neil110

Second that. A friend had them fit a 300 in place of his 200, he didn't want to modify the chassis because it is galvanised, the price was enormous, £4,000+, even after he sourced the engine for them. They also managed to damage the brand new radiator he sent them and insisted that he replace it. He has subsequently discovered numerous lash ups they committed, especially with the way the electric fan was fitted and wired, the way the air filter from a Discovery was adapted to make it fit and the fuel system Having been in the vehicle since the conversion, it is horrible. The thing vibrates worse than a road drill, no seriously. I had a 300 for many years and while they vibrate a bit they are not too bad, but this thing is just horrible.

If the bolts have to be renewed each time it suggests that they have passed through the elastic deformation stage, from which they will recover, and have suffered plastic deformation, from which they will not recover

I have vague recollections of this row of bolts being secured with lockwire. Or is my sepia tinted memory failing me?

As with a lot of jobs on a Land Rover, there is a "short cut" Remove the track rods, remove the brake calipers, drain the swivels housings, unfasten the 7(?) bolts which fasten the swivel housing to the axle, remove the entire hub assembly complete with half shaft, remove seal, remove top and bottom swivel pins, remove swivel, reassemble, refit and exhibit smug grin. The trickiest bit is getting the longer half shaft to re-engage in the differential. I did both of mine, out on the front street, in less than a day by using this method

Yes as did the WOLF. What Land Rover discovered during the WOLF trials ( a friend from uni was on the Land Rover team) was that the Salisbury axle would bend more easily than a Rover axle, under certain circumstances. Hence the reinforced Rover axle cases on the WOLF

Let's see: a Defender chassis with a series 2 body, a 1963 registration number and a log book for a 1959 Leyland. The phrase "As bent as a 9 bob note" springs to mind. For our younger viewers that would translate to "as bent as a 45p piece"

I know it is tedious, but have you tried following the affected cable downstream of the fusebox? To blow a 40 amp fuse as soon as you switch the power on suggests a dead short to earth somewhere rather than a particular component fault unless, of course, the component has a dead short. More likely possibility is a cable has rubbed through somewhere and is touching metalwork

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qzI6YPA8U4

Page 28 though it is not the easiest diagram to follow but it does make the point about the oil cooler "if fitted" https://www.usermanuals.tech/d/land-rover-4-0-4-6-v8-engine-overhaul-4th-edition-rover-manual/part3#27

Isn't there a diagram of the oil flow in the later type V8 engines in the Land Rover V8 overhaul manual? The paper version

steam cleaner

And this one just won't go away. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Land-Rover-Defender-series-2-body/282572104314?_trkparms=aid%3D777003%26algo%3DDISCL.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D49131%26meid%3D31222ea429684330a39248450a920d2c%26pid%3D100012%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D3%26sd%3D332628847271%26itm%3D282572104314&_trksid=p2047675.c100012.m1985

A quick scrute of the parts lists shows that the Defender and Discovery 1 use the same axle case

If you look on the sidewall of the tyre, there is a DOT code moulded into the side of the tyre, in the format of (say) 26 13 meaning they were made in week 26 of 2013

Calipers these days are cheap enough to make them a service item. Change discs/pads and calipers all at the same time

Factory manual says 6mm of play either way from centre. Should be done with wheels off the ground as well.

Possibly the way in which I drive. I didn't set out to specifically achieve high MPG and would typically drive at somewhere around 65-70MPH on the motorway. I rarely accelerate hard, by careful observation and allowing a reasonable distance between self and vehicle ahead, rarely need to use brakes. Make good use of the gears rather than holding onto a higher gear when speeds drop and acceleration is required. It all stems from reading an article in a bike magazine, many years ago. Not sure if it still the case but powerful motorcycles used to get through tyres at an alarming rate and the article described how to prolong the life of tyres, whilst still enjoying the full performance of the bike. I have tried to apply the same principles ever since

Ran a pair of 300 Tdi Defender 110 for 12-13 years. One was a very early 300 hard top, registered march 94 owned it from new, put over 300,000 miles on it, the other was a V8 Csw which had a used 300 transplanted into it. The hardtop would do 36mpg all day long on motorways and at steady speed, on one occasion driving down through France with a stiff tail wind it managed 42MPG. Hacking in and out of central London dropped that to 30mpg. The CSW would do broadly the same hacking in and out of London, but never quite matched the hard top on longer motorway runs, typically managing about 33mpg. Both had RAI, bigger intercoolers and had the pump tweaked for additional power, were serviced every 5,000 miles, used Millers synthetic oil, whatever diesel was cheapest and genuine parts for every other requirement. Tyres were 7.50 x 16 Michelin XZY on the hard top and 235/85 x 16 Goodyear MTR on the CSW

http://twistedautomotive.com/current-stock/

The £160,000 vehicle I was referring to, is a used twisted 110

Personally I think £160,000 (for a used 110) is a ridiculous amount of money. Regardless of what has been done to it

Haven't JLR got a shiny new production facility in Slovakia, that is standing empty? Can't really compare them with jeep either. In the final years of defender production, jeep were selling more than 13 wranglers for every defender, roughly 200,000 versus 15,000

In the past, when I had a twisted door, I had about 6 shims under 1 hinge to get it to close properly

It is possible to adjust the fit of the door with plastic shims under the door hinges. These are the type for the earlier, smaller, hinges. Cannot find the No for the later hinges at the moment. https://www.brit-car.co.uk/search.php?query=mwc1898&xBrand=&part_type=&xSupplierID=&product-sort=&xPerPage=10

I think there is about a snowball's chance in h3ll of Land Rover ever making another model with the name Defender. further down into the article was this little gem. Their reasoning is that with Mercedes rebadging the Nissan Navara and calling it the X-Class - there's clearly a strong demand for utility vehicles. Which is a bit odd in itself because nissan belongs to renault I wonder if they will be fixing all those trucks out there with snapped chassis?