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Yep there's only one and its more than a bit tatty lol Im in no rush to sort the seats in fact it will be the last job I think!

I will be changing the seats to something a bit more comfy. That and I really didn't want to be taking seats out everytime I want to fuel up so a single tank is less hassle....simples.

Bugger sitting in the rain all day I work outside so I will have a chance to get wet enough then lol

Coming on in leaps and bounds chap! Right when you are done I have an FFR needing lots of electrics sorting...what time should I put the kettle on? :D:D

Filling up. Main Posted by min200 Mon, October 20, 2014 16:45:58 Wifey at work the kids at school and yet another cheeky day off at home for me so after the chaos of the past few weeks I actually got to don my babygrow and get near the landy. My aim for the day was to get the fuel filler cap installed in place so I can actually put petrol in from the outside of the motor! I have been pestering folk for measurements of where their filler cap holes were (I originally typed "where their holes are" but after reading it back thought best to change it to spare myself some ridicule!) so when I chopped into the side of my landy the filler cap would be in the right place without a massive hole poking out from the edges... lets face it a big hole can spoil anyone's day. The tape measure went out and in up and down until I was satisfied I had got it in the right place then came out the drill. I thought it was best to start out with a small hole and work my way up from there until I got the dimensions just tight...I mean right! The first hole was a bit tight... But I managed to stretch it out so I could get the sides of the framework in. Once a snug fit was achieved I riveted it into place and fitted the main and overspill pipework in place. A quick couple of coats of paintwork later I managed to get the cap in and I have to say the results are quite impressive! The only extra thing I had to get was an extra jubilee clip to keep the pipework in place next to the tank. It looks like it was supposed to be in there all along now. Another job ticked off of the list along with a bit of a wink toward this old motors heritage applied in the form of the old tyre pressure psi painted back above the wheels on the arches. The next job will be the brake system as the parts are sitting wanting in the shed to be fitted. The plan was to do some more in the morning before work but if the weather folk are to be believed I don't think sitting outside on the driveway playing with brakes would be a good idea!

Thanks Jeff I shall just keep plodding with it! The Outward Bound Trust Main Posted by min200 Sun, October 19, 2014 14:14:21 Well I am back from my week away with the kids at The Outward Bound Trust and what a hell of a week it was! To start it is a good four hour run blasting through some of the best roads North Wales could throw up and offer so I arrived with a grin on my face. That was soon wiped off when along with the other mentors we were taken around and asked to take part in a couple of the activities the kids would be aske to do during the week. No problem eh I am a grown man so what could they ask me to do that would be scary if they expected teenagers to so it. They threw up a 30 foot high telegraph pole that you were to climb then stand on top of. Not too bad you are thinking right? Wrong. A 30 foot telegraph pole sways and wobbles when you are stood on top of it shaking so badly you look like you are dancing to techno music. Still once there the worse thing to do would be to come back down...the only way you are going to be doing that is by jumping from your perch to grab onto the trapeze swing dangling a few feet away at the same height as you. That was my first change of pants. All you had to do then while dangling on your swing was to trust your new found friends had tied the rope knots right and let go of the only thing you had hold off with a grip like death itself. Once swinging I have to say the view was pretty impressive though because until that point you had seen nothing but the red of terror in your eyes! The kids had to do this...and they did it better than me! 160 teenagers turned up in a manic 20 minute window who were then told to get changed and do a "jog & Dip". Whenever I say "the kids" this ALWAYS includes me...I had to do everything they did. Well I didn't "have to" but it was expected and there was no way I was letting a bunch of hormone addled spotty kids think I was scared....I was crapping myself at times. Anyway the jog & dip was a short half mile run, the last time I ran anywhere was with a large Doberman hard at my heels, to the sea where we promptly stood in a circle with our group of ten and dipped ourselves under the sea...cold does not even begin to express what the temperature was like! Sill the half mile jog back soon warmed us through along with more changing of pants. Im not going to go into a detailed diary of the rest of the week because it would be a bit of a slog and I don't know if anyone else would be that interested but I will say the two day 11 mile hike up some of the biggest wind blown mountains North Wales had to offer along with wild camping saw the start of an incredible change in these teenagers. They started out as 10 awkward kids who didn't want to look at each other let alone talk to someone they didn't know god forbid that would happen but the hardships of hiking across difficult terrain, making camps as well as completing tasks as a team like when e dropped them onto a secluded beach with only the materials to make a raft so they could get back made a change in each and everyone of them that I would not have thought possible at the start of the week. The kids grew up stopped thinking selfishly and considered their teammates. They supported, laughed and considered others but themselves. They pushed past mental limits protected and cared. They left at the end of the week different people with hope and determination that would put most adults to shame. I was privileged to witness this. It was an incredible journey to be a part of and humbling to see. Thanks to each and every one of you who donated toward this the charity know what they are doing this was not a holiday for these kids much to some surprise on their part but a life changing experience ad any advantage that can be given to those that need it is a good thing. Land rover project updates will be back from tomorrow.

[h=2]Getting ready.[/h]MainPosted by min200 Sat, October 11, 2014 12:58:42 They say time flies and it really does in what seems like a blink of the eye I have arrived upon the eve of going away to The Outward Bound Trust in wales that I was raising money for a while back. When they asked for volunteers it was on a nice spring day with the promise of a superb summer to follow so I said yes but has anyone else noticed it turned a bit bloody chilly this week and I will be spending most of next week either on a Welsh mountainside or in some sort of river bay or pond... So this morning was spent buying the local Yeomans out of thermal under wear and woolly socks! Im looking forward to helping these kids out but im buggered if I will spend any more time than needs be being freezing cold and wet! Bought a few extra bits as well just in case the kids coming don't have the luxury of such things. SO with this and the daft 12 hour days if the past few weeks the Landy has been a bit neglected with a pile of parts in the shed waiting to go on and a job left half finished but after next week I will have the time to dive back in and get a load more work done to it. Give me a week and I will be boring the pants off of you all again after I have come home and defrosted first.

Sounds like a plan

Birthday Bonus Main Posted by min200 Sat, October 04, 2014 17:44:00 Well today is my birthday and its the big 4-1, perhaps I should now rename the blog just turned 41 but it really doesn't have the same ring to it. Anyway I can hand on heart say it has, so far, been the best birthday I have had in years! A new laptop (how very extravagant!) proper ales in bottles, slippers and chocolate to put Thonton's to shame BUT there was on extra bonus that I had to pay for myself but it was worth it! The last but best present was a full length roof rack with ladder for the Landy at a cost of £100 delivered! The chaps who dropped it off helped me pop it onto the project as well which saved me some stress of trying to put it on myself and the results are pretty good as well! That's all I can get in today as I need to get ready to be dragged out to a restaurant for a slap up meaty mal and a few real ales to boot. It's a dirty job but I will try to persevere!

Great stuff looks good and we may well be up for that!

Sounds tempting but when is it?

Wheres the war and peace show held then? Oh and when? Sounds like a beer could be a plan Nick

Now those sound like proper gifts to each other! Lots of yeas of use there

What can you do in 5 mins? Main Posted by min200 Sun, September 28, 2014 20:09:43 A proper day off today and as it turns out it was my wedding anniversary...whoops. Now luckily I was up very early because of the daft hours im working and downstairs I found a card from Wifey to me. Soooo I quickly headed out to "walk the dog" before she woke up and actually found a decnt bunch of flowers at the petrol station up the road along with a blank card to write in! I mean what are the odds of finding both at the local BP? talk about luck on my side! So with Wifey happy when she woke up we headed off into Derbyshire to have a hunt around a carboot/market and lunch out in the park at Matlock. While we were sitting there it came to my attention what ****e parenting goes on in the world. There was a women screaming at a two year old that he was a waste of space and needed to wlk faster, a Dad looking more at his phone while his kid was doing his best to drown himself in the river but the cream de le cream were the parents that were just smiling at their daughter who just kept screaming at the top of her voice and this was a scream that could break glass over a ten minute period because she wanted an ice cream. Now when I was a kid I got a slap if I stood out of line, if my parents weren't there to do it any other adult that was kicking around would happily stand in and give you a slap if you were being a ****. I have slapped my own kids on the very rare occasion it has been needed and they have turned out to be ok with no mental scars but we seem to have the first generation that was raised without punishments for their actions now having their own kids whilst having no clue what to do to discipline them. Honestly it takes everything I have inme not to first walk up to the latest little ****s and tell them off whilst slapping their parents at the same time. Still enough of my griping Wifey decided she was going to hoover the car out so I had a window of twenty minutes to do something Landy related but what can you do in that time without getting filthy? The answer is gators. Two gators one on the handbrake and one on the 4wd knob. Easy enough to do just whip out the screws take off the old gators and refit! The old gators were past their best! Then the hoover went quiet so playtime was over. Next job will be to finish the fuel pipe cap bit on the bodywork at some point over the next couple of weeks.

LOL did your clutch slip a bit by any chance? Thanks for the heads up Feels like I am getting somewhere with this project now after months of spending and playing and I am glad I kept this blog because its only when I have a read back through I realise how much I have actually done to it!

Tanks and Switches Main Posted by min200 Sat, September 27, 2014 18:50:26 Have you ever been volunteered for a job at work and you think "yea why not it will make a change and a few extra quid" then as soon as you started doing that job thought "Why in Gods name did I say I would do this?" Well that's where I am at now.] 12 hours a day 6 days a week seemed like a great idea bringing in extra cash but the actual job is mind numbing as hell! Basically I am a traffic director whilst a massive area outside of the biggest warehouse we have is being re tarmacked so I get to argue with outside drivers that they cant park their trucks there and basically puch people around to keep the flow of trailers moving....I would rather be hung up by my pubic hair on the nearest light bulb than do the next two weeks I have left on it! But there was a silver lining as we finished phase one within a couple hours of arriving at work this morning so I promptly ran off home before I could be found some other mind numbing chore for me to do by those folk in the offices that all they seem to do is compare job titles and measure each others dicks! So onto the landy as soon as I got home with the unexpected extra time I had in the day. I decided on rebuilding the fuel system that I stripped out last time I had any time on the old girl. First was to remove the old fuel pump that was caked up with some sort of fuzz and cobwebs. The fuel lines were brittle as hell so getting them out wasn't a problem. Two bolts that hold the fuel pump on cam off easily and to my surprise there was no gasket behind it so it may of rotted away or not been there to start with but it made cleaning the face up for a good fit of the new pump easy. I popped the pump on and then fitted new brake line front to back but discovered that the flexi hose that connects to the carb was perished but does it have to have that? Is it going to cause me any great problems without it? I shall be asking around to see but fitting it later wont be a problem. Then it was onto fitting the 88" fuel tank. Apart from cutting a hole in the floor for the filler to come out of it wasn't really a problem apart from the fact that if you don't have a large high jack, two pairs of hands or the use of the force you will struggle to do this by yourself. Having said that the lovely ladies of my home just looked at me like I had asked if they would clean the front driveway with their tongues when I asked for a helping hand so I went and dug out my big jack, my spare set of hands, quickly read up on my jedi mind powers and got stuck in. After 20 minutes of mild foul language dropping tools when I really could have done without doing so and a couple of trapped fingers later the tank was in. I connected the fuel pipe then looked at the wiring from the twin tanks realising I had not marked or taken any notice of what two wires I would need to plug back in for the fuel gauge to work called myself a few derogatory names and added it to my list of what I must find out as well as finding out where the fuel filler cap should be so it works and connects to the tank as its supposed to. After a quick tidy around, the driveway was starting to look like a jumble sale with tools and rubbish strewn all over the place, I decided to fit the new brake switch. It wasn't too hard but I did have to slacken off the top nuts on the brake servo in order to remove the old and fit the new brake switch. After some fiddling around I actually got the brake lights to work! That's one set of lights on the rear of the motor that actually do!! There was one troubling thing I did notice while crawling around under the landy and that was maybe a couple of bolts might be missing from what I think is the clutch housing...could be something else mind but Im learning as I go here but they are missing in the following pics if anyone can shed any light on it... So another pleasant afternoon spent pottering about when I should have been working which has made it so much more enjoyable.

Shows Parts and Pennies Main Posted by min200 Sun, September 21, 2014 16:05:50 Excuse me if this gets a little disjointed the Wife is chewing my ear about some nonsense that A) doesn't effect me and B) I am not the slightest bit interested in but I must pretend I am listening and grunt in the right places or she will just talk for longer. Yesterday was the Land Rover show at Peterborough and I have been looking forward to it. As a Land rover show "virgin" I was under the impression I would be able to buy all of the bits I needed to complete my little project and took enough money to do so after pricing the parts up online. How mistaken I was. If you wanted to buy a winch bumper or spend a small fortune on a flashy interior that was the place to go. If you wanted to pay more than new prices for old bits of scrap at the auto jumble stores this was the place for you! I mean one bloke tried to charge me £30 for a series indicator stalk....THIRTY BLOODY QUID for a £12 part???? yea ok mate would you like my pin number as well in fact have the wife while you are at it! Now don't get me wrong it was great looking at all the different motors I was quite in my element with that but going for the normal rebuild parts is obviously a bad idea and now I know so next year I shall go prepared and buy a winch bumper. I particularly liked this stand... Anyway when I got home I jumped online and ordered loads of new bits in fact enough bits to hopefully finish the Landy off apart from anything the axles need and front seats. I then found an old advert for 24v bits near my parents place so I called and bought all manner of bits off of the chap including a rear bench seat so something else ticked off of the list. Then there was the wheels. You know I spent ages deciding what colour to paint my wheels and ended up with black which was all nice and good now only needing new tyres. I found some tyres. They were really good tyres. They were on the same rims as I had already done up so I am not going to be taking them off of one set to put them on the other same type of wheel set like was suggested by the wife who couldn't see the issue with spending the money to swap them over onto exactly the same wheels. So she told me to paint them again. But I am far too tight to go and buy more spray paint. Why would I when there is perfectly good NATO paint in the shed so I thought I would try that first and the results are pretty good even if I do say so myself. Bugger the black NATO green it is then! The fuel system strip out was next on todays list so I jumped to it and it took all of 20 minutes to remove both tanks and the change over switch. The Chassis had a quick rub down and was under sealed again. No pictures of it painted black you have seen all that before! I did clean up the twin tanks and they will be on Ebay later today along with the set of 5 steel disco wheels I no longer need! There was one last buy at the Landy show that dear Wifey made me get. Apparently I am a bit of a git for wrecking clothes when working on the project so a babygrow was in order. This way I am told I can wear what ever I want to work on it and never ruin anything but it doesn't matter that I look like I am about to pay some expensive hooker who deals in extreme fetishes a large amount of money. I like a challenge..... Landy Project Costs Land Rover £375 Sanding Discs £11.70 Ignition Barrel £20 Heritage letter £21.75 2x Batteries and rear 1/4 light £35 Pair Battery Terminal Clamps £3.99 Floor pan nuts & bolts £6.50 Grinding disc £2.25 Under Seal £8.99 Complete set of lights £85 5 Litres Primer £24.99 4 Discovery Wheels £10.20 Rear Door £21.00 Front Door £20.00 Handbrake spring £1.50 2 Discovery wheels Two seatbelts Wing Mirror 2 Headlight surrounds 2 headlight frames £60 2 Front Doors £60 Nato Green Paint £36 Rear Window Seal and insert £9.99 Wiring connectors £3.00 2 tins of silver metal paint £7.00 Fuses & Sandpaper £4.50 5x tins black spray £5.00 5x more tins black spray £5.00 Clutch fluid Exhaust putty WD40 £8.49 Car Boot Bits £13 Front & rear shocks £59.45 Front & rear brake rebuild kits £81.62 Fuel tank & filler £40 Wheels complete with tyres £250 Fuel pump Fuel hose Indicator stalk Bonnet strap Brake switch Fuel pump gasket Fuel line clips £67.74 24v Wiper motor 24v flasher relay 24v heater 24v front loom oil cooler Door tops x2 Rear bench seat £67.50 TOTAL £1425.16

Sickness sunshine & shock absorbers Main Posted by min200 Sun, September 14, 2014 17:54:55 A full weekend off is a rare treat these days as work in the modern world takes no distinction from the days of the week. Our plans for the day were to head off into Derbyshire on the motorbike as we were kid free as well for a change which gives us a chance to be Nick & Lian again instead of Muuuum and Daaad but as I opened my eyes I knew that Autumn was coming and long with it a batch of new bugs to have a go at the system. I felt like someone had removed me from my slumber during the night taking me outside placing me in the middle of the road just in time for the nearest bus to hit me. Sore throat sick stomach and a pounding head...not a good mix for a day on the bike. Wifey soon awoke as well complaining of the same and I knew she must be ill because she was awake and up before 9am on a weekend day off. I am not one for sitting about and feeling sorry for myself when a bug hits home in fact I have dragged myself to work more than once when feeling bad only to be turned around as soon as I got there by the staff quoting some health and safety bull about driving when you look like crap! so seeing as the sun was out and the kids had done a fine job of buggering off we popped out to a car boot sale where I picked up a towball, bottle jack and a water container for the Landy for the grand sum on £5.40. Should be useful on trips out! When we got home Wifey collapsed on the sofa and I have to say I was tempted to join her but the weather was good and I thought a potter on the project was a good idea. I decided to see how hard it was to sort the shock absorbers. The front ones were pretty rusty.. I set to taking the split pin out which came ok considering how long its been there and was still in a usable condition. The top bolts came out no bother at all. Now folk have been telling me that when you fit a new front shock its a bitch to get the pin back in because the new rubbers need compressing so much and the ideas and tools folk had made made the mind boggle! I found it was just easy to first clamp on side down with a g clamp tp put the pin in and then clamp the other side and push the split pin through. Looks better with the new shock in place I was still feeling ok-ish so I tackeled the other side as well! Then onto the back ones. These were a bit more of a pain because the rust was so bad on the back ones. I ended up having to grind them off but please take note here and be mindful of the axle straps because if you don't you will end up having to buy new ones... I fitted the new shock no bother and again it looks good under there I did the other side to but I then admitted defeat to the bugs in my body. The rest of the day will be spent eating chocolate drinking tea and maybe a strong bit of something medicinal later on this evening. www.nickysmith.me

Indeed she does need to know the basics about mechanics but I expect that will take a little more time. She wants a cruiser style bike but beggers cannot be choosers lol What type of bike will you be selling and whereabouts are you?

Postage & Steering Main Posted by min200 Sat, September 13, 2014 17:54:54 I love the internet. I love being able to hop on it and order what I need knowing it will turn up a couple of days later and I have not had to drive around to a few different places talking to teenage pleb ends who have no interest in what I want to buy or in giving the correct product let alone the time of day. I do try and box clever with delivery though. I order stuff aiming for it to arrive when I am around the house to save that nightmare trip to the local sorting office to be met by a grown up pleb who will not be able to find my parcel amongst the piles of them they have hidden out of eyesight in these places. My family don't share the same view on delivery they just order their crap normally from the other side of the world and then miss the delivery and moan like bloody hell until they have it in their hands and promptly forget about the tat they have bought in a couple of hours. My eldest daughter has done just that. She missed a parcel she just "HAD" to have today but she was at work all morning and the sorting office would be closed when she was done so the inevitable "Daaaadd" came out and I was forced to go and pick the bloody thing up this morning. The thing is I had ordered a tank bag for the motorbike as I would need it for the charity week that's fast approaching and I had to collect some bits for the Landy this morning but "no great panic" I thought to myself as Wifey and the youngest will be in while I am out so all they have to do is answer the door and take it off of the postman. No great task that is it? Well I picked up a replacement fuel tank along with the funnel fittings and a set of steering bars then headed for the sorting office. All was going well and I was making good time until I arrived there. There were a few folk queuing all the way down the side of the building of course so my marathon 45 minute wait for a parcel I didn't want or need started. The one single pleb serving seemed to be illiterate which is a handy trait a post office building and seemed to look at pictures on his phone more than peoples collection cards. Stating my annoyance in a civil manner of course is probably why he took 5 minutes to have a cup of tea/collect my daughters parcel but I had it soon enough and escaped home to find a big red parcel collection note on my front door mat and my wonderful family still snoring in bed. They still wonder why I am pissed off! Back to the sorting office pleb on Monday morning for my tank bag it is then. Still I had the chance of a couple of hours on the project today so firstly I had to spray up the new steering bars ready for fitting as the rust colour wasn't that fetching Then I cleaned up and sealed the replacement fuel tank The reason for changing from twin tanks to a single is because I want a filler neck. The idea of taking out both seat bases when I fuel up really is unappealing so while I am doing the rebuild of the fuel system which was everything but the fuel tank a little extra work is not a problem. Then it was onto the steering bars. The original ones were banana shaped and god only knows how they ended up that way! I can only presume some monkey decided to strap it up on them or lift them with a fork lift! The bends were pretty severe so much so the front wheels were facing inwards. The smaller bar came off easy enough but the longer bar decided it had to have the usual blood and pain sacrifice to the Landy gods before giving up. One set of the replacement track rod ends were in reqally good condition but I will need to replace the ones on the longer bar but I have fitted the bar into place to keep everything in the right order and nit confuse myself! They look well though and yes I know I am sad liking how my new steering bars look! The wheels are straight now which is nice! I managed to swap these bars for an old wing skin I had kicking around which is always better than having to pay for them! Of course then the Wife started shouting about how I had to get clean because we have to go and do something dull somewhere else so the tools were packed away and I took solace in the mental list I have of whats left to do. ***I have just realised that my costing list has not taken into account the refunds of money for the bits I have sold off of the Landy. I shall tot up what I have made and then add it as a credit to the costing's*** Landy Project Costs Land Rover £375 Sanding Discs £11.70 Ignition Barrel £20 Heritage letter £21.75 2x Batteries and rear 1/4 light £35 Pair Battery Terminal Clamps £3.99 Floor pan nuts & bolts £6.50 Grinding disc £2.25 Under Seal £8.99 Complete set of lights £85 5 Litres Primer £24.99 4 Discovery Wheels £10.20 Rear Door £21.00 Front Door £20.00 Handbrake spring £1.50 2 Discovery wheels Two seatbelts Wing Mirror 2 Headlight surrounds 2 headlight frames £60 2 Front Doors £60 Nato Green Paint £36 Rear Window Seal and insert £9.99 Wiring connectors £3.00 2 tins of silver metal paint £7.00 Fuses & Sandpaper £4.50 5x tins black spray £5.00 5x more tins black spray £5.00 Clutch fluid Exhaust putty WD40 £8.49 Car Boot Bits £13 Front & rear shocks £59.45 Front & rear brake rebuild kits £81.62 Fuel tank & filler £40 TOTAL £1039.92 www.nickysmith.me

Oh I think the big multinational company I work for that has just three letters in its name hires all of them!

Not alot doing. Main Posted by min200 Tue, September 09, 2014 08:42:17 I haven't really had a chance to do much this past week because of the way the wonderful new shift pattern falls at work to include Saturdays. This shift pattern is so good it is already failing leaving trunks with no drivers at all times of the day and we did point this out before it was implemented but we were just "moaning drivers who don't like change". Don't get me wrong we are moaning drivers and we don't like any sort of change especially if it includes making us work weekends but we are not thick and we can see what's in front of our faces even if the kids fresh out of Uni with a bit of paper that says they are transport managers cannot. Bless em 22 years old and know it all, they can't drive a truck everywhere is half an inch away on a map "Birmingham to Carlise only an hour or so" and still struggle to find their own asses whilst Mummy does their washing because they still live at home with mounting students debts BUT we drivers are the thickos with no idea...you have to laugh! Still enough moaning I have had a chance to spray up the old Jerry can I bought in my specially designed spray booth... It's come up quite well I think. I did consider using some of my left over nato green paint but then found out I did have any paint brushes so a black spray can that was kicking around it was! Land Rovers are like buses and I have been offered two more in the last few days but after much thinking and worrying and cursing to myself I decided to buy one. The first an 88" had been sold and the second a 109" was in being stored in Lancaster so that put an end to that. For the best really as I have come too far with this old motor to get distracted now! I'm making a list of parts I need for the Land Rover Show in Peterborough in a week or so and the primary bits will be the rest of the brake system rebuild along with a couple of nice defender seats that I will find for a tenner....oh no that was a dream I had last night. A weekend off is looming so hopefully I can get a bit of the brake rebuild started. www.nickysmith.me

She is not interested at all in cars she wants to be a biker chick which is fine by me as I ride every day so will teach her properly! Always start up a thread chap if it helps someone great and if not its nice to see what you have been doing! I have just ordered brake rebuild kits but have decided to rebuild the whole brake system from front to back. Wont be cheap but hey ho may as well do it properly. We are going to the big Land rover show in Peterborough in a week or so and there will be bits galore collected there! Best go and get the piggy bank emptied lol

I decided to buy it. The chap had just sold it. Another chap emailed me to say he has one for sale. Lets see what happens now!!!

[h=2]Do I line them up?[/h]MainPosted by min200 Sat, September 06, 2014 20:23:31 I am in a bit of a quandary this evening. One Land Rover does always lead to another BUT I didn't think it would happen this soon. There is maybe an opportunity to acquire an 88" model as well at a good price that would need nothing more than a few hours work to get back onto the road. This would have me charging around off road this side of Christmas and leave the 109" on the drive for a more leisurely rebuild... Oh what to do? Come on folks throw a little advice my way here!