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by gumbo FF you really are Megaman... I had a read of a few of those, I'm still kinda at a loss as to whether MS is something I expressly need to do or something that is a good mod but not necessary? As in is there a global prob with the hotwire that I should pre empt with MS or does MS just give me scope for tuning etc? Please say I can go MS when I've renewed energy and enthusiasm EDIT: just say "it's cool honeybunny"

So If I pour oil down the oil cooler hose do I still need to spin the pump down the dizzy hole or can I just crank away? Cheers fellas btw!

Sweet FF, thanks mate. That schematic will be a great help - the newest Haynes manual doesn't seem to have a schematic for the spec of my machine. It's a '90 3.9 EFI but without lambdas etc. More so the wiring description - it confirms what my wrench told me and answers my original Q about whether I can use whats there already! Cheers again, think I'll pull the 3.5 this weekend. Now for an anti rain dance... Oh whats Megasquirt btw? I keep seeing the name but get the impression its an older ECU/injection type?

Was doing my home work on priming the oil pump (really don't want to have to break the seal on the pump housing to pack it with vasoline) Just read what seems to be a fantastic tip- and not usre if it's good or even if it's been discussed here before. In the absence of one of the priming tools for use with a drill, seemingly you can use a 12 mil socket on an extension bar...? Vrai or Faux?

If you'd do that I'll camp outside your house and tell passers by all about you. You'll gradually gain notoriety, people will begin to worship you. Then once you have a strong following you can have people do your bidding and your wildest dreams will become reality. Seriously though I can send you a few quid in the post - I'd really really appreciate it. Wait a minute, how do I know you won't keep them for yourself

Wow, I love the sound of that The only ones I've driven are my early RR, a '03 110 hard back crew cab and the petrol Freelander. Why I like my land rover better then the other models? In a nutshell its the mix of offroad cred, lux before there was such a thing in a 4x4 - and then only barely and just sheer space. I borrowed a pals 110 for a ten day surf trip last year and I really didn't want ot give it back. I'd roll a 110 Td5 in a split second if there was more space inside. I have minis too and I think Defenders are just like being in a mini - the windscreen is the same kind of shape and the door glass is right up against your shoulder, plus there may be a tad more leg room in the back of a 110 but a mini back seat is much more comfortable. So a perfect vehicle for me would be an early 2 door Range with a Td5 lump that had a V8 burble, prepped Defender 90 offroad skills and it should look like a total sleeper - bog standard early Range looks.

Just googled Old Sodbury - never heard of it before! Looks brilliant. Pity theres about 300 miles and the Irish Sea between me an it so if I found a pair they'd cost me about €302 Good to know about the meet though... oh and lovin your RR, looks the biz - making me wonder whether I'll white up my tyre lettering or not

I'm in love with it, it's tidy but by no means perfect - but I wouldn't have it any other way. I don't want to be scared to use it y'know... The rust has been all taken care of. There's some dodgy filling in the rear frame but I'm happy while it's not rusting and the insides of the doors are basically dead, but again for now they look smart - it looks well and the cosmetic stuff can wait. The chassis is perfect. Its all there bar the badge lettering. The front is in tact bar the N which can't be got anymore so if anyone has an old N lying about... and they've used the later silver edged lettering on the tailgate which annoys me but I've to ry source some letters.

Deano - yeah I recognise that prancing pony... but it has to be from either lrnet or one of the Irish sites? Nige, cheers! - what I did was strip the whole loom in one piece from the 1990. Then I poured my weak little mind over the schematics and eventaully pulled the injection related loom out of the rest of the wiring so I have everything right down to the ECU warning lamp feed. I'm wondering about the wiring between the engine bay side of the bulkhead and the starter/alternator/coil etc. Apart from the harness for the injectors/thermistors etc most of the EFI wiring is actually inside or to the rear of the car. Of that 'inside' wiring (and apart from the fuel pump and earthing) to get the lump running all I have to do is connect the single white wire to the ignition second position (now I've powered the ECU and hence fuel pump). The other wiring leading from the ignition is the original stuff from the carb lump. That goes through the bulkhead into th engine bay and connects to the Alternator/starter/coil etc. So if I just pull the 3.5 along with its alt/start/coil and throw in the 3.9 and use that old wiring to connect to the 3.9's alt/start/coil am I in business? Its a question mark of epic proportions. My friendly local LR specialist looked at the stripped loom I have and told me the above. I tend to second guess him as although he really knows his stuff he can sometime. not concentrate hard enough. Thanks for the welcome guys - I'm off to buy some blue hylomar and a rivet gun and get dirty... Oh and I posted a few pics...

Wow - I've been/am on a few other forums (with good people) but the technical stuff here is second to none, right down to the photo documented step by step guides posted by folk! I love this place... I've a '73 RR, it's the biz, it's like a mountain goat. All original, twin strombergs on the 3.5, LT95 etc. I bought a scrapper 1990 3.9 as a donor and I've gotten to the point that tomorrow I'll route the wiring for the new motor, do some last bits of cleaning and painting and I'm ready to pull the 3.5 and offer up the 3.9. Apart from having major 11th hour jitters about whether I'm doing the right thing going ECU controlled (I've done all my sums and reckon that with the weight difference and the o/d that I'm putting on I should get about 20mpg) I have two main questions for anyone with any experience in the area... 1. My mech tells me that basically if I connect the white ECU wire to my ignition switch and basically earth the earth that I just need to use the existing wiring to the alternator/starter etc to get the thing running. (this is all considering that I've stripped all the relevant fuel pump/injector loom with the ECU) God that doesn't make sense does it... 2. I'm not interested in the power steering fitted to the 3.9, I'd much prefer to keep the few hp that the pump would have soaked up. So I've dumped the pump. I'm going to mount the alternator on the opposite side of the waterpump and run it from the w/p pully as its only slightly bigger then the p/s pump pully. But now I'm wondering whether that few mill of difference in the pully is gonna burn out the alternator or have any other adverse effect??? I'm George by the way, hi!