From: Morgan Hannaford
Subject: genuine parts poster child!
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 09:53:41 -0700 (PDT)

I became the "Land Rover Genuine Parts" poster child last 
saturday, oh to shame.  

Luke (S.F. lad, '72 ser III) and I went down to Hollister Hills off-road
park to Rover it up.  Nice place, lots of trails;  all the trails
are marked like ski runs (e.g. green circles - black diamonds), and
it's only $4 all day- the tread lightly alternative.  Anyway, we are
cruising some trecherous terrain:  steep hill climbs with axle 
twisters up the #$*?!.  I've never seen an 88" lift a tire before!
Anyway, my '69 rover has the Scotty conversion to a Chevy 250ci
I6.  The major modification in this conversion is with the cooling 
system.  The radiator is a big cross flow jobber moved up to the 
front panel, with a remote fan.  Well all this twisting sent the
fan through the radiator.  It took dime-sized chunks out of about
8 tubes.  BUMMER!!  Try getting a radiator shop in Hollister on a
saturday afternoon!  So I just went to town, got some "GB Weld"
putty stuff and heavy duty radiator sealer.  Got back to the car
and yanked out the radiator, sealed the holes (the "weld" stuff is
pretty cool) and crimped off the cut tubes with needle nose pliars.
Back in the truck, filled the rad. with the sealer stuff and I was
back in action, <2 hours.  All was O.K. for the 80 mile drive home
too.  The good news is that the thing got me home!  I think I'll
take one of the fan spacers out after replacing the radiator.

Morgan Hannford
'69 IIA 88
Berkeley, CA