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Defender heaters can be pretty poor when neglected. I reverse-flushed mine with a garden hose and an impressive amount of orange crud came out! With cleaning out the air side, and some additional sealing up of gaps etc, this massively improved it. But it could also be that the engine is not...

I've been in a Discovery with Insa Turbo Special Tracks fitted and the noise alone was unbearable at anything above about 50mph. Also, traction on road was pretty terrible. The Dakar is a better off-road biased tyre, but still quite noisy. They would be fine for a play truck that gets driven...

If they are DRLs, they need to be wired to an ignition-switched supply and dim or switch off when you turn on the side light. With the integrated indicator function, the DRL should switch off when indicating. As they are integrated into the headlamp they probably do this automatically, but make...

It's true, although how many have gone up in smoke due to electrical fires! If I was rebuilding one, I'd scrap the lot and update the wiring to something more advanced.

Looking at the diagram, you realise how electrically dubious the stock wiring on a Series is! Half the circuits are protected by only three fuses, and the other half aren't protected at all. And no sign of any relays to take the load off the switches.

Isn't the wheelbase of a taxi the same as a 110? Taxi body/Landy chassis could make an interesting vehicle...

I agree that most retrofit installations are actually dangerous as often the only way in or out is to fold up one seat. So there's no way to quickly exit the vehicle in an emergency! The best thing to do with forward-facing aftermarket seats is to install them facing backwards. Then access is...

In poor condition, Defender seats are rubbish. The foam falls to bits over the decades, making them lumpy and uncomfortable. The solution is to simply refurbish them, rather than mess around trying to fit other seats in there. New internal foams make a big difference, and replacement covers are...

That's simply not the case.

Fog lamps give a low, wide spread of light which is more likely what you want. In combination with the standard low beams it should give plenty of light where you need it. You probably have the original wiring for it still installed so it's just a case of mounting them and connecting them up...

It's like small number plates on bikes. Normally you won't get stopped for it but it gives them a reason to do so and then they can look for anything else they can do you for.

If you happen to already have a tdi of a known condition and all the bits laying around, then of course it still makes sense to do the conversion. But it's not the obvious go-to fix for a tired 19J that it used to be, as the days of cheap rusty Discos with barely run-in engines are long gone.

There's a lot of advice going around from around 2006 or so, when you could buy a rotten Discovery with a decent enough 200tdi in it for not much money. Park the cars next to each other, lift the engine out and put in your old 90/110 relatively simply. You then weighed in what was left as scrap...

The best solution I've seen involves running them down the side of a raised air intake and in through the wing panel. I would personally do as above and stick two on the front bumper. Four extra lights really is excessive, perma-noon is great until you encounter another vehicle and you have to...

A compression/leakdown test would give you a reasonable indication as to the health of the engine. Fuel injectors can also coke up and lead to bad mixing, hence the smoke from unburnt fuel. My Discovery had sat for some time with little running and was also very smokey. A bottle of injector...

I've been in a couple of Defenders with aftermarket bucket seats and I don't like them. The trouble is you climb up to get into the seat, then drop down into it which just doesn't work for me. The standard seats are absolutely fine when in a good condition, but decades of drivers getting in and...

Yours looks in better condition than mine was- it has basically rusted through so the front of the tank was wedged in by little more than wishful thinking! Always a bit daunting unbolting the old cradle, half expecting a (for once, full) tank of diesel to come crashing down! I used a couple of...

The early switches latch on, and directly switch the lamp relay. Presumably to prevent people leaving the rear fog on accidentally, it was replaced with a momentary switch which then triggers a small ECU to operate the lamp. Push it once to switch the lamp on, push it again to switch it off...

The problem with retrofitting forward-facing seats to an older Defender is always that the seats end up very close together, so that it's difficult or even impossible to get out without folding up one seat. As well the the ergonomics of doing this in general use, this arrangement is quite...

It's a bit of a reach down to the standard handbrake but you soon get used to it though. JE Engineering do an electric handbrake conversion which I think they will sell you as a kit of parts. Uses a linear actuator to pull on the existing cable. Personally I don't like them, especially with a...