Farm Fresh LAND ROVER - Troubleshooting a Rough Runner 

Mate you need to do a show. Seriously you have a gift.

Love it! Great work, can’t wait to see what’s coming. We’ve all missed you!

An excellent video as usual! Was beginning to wonder what had happened to you.... glad you are well and still messing about with old crap.

Every minute spent editing was worthwhile. The evil possum will forever haunt my dreams.

Best Land Rover content on RU-vid by far!

The hesitation from idle to throttle, plus the stumbles on the road, suggest it wants more spark advance. This engine has no timing marks - but there's another way, one that tailors spark timing to the individual engine. This method was particularly valuable in North America in the '80's where the car companies turned their spark advance down to insanely low numbers (NO engine likes ATDC primary timing!!!) for Granny who never drives over 25 mph and is so badly carboned-up she's running >200 lb compression. And the method is fast, and simplicity itself. Familiar with pre-ignition? - that little 'pinging' under acceleration, that sounds like a cylinder might just have a few 1/8" ball bearings bouncing around inside. Warm your engine up, then work it hard going slowly (3rd gear (1:1 final drive on an '80's 3-speed automatic) at ~30 mph - difficult to do with an automatic trans because it wants to downshift), and listen for pre-ignition. If you don't hear it, advance spark timing until you do - if you do hear it, then back-off a couple degrees, tighten the timing nut and you're done. I used to keep my timing nut loose enough that I could just turn the distributor; and I soon found out which stations sold the highest-octane gasoline. No problem if you get the low-octane stuff (or the station manager has been adulterating his gasoline with naphtha to save a buck filling his tanks) - back the timing off a bit and you're good to go.

Welcome back, waiting to see whats happening with your Landy rebuild

Other content creator’s should weep. THIS is fantastic content and so very well produced. Subbed to both channels.

I love the way that you describe youself as someone who paints things on RU-vid, and then demonstrate that you really know your way around the 2.25 engines. My current Series III is a gutless diesel but I used to have one with a petrol engine. The acceleration with the petrol variant, from a standing start, is pretty impressive; all the way up to 25 mph. The fuel consumption is frightening however. For a while, I had to drive a 90 mile round trip to work and back and the only running vehicle I had was the petrol series III. I had to fill the tank two or three times a week. But, they are very forgiving engines. I once put petrol in a diesel 2.25 and it ran well enough to get ten miles to another petrol station, so that I could drain out the fuel and refill with diesel. The injector pump didn't appear to suffer at all, despite the gloomy prognostications of my Land Rover owning friends. I've also got a modern car and if the onboard computer detects a problem, then it's off to the dealer for a fix. It's all very comfortable and convenient, until it goes belly up, but it's not real *motoring* is it?

yay, great to see you back, sneaky little VGG trope in there, kudos

"Because .. Land Rovers are reliable!" - I'm glad you left the pause for us all to stop laughing!

Awesome bit of old school mechanics mixed up with some homour and mostly success. Loved this one.

Glad to see you back - but TWO channels?? What was wrong with separate playlists? Perhaps I’m one of the odd ones that likes watching both Landrover AND general machining content….

So stoked this channel is a thing. Don't ever loose this stile you have, so refreshing and it's great

Inform, Educate, Entertain. Nice work Geoff.

That was excellent! Informative and entertaining too. You're a prince among Rovers!

Holy shit! A new video! He's alive!

I do not own a Land Rover and never will. But I find your videos and commentary magnificent. Thanks.

I really like your video style 👏🏻Happy to be your 7th subscriber (saw the post on patreon) 👌🏻

You have to love these simple engines, it takes me back to 1963 and my first car. Subscribed to the channel.

This is an excellent reference video and highly entertaining to boot.

Thanks Geoffrey! love all the content following both channels - appreciate the videos... really tough with a family and job.

Thank you for such a superb video. The first one I’ve seen so easy to follow and inspiring me to take on my series 3. Please more of the same.

You are really good at this stuff. Thank you for sharing. Rebuilding and fitting a spare carburetor to my 1976 S3 LWB pick up. The engine was swapped in 2000. Now runs a Holden 186. It runs smoother since an older school mechanic "listened" closely and adjusted timing. A new exhaust manifold might help too. Thank you for sharing the video. Very good editing from a clever fella. Hello from Wellington. All the best.

I was just thinking about your channel the other day. It's been far too long so, it's great to see you back. I don't mind the mix of Landy and machining stuff but, this is fine too. Nice shout out to VGG

Great to see your work again!!!!

I reckon most of us on the other side of rhe ditch thought you had locked yourself in the sheep dungeon (hey, your words, not mine). Glad to see you back. What a bitza of a landy engine and linkage train! Some great tips in there for those diagnosing issues with their Landy. Thanks again!

Just found this 2 months later.... Good to know you are still alive. One never knows... Nice job Sir.

HI Just wanted to say, I really miss your videos...IMHO, you have one of the best channels...no nonsense, a bit of humour and some great tips and anecdotes to make your eyes water. Keep up the good work, or should I say Kip up the good werk.. Doubly

An absolute wealth of land rover knowledge and skills. Keep up the good work dude

Your over editing is just amazing and I love it!

I love your videos, this is another top notch one!

Ive watched this video 4 or 5 times now as i struggle to get my 2.25 to run better. Very useful video. Thanks

Really missed your content, glad you're back

Loved the Vice Grip Garage reference! Happy to see you back posting again, was concerned you were sick or something.

I love your work and am.so.glad to see your back. I was checking every week or so to see if you'd posted new vids. I've subscribed to the new channel and can't wait to see what you've got in store for the future

You did a great job there. The old "Series" Landys are great vehicles to learn car mechanics on. I still miss my Series 3........

Really enjoyed the video. Glad you're not dead - Assumptions were made that you had become trapped under a Landy chassis and perished.

That was great. I have an old series 2 which runs rough so I'll do what you showed and see how I go thanks

Inform, Educate, Entertain. Thanks Geoff.

Wow this takes me back to doing maintenance on my old 2A! Love it!

Your humor always gets me, keep making videos as long as you can. Also I am one of the few people who want to watch land rover and tool shit

Loved the VGG shoutout :)

Excellent video, my rough-running 1972 series 3 now has a date with this vid as a methodical guide to troubleshooting! Minus the rigged throttle spring and no timing marks; fortunately! 😄

Its been long buddy... welcome back

The king has returned!!!!

you are the funniest bloke on RU-vid, love your work keep the videos coming

I love your Tony-style humour and editing.

I have a1983 range rover but learn a lot from waching these.As I have no mechanical expertise. Thank you

So glad you are back, great video as always. I have a Series 3 88" 2286 petrol in the same light green colour. It too had a copy carb and smoked a lot. Uphill it would hesitate although I could drive around it a bit by changing gear etc. Flat out at 80kph. Replaced the carb with a professionally rebuilt Zenith from the UK and new aramid carb gaskets from HNJ Engineering. Adjusted the carb as per the procedure on the Glencoyne Engineering website. It no longer hesitates on hills and will get up to 100kph on the flat - a significant improvement. I'm also sourcing an original professionally rebuilt Lucas distributor (there is a copy dizzy on there now - the bob weights calibration will be wrong) and replacing the nasty-looking HT leads. The choke even works now I connected up the correct cable (it has two choke cables for some reason). The mixture screw with the plastic shroud pointing to the engine I think is a later so-called 'anti-tamper' version - much easier to adjust the earlier version that points toward the front of the engine. The copy carb has gone in the bin.

Whirly gig, the cheapest rover timing tool that you'll steal from your kids! ROFL. Great video as always. Cheers from Alberta Canada!

Can't wait to binge all these when its out

Great stuff, well thought out and presented.

Welcome back thanks God you’re alive!,keep the great work up 👍

As a Land Rover owner this was an awesome video, should be a prerequisite to owning a landy. I've been taught to heat up spark plugs with a propane torch which burns off the carbon - gives you the opportunity to look at the electrode.

Well… In essence this video is a free class of car engineering… very nice indeed sir 👍

Well worth the wait. Good to see progress.

exceptional video

Oh, your back, I was beginning to think the worst (Quote from Herbert Moon, Red Dead Redemption). Awesome video Mr Croker, thanks for the Share! Glad to see you back on line turning out videos that we are all waiting to watch. Cheers!

Thanks Geoff, now I have 2 favourite channels.

Aaaahh yes! The wait is over, thank you

Welcome back to the land of the, um...living/undead/RU-vid? I have missed your regular updates. Excellent work as always

Great videos! Super funny. I just finished watching the whole build series for the series 3. I am looking for a Land Rover now 😂.

Missed you man!!! Glad to see you making vids again

Absolutely love it! Great work 🙌

I may quite possibly be your most auto-ignorant subscriber. Your stuff is fun to watch even though I have no idea what you’re doing. :)

Amazing professional work waiting more. Subscribed

Only just found you. Brilliant video.

So glad your back......... I missed you.

I would love to see a bit of possum action. But totally understand if you chose not to show it. RU-vid is a funny place. I only wish we had a possum season in Australia. Great content! I've recently subscribed to both of your channels. I'm really enjoying it.

Awesome as always Thanks mate

Well worth the wait - great stuff!

VGG reference was excellent.

Well between you and I let’s find out what the problem is with this brand new carb because I did have exactly the same scenario with my Series 3! Great video of information and entertainment well done 👍🏽 Thanks 🙏🏼

Brilliant! Love it, as usual!

Awesome vid. Thanks Geoff!

Nice Geoff keep up the good work love watching the videos 🇬🇧 😎👍

My heart goes out to the algorithm that has to add subtitles to this. “Tip did sinter”

Nice to see some one who knows his trade Cheers :)

I get the channel split, no effort to subscribe to both, but I am surprised that there's not more crossover between the two themes. I love them both, I love mechanics, I love machining, hell I thought it was the perfect mix. Still great, and probably more efficient for you.

Yeah great to see you back! Are you also going to use this channel to update us on the series restoration?

Hahaha your Vice Grip Garage joke really had me laughing

The master is back 🔙🔨🔨

Great content. Subscribed

Well done chap

great video

well i'll be dipped. Subscribed These ye old 2.25 petrols can handle a skosh of extra timing on modern fuel(not goat pis). I run mine around 9 or 12 degrees at idle.

Goes to show .. rebuilding original is better than knock off parts. Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦

Outstanding!

Love the VGG reference :D

Brilliant - thank you

I'm glad my couple of bucks each month is able to be helpful. Subscribing to this channel too.

Nice VGG reference!

Wwii jeeps had the clearances on them also. 🙌

Love your content! I think if you open the throttle while doing the compression test, you should see somewhat higher numbers.

Excellent video, just did the same job on my series. Would've helped if I saw this before i did it 😂

I love the new video! You're not an idiot my friend, far from it. You're a true talent! The skills, humor and wit involved in making this video is second to none. excellent!

great video, i have laughed learned alot :-)

Three tea bags or 9 cups of tea 😂😂😂😂😂 that's my shop.

yes these cheap copy zeniths are hopeless , same with the dizzys , the worst enemy of old landrovers are cheap pattern parts