A Landy is reborn
Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2013 9:06 am
I woke at half past five this morning and was watching the telly a couple of hours later when I heard a noise. The Landy has arrived!
Martin, the seller, had a Freelander with a decent car trailer and his father was busy unloading the Landy. The camera batteries were flat, so no chance of them appearing here!
After showing me the important bits (like the keys!) and other handy information (like the sticky reverse selector), they rushed off to help a friend move house. Unfortunately Martin forgot to sign the V5, so I hope Swansea won't be too annoyed.
As was mentioned on another topic, I suspect Martin didn't know exactly what he had bought (I suspect he deals a little with cars as he's only owned the Landy for a couple of months and his feedback shows other cars sold and parts bought).
Interestingly, the "VIN" is S2A - I have the plate in the kitchen as, according to Martin, you shouldn't have it in the vehicle as they get stolen! Hmm, I wonder about that! However, I do have the V5 and it all matches, so I won't worry too much about that at the moment!
There are some interesting features and, as expected, the photos made it look better than it really is.
The chassis is sound - as far as I can see - though has some quirks: underseat filler for the (plastic) fuel tank, which has no fuel gauge. That's another thing to try and sort out - though neither tractors' gauges work: I use a clean bit of wood! Martin's dad thought that the springs heavy duty ones as there's no give in them and, he suspects they are a little long and may be from a LWB. I'll measure them and probably ask someone here to measure their 88" springs so I can compare them. However, there is a lot of black gungy stuff on them and I wonder if they just need stripping and greasing.
It's got a massive brake servo, there's a cut out in the bonnet for it!
The dash is interesting too, with a number of switches from the spares box. I'll tidy them up eventually - and see if I can get a thermostatic switch for the electric fan:
There are loads of jobs to do to tidy it up and several to improve it but I haven't even driven it yet, so I don't know what needs sorting first! I'm waiting for the post as there are all sorts of things coming that will find they way onto it (like a radio - with CD and USB).
I insured it yesterday, so it's all legal. It cost £140 to insure fully comp with the NFU, though it will come down as it hasn't got any NCB yet. I can't put it on the tractor insurance as they are third party and they don't do a fully comp for them (something to do with them being classics I gather).
There are more pictures on flickr, I didn't want to post them here just yet!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cumbriantractorfan
Stop Press! Parcelforce have just delivered some mudflaps. That's one of the parcels I'm expecting!
Martin, the seller, had a Freelander with a decent car trailer and his father was busy unloading the Landy. The camera batteries were flat, so no chance of them appearing here!
After showing me the important bits (like the keys!) and other handy information (like the sticky reverse selector), they rushed off to help a friend move house. Unfortunately Martin forgot to sign the V5, so I hope Swansea won't be too annoyed.
As was mentioned on another topic, I suspect Martin didn't know exactly what he had bought (I suspect he deals a little with cars as he's only owned the Landy for a couple of months and his feedback shows other cars sold and parts bought).
Interestingly, the "VIN" is S2A - I have the plate in the kitchen as, according to Martin, you shouldn't have it in the vehicle as they get stolen! Hmm, I wonder about that! However, I do have the V5 and it all matches, so I won't worry too much about that at the moment!
There are some interesting features and, as expected, the photos made it look better than it really is.
The chassis is sound - as far as I can see - though has some quirks: underseat filler for the (plastic) fuel tank, which has no fuel gauge. That's another thing to try and sort out - though neither tractors' gauges work: I use a clean bit of wood! Martin's dad thought that the springs heavy duty ones as there's no give in them and, he suspects they are a little long and may be from a LWB. I'll measure them and probably ask someone here to measure their 88" springs so I can compare them. However, there is a lot of black gungy stuff on them and I wonder if they just need stripping and greasing.
It's got a massive brake servo, there's a cut out in the bonnet for it!
The dash is interesting too, with a number of switches from the spares box. I'll tidy them up eventually - and see if I can get a thermostatic switch for the electric fan:
There are loads of jobs to do to tidy it up and several to improve it but I haven't even driven it yet, so I don't know what needs sorting first! I'm waiting for the post as there are all sorts of things coming that will find they way onto it (like a radio - with CD and USB).
I insured it yesterday, so it's all legal. It cost £140 to insure fully comp with the NFU, though it will come down as it hasn't got any NCB yet. I can't put it on the tractor insurance as they are third party and they don't do a fully comp for them (something to do with them being classics I gather).
There are more pictures on flickr, I didn't want to post them here just yet!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cumbriantractorfan
Stop Press! Parcelforce have just delivered some mudflaps. That's one of the parcels I'm expecting!