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    A different take on the restomod hipster Defender

    in International Forum

    Posted

    20 hours ago, Happyoldgit said:

    Before I became happy I used to be miserable. Now I am happy that 110 would still make me miserable, why? Products, other than refrigerators and deep freezers, that use the "cool" word for marketing is beyond contempt.

    I concur. And whoever thought that chassis was a nice idea wants it folded in half and jammed up their jacksie outrigger-first.

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    Double trouble Cardon joint

    in Discovery Forum

    Posted

    The bolts are 3/8 UNF, 9/16 spanner IIRC. You could get some 3/8 UNF nuts easily enough, dealers will still sell them as all the prop nuts and bolts are still UNF - not really sure why. NZ606041L appears to be the part number. See here https://rimmerbros.com/Item--i-TN3209

    I am pretty sure you have to take the flange off to change the bolts if they won't come out, slight problem if the prop is still on there! You could fit them the other way around as you suggest, I have never had to do it but as long as it has a nyloc nut on it I don't think there is a fundamental problem doing that.

    Thoughts and musings on the new defender

    in New Defender Forum (2020 onwards)

    Posted

    4 hours ago, Happyoldgit said:

    JLR are doubtless hoping it has created an air of expectation and desire among the wannabe bush hat / canvas with leather trimmed man-bag crowd.

    Well put :hysterical:

    The one thing I am relatively certain about is that it didn't drive up that stand, it was put there - as it would have knocked off both the front and rear bumpers in the process :rolleyes:

     

     

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    Demonstration of Terrain Response in a D4 on rollers

    in Discovery Forum

    Posted

    Couple of things

    1. There's already a leak underneath it :hysterical:

    2. It does show how much wheelspin is needed to trigger it which mirrors my experience of the old TC system and my limited experience of the D3. In difficult high load conditions you just get lots of wheelspin on alternating wheels as it jumps around trying to transfer the power, and f all forward motion.

    Thoughts and musings on the new defender

    in New Defender Forum (2020 onwards)

    Posted

    7 hours ago, Red90 said:

    No, those were all easy trails.  You barely need four wheel drive to tackle them.

    If you do not understand where low pressure is required, then you have no experience on hard off road terrain.

    I have to say that nothing that I saw in the Moab videos seemed particularly challenging. Likewise the Tusk footage, bit of splashing about, a clay track, some grassland and a fairly lightly laden trailer. It wasn't exactly the Camel Trophy.

     

    6 hours ago, discomikey said:

    While access in that particular body is yet to be seen. if you look inside a D5 V6D you can practically stand in there with it. Failing that, the subframes with engine and box fitted can be removed from a body in a couple of hours. 

    Glad to hear they have at least learned some lessons!

    Thoughts and musings on the new defender

    in New Defender Forum (2020 onwards)

    Posted

    13 hours ago, Eightpot said:

    If you get into a P38 now, all the hitech wizzy features, like an electric seat or a cd player with big speakers and maybe a heated walnut steering wheel, and a tiny lcd display showing mpg look positively antique. Thus it will be with the new car, feature and fashion led.  Short lifespan thanks to outdated tech, miriad ecu's, servos, actuators, sensors, probably using compact engine and transmission design a la Disco 3,4,5 which makes simple maintenance a major problem (just changed an inlet manifold on a tdv6 - what were they smoking) and quick churn to new models.  In a nutshell, the 'Defender' is finito, same as the Mini, Fiat 500, Beetle, but I don't mind the looks of the new thing, assuming it's the same as the 'spyshot' of the thing they accidentaly left the keys in the ignition of to light the dash up while the driver nipped off for a coffee..  might get one in ten years time when they've ironed all the faults out though 🙂

    Very true, while if you get into a 1980s 110, it basically just feels like being in a Land Rover.

    TDV6 maintenance is one thing I don't miss having to think about. I'm sure the new Def will be the same, take the body off to change the alternator and stuff like that. Designed to be manufactured and not maintained.

    Thoughts and musings on the new defender

    in New Defender Forum (2020 onwards)

    Posted

    2 hours ago, reb78 said:

    Disco 2 is not something i would bunch in with the modern lot - if you have looked after the chassis theres no reason it wont still be running. Ours gets the odd patch on the chassis every now and then but is still going well. 

    Neither would I  - D2 is the last of the proper models. I wish they still made it. 13 years and no real headaches with mine, only sold it as body corrosion was starting in places that would be difficult to sort and petrol was twice the price of diesel in this country, so the fact that it cost four times as much as a diesel to run was unsustainable.

    If the new Defender was a utility body shape built on the D2 chassis and suspension setup with the 3.2L Mitsubishi engine and transmission out of my Shogun, I'd have one in a heartbeat.

    Thoughts and musings on the new defender

    in New Defender Forum (2020 onwards)

    Posted

    7 minutes ago, deep said:

    That actually looks more or less like a modern version of a proper Land Rover.  Shock, horror, gasp etc.!

    It is certainly the best of the collection of "maybes" so far. Still a Shogun replacement rather than a Defender replacement though... and why would you randomly have a picture of the car you are sitting in on the middle of the dash?

    Given that there are now also a bunch of other 'interior photos' on the Landroverphotoalbum group on Faecesbook, I wonder if it's all still part of the misinformation exercise. The dash shown in the other images has a similar looking speedo, but definitely doesn't have the vehicle image. What appears to be supposed to look like the same set of photos also has an air spring in one photo and a coil in another.

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    Thoughts and musings on the new defender

    in New Defender Forum (2020 onwards)

    Posted

    7 hours ago, FridgeFreezer said:

    Whereas I'm sure a standard 110 on similar road tyres would've gotten much further :rolleyes:

    Yes, 'cos the wheels would still have been on the ground :)

    Everything I have seen in recent years appears to be engineered to work on a test track to sell a car, not in the real world when you start using it and want to use it every day. But that's sort of been the problem with all the recent models, they are very nice when they work. The last bit is the sticky area.

    Bong bong bong............. :wacko:

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    Snorkel / RAI

    in Defender Forum (1983 - 2016)

    Posted

    Most Defender vehicles here have them and a lot are fitted for form, but the function bit is preserving air filter life far more than wading. The external air intake does suck in mud and water especially driving in muddy or wet conditions with wide tyres on, but particularly on the Puma the air filter life is pretty poor. The Puma seems to suck much harder than the Tdi drawing in a lot more carp, and the flat air filter is inherently more prone to blockage - the engine then shuts down into some sort of limp home mode and you can only do about 20mph. In a dry summer the roads here (mostly gravel, can be very dusty when dry) can be hard on air filters and off road there can be lots of dust and grass seed flying around.

    While few if any do the water-up-the-windscreen wading, it's nice to have the peace of mind that if you do have to plough through a stream that happens to be in flood, you don't have to worry about it, as it only takes about two seconds to ruin your day.

    Series didn't have them and there have been quite a few left parked nose-down in streams over the years too, in the days before there were any roads at all, but I think the old oil bath filter was just fundamentally better at filtering stuff out.

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    Thoughts and musings on the new defender

    in New Defender Forum (2020 onwards)

    Posted

    ^ Yup, agree with all that Snagger.

    Making a modern plastic LR good offroad is like making a cat hover. It can certainly be done, but it's a bit pointless when you consider the additional functionality is still fatally flawed, the functionality is not really much use at all for its main intended role, and the whole premise relies heavily on expensive, complicated and inherently unreliable and overstressed technology that will probably break just when you don't want it to.

    Only a man who wears collars like Dumbo's ears would seriously think it was a good idea. Meet Gerry.

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    OT: Ifor tipper oil

    in International Forum

    Posted

    6 hours ago, Happyoldgit said:

    Is this for the manual pump tip type?

    Electric TT3621 - now been told that a 32 hydraulic oil is the thing to use. Manual may be the same - mine has the manual lever but tried it today and by heck it's slow!

    OT: Ifor tipper oil

    in International Forum

    Posted

    Google has failed to educate me, I need to top up (and probably change) the oil on my Ifor tipper as some of it has mysteriously disappeared.

    So far I see a suggestion that 10w40 engine oil is OK, and another that a 32 weight hydraulic oil is fine. I can't see anything that actually specifies what is in it from the factory. Anybody know?

    Ta :)

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