was driving at night, I could have headlights, or wipers, not both! Otherwise the charge light would illu-
minate.
So, armed with no mechanical knowledge, an ancient Haynes manual, and my mother helpfully holding
the inspection light I managed to remove the alternator (and several years worth of dirt) and replace it.
Go me!
Then ‘Bertie’ was whisked away to a mechanic to fix the oil leak and grinding wheel bearing. The oil
leak turned out to be a combination of the rear crank seal, and five of the bolts holding the clutch casing
had come loose…. One so much so it was rubbing on the flywheel (!) The grinding noise was far more
ominous. The wheel bearings had long ago collapsed, causing the hub to rotate, wearing a flat on the
stub axle, and also causing the edge of the hub to crack and break up (!) the front nearside wheel had
been held in place by the steering rods, brake hose, and force of habit (!!!)
Eventually, with all these issues sorted, I got ‘Bertie’ back, only to find myself stranded at the eleventh
hour late for a dinner engagement due to running and starting issues. In desperation I went onto the
forum asking for help. At this point a fellow landrovernet member (RjBlank) was amazingly generous,
came up to Norwich and spent an morning putting right a number of settings on the engine. The timing
was wrong, the mixture was wrong, the points were dirty, and the gap wrong, the dwell was wrong, the
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