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101 Forward
Control Land Rover pages
Service History (since we bought it)
| For servicing, repairs
and spares of all our cars (including the 101!!),
we use: |
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Stoneacre
Sawmill Lane
Brandon
Durham
DH78AB |
Contact: Sophie
Taylor
0191 378 0866
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www.stoneacredurham.co.uk
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The Basics
| Details
of vehicle |
Land-Rover 101" Forward
Control, 8 cylinder petrol
Ambulance bodied |
| 30/9/1977 |
Vehicle
built (Solihull, UK) |
| 30/7/1982 |
Vehicle
into military service |
| 28/6/1999 |
Vehicle
out of military service |
| 1/8/2000 |
Bought vehicle |
The story of getting it running:
| 8/00 |
New plugs, plug leads
Cleaned carbs
Sorted out electrics
Repaired night heater
Door locks replaced (with ones with a key!!) |
| 9/00 |
New petrol tank (stainless
steel, via 101 Club)
New alternator (the old one worked, but only
just) |
| 10/00 |
New thermostat and
radiator cap |
| 11/00 |
Replaced speedo cable
(odometer still doesn't work, though)
Sorted out in-cab and rear body electrics and
split charge system (see resources centre for deatils and wiring diagrams).
Mended odometer.
Front seats replaced with comfy ones.
Inertia reel seatbelts fitted to front seats. |
| 1/01 (good
date!) |
Triple gauge replaced (oil
& water temp weren't working) - (very good
price from John Craddocks)
Exhaust manifold gasket replaced (Birthday
prezzie from Lois)
New Distributor cap and rotor arm (Birthday
prezzie from Hannah) |
| 2/01 |
Headlamps converted from
the original glow-worm bulbs. |
| 3/01 |
New points and condenser
fitted (dwell meter method used to adjust points
- feeler gauge method hopelessly inaccurate). |
| 4/01 |
Fuel line re-routed and
fuel pump re-wired to try to sort hot starting
problem.
New coil. |
| 6/01 |
Carburettors overhauled
and reset. |
| 7/01 |
New fuel filter, foglamps,
pick & shovel, and amber flashing beacon -
all from Billing - fitted. |
| 8/01 |
New halogen headlamps and
U/J (for MoT). |
| 9/01 |
New distributor.
Professionally tuned.
Service (oil/filter change etc)
Electronic ignition fitted |
| 12/01 - 1/02 |
New distributor drive gear
& timing chain. |
| 3/02 |
New HT leads |
| 6/02 |
Additional gauges fitted
(oil pressure, vacuum, voltmeter) |
| 7/02 |
Flasher unit sorted out |
| 8/02 |
Overdrive fitted |
| 10/02 |
Service ready for winter |
| It's
worth noting that the academic year 2003/4 was
not the best one. I was having a tough time at
work, and this is reflected by the lack of
activity at this time. |
| 1/04 |
New vacuum difflock
control, new auto advance tube |
| 5/04 |
MoT pass!! |
| 7/04 |
New starter motor and fuel
pump fitted. Note: a new, high speed starter
motor was fitted instead of the original
equipment unit. It spins it over like a dream,
and is FAR better at starting it than before. |
The on-going story:
| During 2005 |
New exhaust and overhaul
of the oil pump (new main gear and idler, and
reconditioned pump cover and relief valve - see pic of old parts). |
| 8/06 |
MoT pass (first time!!) |
| 8/06 |
All brakes overhauled. New
brake pipe fitted.
NEW TYRES FITTED - big ones! (see photos here) |
| 10/06 |
Oil pressure still poor
(despite new oil pump bits) and bits starting to
break, so I have to admit - finally - that the
old engine is a dog! So new engine acquired (from
Steve Graham Services). This is from a 1986 Range Rover
EFi (with a 9.35:1 CR). Full details of the swap (including
lots of pictures) are here. |
| 1/07 |
Got fed up with the noise
levels in the cab, so fitted sound proofing kit
from NoiseKiller Acoustics. This was quite cheap and made a
HUGE difference! |
| 2/07 |
Having made the noise
bearable, I then decided to make the comfort
levels better by fitting some lovely new seats
from Exmoor Trim. |
| 1/08 |
So, that's makes it comfy
and reasonably quiet, so what about the cost of
running the bloody thing? I sorted that next by
buying and fitting an LPG kit. Lots more detail here. That was good fun, but quite nerve
wracking when it came to the CoP11 test that has
to be done on DiY installations, but I needn't
have worried because the installation passed with
flying colours! |
| 2/08 |
MoT pass. The old carbs
(you'll remember that I had to keep them when I
installed the Efi engine because of the gearshift
and room under the engine cover) were on their
last legs, so emissions were hard to get right
... however the LPG kit sorted all that out and
this time there were no worries at all and she
passed very easily with lower emissions than
she'd EVER had. |
| 2/10 |
I got fed up with doing
bits and pieces to the brakes, which were never
really right and very hard to get adjusted
correctly. So the pipe flaring tool that I'd had
to buy for the LPG installation really came into
its own as I replaced all the pipes, cylinders
and shoes. The brakes are now as good as they
ever could be. |
| 10/10 |
MoT - perfect! |
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