godzilla84

when you say miles, do you mean driving or welding wire?

here is for sale my beloved land rover. this is a discovery 3 door 2.5 tdi .over the years as a second car i turned it in off road aptitude.with lots of extras. front bumper ,winch ,plasma rope.4 tone 35 x 12.5 x 15 inch goodrich mud tyre on 10" wide wheel. wheel spacer 4cm each side. the body is rised 2" from the chassis and suspention 3" lift the lot on renforced axle with front and rear diff lock.extreme braided brake hoses. sterring guard ,diff guard ,tank guard with removable tow bar track road protectiom bar ,dan bar rock tree slider 3 degrers corection radius arms, articulated rear arms . front wide angle prop sharft.silencer replacment pipe. snorkel.kit roof 4 light . dislocation cone front and rear. inside the car there is rised up leather seats realy good in off road to see the front of your car. on the back instead of the seat in the boots i replaced them by cheker plate box the engine has been replaced by a 300 tdi instead of the originale 200.it has been tuned and get a big intercooler new clutch kit .1.4 transfer box because of the big tyre convertion kit hand brake. i didn't used it for almost 1 year.there is no more mot or taxe ,but for the right price i will put a new mot with it. thanks for looking .happy bidding. I dont wanna sound like the grammar police but I wouldn't buy a car off anyone who writes like that!

Cheers for that.

I have looked into it a little bit myself now and although i dont know the specifics, i believe that at the axle end of the radius arms, the bushes were narrower on a 200tdi, so in theory the 200 ones would fit the 300 but not the other way round. I dont know if defender radius/trailing arms are the same length or have the same degree of castor in them though. Hopefully a grownup can come along and point me in the right direction. Boro, if its not too expensive to courier them to liverpool, how much do you want for them? Im not in a rush for them so im happy to wait for a cheap set to appear local on ebay or in a breakers. If you can get a few bob for them then no hard feelings.

Boro, im in liverpool. I reckon the postage for a set of radius arms would be more than the radius arms themselves. Vulcan bomber, does that mean any other model of land rover from the 300tdi engine onwards or just from a discovery? There are a few sets of radius arms/trailing arms on ebay but they are off defenders and td5 discos etc.

Does anybody know if the radius arms and trailing arms off other land rovers will fit a 300 series Discovery? I want to paint and rebush my exisiting ones but i know just getting the old bushes out can be a pain so I was thinking od picking up another set from a breakers and refurbing them and fitting the new bushes to keep my Disco from being off the road for too long and then refurbing the old ones and either keep them as spares or flogging them on eblag. Many thanks. Mark

Looks to me like im better off using the existing loops that are on the bumper then. Thanks for the advice guys.

Hi all. I have a Rebel winch bumper fitted to the front of my discovery which i have modified to sit further back than standard which seems to have gone ok. The next stage of my plan is to fit some swivel eyes on it because im not keen on the "loops" that sit underneath it as recovery points. I know you can buy the swivel eyes on eblag and the like but is it as simple as just drilling the apropriate sized hole on the front face of the bumper or are they re-inforced on other winch bumpers? I dont want the swivel to pull through the metal of the bumper the first (or any time) I use it. Any advice would be greatly apreciated. Mark

I live in liverpool (im waiting for the jokes) and I was 24 (and very baby faced) when I first got my discovery and used to get pulled over all the time by Plod checking it was mine. Most inconvenient when im on my way home from my (at the time) new girlfriends house at 2am but as JBS says, they are only doing thier job and its reassuring that they are on the look out for the thieving b"$tards that seem to plague land rover owners.

maybe he has to park in a multi story car park.

I had forgotten about this post. I have found a soloution (which I will photograph) although since some theiving git nicked the removable bit of my tank guard its kind of irrelivent now. Before anyone says anything about me being a scouser it was nicked in leeds whilst I was visiting a mate.

I cant decide if i like that or not.

Could be the fuel lift pump packing up. It will run "ok" but struggle for power. When mine failed it was ok round town but wouldnt really go above 55-60 on open roads.

"NO SILLY BOLT ONS JUST NICE MODS IVE NEVER SEEN ONE WITH THIS FRONT END" That front end IS a silly bolt on!

As an idea. i like that. But i dont like any of the details at all.

I find it unlikely as land rover/rovers japanese deal was with honda. Hence the Honda Crossroad and the rover 400 shaped civic. So yes I would go with your assessment of the owner talking BS

I dont like hi lift jacks and to be honest it was the first time i had attempted it. Also, when i did my lift i cleaned up the wheelarches and axles where the suspension mounts are while i had the the better access.

I have the terrafirma +2" kit fitted to my 300tdi with medium dutysprings. If my memory serves me correctly, it cost me around £240 for springs, shocks and bushes. It took me 3 afternoons to fit (it would have been 2 afternoons but the first set of spring compressors i bought were next to useless). My only regret is that i bought medium duty springs instead of heavy duty because i have had my disco fully loaded with camping gear and a trailer and it sat a bit low. I dont find it any less stable than on standard height springs/shocks but that could be because the ones that were on it were quite worn. As Landy-Novice says, you dont need to lift it unless you want to fit taller/wider tyres, I actually ran 235/85/16s on standard suspension with just a camel cut on the back and the only issue is the front tyres catching the radius arms on full lock but thats down to the offset of my wheels not suspension. Think about it before you commit to a lift kit.

I cut mine with a fine angle grinder disc (I had just cut the bolts for the side steps when i did it) and it did a pretty tidy job. With it being a 200tdi i would put some masking tape along the line you want to cut and mark it.

just trim the discovery corner pieces. thats the best option for ground clearance/approach angle without spending any money. if its a 300tdi there should be a pretty obvious line on the corner that you cut from. The 200tdi is less obvious but still simple.

i did the clio in situ. Its a pain in the neck (literally) but worth it. I bought the auto glym stuff to clean the seats in my disco after id been at a pay and play and wondered if it would clear the oil. I was pleasantly surprised.

I used Auto Glym upholstry cleaner (the spray bottle stuff not the aerosol) to get bicycle chain lube off the head lining of my girlfriends Clio and it worked a treat. Couldnt reccomend it strongly enough.

I agree.Externally, Id try and replicate the CSK look without it being a copy. Or the Brooklands. Internally there are more things that I like but still not sure.

I have found a place near me in Liverpool that will re-core the original radiator for £144 so i am going with that option. They have said they can do the same to the intercooler for £90.

Does anybody know the difference between part numbers BTP2275 and BTP2275R. The latter is labeled as Aluminium. Does this mean entirely aluminium. The former has definitely got the plastic sides which Maverik refers to above.