Re: SER1 spring bottom plate front left

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Will

Like you I bought the 1948 to 58 Workshop Manual then later the parts
manual.  What I have found is that the parts manual is the most useful and
the "whole of series 1 workshop manual" deficient for the 80" models.

I have now bought a second workshop manual the TP/l38/A from the Series One
Club ( http://www.lrsoc.demon.co.uk/html/clubshop1.htm ) which is specific
to the 80" models.  In fact I have 2 one in Sydney and one in Nowra where
the vehicles are.

Cheers
Diana

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Ross" <will@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: <series1@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 12:22 AM
Subject: Re: SER1 spring bottom plate front left



On 16 Sep 2005, at 14:32, Eighty Inch wrote:

> Will
>
> I'll have to be a bit quicker to lift my finger off the reply
> button, it
> turns into the send button soooo quickly.
>
> You may have guessed that like a few other members on the list I am
> a true
> believer in having the manuals, particularly the parts manual.
> Being able
> to see what the part looks like can make an explanation so much
> easier.
> Take Alex's starter motor problem, different members kept talking
> about
> early and late types, no bolt, two bolt and three bolt types.  Any
> wonder
> poor Alex got confused and acquired the wrong one.  I sent the
> pictures and
> scans of the parts catalogue and now he understands what to look for.

I completely agree. It's just that as a relative (ok, complete)
novice, it's not easy to know which books are essential maintenance
tools and which are just expensive distractions. I bought the big
green workshop manual straight away, for example, but assumed that
the parts manual would only be required for painstaking restoration
or professional use. Wrong! You need it to order the right kind of
spring bottom plate. I also bought the Practical Classics compilation
of Series 1 restoration articles, which is fun to read but a lot less
useful than the Parts would have been, and various other books of
dubious usefulness.

One of the first things I would want to build up in a FAQ is a set of
recommendations for books, tools, spares, etc.

> Even more recently I have been introduced to the Rover Service
> Bulletins
> (and the later Land Rover Service Bulletins) as a source of
> information.
> What I now find is that assumed facts from the parts catalogue and
> workshop
> manual are actually dealt with and often corrected in the
> Bulletins.  My
> task now is to acquire a full set of the bulletins.
>
> So what would be really helpful is for the list to hold a set of the
> Bulletins somewhere.

That certainly sounds like a good idea. What sort of volume of
material are we talking about? To be really useful they'd need to be
turned into searchable text.

will


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