crowmann

Top marks for those who spotted its a late 90's Defender with all the usual atributes, later dash, headlining, axle, dash, doors, wings etc. Could have been rebuilt but its highly likely to have been modded in the process, it appears to me to have been changed only slightly from a 94 on Defender and would get you pulled over in Derbyshire pretty quickly I would have thought? This is how some of beloved Defenders come back from the after life and yes someone will buy it at the right price.

Please discuss paying close attention to the age and specification. Points will be awarded for knowledge of Defender production changes, colour charts and an awarenes of the rate of disappearance of Defenders and their subsequent uses. Your time starts now. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320810131598

Fit some tree sliders to each door. Hides any holes at the same time. HTH

Agree with the noise of the Eberspacher - mine when on full reheat sounds like a quiet jet engine - awesome bit of kit that came with the car when I bought it. Never used it for four years as I thought that it was faulty - they should be run every month according to the handbook. Low and behold instructions obtained and whoosh off it works like the day it left the West German factory. Because it was fitted I have since fitted a bespoke veg oil conversion kit and it warms the preheaters and brings the cab up to tempreture - you do need the batteries to be in good order for all this to work properly which leads me to my next project....... I have bought a 50w solar panel plus controller for the split batteries and display unit. Going to fit in the new year.

Not sure why folk on here want to fit the old style doors and not the latest steel versions. Having a new one of each sort on my car I can say the later one is as cheap a fabrication as you will ever find but... it is perfectly good at what it is designed for whereas the old style door is very much not. So unless you are building something that needs to be correct in every detail just buy the latest steel doors and if well painted and waxoyld they will last for a lot longer than the old style.

Well it certainly works to warm up the cab heater and the FPHE for the veg oil but they do use fuel and my focus is saving money - well at least as far as putting fuel in the tank. Last fill up courtesy of Mr Tesco (home delvered) was a full tank of veg oil for an average price of 78p per litre when I used some online discount codes - and bought 140litres. Not too shabby a saving over regular diesel of 60p a litre!

Due to lack of time my plan to fit a 'bulkhead' within the engine bay has been put on hold. In principle I will hang off the radiator/intercooler cassette a bracket which will skirt the air flow as it passes through the radiators - I have an oil cooler, radiator and intercooler. Will isolate the air entirely from the engine bay - hopefully my electric fan will be ok as the air flow might be a little restricetd. Heres whats there at present: The idea is to better control engine temp in cold weather for use with my veg oil conversion as the real peril with Tdi's is them running too cold even when everything is tip top in cold weather conditions.

Here one I made earlier .... da shizz base yo feelin it?

7mm - I changed them all on my veg conversion and I am pretty sure it was 7mm internally. Externally 8mm is about right.

Heres my veg conversion with theEberspacher. http://www.lro.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=73332 Veg oil (svo) can be obtained on a good day for 90p or a little less. Diesel here abouts is 1.389 at best. £35 saving per tank. Not too shabby.

You will not get any quantity of heat out of a Defender after 4 miles, nor frankly any modern diesel. A diesel cab heater or simply put a fan heater inside the cab for twenty minutes before leaving. I have insulated my truck and got rid of the draughts - I get warm air after 2/3 miles but without doing the former it would make no difference. I have a Eberspacher water heater but rarely use it even though they work very well as long as the batteries are topped up.

Get rid of the pesky mech one and fit.......... Actually there are three in these pics the one on the left front is the main pump the one behind secodary tank and the biigy is a transfer pump.

Yes the pre heater runs off the secondary tank and heats both pre heaters for the veg oil. It is quite busy under there but touch wood works well.

Washer bottle went under the passenger seat.

I run 0-35W oil with no problems - odd drip aside. To keep the oil nice and cool I fitted a second oil cooler in series. PSI when proper hot is 38 when running full speed. When cold about 60.

I fitted a huge intercooler and was worried about delay and loss of pressure across the cooler - if there was any I could not tell even vaguely. What I did do though was take the pressure feed pipe to the IP and wastegate off the manifold rather than the stock location of the turbo itself. Seems to come up to pressure 0.8bar exactly like it did with the stock cooler on. The advantage being it reads manifold pressure which is exactly what the engine recieves. I recommend the upgrade see other recent intercooler thread for ebay type units. Essential bits cost me about £225 and a bit of pleasant tinkering.

A bit like most really - only good in the fog and then its marginal as they are being set on the bumper a bit high really. Came with the car, would not replace if they broke.

The light bar from the fella that sold me the ahem 'show' lights at the front.

Only for show, I realise they are not legal unless you are employed in one of the proscribed professions. Surprisingly long list but none the less not me. Bought them off the same fella who sold me a lightbar. Could not resist them as they are very hard to come by.

Oil would definitely havee been hot enough to open after that distance. I fitted a secondary 13 row exchanger in series with the radiator version as frankly I fail to see the cooling effect that has and it flows hot oil around after 6 miles or so in the summer.

Double pass is simply where the air does a U turn and travels back though the return section. Allows for both inlet and exit to be on the same side of the intercooler.

Be prepared to double up on the hose clips where fitted to plain tube. I have three on in places.

How are you fitting your fan and shroud? It does go to show the margin on these intercoolers from Twisted and the like, theres are double pass though which is not as good but allows you to refit the regular gubbins to mate up.

... also in Defender anorak corner the smooth roof also came with vents at the rear. Pinched of the Maestro van of the same vintage. Often blamed for leaks - wrongly so they were there to address condesation issues and air flow through the vehicle. Binned in 1991 they are a rare and sought after feature to all Defender spotters the world over. Some how they look naked without them.