Land Rover - a man's best friend?

How hard can it be to take a 200Tdi engine out of an old Land Rover 110 and put it into a Land Rover 127 to replace its thirsty and increasingly sick V8? Simple said one expert, no problem said another, it’s just a question of lifting one out and putting the other in said the third. Should take you 3 or 4 days max said a knowing friend. And everyone agreed that it’s done all the time and is a simple job........................





Today is day number 15 and night number 6. By night I mean one of those days that starts at 8am and finishes after midnight. Those are the days when Graham is so tired that he grinds right through a vital cable.





And has it been simple? Perhaps we are the only people in the world who own a specially adapted Land Rover into which nothing, absolutely NOTHING, fits normally. So everything has been re-adapted, lengthened, shortened, twisted, bent, moved, new bits made and old bits cut out.

And what do I contribute? I take out endless cups of tea, adore, encourage, hold spanners and crawl underneath with a torch every now and then to retrieve washers or nuts that have dropped through so the work can carry on uninterrupted above.

And in 3 days time it needs to be ready for a bush trip with visitors who are arriving from the UK....................... simple, no problem, 3 days max!