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Rover 3.5 – still puffing smoke on start up after hot - upgrading valve stem seals Wonder if any bright spark out there can help. I’m still having issues with my rover 3.5 puffing out a decent amount of smoke on restart after a run. It only seems obvious after a run and its been restarted about 20mi...

Hi all. Wonder if someone can help. I’m finally putting my rover 3.5 back together and as I’ll be travelling up to the far north I’m installing a Webasto engine block heater that I want to plumb into the heater line. Challenge is I can’t work out which pipe on the water pump is the outlet and which ...

Thanks to all for the posts. I forgot to post the pics. Here we go

Hi all Wonder if someone can give me a bit of advice re: my Rover 3.5 v8 fitted to a Series 2. Bit of background, the block was from an early range rover, I had it rebuilt (rebored, full Rimmer rebuild kit) by a friend about 6 years ago. I originally had twin carbs fitted but had terrible problems g...

Hi all Wonder if anyone can help. I have a series 2a landy which I recently fitted with a rebuild rover 3.5 v8 from a Rangie classic (been wanting to do it for years!!). As part of the rebuild I also replaced the igntioin electrics with a kit from powerspark so it has new distributor, 8mm leads, plu...

Wonder if someone can help. I've rebuilt and fitted a v8 3.5 to my Series 2a but it looks like the alternator is on its way out. It is making an intemitant screeching noise that is defintely not the belt. I bought it new from Rimmers bros about 12 months ago but as there wasn't one on the old motor ...