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  1. Hello and welcome! We're a friendly bunch on here. No question is too daft. . Hope your truck gives you many smiles!
  2. Just to add my two penn'orth: I had a clutch centre disintegrate in exactly the way you describe. No warning, just a crunch and then complete loss of drive.
  3. You've answered your own question: Get a decent smartphone. All phones have GPS now, most with maps already integrated. You can get apps for dash-cam (phone's camera records last 30 seconds of journey on a loop....and of course it's a phone!
  4. crumbs - probably a Nokia 6310 i should think. They seemed to be the go-to for car kits back then. Surely easier /cheaper to use a more modern phone and hands-free kit?
  5. Handbook states just leave it in neutral, diff lock OFF and leave keys in and ignition at first position to remove steering lock. Prop removal necessary only for lifted axle towing.
  6. There are 3rd party trims you can get if you want a 'factory' look - I know MudUK do them, maybe Simmonites too? - they look basically like your regular interior trim but with blanks moulded in where the windows would sit. Looks nice but not the cheapest solution by any means. Also if you're going utility there's probably a reason: you might be chucking lots of (sharp/dirty/oily/wet/growly/ delete as appropriate) stuff in the back - so the mdf and carpet solution might be easier/more hard wearing?
  7. http://www.glencoyne.co.uk/engno.htm All you'll ever need to know.
  8. If your EGR was sticking open then first and foremost you'd have trouble starting as your truck would choke on its own exhaust when cold. If it was stuck closed then you shouldn't notice anything amiss from the driver's seat. As Drumstick says - running out of puff sounds like something else....turbo maybe? What's acceleration like up to that point?
  9. I had seats from a Rover 75 in mine. Seem to remember the runners pretty much matched straight up with the existing holes. My caveat would be to consider how often you need to access your battery.... you really do miss removable squabs after a while. With the rover seats I had to push the passenger seat all the way forward on the runners, and then wind the seatback well forwards and access the battery from kneeling in the tub.
  10. Just to add weight to the 'change it or get stuck argument' - that's EXACTLY what occurred to me. Miles from home, in a field. Just before an enormous dumping of snow a few years ago (2009?) Getting it recovered was issue enough, but then I had to navigate a week's worth of some of the worst snowfall for years in Gloucestershire in my mother's Megane cabrio! We had a look at the timing belt whilst the engine was out, and that had basically frayed to bits too. Lucky save!
  11. Good job too - i think our 'collective enthusiasm' has blown their bandwidth limit! Site currently down
  12. I get exactly the same symptoms with my truck. It generally is the belt slipping - the PAS pump is mounted low-down so generally gets the lions share of splashback. Re-tension (renew if old) the belt and it should improve. The wading plug is for the hole in the bottom of your flywheel housing. It's to protect the clutch and flywheel mechanisms from water ingress when playing in puddles- it's nothing to do with steering. Fit one when you know you're going to be swimming - then take it off again at the end of the day.
  13. Like Quagmire said! It's a Defender - therefore if there's something attached that's not 100% dedicated to either a) making it go, b) making it stop or c) going around corners - then it's officially an optional extra.
  14. A long afternoon with some glasspaper and 5 tins of Plastikote matt-black wood-stove spray paint sorted out my white roof. I now have a thematic match between the black modular wheels +tyres, the wheel arches, light surrounds and grill - it looks good and i'm happy with it. I can't afford to get my truck resprayed, and if i'd had the roof done professionally it would have shown up the rest of the panels and their 25yr old Bronze Green. Besides - i sort of like the 'patina of age' that flaky paint suggests.
  15. It's also worth disconnecting your fuel lines at the lift-pump and checking for them and the pump itself for guff. (Simply blowing through them will help in the short-term) The lift pump is placed between the tank and the filter in the fuel system and so has a habit of sacrificing itself to any cack that happens to be floating around.
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