Hi,
Thought I would introduce myself since I am sure I will have many questions for this group. I recently purchased a 1970 Santana 88. I have owned and restored many European Cars, mostly Porsche and Jaguar, but this is my first Land Rover. I have very little information on its history other than the person I bought it from purchased it in Bogota Columbia, had it ¨restored¨ there and imported it to the US.

I am still going through it and learning about Land Rovers in general.

The Good:
-Starts, runs, and drives
-Chassis seems to be in good shape and mostly rust free
-looks good from 10´ away

The not so good:
-Brakes are almost non-existent and the brake lights do not function (I am currently in the process of replacing the brakes all around)
-According to the workshop manual there are 29 places that could leak. Luckily I think I only have leaks from about 25 of them, haha
-Coolant is brown (rusty) but doesn't show signs of oil intrusion. It´s clearing up after a few flushes
-Bogs and sometimes dies when I first hit the throttle, but only when the cold start is off. When pulled on there it is very smooth and responsive.
-Looks like it has a Weber carb and has an alternator added.
-There is no hose connected to the vacuum advance on the distributor. Not sure if it´s required or where it should connect
-There is much much more but this is most of what I have gone through so far

Here are a few pics. Let me know if you see anything interesting or problematic in them. I will save my questions, if I can find them in the search, for separate posts

 

Wow, it looks beautiful!

 

If the brakes are like my 2A, they are very difficult to bleed using the normal method. What I found to be very successful was to pressurize the top of the reservoir with maybe 5 psi of air. I did this by turning my air compressor regulator down, then using an air blaster with a rubber hose at the tip, putting the air blaster on the vent hole at the top of the reservoir. I loosened a bleeder fitting one wheel at a time, with a hose to a container to catch the fluid, then pressurized the reservoir for 10-20 seconds, making sure not to empty the reservoir.

My 2A had a vacuum line to the distributor.