Well, I haven’t posted for quite a while, but that doesn’t mean that I haven’t been busy. Since my last post quite a bit has changed. Not least among the changes being the fact that I am now a married man. Also, in a week’s time we’re moving to a new house.

The Duke has been less busy than me. Sadly he didn’t make it to the wedding, simply because there was nobody to drive him back home as we headed straight off on honeymoon. He did make it to Sodbury though. It was nice to be there in a Land Rover again. Myself and Dr Johnson headed all the way down to Beaulieu for the day and lugged back a pair of axles for him and a gearbox for myself. As a result, three things have changed on the blog: 1) soon I’ll have a garage with workbench, lights, power and shelving for my ever growing spares collection 2) I’m working on the spare gearbox more than The Duke himself and 3) there’s a mucky wedding ring in some of the pictures.

Here’s my Advanced Servicing Bench Outdoors, or “ASBO”. An appropriate name for something which makes the drive look like a load of pikeys have moved in!

The transfer case - all cleaned up and emptied out I started reconditioning the gearbox some time ago but the camera and laptop conspired to loose all of the pictures from two days of transfer case disassembly. Other than some mud falling into the bearings everything in the transfer case was very tidy - there really didn’t seem much point taking it to bits! Still, you don’t know ’til you’ve looked.

Some tidy looking teeth on the main transfer gear

Everything looks good as new really.

Some transfer case bits packed away. Sadly, the detailed pictures showing how it all goes back together are lost forever.

Inside the case itself everything looks good. No chipped teeth and hardly any signs of wear.

Cog porn

The only real shocker was this. An eight inch cold chisel which I found in the transfer box oil sump! Somebody obviously dropped it in there when removing or fitting an overdrive (no OD fitted when I got the gearbox, but I did only pay £30 for it). Not sure it could ever have done any real harm - but it was a brave or foolish man who drove away after dropping this into the gearbox of his Land Rover!