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hi just hand painted my 90 in matt desert colour excellent paint self levelling brought from a guy at land rover show who sells nothing but paint will dig his no out a post tomorrow well worth a ring

hi cheers for the advice after thinking about it for long enough decided to go the weld on bracket route all sorted works fine thanks all

Cheers for the replys dont know which route to take but i now have 2 options thanks

hi if you do a disc brake conversion via the rr rear axle route make sure you get a later model axle with the shock mounts both facing the same way it saves a lot of work dont know about change over years though?

Hi all happy new year came to fit my rr rear axle for my disc brake conversion on 84 defender but have noticed the os shock absorber mounting bracket is on the rear of the axle is this normal or is it someones cockup on welding a new mounting onto the axle there dosent seem to be any sign of an old bracket that has been changed or cut off and the disc protector all bolts to it as well if this is the norm can you buy the brackets or do you cut the old one off a reweld cheers

hi have you tried adrian flux ?

thanks for the advice cheers

hi doing the same on a 200tdi i read on the forum somewhere that someone used a fullwidth cooler from a citroen xantia might well be worth a look at your local breakers for one hope this helps cheers

hi all hope christmas was a good one one small query just got a disc braked rear axle to convert my 90 stripped the discs off to clean up can anyone tell me do you tighten up the 2 nuts that hold the disc on against the wheel bearing tight then back off or leave them tight before bending the lock washer cheers

just got a disc braked rear axle to fit to my 90 cheers all

hi to all just thought i would say thanks for all the advice in the short time since i joined and wish everyone a happy christmas a happy new year cheers

hi personal cover is you are covered not the car tax ins etc wouldnt matter but irrelovant anyway seeing as you got it home all the best enjoy happy crimbo

hi i know its a bit naughty but join up with the rac a get yourself personal breakdown cover drive round the corner conveniatly breakdown ie say the clutch has gone ie not fixable by the side of the road and they will relay you back to where you need to go just a thought

hi try getting hold of a ultra thin cutting disc for metal will give a clean cut cheers

hi dont know if it would make any diffrence well worth mentioning about comp use i think its a diffrent ball game with ins not sure but thats the impression i got from ins companies cheers

hi im with adrian flux agreed 1800 on a 84 90 for road use greenlaining not comp off roading be very clear when talking money they do like to add stuff on like admin fees a such cheers

hi cheers all for advice been doing a lot of thinking on this idea with your advice and more research it dosent seem to be as good as the makers claim ie they will work really well with a warm engine but i cant see them working great with a cold engine my original idea was to run a twin tank set up so if poss could you give advice on the set up ie do you use electric pumps to pump oil with simple flick switches in cab or is there a way to use lift pump from engine also do you still need to heat the oil in some way on switch over or will it run as is on a warm engine cheers

hi to all i was wondering if anyone has used the inline fuel heaters for running on neat veg oil the single tank system ie any probs with cold starting loss of power do they actually work sorry for lack of punctuation cheers all have a 200tdi from early disco in defender

hi no i havent touched them since i got the 90 will try this as soon as cheers

hi everyone another small prob with my 90 brought it a year ago so had a few mods all ready done one being red polybushes in trailing arms if the landy is empty of gear it gives a really stiff ride once loaded it is quite smooth would the bushes cause this or would it be a combination of thinge ie shocks a springs which are all standard cheers

hi all starting to think i imagined the rubber bung in the workshop manual made lots of calls today to various engineers all have said the end crank is running in oil so i must have a perfect seal between engine a back plate as well as end crank a oilseal will fit tomorrow cheers for all the help

nice one will call them tomorrow cheers

hi dont know where to go from here except to land rover themselves i thought the only diffrence was turbo position on def a disco maybe its a design fault on discovery engine or a particular year cheers for the advice

hi cheers for advice there is a rubber seal either side of the end crank where you have marked in red the recesses with yellow the one in the middle has the hole right through to the sump about 8mm in dia i cant see any reason for it but the workshop manual shows a rubber bung to seal it

hi just joined am looking at getting alloys meself have an 84 90 with drums on rear ive been told the early discovery alloys will fit as well as early rr not 100 percent on this as my knowledge comes from ask questione on ebay dont know if this helps at all cheers