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If an R380 can fit a Tdi then doesnt that mean an LT77 will fit a TD5? You may just need to alter the position of the engine mounts?

Fascinating place. Massive country. Lovely and very welcoming people. They love Vodka and love it more if you enjoy gallons of it with them (one night I thought I was a dead man becaue of the amount we drank whilst toasting various people!)! Huge Soviet influences which still run deep today

It was an odd feeling. We were off road a lot - Monglia only seems to have two roads - the big one from north to south and the big one from east to west... So from the capital we always travelled a while on tarmac and then a lot more just across the plains and steppes. These land cruisers didnt really notice the difference between beng on tarmac and not.....

You wont see a land rover in Mongolia - when I was out there, it was all massive V8 Land Cruisers....

It was Cornish Mutual for me but as the name suggests you need to be in the southwest (I think they cover Devon and Cornwall only maybe a few more counties but only in the South west). With NFU, make sure you are speaking to your local office and not the central call centre. Staff in the local offices are much more helpful and flexible. My last experience with them was my local office but had I been bothered enough to talk to the girls supervisor I might have got a better response.

Thats kind of why I got a poverty spec D3 without a screen. It doesnt rely on it but its so outdated its virtually useless and would anonoy me if it did fail.

As Mo says they don't pump on the lever unless the cam that drives it isn't holding the arm up. I don't think its the lift pump. I have ditched the mechanical one and fitted electric and i can forget to turn it on and the 110 will happily be chugging away at 70. Was your fuel filter brimmed full when you checked it earlier? If yes it suggests the lift pump is fine.

You were luck Pat! I phoned up NFU and got someone on the phone who listened to the fact i had got a cheaper quote and just said she would cancel my renewal. Been with them for about 15 years - this was my local office too. My other quote was so good i couldnt be bothered to waste more time on the phone!

Slovakian if the numberplate is anything to go by. Nice to see someone trying to get it stuck in the wet.

Nothing to worry about IMO. Idling it like that never gets it properly hot and I think leaves unburnt fuel. Mine will do the same (especially if i forget theres veg oil in it and leave it idling whilst working round the fields). Take it for a good run and dont worry about it.

I explored this. If you are short it wont work! I put (just placed) the spare on the bonnet - my other half is 5’ 1 1/2 and when I got her to sit in the driver seat she wasnt able to see enough to drive it! Despite the vocal opinion otherwise, mine is going back up on the roof rack eventually. There will certainly be a mount up there even the spare lives in the back when space in the rear is not needed. It lived up there for ten years and I had no handling issues.

Almost seems like a governor isn’t working properly on the pump. @vulcan bomber might have some ideas. I wonder if its something silly simple like your idle speed is set too low - try increasing it a bit perhaps.

Hardy ridiculous.... The original Defender clearly took major design cues from the Series vehicles too (much more in body than the RRC you posted the picture of) and was sold as a new model. This new defender, in my eyes, takes most of its design cues from the D3/4 but is billed as an evolution of the original Defender with which it shares nothing but the name as far as I can make out (alpine windows and a swing out rear door perhaps, but then the D2 had those too really....).

We asked Cornish Mutual and they arranged cover for us. We have a farm policy (bit of an exageration for 12.5 acres), but we needed various things like public liability as part of the use of the land and asked them to cover the large barns for content theft etc as I have the same worry as the OP. NFU would probably do it too as said above, but they were more than twice the price of Cornish Mutual!

I feel for you. This type of thing is so time consuming and preys on your mind, yet you are helpless to get it sorted as the speed of response is in someone else's hands entirely. I emailed our water supplier over a week ago to query a leak allowance on our bill and its taken them a week to acknowledge receipt and merely say they are passing it on to the wholesaler. Why couldn't they do that last week!? This has been going on since early February!

All of the youtube videos that chap/company posts are useful. I had to take the dash apart on the D3 to remove the steering column and fix the stupid steering angle sensor where the non replaceable, plastic guide that turns the sensor had come loose from the column (it looks like land rover never really fixed it to the column properly in the first place and just relied on luck) and his youtube vids gave me confidence on what/where I could pull to remove things without snapping everything!

I think, if you dont want to take the pump off and re-adjust the flange position, then your best option is to leave it as it is and whenever (if) you need to check and reset the timing before the next cambelt change, you will need to set the flywheel and cam to TDC and use the dti to find the correct position of the pump, not the timing pin through the pump flange. You can fix the pump when you next have the cambelt off then.

No - the front grill is vertical in one and horizontal in the other. Completely different.

So its pretty clear... land rover have designed and produced a Discovery 4a.......

What if you push the ball joint down from above somehow - i.e. compress the spring, marginally ease the seal at the top of the cup and then fill with grease and fill a tiny bit more as you remove the pressure on the balljoint to fill the void created (not too much otherwise you will find it hard to move again).

The more I see it. The less I think it looks anything like the old one. I think this is a big fail. Its a completely different car!

Gosh - these Pioneer and Alpine units are lovely but are really pricey!! For those who dont have the dosh to spare (like me!), you can acheive very similar with a cheap tablet (an old Nexus 7 is a nice size) and either an 'aux in' on a normal headunit or a hidden amp. You can remove the tablet that way too so it gets around the poor security of a defender!

I think that hub on the pump must have been replaced incorrectly.

Does that not just give it the same toys as the new defender then and put them on an equal footing where the older modified vehicle still made it look easy compared to the new one with similar gear (i think i read the new one had a rear locker and obviously traction control?) I would have liked to see the 110 earlier in the video attempt the same bit for a better comparison of older standard (assuming it was) to new.

Its his 'nod' to a PTO (like the rest of the vehicle is a 'nod' to the actual Disco3 err sorry, meant to type Defender)