under the front seats in any Landys I have been involved with - no-where near the back axle!
not an expert on Landy's then Roy - I'm a novice but still know that one!
As for the near-death experience, when working on a car it's best to make sure that if the car falls of fthe jackl / axle stand etc.. it will land on something else apart from you!
Spare wheels come in very handy - build a little tower of them under the car. It takes a few seconds - not doing it could take the rest of you life.
Ray. MMOC#47368. Forum moderator.
Jan 06: The Minor SII Africa adventure: http://www.minor-detour.com
Oct 06: back from Dresden with my Trabant 601 Kombi
Jan 07: back from a month thru North Africa (via Timbuktu) in a S3 Landy
June 07 - back from Zwickau Trabi Treffen
Aug 07 & Aug 08 - back from the Lands End to Orkney in 71 pickup
Sept 2010 - finally gave up breaking down in a SII Landy...
where to break down next?
2013... managed to seize my 1275 just by driving it round the block
Attempting to advance the fuel pump timing on my Citroen BX in a half hour lunchbreak(it had always run a bit sluggish/quiet). Only 2 of the three mounting studs are accessible, still can't work out how you get to the lower one, so I loosened the two and used a jack handle and 7lb sledgehammer to lightly drift the pump housing round. Progressively heavier "taps" finally moved the pump about 2mm,which my gut instinct told me was the exact amount it had needed advancing. Dead chuffed I started her up and showered the workshop with high pressure diesel which was spraying from the cracked injector pump.....
Having found a slightly unorthodox use for Loctite "metal set" as an in situ crack filler (pity it takes 24 hours to set...)' I then proceeded in another half hour lunchbreak to cure the weeping cam cover gasket by reseating it with silicon sealer and tightening the three studs down tight enough that the centre one, which taps into the middle cam bearing, suddenly went "crack" and broke the top out of said cam bearing... Too late to sort that one out, so I drove it for a day rattling like billy-oh as the cam flailed up and down. Also smoked like a mad thing due to all the oil suddenly finding a new exit point from the camtrain! Finally "fixed" it using a very crude version of the a-series go-faster main bearing strap to sandwich all the bits in roughly the right place, and ran it another three years without doing any more lunchtime "maintenance"!!
