As I haven't posted in a while here's a potted history to bring this up to date.

04/06/06

My step father (Ken) came over to assist me with the Land Rover, and was a great help. He replaced the block connectors I had used to temporarily get the rear lights working with proper connectors, which means things are a little more robust. On the downside however, we found that the brake light switch on the pedal is not working properly and will need to be investigated. If the pedal is not pulled upwards before being depressed the stop lights do not work consistently.

Ken also helped get some of the bolts back into the rear crossmember/tub, but we couldn't get them all in, nor tighten them up due to not having a crowbar nor an extension for the socket set. We also discovered that one of the supports on the bottom of the tub had broken away and that the bracket it attaches to on the chassis had rusted out and will need to be replaced.

06/06/06

The parts arrived from Craddock's but sadly one part (a split pin) was missing.
Since we had found problems with the tub, during the previous weekend, and combined with the fact that I knew the chassis needed some welding, we decided to get some professional advice on whether is was worth continuing with the project. Ken asked a friend of his, a mechanic, to take a look at the vehicle and determine if the vehicle was worth saving. Mick, the mechanic kindly agreed to take a look and promised to visit over the weekend sometime. As I had my car back from the garage I used my tyre pump to set the tyre pressures on the Land Rover correctly.

09/06/06

The owners handbook, I had ordered, arrived.

10/06/06

Mick and Ken came over, and inspected the vehicle. Mick was satisfied that the vehicle was generally sound and that the tub and chassis could be repaired as could all the rust holes, by a competent welder. He also noticed some holes that I had missed and that the rear leaf springs would needed replacing. This was overall postive news!

After Mick left, Ken and I continued working on the Landy. As we were now equipped with a crowbar, we managed to get the last bolts into the rear crossmember, although as before we only got them finger tight. We also worked on attaching the replacement parts that I'd received in the week, but unfortunately didn't get to far. The locating screw we tried to put in the rocker shaft, couldn't be fitted as the shaft has rotated out of alignment and the holes no longer line up. This will be a difficult task to complete as the nuts holding the rocker shaft clamps on couldn't be undone by either of us meaning we will have to use a tool to rotate the front shaft back into alignment, but this requires removing other parts of the engine to gain access. We also tried to remove the bulbs behind the dash board, but just couldn't seem to get them free. We also discovered that one of the heater controls had been disabled, the wires just hanging in the engine bay along with the actuator rod. According to Haynes this is for the heater water valve which seems to be absent so more work is required there to see what has been removed and bypassed and if it can be replaced.I did however manage to get the rubber bung in the hole in the side of the gear box tunnel, which while small was a job that needed to be done.

11/06/06

I only managed a few hours work on sunday as the temperature was soaring, and working inside a metal box was not too appealling. I managed to easily remove the bulbs that had thwarted us the previous day which was a little odd. I'm assuming either leaving the WD40 for 24 hours had worked, or the fact I was working before the day had reached it's top temperature meant the metal had not expanded at all.
After all that the bulbs were fine, so the problems are in the wiring or switches.