Axle stands...

Not much I can do in this deep snow, but today I removed a 50 cm layer of snow from the top of the Land Rover. I also put it up on axle stands to save the tires.

Power steering it is!

I want to keep it simple, but as I need to change the steering box anyway it would be stupid not get a PAS box instead. It might even be cheaper as the LHD manual steering box is quite hard to get, at least here in Sweden. I will try to get a complete kit with box, pump, hoses and reservoir from an old Discovery. The Discoverys are much more common than Defenders here in Sweden.

Project is going slow...

Due to lack of funds (during my paternity leave) the project is (almost) at a standstill right now :-( Right now I am mostly surfing, googling and reading forums to gain as much teoretical knowledge as possible about the LHD conversion.

I think my first job will be to change the left hand swivel housing. I need a housing with a connecting arm for the draglink. Newer axles are "unisex", but early ones like mine is not. As soon as the weather permits I will remove the existing housing so that I can see exactly what it is I need to order. I will of course change all the gaskets, seals and bearings when I have it apart.