RR newbie question three: tool kit

Decent socket set with rachet handle and long short extension pieces.

As the chances are you'll be taking the wheels off, axle stands so the thing isn't perched on the supplied jack while you work on the brakes/hubs. A RR is heavy so you want sturdy ones, not a bit of cheap bent chinese tin plate.

A strap wrench might be handy for getting oil filters off.

Set of torx and maybe hex drivers.

Yep make sure you get 1/2" drive socket kit (which also fits nicely into various drain plugs) preferably true hex sockets rather than 12 point ( less chance of rounding off tight nuts and bolts) and not the manky ratchets with round heads and plastic knobs . A small set of combination spanners - don't buy the very cheapo ones I've known nasty ones where the jaws flexed open under heavy load ( pass the bananas OOK OOK ) and buy an extra 1/2inch and 5/8 as they seem to migrate when needed (ask Dr D ) if you are near a machine mart these are pretty decent

I started from scratch pretty much when i was given my first landy.

You want at a m a decent 1/2 drive ratchet and set of sockets a decent set of combination spanners

I'd also buy a couple of decent vice grips (the thin nosed ones i have a great fro anything a spanner/socket wont get off) and a set of axle stands.

Build up other stuff from there as you need it.

If you really are starting from nowt then halfords (and probably other places) do some nice sets of their professional tools which work out very cheap when you see what is in them. Generally a couple of sets of sockets, ratchets and spanners - all the good stuff, and they have a lifetime warranty on too.

Circlip pliers, both inrenal and external. You'll never need them until 6.00pm on a Sunday evening when your going on holiday on Monday at 5.00am.... Very big hammers are good too!

Richard

A bloody big bronze one never goes amiss. Expensive to buy if you can find one, but easily made from a scrap piece of 2" bronze shaft.

And, on a frivolous note, an infinite sense of humour.

Richard ;-)

Thanks all. I shall get on down to Machinemart and have a browse.

And a exceedingly understanding/forgiving spouse!

Hope you get lots of fun out of your Land Rover. A word of caution when jacking up your vehicle, make sure you engage the diff lock otherwise as the vehicle is fitted with a transmition brake if you lift one wheel it could spin and allow the vehicle to roll forward or backwards and so fall off the jack, I also use some large wheel chocks as well. It might have a viscous coupling but someone else will put me right about that. Just watch out when lifting one wheel to sort out brakes or bushes ect.

All the best Rich

the kits are better in halfords, though im a fan of amchine mart for everything else since the guys in my local one actually know their stuff unlike the muppets in halfords who dont know what a 13mm spanner looks like!