Jon White
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To WA410481 ERR5594 £37.17 ea (2 required)
From WA410482 NSC100650 £14.26 ea (2 required)
Thats all acording to 2002 EPC so expect it to have gone up a bit!
No idea on the interface boxes I'm afraid!
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I havent got a clue what mine are - must be about 2 years since I last checked the pressures! They dont look too flat so I havnt bothered!!!!
Maybe I should check them...........sometime.............
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I do have an excuse though, I can't quite see your Series from here
Hahahahahaha i'll have to try and find it on Google earth!!!
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I'm sure pink would do if you prefer...........
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Er...........my series has disks all round including the handbrake!!! I was being serious!!
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I sent them an email enquiry about 6 weeks ago and never got a reply!
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I've never had any on my series.
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Nah - you want a nice 8274 on there!!
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Nigel,
No - a series and an LT230 PTO are totally different and are not interchangeable.
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I like that - it makes one hell of a difference! The engine sits sooooo low in a series as standard anyway.
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Why not fit the PTO to the 109, fit one of the winches to the front of the 109 and simply use shaft drive? Rangie steering U/js will suffice, and I'm sure you can find a suitable bit of bar kicking around the lab for the shafts, so that'll only leave you needing to sort out a centre bearing...........
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I've got ansolutely no soundproofing whatsoever, but funnily enough some sort of rubber matting is on the agenda at some point.......
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Its definately quieter, but as I'm still runnning the series transfer box, which wines like a b1tch, its kind of hard to tell!
At low speed its not really any different, but when you can change up to 5th its better simply casue the engine is doing lower rpm. I dont beleive the gearbox itself really makes much difference at all.
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Depedns how much work you want. 2.5 petrol is a simple nuts and bolts job with no fabrication required. 200Tdi will fit, and bolting it in is the easy bit, but all the plumbing, mounting of intercoolers etc etc is a load more hassle. I'm just in the process of fitting a Disco 200Tdi into mine having just removed a V8.
A disco 200 will bolt straight onto the series engine mounts, but the exhaust etc is more difficult to make. A defedner 200 will requrie engine mounts fabricating, but the exhaust is alot easier. Disco engines are a lot cheaper than defedner ones are.
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Agreed, but a 2.5 is a nuts and bolts swap that doesnt require anything else to be changed to fit it. Fitting a V8 is alot more involved.........
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Mod your tie rod to miss the springs by putting some bends in it and go spring under,
No dont bend it cos thats just horrible! No matter how thick bar you make them fron with a dend in them they just bend far too easily. Keep the trackrod straight as it was intended to be.
The only way I've ever seen this done is by packing the spring away from the axle to give clearance hence losing you ground clearance.
Dont be tempted to try and move the track rod to the front of the axle either as this screws the Ackerman angles up.
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Frankly - not much - I think most people would be hard pushed to tell the difference - they're both pretty asthmatic! IIRC its supposed to have about 10Hp more or something, but its only something like 85BHP anyway which is pretty pants for a 2.5L engine really!
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To be honest i wouldnt bother spending money rebuilding a 2.25 petrol.
Look out for a 2.5 petrol from a defender instead. Externally they're identical, all the ancilliaries will swap straight accross, and people cant give away 2.5 petrol engines these days. I picked up 2 for free a couple of years back. Its a nuts and bolts job to swap them over - its what i did when I blew up the origional 2.25 that was in my series!
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You cant really put a resistor in it, as when the engine then really does overheat your gauge will still show normal! The series temp sender goes down to almost no resistance at all when it gets hot, so this is a bad idea. The only way to get a correct reading would be to either swap to an aftermarket gauage and sender unit, or to try one of the ex-military capillary type gauges.
Cheers
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Yes you can - easy nuts and bolts job.
I'd also add that its alot stiffer than you think it is. On mine with the front prop removed, I put a socket and a 2ft bar on the nut on the front output and it took a fair amount of effort to get it to turn. Doing the one wheel jacked up thingy required a fair amount of effort with a long bar to get it to turn.
I'm told they're all like that, but dont honestly know any different.
Cheers
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Series temp gauge is correctly calibrated to show normal on a 74degree thermostat. Replace the 82 with a 74 and your temp gauge will rear correctly. It is correctly showing that the engine is running hotter.
Took me ages to suss this out when mine did exactly the same!!!
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Well you've used the Dewalt one I've borrowed from work before now, and you'll recall just quite how much Sue complained about the noise it made!!!!!
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I've got no great tech to offer, but B&Q value worktop is very cheap, should last 6 months.
Funnily enough thats what mines topped with!! Seems to last pretty well - its been there a year now and apart from a few cosmetic marks is fine. Mines tied into the garage walls so i cant add alot as regards construction, but IMHO work bench height set at about the same as a kitchen worktop seems to come out about right. (approx 800mm IIRC).
Other way is to sit your vice on the top, and the top of the vice should be at about elbow height for comfortable working. I built my last one far too high and regretted it, so dont be tempted to build it too high. Mine set the same as my kitchen worktop has so far proved to be much more comfortable, and about the right height.
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£100???
Where from??? The steve Parker ones are alot more than that! Hence why I'm about to make my own......
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how much should i ask?? for old disco
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Going rate for a rotten, Mot failed 200Tdi disco is about £500 ish.
Even if it is an auto I cant see you getting alot more than this for it. I recently bought, and broke, a cosmetically immaculate 1 owner from new 200Tdi manual for £500.
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