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Puma rear door with fully fitted with door card, glass, rear wiper and brake light but no wheel carrier is 23kg on bathroom scales. I do have a brand new set of Puma front doors and rear door which are bare doors but couldn’t get to them to weigh they are trapped behind a load of panels.

The 300tdi / td5 both use the same intake system and intake is always on the right hand side regardless of whether the vehicle is RHD or LHD. There was a factory kit to connect the 300tdi air box to the 200tdi intake (200tdi intake plastics are broadly similar to the later intakes but are located on left hand side). The factory kit basically consisted of a very long version of the moulded rubber corrugated pipe that connects the air box to the intake.

Every time I have had an old 2.4 Hilux they have always been bought by people who export them

From what I remember, there were quite a few damaged from crashes due to squaddies coming straight out of 1970’s 2286 powered 109s and straight into Wolfs.

They probably are tested.. on a clapped out discovery with lift kit, remould mud tyres, whip aerials, “one life live it” stickers and a chevron wheel cover.

It looks better than the chequerplate.

Plenty of good stuff comes in britpart boxes. My Bowler alloys (DA1346), and steering guard (DA1367) came in Britpart boxes, and there’s nothing dreadful / awful about them!

Land Rover Tonga Green

Both of these defenders are sporting sp4x4 wings. They are very slightly rippled when looked at an angle with a good paint job not noticeable in everyday use

The chassis at the rear is really quite rotten, also brake pipes, Rest of it is really nice, not a dent or ding on it and in Java black too. Looking at the history it spent a long time in the Shetlands before somehow ending up in SW Cornwall, so it didn’t really stand a chance!

This one is the highest spec one I’ve seen, factory roof mounted sat nav and rear dvd screen, full wood and black leather and electric / heated everything, along with diff lock! Shame it’s time is nearly up it won’t pass another MOT but ending its days as being useful around the farm.

Was it a rarity to spec a late Disco TD5 with centre diff lock? Just bought a cheap 04 plate one and has factory fitted diff lock which was a surprise, all the others I’ve ever owned or worked on haven’t had it.

I bought this a few months ago for £1000. Needs an engine rebuild as breathes heavily.

They key has nothing in it. There is a transponder in the blipper however which needs to be near to the ignition barrel however, these can be purchased cheaply and programmed in using nanocom. PS my current issued utility Defender has both central locking and electric windows!

I have had a couple of 300tdi that have been sitting unused for years which when started have idled too fast. Each time with the engine off I have worked the throttle lever directly on the pump to full throttle and let it go so it flicks back to idle a number of times and this has always cured the sticking high idle.

Having owned a very original, unrestored 1950 80” for eight years before I sold it, I’d much rather have the hybrid above!

I have broken many Defenders over the years. Pretty sure that is a 1991-1994 standard loom. It’s no later as the relays changed in 1994.

Britpart DA1132P / DA1134P stainless kits are excellent, exact replica of the TD5 / Puma bolts, although they don’t include spire clips - late Pumas ditched the spire clips anyway and went back to Series 2A type captive nut plates.

You can use the standard Series 3 headlamp off/on/on toggle switch - I have this in my 2A lightweight to operate the two speed wipers Including parking correctly - instead of the single speed wipers. I will remove the instrument panel in the next few days If you would like photos, it required an extra wire piggy backing onto one of the terminals from memory.

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I had to repair a 200tdi 90 many years ago which had suffered a rear UJ failure on front prop - it needed a new drivers floor panel, it had ripped a load of the screws out of the spire nuts and put some huge dents in the floor.

My fathers Puma 90CSW has just suffered wheel bearing / stub axle failure at 22K, ironically noticed the rumbling when performing another downgrade - replacing the already sloppy rear half shafts for some 25 year old disco ones. I put it down to poor selection of bearing spacers when new. And on the subject of Main dealer bills - his previous td5 90CSW he bought second hand had a main dealer bill in the paperwork for £780 for replacing a rear half shaft / drive member!

I have SFS hoses which were fitted by Twisted on my 300tdi when they upgraded it many years ago. These, along with Samco which I had on another 300tdi are excellent. I did some work on a 300tdi for someone else some time ago and it had been fitted with MK performance hoses and they were really thin and floppy compared to the SFS / Samco hose

I’m currently running an Ashcroft ATB in rear of my 300tdi 90, excellent diff - Only trouble is I want to pinch it for my Puma 90 to match the Ashcroft 4 pin in the front of the Puma. I have an old 24 spline Truetrac that came fitted to a 90 which I scrapped - if I fit the truetrac to the 300tdi in place of the Ashcroft, am I going to notice any difference between it and the Ashcroft in operation? The 300tdi is driven on the sand a lot and I have found the Ashcroft invaluable. The other option would be to buy a second Ashcroft ATB for the rear of the Puma, and convert / fit the Truetrac to the front of the 300tdi giving me Ashcroft rear / truetrac front - I don’t really like mixing brands - any comments?

The head seal is dead easy to change, you can do it in situ in a couple of minutes once you have removed the injector pipes. You undo the bolts just enough to expose the O ring and no more, and use two longer bolts to temporarily hold the head in position while new o ring is stretched over the head. These seem to fail if the injector pump is removed and refitted again and you have the old type injector pump support bracket which does not align the pump up in exactly the same place every time.