for the last year my temp guage (series3) has been reading high. I bought a new OEM one but it requires a $30+ bushing to fit. I haven't gotten around to dealing with that.
The other day while 10 miles up in the woods the landrover quit on me. I managed to run it up a bank and get it turned around without grinding the starter off and coasted a couple miles to where I had to fix it as there was a hill coming i'd never get up with the engine out. after operating the fuel pump by fingers till they wore out and shaking the rig and hearing no gas in the tank I emptied a coffee cup worth of saw gas into the tank and 'viola' ..... blue gas at the carb! ......... the engine immediatly started under compression whereupon I shut it off till needed to get up that hill and managed to coast within 300 yards of a neighbor whos' gas I borrowed.
My new aftermarket fuel sender arrived (with gasket) as I didn't want to diagnose tank issues with no gasket on hand and I learned my old sender works fine but the voltage going to it flashes off and on regularly so I read the elec schematics and figured the temp guage and gas guage both are faulty because of the voltage stabilizer which Rovers North is sending me now.
in 49 years I've never had to walk out but this is the sort of thing that happens when you keep driving them without giving them tlc now and then!!!