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Gazzar

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  1. Sorry. I doubt I'd ever do that. If I was buying a new vehicle with my own money, I'd have to buy Japanese or Korean. Or Swedish. I simply can't stand vehicles that are unreliable.
  2. It's strange. I think the regulator is working better now. It's underreading, but not nearly as much as before. I've been doing more miles recently, off and on road, and I think that might help. I'm going to change it anyway, but not until I get time. So, that will be when I retire, I suppose.
  3. Yes, early 110 and late series has a lot in common. The 110 was going to be called the stage 2 at one time. No idea on the 90, but probably the same idea was in place before marketing got involved.
  4. I know that it was common practice in the British Armed forces to simply give a squaddie a bucket of "green" paint, and a brush and let them paint. NO doubt the Norwegians were more methodological, so perhaps contacting their military archives may be a better approach?
  5. I fitted Monroe gas shocks. Seem okay, though I don't think I'd be able to tell the difference. It does lean in corners when I'm pushing it. But they appear to work. LWB, pick up, heavy roof rack support, 3 leaf paras, mystery brand from Paddocks.
  6. Aids removal of plastic and rubber stuff.
  7. Penetrating oil. Silicone spray. Wire cup attachments for angle grinders. Take your time. Chase the rot.
  8. But, if the truck can be off the road for a bit, then strip as much as you can first. Be prepared to remove the screen, if the rot goes that far, and the wing. It all makes the quality of the repair much easier and better.
  9. It was snowing. And I had to get the truck back on the road that day. Long job.
  10. I've done this repair, made my own. It's a sod of a job, but worth doing.
  11. Umm. That's difficult to answer. It's easily 50 years old. Large body, 60 hp engine, low gearing. Not fast. 50 year old engine? Not likely to be faster. Plus drum brakes, steering box and relay, 6 ball joints, etc. Very different driving experience. Think 1930's bus.
  12. Not on my truck, but on my sister's. We're re commissioning her series three, 3 bearing petrol. After the usual popping and farting from lying up it started running quite well. But the rad cap is leaking, and not bleeding down to the expansion vessel. Aside from the obvious, new cap, what else could be wrong?
  13. 2 Glow plugs look too clean. Any coolant loss?
  14. The TDI isn't a standard engine for a series, so the Glow plug arrangement that the retro fitter followed would be unknown to the replacement loom maker. The series diesel had the glow plug resistor on the bulkhead, it's probable that they followed the original arrangement. Presuming, of course, that you didn't commission and design a specific adaption to the standard loom.
  15. Photo them. Tidy up with Photoshop, or similar. Print and laminate. ?
  16. Are you saying the last 20 years of defender production were without serious wrinkles? Interesting.
  17. The coffee table idea. I think a garden table might work. For now, despite the temptation to break out the spanners, it will be ignored. I might dump some burned engine oil into it, with a few litres of kero as company. It's a 251 suffix, 2a, 7:1 ratio head.
  18. You sure? Maybe that's where I was going wrong. . . . . ..
  19. You've not seen the cam! Honestly, I don't know what I'll do with it. If I could dunk it in a drum of diesel for six months, I would. It might just be sprayed with wax and pallet wrapped, and "lost". Still, better that than melted down. I wonder why it was dumped.
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