 firing the next pair of 1/2 turns reveals plugs 2+4 respectively.

This gives you your coarse timing and if all is well it will probabley start and run like that allowing you to "ear" the engine into tune. (once you've got the plugs and leads on)

to set the coarse timing turn the engine in small fractions for nearly 1/2 a turn more and you will not the timing marks coming into alignment. once they are in alignement adjust the dizzy so that the points are just opening and lock the dizzy off. (theres 2 styles of timing markers, 1 is a scaled set of marks in degrees and the other is just a pointer that should be in the correct static advance position)

I usually start off at about 10-12 degrees of advance and then ear it in what your'e aiming at at the end of the day is a dead smooth idle but that also means you need to do

the valve adjustments
the carby tuning
the fine adjustments on the timing and electrics.

Thanks very much Dave the dizzy is still in the post but I will follow your directions and let you know what happens. BTB what does TDC stand for, scuse my ignorance?

hey i have a series 3 swb petrol aswell have to restore it a bit

Originally Posted by Valleydog

Thanks very much Dave the dizzy is still in the post but I will follow your directions and let you know what happens. BTB what does TDC stand for, scuse my ignorance?

TDC = Top Dead Centre, in relation to the piston.

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

This is now the #1 firing position
turn the engine over with the crank handle 1/2 a turn and note the position of the rotor this is the #3 firing the next pair of 1/2 turns reveals plugs 2+4 respectively.

1 3 2 4.....?

or should that be 1 3 4 2.....?

correct, well spotted. that would have been a fun engine to try and get running.....


firing order is 1342 it should be stamped on the manifold anyway.