Preparation

In the run up to the event, preparation had not been going well.  The car had had an intermittent engine miss for some time, and this had been diagnosed both by Bush Rover and CMC (the main Land Rover dealer) as a faulty distributor.  CMC had kindly offered to source an OE replacement part, but a week before the event finally admitted defeat and told me they couldn’t find one.  That left me with plan B, and BushRover fitted one complete with a new coil and a new oil pump – it necessitated a new oil pump as the one on my engine was so old, despite it being a post ’87 3.9 V8 Range Rover engine.  I had bought it as a short engine, and the oil pump from my old Tanzanian engine had been transferred to it.  The problem was I now didn’t have any time for testing, as the installation was completed on Monday and the car had to be delivered to the transporter on Tuesday night as it was leaving for the event early Wednesday morning.