Recent content by Driver_Neil

Think carefully before parting with it - I've regretted bitterly selling mine from the day I sold it!! If I could turn the clock back and reverse the decision - I would!!

Commiserations mate!! I had to part with mine in March last year and to this day I miss it like ****. Like you I had bills to pay and I know I had no choice - but to this day I regret parting with it!! :( :(

So - a belated update! At War and peace it behaved well in the deep mud after we worked out how to engage 4WD. A few weeks after I was on the way to another show when a loud squealing started from the front - somewhere. it started getting loud and expensive sounding so I turned around and went...

Yeah - add that that the fact that unlike a Lanrdrover if you switch the fuel tanks then you have to also switch the gauge over - UAZ engineers don't seem to have discovered micro-switches, And that the UAZ does NOT like drawing from the passenger side tank - I suspect the pump lacks the...

Looks like for now I will have to run with the weird senders - at least until I can find some good ones. Brakes acted up next - after the starter was replaced the brake lights decided to stay on. As I had dropped the rather heavy starter onto the brake light switch I guessed it had to have been...

How on earth did you manage to shed a track??? Inadequate track tension or what????

Starter arrived and is now fitted. Was still a bit slow cranking over so I put the battery on charge foe a day yesterday and tried again today - certainly better and the engine burst into life so I think its the best I am going to get. Still very slow on cranking compared to, say a Series...

Finally got the starter out! Had to remove the fuel pump as well then I could feed the starter up through the cap between the front side plate and the distributor. Now to wait for the replacement.

First off - good news at last! I got a nice new V5 in the post this morning from DVLA. Historic tax class and early build date. Just need to talk to the insurers on Monday to get the reg num changed on the policy and the new number plates made up and we will be road ready. Now back to...

After a few days dedicated to the landrover I found myself waiting for parts (still am!) so I get back on the UAZ. The new feul senders have arrived from Poland so I started to remove the access hatches in the floor to get the old senders out. Drivers side came off easily without removing the...

Latest updates and not good news alas. Firstly the local gang of Afghan refugees have dumped brake fluid in the load bed so now I need to clean all that off and repaint it. Bloody annoyed about this - a neighbour said they saw them hanging around in our drive by the back of the vehicle a...

Another task tasked today. Having embarassed myself by pouring fuel into one tank and then having the carb run dry only for the penny to drop that I had poured the fuel into the tank the selector tap wasn't aimed at I changed the fuel tap over. The orginal on was frozen and there was more...

Latest updates!! First off the not running has finally been resolved. I've been tied up with a Series Landrover that blew a head gasket and trashed the cylinder head the last few months in between rain storms so this week was the first chance I've had to play with the UAZ again. To check the...

For the UAZ 469 - try Tarmot in Poland, Mario speaks good English and, for East European traders they are fairly quick with e-mails. Prices are very good too. Website for the store is http://sklep.tarmot.ig.pl/ - run it through Google Translate (http://translate.google.com) to read it in...

Success - and bad news!! The success part - fitted the BK422 hazard switch that arrived yesterday and also the PC850 then connected up the multiplugs and tested the system. I now have working indicators, left and right, and hazards so all is ready for the road as and when. The only electrics...