News & Current Events
Latest change to this Site, 18 November 2011.
Updated wiring diagram for your Series Land Rover available at this link.
Next outing? Email me and we'll arrange something.This site is almost exclusively Series Land Rover related. That might change now with my recent purchase of a coil sprung 90. At the same time, I purchased a partly restored 1951 80 inch and will spend the next couple of years re-assembling her. Pet name: Project C.
We did the Fort Rodd Hill park car show and it was good as usual. Gary won the judges choice with his Series IIA 88" Of special note was Matt's 88" that was licensed just two days before so he could attend the show. Not quite finished, but a beautiful example of the period. Pity he broke down in the middle of the show. After attempting almost everything short of taking the engine apart to see why it wouldn't start, he was convinced to put some gasoline in the tank. Amazingly, it started right up. Life's like that! Keep smiling folks.
The Land Rover rally is over and done with for this year. Saturdays drive went very well, followed by our POT LUCK dinner. Sunday morning's breakfast at THE PIONEER HOUSE was followed by a tour of Oliver and Shelley Balme's brand new state of the art Robotic Milking Parlour. The day at our farm was pleasant, weather was perfect, lunch was good, awards and prizes were given. David lead some of the group on a "no scratch" drive on Mount Prevost and Mount Sicker. By dinner Sunday everything was put away and done. (Till next year?) Pictures and story to follow. GS!
Do you have an old Series Land Rover Series I, II, IIA, III or very early 90 or 110 built from 1948 - 1985?
These are pre-computer age and don't have the computer diagnostics of newer Land Rovers. If you click on this link and with a very small bit of time you can get some computer diagnostics of your old Series Land Rover without even being near it. Link to computerizing your old Land Rover.
Report to Rover Lander of B.C. 2011 AGM. Vancouver Island members activities during 2010.
[editted] A few Islanders visited Founders Day 2010. We had coffee nights in Victoria and Ladysmith several time during the year. A February drive up NorthWest Bay road near Parksville was a good outing and needs a re-visit. The March outing was tour of a rigging facility where they make and test slings and lifting gear; there is a story on it in the Rover Lander; it made an awesome day. Good turn out at the OECC show and shine in April near Sidney. June sported the 8th annual Cowichan Valley Land Rover Rally where we had about 25 Land Rovers. Brits on the Beach in Ladysmith had a good showing. October greeted us with an autumn drive to Port Alberni, overland on deteriorating logging roads; we didn't make it all the way but had a good outing regardless and a couple weekends later drove to Holyoak Lake on Mount Brenton. Just before Christmas we met for coffee then rounded out the holidays with a January 2nd drive up Copper Canyon west of Chemainus to play in snow and test traction control and winching. That test was planned wasn't it Rob? Island Land Rovers also attend the Old English Car Club show at Comox and an Island 4x4 show & shine at Colwood where the Jeep crowd liked the hand-crank starting demo. Land Rover was represented by Gary and Burnadette's 88 at the McLean Sawmill Museum car show near Port Alberni and Victor and Margaret's Dormobile was the only high ground clearance vehicle at the European car picnic in Victoria. Off-island there was an Island team at the North West Challenge again this year, representation at the Rover Ranch and one pair of owners travelled to the UK to check progress on a 110 they're having converted and shipped to them.
Greg Sutfin
Rover Landers of BC Vancouver Island representative
Installation Maual for the Torrel Disk Brake kit for Series Land Rovers. See the "LR Technical info" section.
My Disk brakes on a 1970 IIA.
Installation and User's Maual for the Fairey Overdrive. See the "LR Technical info" section.
In the LR technical info section is a link to a distributor rebuild article and a long (2.35 mb) pdf file in the form of a Service Bulletin from Zenith for the IV series of carb.
In the "Events" section is a long version of a trip to the 2009 Solihull Society National Rally in Leadville, Colorado. Trip made by Greg and Jared Sutfin in a 1970 Land Rover 109 station wagon.
The sign says 13,185 feet.
Photos uploaded to Flickr and can be seen in the 2009 "Collection" in the Solihull Society National Rally 09 "Set"
A Land Rover Corporate environmental initiative.
Call it advertising if you want, but give it a look. I't's worth your 5 minutes to watch it and learn a bit of Land Rovers commitment to the environment and know they are doing other things to be brought out in the future to improve the product line, environmentally. Youtube video
Flickr Photo Album
The photo gallery regularly gets additions and changes. Feel free to send me photos you want loaded. (In order to avoid clogging my inbox, please keep the files under 200k each, and send no more than five pictures at a time.) Thanks!
There are two forums, one under the "Yahoo Group" tab will link you to the VanIsle Land Rover Network Group at Yahoo. If you are already a Yahoo member, just add us to your "groups". To post in this group, you must join through your Yahoo membership. This is necessary to limit the spam and trash that almost closed this forum for us in the past. Diligence by an administrator is working well at keeping spam away. Thank you Ross. The other forum is accessed through the "Forum" tab, which links to the Rover-Landers of BC, Vancouver Island regional discussion subforum. Again, to post, you need to join the Rover-Lander forum site. By clicking on the "RoverLanders of BC Forum Index" link just above the thick blue line on the top of that page, you'll be taken to the RoverLanders main discussion Index.
Wheel Wisely, and Tread Lightly. Greg Sutfin