Gearbox crossmember fitted. I say fitted, fabricated more like.
The td5 crossmember was too wide by 3mm, the offside mount has “kissed” a large rock and needed an oxyacetylene torch to reform it. I couldn’t widen the space so, cut the x member...
Wipers fitted. However, the knurled “nut” that the wiper fits on to is a d shape on a defender, this one has series wheel boxes, round spindles. Schoolboy error, to change the wheel boxes means changing the gear in the motor too, old one is 35 mm...
Now that I have “completed” my Defender 90 rebuild last year, and taken it trialing with the Scottish Land Rover Owners Club, as I intended. I have decided to continue the madness with a new project.
Seduced by the sound of a rover V8 and fear...
l've been watching (and sometimes bidding!) on Ebay mainly for TDCi 110's
Most remain unsold as they seem to have high reserve prices. lt may be due to some dealers still advertising them at high prices, making people think theirs is worth...
The market has been overheated due to supply & demand during covid lockdown, and is only now normalising. Defenders we’re always going to be in demand as they had the following, but add the ending of production prices went stratospheric which...