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Problems, What problems, for me a super bit of ki

Yes I have one. I made it from the left over alli from the trailer build. A simple easy job. Great for the small left overs when packing. Great for banging your head. Check my Facebook page to see mine

The best thing about having your own radiator repaired is that the correct tanks for your vehicle are reused

Why not have your original radiator repair3d. That way toy keep the same tanks

Oh well, just to be different, Until I had to stop camping. I used a Bush Pig for 90% of cooking. For easynes we, notice the WE, used a Trangia, moved on from meths to the liquid stuff used in some garden heaters

Yes I have lockers fitted in the back. they should be easy enought to make. Now it's 18 years since I did mine so memory isn't that good. I aquired two lockers from an MOD 109 tub. I was lucky enought to be able to measure a Land Rover 110' The lids I soursed from a civvy 109 and cut down . I don't think I managed to get the MOD lids. If you make your own box, Then leave a gap betwwen the box and the rear of the tub to be able to get at the reversing lights etc. The other storage I use is three aluminium boxes that sit on the side of the wheel box in the tub, again useful for small items that you need. Mine still carry spares for the truck I used on my second trip. I THINK I still have the drawings for those boxes, ask if you would like them

i used to apply coppergrease to the bolt shank and a sealant or such to the thread

Well that's the trailer sold

I don't see that as a problem FF

That is my intention Mike. If only to put a paddle in. I bought ELECTRIC today, I'ii try and post picture later

Yes AGE has now caught up with both of us

Well after tose years of use and enjoyment it looks as if both my Defender will have to go

http://www.expeditionlandrover.info/Lucaswirecode.htm any help

There are actually four options which I have used in every commercial workshop in which I have been employed. Nothing, just the floor as at home. Ramp a fourposter with a free wheel ramp, very nice, a pit, had that on night shife, I didn't mind it though you could drop a Transit or car into the pit. The last job I had had four electric lifts, one for each wheel and four huge, rear five foot high axle stands. One the vehicle was on syands the lifts could be used on another vehicle, needed a smoth floor though Off topic. The P2 locomotive being built at Darlington u\ses the four seperate lifts and that is some weight

That doesn't suprise me. They can send cars out with the steering wheel on one side and the pedals on the other. Do you remember the story about the Fiesta in for service. A disc brake on one front wheel and a drum on the other BUT that was discovered on the SECOND service

There is a correct way to fill a 300Tdi coolong system. You don't appea to have followd that

I also do this but add some Araldite to help keep the nut from turning

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There isn't a proper header tank on a Tdi. It is below the highest part of the engine, Yes but what does that purge bleed valve do. What would happen if it was taken out ?

If you take the bottom hose off and the top bung out of the top of the radiator and lookn down you can see fresh air. So how does the coolant get forced through the matrix. Yep I put the coolant flow the wrong way round. No 12. What does that do ?

The 300Tdi radiator is very different to a 200Tdi one. The 200Tdi radiator maybe the same sise. Have the oil? water hear exchanger tank fitted but both are very different. The 300Tdi radiator is not a crossflow radiator, the 200Tdi radiator is. The coolant in a 300Tdi radiator enters the radiator at the bottom of the left hand tank, then goes straight up that tank to the outlet. Nowhere is it in anyay pushed by coolant pressured into the matrix. The 200Tdi on the other hand is a crossflow radiatot, The coolant enters the bottom of the right hand tank and must pass through the matrix to the exit at the top of the left hand tank. A proper crossflow. Also the pipeing for the oil coolant in that right hand tank also helps the coolant through the matrix The other thing I was taught about cooling, Was to have as much coolant as possible above the enging/ radiator. No Tdi has that. The header tank is lower than the thermostat housing

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My 300Tdi is standard ? I run an electric fan. I had no problems in southern Africa even with a seed net fitted. Aparently not every 300Tdi needs the African mod though some rads require two baffle plates fitted to that left hand tank

The left tank, about one third up fit a plate to block the tank but with a 3mm bleed hole. This mod stops the water going from the bottom hose to the top hose making the water go through the matrix

Well at one time I did get a 200Tdi rad for my 300Tdi but gave up. I thought about using the bottom hose and changeing that. The easiest answer is an African mod to the radiator