April 29, 2005

Thursday Car Blogging on a Friday

Yes, it's the much anticipated Thursday Car Blogging...just on a Friday.

Last weekend I made the jump from having an engine sitting outside of the Land Rover to actually having it *in* the Land Rover. It took two people and lots of patience, but it finally went in.

The problem I keep running into is that I took this engine out about two years ago. When you do something that long ago, you can't always remember where everything goes....such as wiring...or extra bolts...etc.

So, on Easter weekend (when I took these pictures) I took several pictures of some Land Rover engines in their native form.

The only other issue is that that engine is from a North American export Land Rover while mine is a UK home market Land Rover. Things that would be on one side are on the other, the North American engines have more emissions controls, etc. However, they are close enough for me to at least see where the wiring goes.

Tomorrow I'll be trying to do as much as I can to get it going as next weekend I'll be busy with other things. I doubt it will be road worthy by next weekend though, or I'd be driving it around Belmont. If you think the chicks dig bloggers, then wait till they see a blogger driving around in this Land Rover...ok...well...maybe not.

More: Chris Wage does some car blogging here and here.

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