What did you do to your Rover today?

[Wander]

Well that stinks, I can only imagine the sick feeling you had when it broke.

Oh well, the build up is the real fun anyway.

[gudjeon]

Took it out to find some more old logging railway remnants lost in the woods of time.

[G.G. Sprock]

Hmmm, stripped and painted the front of the chassis to my 1965 109SW 2.25 Diesel RHD in my "spare" time. I am starting to see the "turn around" point where I can start bolting stuff back on the frame... one day :-)

[bear7343]

Fixed the ignition crisis (with help from the old man). Then I took the seats out, floor boards and unbolted the seat box in preperation for next weekends clutch work, then I got a phone call and used the excuse of fishing to prevent more knuckle banging...

[siiirhd88]

The other day I installed a Weber progressive 2V carb on the 109. It was a used carb I found at the J**p junkyard for $25, already on an adapter that bolted up to the standard 2.25 intake. The truck has a much better top end, but doesn't seem to take the hills as easy as the Rochester. I still have to wire up the electric choke and check the mileage, while I re-jet the old Rochester.

Today, we bought a 2002 Disco II SD with 77K miles to replace the unreliable '96 Disco SE7 with 196K miles.

Bob

[TedW]

I replaced the 40 year old ball joints........

.....on my longitudinal steering tube. What a PITA!

Took me almost two twelve-packs to get through it.

[bmohan55]

Put on an electric fuel pump (NAPA $53) to combat my vapor lock. Also moved the fuel filter from in front of the carb to the other side of the engine. We'll see....

[SafeAirOne]

Power Washed My Engine Bay...

Power-washed my engine bay in preparation for stuffing "new" engine. Cleanest it's been in 6 years!

Two things to note:

1) Leaking oil cooler lines double as a great engine bay preservative and

2) My transmissioin and transfer case are painted silver after all!

[utahseries]

Bolted my engine and trans together and bolted them into place. Finished connecting clutch linkage, and installed my remote breathers for my axle cases!

[rbonnett]

Did my routine stuff: fluids check, etc. Checked and set the points and plugs. Adjusted the valves, replaced the leaky valve cover gasket.

When I did the compression check I got (1-4): 155,120,150,145. This was after doing the valve adjustment. I wonder if I have an emerging problem with #2? At idle, pulling the #2 plug wire sounds like it has the same effect that any of the others do, for what that's worth.

I adjusted the timing - which was way off. I am very suspicious of the distributor clamp - see Jeff A's recent article on the DELRC shop day for the details on that.

Anyway, took it for a quick road test - everything seemed as fine as it ever is. Did the one last thing - tightening the distributor clamp bolt snug. See my separate post about the now dead starter

Oh yeah - took the insulation out of the soft top, now that Spring is here.

[SeriesShorty]

I finally made some good progress getting started back on my Series. I've been working on removing the massive amount of wiring that a FFR truck uses, yanking all the 24v parts, etc.

Of course, shipfitters is kicking in a little bit so I figured I might as well remove the seatbox so I can get everything cleaned up before running the new wiring harness. After hours of struggling with rusted bolts, and the reciprocating saw to get the really stubborn ones, the seatbox is finally out. It's so nice to be able to get to all the guts under there and get things cleaned up!

It feels good to have a good reason to be spending more time on here.

[bear7343]

Clutch

Worked on the clutch (Seats, seat box, floor boards, front left fender and tranny all removed)... to be bolted back up tomorrow...hopefully..... Then it's brakes next weekend....

Master Cylinder Good
Slave Cylinder Good
Throw Bearing appears to be good
Clutch Housing... may have been seized up, popped when I started losening the bolts.

***Les - what is the deal with transmission mounts??? They seem to fail every five years or so... is that your take on it as well???

[siiirhd88]

Yesterday we drove the wife's V8 SIIA 109 the 435 miles from Pa. to our other home in NC. Today we used the winch to pull several stumps and then loaded up the 109 for a trip to the dump.

Tomorrow I head back to Pa., with a stop on the way to talk Series Rovers.

Bob
'02 Disco II SD
'96 Disco SE7
'80 SIII 109
'75 SIII 88 V8
'68 SIIA 109 V8

[mrdoiron]

...managed to get a brain cramp trying to wire a replacement hazard switch & flasher light on the dash panel. Gonna take a breather (and beer) and try again tomorrow...

mike

[scott]

painted the fuel tanks that came back from the cleaners the other day. while at it i painted the rear xmbr on my 88 which i should of done months ago when i cut and welded it back into a serviceable thing. had to pulled off and the hitch and grab handles so i painted them. used the ambi and the 88 and some chain stretch between 'em to hang everything on. now the rear of the 88 looks a lot better. the po gave the truck an earl shive paint job. everything including the galvy trim and caps. so now the rear xmber and the tabs that go up to the tub are grey. the grab handles and hitch are black.