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The defender wiper system is hateful and antiquated so I wanted to use a modified discovery 1 system as I did on the tomcat. Que agro and head scratching see the tomcat system bolted through a single sheet of steel.... So of coarse the ibex has a bit of 25mm x 50mm box plus the Ali skin. The disco 1 spindles are to short however the disco 3 system has nice long spindles is to wide the crank arm is in the wrong place and the motor won't plug into the loom. Right then take one disco 3 system cut the motor and frame off remove spindles press off crank arms cut a new circlip grove where the arms were and weld the arms on the back end of the spindles. Next cut and bend a new frame to go between the spindle housings bolt into car and shorten one push rod. Finally take the disco 1 frame and motor ditch the rest, adjust frame to suit and bolt to the modified disco 3 bit and hey presto one new wiper system.

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Also my new props have arrived after Xmas I had given up chasing and was looking for another company then out of the blue I got an email from d&f say your props are in build they'll be shipped on Wednesday.IMAG1574.thumb.JPG.144007f2c0ca84807e1b9fa374aaa435.JPG

Mike

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Got some odds and sods sorted the props and td5 hand brake are on, throttle cable is fitted and because I've had a rubbish week I've glued the top hinge covers on to make me feel like I'm moving forward still. The other job I've got done is modifying a discovery stalk set to fit the defender column this has involved opening up the diameter of where it fits on the column with a die grinder. I just need to get a steering wheel boss now to check the self cancel and how the cover will fit.

Mike

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Finally managed to get to my dad's to do some machining.

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Cutting some rebates into the back of the fairlead so it fits snug to the cross member.

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And two spacers to fit either side of the chassis pulley A. To stop any slop and B. To stop the rope getting jammed between pulley and mount.

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Hopefully my dad is going to do the other bits as I ran out of time today then I can get the winch system buttoned up.

Mike

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On 3/16/2015 at 11:11 PM, landroversforever said:

Looks good mike! Trying to work out where on the car the first picture is? Currently failing!

Not my build but this may help make sense.

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In this set up they use a snatch block mounted through the rear cross member where as I have a permanent pulley.

Mike

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Not my build but this may help make sense.

In this set up they use a snatch block mounted through the rear cross member where as I have a permanent pulley.

Mike

Ahhhh, so the pulley is the one where the rope disappears inside the chassis rail.

how do you get the rope along it? I assume the inside has a tube.

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