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Fat Face seem to be quite good for Defender based clothing!
Steve
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4 hours ago, Peaklander said:
What’s the implication of this? It sounds as though access needs head off or new head. What is it that fails or needs attention?
So it's a drilling in the cylinder head to feed the injectors.
I've found a picture to compare the two.
They both have fuel lines going through the head, but it's just the return line that is external on the later engine.
Steve
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6 hours ago, Maverik said:
Thank you all for your advice, some really useful and insightful comments.
My conclusion and present mission is to look for a ~16ft tri axle jobby, tri axles seem to be less available but they're out there.
I'll be selling mine soon, it's a Brian James triple axle tilt bed around 16ft. It's true, I haven't seen many on ebay to gauge a selling price, so that's my job this weekend to check it over, take some pictures and make an advert!
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Another feature is that the fuel rail runs inside the cylinder head rather than through an external pipe on the 15P.
I have a 10P and have done the cylinder head dowels.
You'll obviously be wanting to check over the whole vehicle too!
Steve
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Yes! I was going to say the diff housing looks quite 'robust'!
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Hi,
Some photos and measurements for you @Anderzander
whole board: 80mm x 38mm
Just the LCD and surround: 71mm x 29mm
The two boards are 26mm deep.
Hope this helps.
Steve
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16 minutes ago, Bowie69 said:
Same.
There is a good for sale group for comp safari stuff on FB, if so inclined, may stop a muppet wasting your time.
Thanks Bowie and Jon, I think I know the one. I'll also put it up on my the MUD WUN Racing Facebook page if you haven't seen it.....
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10 hours ago, Anderzander said:
I keep looking at these .. he has a smaller screen one now, and I keep meaning to measure to see if it would fit in the bottom of the Td5 console
Yes, I have the small display, I can measure it if you like?
Si - you can change the contrast, I'll have a look at doing the resistor mod as I know some displays can be just too bright at night!
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I finally got mine temporarily wired up to check it out. It's great! Now to make a little pod to house it in.
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Well, it's been another year and nothing has happened, so I thought I'd better uncover it, wash it, wash the trailer and the bit of drive it sits on.
So I set too uncovering it and checking it over so that I could start it, to move it off the trailer.
The battery got put on charge and I checked it over. One fuel hose end has cracked, so chopped the end off and refitted it. The fuel pressure vacuum hose had done the same thing, so chopped the end off that too.
I barred the engine over first to check it turned over and it did, so I was ready to refit the battery and go for a fire up. Oil pressure was gained, but it didn't burst into life......
I had a fuel pressure gauge to check in this instance and sure enough, no fuel pressure. The pumps could be heard, so I took a hose off and it was bone dry inside. I took the Facet fuel pump hose off and that was bone dry. So having a think I though I might try and prime the facet pump and give it a go in a jug.........Yay it started pumping fuel!
So all back together and it happily drove off the trailer!
Move forward to this weekend and I was ready to get the pressure washer out!
Well not until I play with fuel pumps again! The fuel was a bit old and a bit yellow, but it ran fine last weekend, but I guess the fuel pumps didn't like it sitting inside them for a week as now they both don't work! FridgeFreezers facet pump did a fine job last weekend, but now is very slooow and the high pressure pump doesn't do a thing! So I will definitely be pumping out the old fuel and doing some fuel pump swaps.
So you maybe wondering what the plan for this is going forward......
Well, Bethany arrived in February and Josie has just started school, the house has progressed and we are nearing getting the shed built which will lead to sorting the garage space out. The 90 still has things I want to do to it and then there's all the fun things I want to do like making crank shaft coffee tables, gear clocks, making things from cutlery which I haven't started yet, I have the bits though! I just don't have enough time to do everything!
And so I have enjoyed tinkering and the fabricating journey, especially fitting the 2.5 remote reservoir shocks and I've had fun racing it through the tight, twisty SCOR sections and visited some great sites along the way and have some great memories too.
It is now time to hand the baton on and let someone else have some enjoyment out of it!
So it'll be up for sale soon!
Steve
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8 hours ago, Ed Poore said:
You're really not reading the post are you
. Last time I checked Anderson didn't make hydraulic connectors...
But you can get hydraulic quick connects cheaper than big Anderson plugs.
Ah yes.....I've reread the post again! Where's the face palm when you need it!
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As you say you have a TD5, then that means there's a large fuel tank directly behind the rear crossmember, so that space is ruled out for fitting a winch. On my 90 I had the same problem and so I have sat my winch between the chassis rails and just protrudes half the width of the winch. This is incorporated in an entirely new rear crossmember as seen here:
Having reread your original post I see that you have a galvanised chassis and so your probably not wanting to cut your chassis up!
Is this for permanent use or occasional use as you could make a cradle that locks onto your tank guard and a couple of Anderson connector and you would have a quickly removable winch set up. I think Goodwinch might do that sort of thing.
https://goodwinch.com/product/goodwinch-portable-tds-12-0-winch/
This sort of thing, but they don't have many pictures of the set up.
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Oh yes, got to love a bit of inheritance machining!
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That's interesting, I've never seen one of those before.
Maybe looking at those on ebay later......
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Nice collection Muddy!
I have a Parkinson Model F 8a too - I haven't used it yet, as I haven't built my workbench!
Steve
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1 hour ago, mickeyw said:
Holy thread resurrections Steve 🫨
Afraid I can't tell you anything long term. I used the truck like this for a year or so before buying my 110 CSW and had no major problems. I was more than happy with the set up from a seat belt safety perspective, but the floor bracket was a bit of a pain when loading large box shaped things. A recessed fixing would have been a better solution. - I see
Jon Lane now owns my old 90, which as you probably know is now a soft top. - Oh yes, of course!
Thanks
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Hi,
How has your bracket faired?
I'm looking at fitting rear seats in mine and will probably buy the top brackets and do a similar thing to you and tie in the lower mount into my rollcage foot at the rear of the tub.
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You may have already tightened up that radius arm nut and bolt, but please make sure the air lines are tucked away and supported - you don't want them being ripped off when you're navigating the deepest and darkest parts of seven sisters!
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I've seen this one too!
I had 85% of the parts so.........
I didn't have the correct tyres and so mine looks like it has a 2 inch lift!
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11 minutes ago, landroversforever said:
Sorry Stephen, I missed tagging whoever asked about the bumpstop.
I lost a spring at Seven sisters a (good) few years back when it missed the relocation cone and damaged the retainer. There was a handy rock for making enough suspension movement to pop it back in
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What's the spring rate like on the shorter springs? Not to stiff and come from some fast-road type setup? Off the top of my head a standard Defender has about 80mm travel to the bumpstop.
Might that rock be down at the washing machine area which is now sadly closed.....
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Onshape is another free package. Good enough for doing parts and basic assemblies.
A friend has used it, I have no direct experience.
Steve
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For recovery points you could ad some round bar and bend it in a loop, then welded it to the 5mm plate down each side for maximum strength. his is what I did on my winch bumper.
I've annotated your drawing here:
I also used 6mm steel for the winch tray part between the chassis and folded up the edges as seen here:
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20 hours ago, Hooligan said:
Thanks Mike. I've been trying to find it online, but have only found 1 episode on youtube. Will keep looking.
Thanks,
Bob
I think it might be available on Motortrend on Demand on Amazon Prime.
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It's certainly the right forum for us to talk about vice issues!
We might need a vice thread so that we can showcase our collections!
Steve
. Last time I checked Anderson didn't make hydraulic connectors...
Where did you get yours from
in International Forum
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Good to know.....not from the love of the white goods/appliance!
Steve