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We owned it from 3 years old so they havent been changed in 28 years. Is that better?

My 110 is on its original bearings as far as I know. Its 31 years old in July and has done 265,000 miles. I’d say the two nut system works pretty well from an endurance point of view!

Mines doing this DC. Its a poor connection on the wire to the solenoid on the starter. Wiggle that and it will start. I need to clean it but I just cant get my hands in there until I remove the downpipe on the 200tdi. I scalded myself on the exhaust manifold when it did it in tesco a few weeks ago but it started after I had pushed and pulled that connection slightly!

Oh bugger... I have some of their rear doors for the 110, but I bought them about four years ago and haven't looked that closely at them yet! I hope they do fit as I doubt they will take a return after this time! I got front doors from Duckworths Land Rover in Market Rasen as they were selling these cheaper than the SP versions....

Mine is 1989 so I dont have a Defender! It is just a 110.

Strangely, I am in a similar spot. I have five brand new doors (110) and a new galvanised bulkhead. The bulkhead really needs doign this year, but I am thinking its going to double the time spend if I then do a chassis later, so am thinking of doing that this year now too. Whilst at it, as I am replacing the doors, the rest of the body will need a respray etc as new doors/old body will look rubbish, so I am also now thinking of stripping it down into component parts, prepping and spraying them all and then putting it all back together new.

I am no expert, but the speed they hit that seemed a bit silly to me!

I cant see the point of the boost pin. Mine is excellent without it. Just rotate the one in there so that the deepest cut out faces towards the front of the engine. My advice is to leave the starwheel alone and only adjust the pressure screw on the rear of the pump in 1/8th turn increments until the desired effect is obtained.

Yes. Pump adjusted about 8 years ago. I just adjusted until the amount of smoke was acceptable (slight haze at sustained full throttle). No ill effects so far.

If its like the d3 seats, eight relays will aort it. Thats what i plan on an electric seat i am fitting to the d3 to replace the manual one.

On the D3, the small increment movement thing is when a memory module is fitted but cannot communicate with a central ecu. Do you have the memory buttons on your rrs seats?

Depends on whether you think its worth risking a £50 part from Britpart that may fail within days of fitting and leave you stranded somewhere with the hassle of changing it. The two year warranty is a waste of time as is extra hassle to claim and many (most?) dont bother. It also doesnt cover your wasted time for two fittings (and that has some value to me) Better to fine a decent branded TRW/Delphi etc master cylinder and buy that for reasonable money.

Give up Mo. What you wrote is crystal clear in its meaning and FWIW I agree entirely.

So apart from potentially weakening it, what are the other disadvantages of a Detroit in a Salisbury? Like Ian, I have a Salisbury axle and keep half wondering about lockers as the 110 is doing more off road these days than it used to. Having said that, one minute mine is in a muddy field and then the other it is doing 300 miles on the motorway at a decent speed. I really cant be bothered with axle changes to be honest hence the interest in potential upgrades to my current rear axle.

Now folks mention it, I have dealt with Bearmach direct. I bought a Hawkeye Total from them directly. Their customer service was very good - they reserved me a Hawkeye for when stock came in as they were out of stock when i initially enquired. They also gave me 10% off because they didnt have stock. Pretty good really. (Plus the Hawkeye is 100 times better and more reliable than the amateur nanocom I have for the D2 - the only thing Hawkeye cant do that woudl be useful is write maps to the ecu...)

Personal experience of trying britpart, allmakes and bearmach. Yours is clearly different. I haven't had to send anything back to bearmach. Same cant be said for the others. I would deal with the seller rather than bearmach though so wouldnt experience their customer service anyway.

I think folks were talking about this before Christmas. To be honest, Allmakes quality has seemed to be going downhill for sometime. I only buy bearmach if I cant afford genuine or cant identify a good oem brand some other way.

I have an Eberspacher D1LC under my second row seats in the 110 but it isnt a puma model so not sure that would work for you.

Haha. We have friends over there. Strangely I am about to get warm in front of a log fire!

The inside of my 110 is currently a muddy soaking wet place. Its a complete mess after spending two days in this pouring rain in muddy fields finding and fixing a water leak. I cant see anyone wanting to get the new defender in this state or actually beimg able to clean it properly afterwards!

Its a nice looking truck. I would definitely get it fixed and keep it. Get it running right and you will have lots of years of enjoyment out of it.

Haha. Well done. You are getting quick at rebuilding that engine! Dennis isnt supposed to hit fully until 3pm but its pretty rough in East Cornwall already! Been out playing in the floods in the 110 (on the way back from tesco..)

Ah. That does explain why the quality could be variable. I have never touched biodiesel made from WVO as the quality issues do concern me as there seems to be no standard way of processing or quality control. If the solid fats arent all removed it xould cause the issues you describe i beleive but i am no expert My 200tdi performs really well on SVO - in the summer I genuinely cannot tell the difference between SVO and diesel. If anything I feel it runs better on rapeseed. Sunflower and diesel are comparable. MPG is unaffected. My FIP was reconditioned a couple of years back by DieselBob and he reported no ill effects from me using veg and I asked him to do whatever was necessary to make it as compatible with SVO as possible.

Yep. Same ^^^^ I buy SVO from the supermarket when it is on offer at 70ppl. I would have thought, as a foodstuff, it is pretty well regulated?? The stuff you were buying Geoff, doesnt sound like it had reached the end atage of processing??

I think something else broke your engine Snagger. My 200tdi has run on SVO for about eight years now. I have a heat exchanger but its in a box as I have never got around to twin tanking the 110. In the summertime its run on 100% SVO and I tail that off to almost 100% diesel as the temps drop to below 10C (this is partly so I can use the eberspacher without breaking it though as the engine would be happy with 10% veg even in this weather). The one thing I dont do is leave high percentages of SVO in the tank if I am doing short journeys. So I will run at 100% and do 300miles then top up with some diesel for short journeys in the week then a full tank of SVO for the 300mile trip at the other end of the week. This is less important in the middle of a hot summer but very important as the weather cools to stop SVO sitting in the pump. I have done over 100k miles like this. So cant imagine a 25% SVO mix used once would do any damage at all. We had the head off of mine about 24 months ago due to a failed head gasket and the bores looked perfect.