Anderzander

Are they just the side pieces, or is the complete outer wing available in abs?

I do :-) I don't think I'm a million miles from you? - I'm near Preston. I would have sent you a private message - but I saw your post that your having trouble with them.

Could I ask something please ? Would you be able to cut a square around your engine mounts and I could perhaps give you something for them? Stephen

Make are you cut the engine number off too !

Perhaps you'd do a write up for us Daan ? I'd be really interested to read of your experience.

230k miles it says.

I got £50 for a fully running 5 bearing engine with all ancillaries. I was lucky.

That's promising then - thank you Ralph. Mine has been drilled a bit untidily for a snorkel. The rubber is a bit knackered and the screen has a small chip - so the plan is to pick up a frame, get it painted, fit a heated screen with a new rubber, and then swap them over.

Did windscreen frames change at all ? I read a post on here that showed two different part numbers so I'm assuming at a certain year they changed to accomodate the interior light moving? Anyone know the year? The one on my Td5 is a bit ropey.

Did I read that IRB is fitting the TdV6's ?

Really !?

I agree with that - I guess my experience though is that the initial response is what I want controlling as I can easily drive round the rest. Thus the moose comment. It's those sudden steering inputs to miss something, often on a neutral throttle, that can really upset the balance of the suspension - and my shocks have helped with that a lot.

What's the plan then Mo? I mean they will make a difference - they are there to control body by dampening the springs - but it's just a risk I guess that they won't make enough of a difference relative to the cost. I guess the obvious thing to say is though that with the Armstrong shocks, valved for the standard ride, the extra weight and leverage will be too much for them. I get nervous about body roll these days after my crash. The 'moose scenario' is it called ?

I know what you mean Marc, and you can adjust to the compromise - but sometimes Its perhaps gone too far. Not that I think Mo's cage has.On the motorbike subject I ran a race bike on the road - including running to bump start it, a narrow power and, close ratio box etc and filling it up with Avgas at the local airport. Not something I'd do now so readily.

I think the main role of a shock is to limit/control body movement - so well worth a go.

Seems strangely unfortunate that the cage increases your safety if you were to roll it - but peversley increases the likelihood of it happening

I was going to say shocks. On the 90 I have now I've fitted Bilstein B6 off road shocks - standard height - and they've made a huge difference. The car is much stiffer on the road but it doesn't seem to have lost any suppleness off road. I don't think they are mad money either. One of those mods that has no compromise and you think: why didn't Land Rover fit these?

The detail is fantastic - like the way he's kicked it up and boxed it in around the wiper motor.

They've made a beautiful job haven't they ! Really nice and clean and such a good finish on everything.

This looks like it was well done and seems a very honest description - I'm not too sure about the roll cage, but I'm a bit ignorant of the design of a good one. https://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/201571927623

Why do they always use frantic music ?

Winton - have you seen this : http://www.radiozet.pl/Rozrywka/O-tym-sie-mowi/Bryan-Adams-w-Polsce.-Tak-wyglada-jego-Land-Rover-Defender-ZDJECIA-00010716 Someone's fitted a series 2 dash here.

Thanks folks. It's a bit awkward for me to borrow a trailer - but I didn't want to take a fair drive to pick one up and find I couldn't get it in.

... an engine hoist in the back of a 90 ? Or would I need to borrow a trailer to pick one up ?

I think the only one that chap really missed out on dynoing was the safari one - they make a point of saying it can meet / exceed the air requirements of the engine. It would have been interesting to confirm or deny that.