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  1. Just a thought and I am happy to be corrected but you may also need to consider having to move the gearbox mounts too in the Defender as the Disco bell housing is longer than a Defender one! I did a Disco engine into a Defender not so long ago, but kept the Defender box due to this. I can vouch for the Steve Parker exhaust adapter, saved so much time!
  2. I had a sheered half shaft a while ago, as Milemarker suggests I had tried the "pushing it out from the otherside" method but the final inch of the spline had twisted and sheered still in the diff so it wouldn't budge. I ended up welding a piece of M20 screwed rod onto the end of the shaft then putting a tube over it (I used a gash length of scaffold pole about 10" long) then slid a large ring spanner onto the rod to act as a stop at the end of the pipe then wound the nut on and used it to draw the shaft out, i was then able to open the diff case and retrieve the last piece that way as due to the twist in the spline it wouldn't come out any other way. I know this sounds quite drastic but I had tried everything else and was sure that the shaft was knackered anyway. Hope this helps as a last resort.
  3. I replaced my engine, box and transfer box in one last week... relatively easy with the slam panel and rad out, having something to slide the handbrake drum om helped due to the length though. Hardest part for me was removing the cross member!! Several years of mud n rust
  4. Thanks Aragorn, we did try that as we did wonder with all the liftin of the front end whilst fitting the engine and box if we had disturbed some sedement. Didn't make any difference though:( FINALLY though we did sort it!! It must have been some muck in the injector pump. It only shifted though when we started messing with the mixture screw! We had undone every other possible thing first though we moved the mixture screw and manually pumped the lift pump and knocked the injector pump with a hammer to shift it.,..... such is life. But a massive thank you to all who took an interest and made suggestions. Typical Landy problem though... needed a hammer in the end All the best Nick
  5. Thanks again for the suggestions all.... We did check the fuel filter and even bypassed it, I will check the pipes right back to the tank though as you suggest. Not sure on the cleanliness of the tank though I did wonder about trying to blow back toward the tank with the airline at low pressure just to check it. I will check the Vac pipe also just for peace of mind me thinks as there was a little oil in the intercooler hose from the turbo. So even if its not going to cause this problem as Aragorn says, it may cause me other issues later if it is oiled up. Well watch this space for the next installment. Thanks again all it really is appreciated!!
  6. Thanks for the replies ... but ... Kingrat - I took the Lift pump from the old TD engine, still the same Defender Dinky - Went through all the pipes, checked they were sucking and blowing as they should and connected. The only thing I did wonder about was the vacuum pipe from the Turbo to the fuel pump, its all intact etc but I know that chamber on the pump it goes to is to reduce fuelling isnt it? I was going to take it apart next to see if anything was stuck in there. (the engine has been sat for 12 mnths after all) Well thats for Wednesday Thanks again, fingers crossed and I will update Weds on how it goes
  7. Hi, just wondered if anyone else has ever experienced this? I took a 200tdi from a Discovery about 12 months ago and finally got round to fitting it in my Defender. Before fitting it gave it a new Clutch, timing belt and oil etc, mated it to a Defender LT77 gearbox I got at the time. Installed the whole lump following the great advice on here and all seems to have gone really well. Until this morning when we rolled it out of the workshop! Filled the rad and started her up, on tickover its great sits there at the right amount of revs very happily. So we then tried to rev it to try and get the temp up a little to check the sender. The revs hardly pick up and the engine just appears to be starved of fuel We have done the following .... Checked extended fuel lines aren't pulling any air in and tried bypassing the filter. Blown out the fuel pump with air. Checked the solenoid is clear. Set crank to TDC and poked a drill bit through the hole in the fuel pump pulley to make sure it still located in the hole in the casing. Cracked the fuel lines at the injectors one by one, all fueled and cylinder drops off when opened as it should. The engine worked fine in the Disco, but has been stood.... any ideas will be greatly appreciated. Cheers Nick
  8. Hi, I just wanted to get some opinions on which way to go with a 2" lift. I do as many Pay 'n Play days as I can and a little greenlaning, nothing extreme or overly serious. I want to lift the truck and wondered how people felt about just using spacers to do it as oppose to dare I say it the more professional way of replacing the springs and shocks(or do I actually need to replace the shocks?) I have read the tech archive which gives some good points but only mentions spacers in passing. Many thanks
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