What did you do with your Series 2 in October ...

[Betsy1969]

I believe you can get hinges to take door mirrors from a club member.

Robin Sanderson of this parish is your man

[Alan Drover]

Thanks Betsy1969, I couldn't remember his name.

[Gareth]

Took Betsy out for an afternoon drive into the Peak District. Up and over Pyms Chair, down into Goyt Valley, back down Long Hill to Whaley Bridge, and then back down to Bramhall.

A good few steep hills to get her sweating, fantastic autumn views, and a good test of the brakes on the way down.

A very enjoyable 40 mile drive for a Sunday afternoon. Didn't miss a beat.

[Andrew]

Saturday did a trip to the dump with various scrap, including some old smashed up manifolds etc. Yesterday (Sunday) ... thought I had finished all the nasty outside garden jobs for the day in the rain, then noticed the rear offside tyre was going flat. So much for an afternoon inside out of the rain. Breaking the bead, getting the tube out and inspecting, and eventually deciding to put in a new one. A few bits of rust and old paint had bonded themselves to the tube and caused a rubbing at various points. No sign of an actual sharp object making a puncture from outside.

Since I was already dirty, and prepared with the right tools, I also decided to finally swap out the old 7.5x16 spare off my spare split rim, and replace with a much newer part-worn Rangemaster to match the main set. Thanks to Supercal for selling me that single last year at a very reasonable price. An exact match so now it looks like I actually purchased 5 new Rangemasters originally.

[Bloke]

Went to the Land Rover Monthly 4x4 Spares Day at Malvern yesterday and had a great time.

Met lots of members and had a thoroughly great day out. Finally got some quality miles on the clock of the 6 cylinder, with a nice 60 mile round-trip.

I'll pop more pictures and a video on the Series 2 Club Instagram page: Here

[Tom66]

Had a shot at making a door stop tube for the bulkhead, unsure if il use it but thought id have a play around.

[nathanglasgow]

Saturday did a trip to the dump with various scrap, including some old smashed up manifolds etc. Yesterday (Sunday) ... thought I had finished all the nasty outside garden jobs for the day in the rain, then noticed the rear offside tyre was going flat. So much for an afternoon inside out of the rain. Breaking the bead, getting the tube out and inspecting, and eventually deciding to put in a new one. A few bits of rust and old paint had bonded themselves to the tube and caused a rubbing at various points. No sign of an actual sharp object making a puncture from outside.

Since I was already dirty, and prepared with the right tools, I also decided to finally swap out the old 7.5x16 spare off my spare split rim, and replace with a much newer part-worn Rangemaster to match the main set. Thanks to Supercal for selling me that single last year at a very reasonable price. An exact match so now it looks like I actually purchased 5 new Rangemasters originally.

Now that's dedication to the cause Andrew. The rain was biblical on Sunday.

[nathanglasgow]

Wee run out to the forrest of Aberfoyle and a wee walk(okay so the real reason was to check out the new snack van in the car park) Good to see it survived the flooding from a couple of weeks ago

[Herald1360]

Sunday rather than today....

Over to Malvern at crack of sparrows', had to clip on the homemade sunvisor driving east on A44 

Parked in the S2 display at 3-Counties 4×4 spares day, next door but one to to the blue SW-6 mentioned above. Fitted a pair of S/H Quadoptics bought at the show whilst chatting to a S1 owner who turned out to be another Herefordshire resident fairly local to myself.

On over to Llangarron for dinner with sister then north up the A49 through Herefordshire and beyond to Onibury for a country music evening, finally back down the A49 home.

Followed the blue SW-6 out of the showground. It was blowing a fair amount of blue smoke from its exhaust, hopefully only inlet valve seals......

Around 140 miles altogether in a mix of bright sunlight, heavy rain and the dark.

[w3526602]

Followed the blue SW-6 out of the showground. It was blowing a fair amount of blue smoke from its exhaust, hopefully only inlet valve seals......

Hi,

I hope so too, but my understanding is that blue smoke from a DIESEL is a strong indication that the valve timing is "late" probably due to a worn timing chain, and/or worn sprockets.

I suppose that over-wide tappet clearances could also retard the valve timing ... slightly?

I have done this job once (without a DTI and stand ... £25 each?), but I did buy a "metric equivalent" of the socket spanner required to undo the crank nut (Isn't it a bolt?). A 3/4" drive socket cost me £5 on EBAY, plus another £5 for a 3/4" adaptor, so I could use my 1/2" drive torque wrench as a tommy-bar. It was a pig of a job, but gave me a clean exhaust.

Note that a "trumpet" on the cranking dog may require the use of a deep socket, or even a chisel and club hammer. Take a shufti at your crank nut, see if "Someone" has been there previously. I hate to say it, but sometimes "kinetic" is best. Look in the Green Bible, note that the factory spanner is intended to be thumped. I did NOT ask the price of the factory spanner. Anybody?

I found the sprockets were reluctant to be centre-punched, although somebody with a bigger hammer had evidently visited several times previously, so those sprockets had probably met more than one new timing chain ... which means it was reassembled with retarded valve timing. Or does it?

Next time, if it ever occurs, I will get a quote from a specialist, and think about letting them do the job. Probably about a weeks salary.

602

[Craig T]

I'm guessing that 6 cylinder is the old Land Rover petrol, inlet-over-exhaust engine very similar to my 4 cylinder, 2 litre version.

If it is blue smoke then obviously burning oil which is not surprising to be honest. It is a very old design engine and the 2 litre ones were well known for using a bit of oil so imagine an extra 2 cylinders only makes it worse!
 
Nice to see a 6 cylinder still going. So many of them were swapped out in the past for Diesels they are becoming pretty rare things now.

Craig.

[Wittsend]

The Rover P4 saloon cars have a strong following, the later models having 6-pot engines and once warmed up they should not be smoking.

[Bloke]

Nice to meet you on Sunday, Chris! Great to see another 109 SW on the display.

Aye, our 6 cylinder does smoke a bit when cold at the moment! We suspect both the timing and the air/fuel mixture is slightly off currently, as it does feel a bit strained when going uphill. So we're getting the timing light on it this weekend to get that in the right ballpark, then doing any minor adjustments to the Stromberg carb. After that, another oil change and valve clearance check to do. Hopefully that will improve things slightly.

[Craig T]

We should start a sub set of the club, 109" SW owners united.... 
We can compare seat layouts and rusty rear side door frames...

Can't compete on the 6 cylinder though, mine is a 4 cylinder petrol. Always fancied a 6 pot.

Craig.

[Bloke]

Yours really is a stunner, Craig. Would love to see it in the "flesh" one day! Series 2 Club 109 Station Wagons meetup soon? 

Our 6 pot has had plenty of abuse and a TON of previous owner bodges over the years, which we are trying our best to slowly reverse!

PS. As you mentioned the doors, I don't want to show off too much, but we may have recently found some new old stock second row doors to fit