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And also to show they are designed to be tubeless. Tube type tyres like Avon Rangemasters and General SAG xplys have a much smoother carcass inside than something like a BFG - its to prevent the tube chafing, because those tyres are designed to be tubed Having said that, Land Rover offered tubeless tyres (Michelin XPC 7.50R16) as a tubeless tyre fitted with a tube for some time. The steel rims have now gone to being tubeless in the last year or so but they were tubed with those tyres for some time so it must be OK...

If you mean the arm rather than the blade I thought they were a nut on the end of the shaft which held the arm on to a tapered spline.

Front wheel bearings on a Discovery of that age (1996?) should be adjustable! Can you post a photo of what you are looking at so we can see... Series 2 Discovery bearings aren't, they are a sealed unit, but rarely have problems anyway.

That does sound a wee bit slack - is there a problem you are investigating or was it just a wiggle you did while you were passing? If it works I would probably leave it alone...

As far as I understand it, the Defender has never been subjected to the official crash tests because it is not a new model, it is still the vehicle introduced in 1983 and so has never had a requirement to be crash tested as a new model since the crash tests were introduced. You will probably be fine in a head on accident in a LR but don't think about something coming in through the side doors, and you DEFINITELY don't want to roll one without a cage, especially a crewcab. Why? Evidence is in the photos...

It isn't a myth but affects the same wheel and tyre and tube combination in different ways on different vehicles, must be down to variables like driving style I guess. Cheap tubes are often not too good, Michelins are good, and removing ALL labels from the inside of the tyre is a must. I have to say I wouldn't do it because it loses one of the main benefits of tubeless which is slow deflation if you get a nail in the tyre at speed on the road, but that is just my 2p. I have never had problems with losing pressure due to mud in the bead of tubeless tyres though, some say it is a problem on BFGs but not for me.

It says MBL (minimum break load I assume) 8.5T which is 8500kg which is 18700lb - does seem a bit puny for 14mm! Edited to add 12mm Dyneema-Bowrope quotes nearly twice that - 16000kg - for a 12mm rope...

cheap ones can be good and can be sh&te - genuine ones are usually a safe bet though I have heard of County ones that leaked straight away when they were put on

No idea then, sorry Maybe it is something proprietary. If you do find the answer, please post it up...

The easiest repairs are the best ones

The critical bit of the other number is 6203 this is the actual bearing code, you can get a 6203 bearing from just about anywhere, try any place that sells motorbike wheel bearings for starters, 6203s are regularly used for this purpose and do umpteen other things too. If yours isn't a 6203 there will be a number on it, something like that, there are 6202 and 6204 bearings as well but there should be a standard code on it somewhere. People don't usually reinvent the wheel and build their own bearings when a standard one will do sorry re-read the whole thread and it seems not to be a 6203 is this correct? there should be a standard number on there somewhere...

Does anybody make a flex plate to attach a V8 autobox to a Tdi engine? I doubt Land Rover do, which might explain why it was bodged in the first place

XP and no plans to change - if it ain't broke don't fix it and better the devil you know! Maybe in a year or two when it is time for a new desktop PC.

The plastic clip can break but bending it as Scrumps said is a more common problem. Also the plastic clip can get twisted around so it doesn't engage, a bit of fiddling usually sorts it out though

Yep, still a few soldiering on down here, pretty tough little things too

I should think they would also be good on road for a mud tyre, just from the appearance. But then so are BFGs and many others that are much cheaper.

Yes, the Discovery has one too

That'll be reserved for the scrappies copy, due on sale in N London in a couple of months Ah but the amount of extra grip you get from that X is phenomenal That's what I thought, it looks quite similar to the Cooper Discoverer STT except its 50% more expensive...

Why not the Defender has a transit engine in

Yes - it is (or appears to be) very high tensile stuff so I assume it is expensive to make. I always thought it was a bit pricey for an oversized baked bean tin lid too, but Ashcrofts are a hell of a lot cheaper than Land Rover's. Try a bit of 3mm plate in there and see what happens

It is made up of an engine at one end and axles at the other with some big toothy bits in the middle that all squish together Pretty sure the Tdi doesn't have a solid flywheel, the V8 certainly doesn't, the mass of the TC acts as a flywheel and when I converted my old Discovery I dumped the flywheel because it was no longer needed. The flex plate will set you back somewhere round about 100 quid from Ashcrofts, you can more than double that if you get a genuine one.

How thick is the water ingress manual for a Defender - must be about 5000 pages

Mine were a pain on my 96MY in about 99 so yes I think you can safely assume that pain will be the order of the day! Delegate it at all costs preferably for a fixed price agreed in advance

From RAVE "The ECT sensor is located in the coolant outlet elbow on the top of the engine."

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