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I sold my TD5 eighteen months ago when I retired to go sailing. (Everything in store and we went blue water for a while, boat is now in the Caribbean…) For family reasons, plans have changed and we have given our tenants notice and plan is to move into our house and sail six months of the year...

Like a muppet I accidentally put the lines from the fuel cooler and fuel pump in the wrong way round when I fitted a new fuel regulator on my TD5. I was changing the pressure regulator as the fuel pump had started to scream (because it was pumping air?) and I knew the regulator was leaking so it...

Has anyone got a scrap LT230 that I can buy the rear output housing off please? It's listed as part number FRC6578 and its the casting that holds the bearing and the speedo drive. Someone has mangled a bit of the casting round where the speedo drive fits in mine and although it might be OK, if...

I've finally got round to stripping down to rebuild the old transfer box from my Defender TD5. (I swapped it for a 1.2 ratio one that I also rebuilt completely when I changed the gear box) As I started to remove components, I kept finding bits of copper like metal flakes in corners of the...

My wipers click noisily when operating with the clicking appearing to come from the drivers side wiper wheel box. I guess it’s time to replace the wheel boxes and cable. There appears to be a huge range of possible replacements available. (eg eBay’s got lots of different ones at widely...

I subscribe to MST Auction alerts (because the warehouse and yard is only a few hundred metres from our place in the depths of Devon and I could walk up there to have a nose.). We now live in Surrey but I keep an eye open. I spotted they have a Defender (modified) for sale...

LT230 input gear. I’s in excellent condition but ideally needs the oil holes cross drilling. However despite having no cross drilled oilway, the splines are in perfect condition. No wear ridges on the drive teeth and ready to install. It’s listed on eBay with a starting g price of a tenner...

https://www.easyliveauction.com/catalogue/7779d4f7bed2f6798af18e3974732cc3/ed8db2809b0b5e5daaad6d3c52b9d7be/2-day-sale-of-antiques-household-it-office-catering-gar/?currentPage=6 Lot 3307 Not sure what a reasonable price would be? The estimate seems a bit optimistic?

I've been chasing down the rattles in my Defender. I know that I won't sort of all them, but she's already a LOT quieter than before. However... I've got an annoying squeak that appears to be coming from behind the instrument cluster - or somewhere? It's on bumps in the road and it's a high...

Has anyone got any tips before I take the angle grinder with cutting disc to the wretched things? All I want to do is change the bushes at the bottom of the rear shocks and I can't move the nuts. There's a piddly little flat on the end of the thread that I have cleaned up and can 'just' get a...

Does anyone know the detail of the differences between a “Landrover radio for the US market” and one that was OEM UK? Reading between the lines of the various adverts for radios it seems that the UK ones get Long Wave and the US ones don’t. FM band is the same (or near enough?) One advert on...

As per the title. It doesn’t do it all the time, but occasionally the windscreen wipers do a single sweep and park again when I flash the lights on the lighting stalk. At the moment I can’t get the steering wheel off (I need a puller as it’s REALLY jambed on tight!) so I can’t get at the...

Apologies if this is a regular question but I've done a search and I can't find the answer or any threads on the subject. I've picked up my Defender TD5 after a new gearbox (the old one dropped its lay shaft) was fitted plus a change of transfer box with a change to 1.2 from 1.4 ration. (I...

Came home at 1800 yesterday Went to workshop to turn heater on to make the place toasty for replacing the UV joints in the Landrover prop shafts. Noticed window open. Thought, 'That's odd'. Turned round and discovered a complete rack of Makita power tools has been nicked. They'd jemmied...

The radio on my Defender is supposed to have a rubber ‘knob’ on the stud sticking out of the back of it that locates in the frame in the dash and supports the weight of the radio when it slides into its ‘cage’. On my radio the knob is missing and sometime in the past, it’s broken the panel it...

I’ve tried asking this on another thread about my LT230 rebuild but it’s got buried and I would really appreciate some thoughts from anyone ‘in the know’. As I’m sure most people who have any experience of the LT230 transfer box will know, with the exception of the very early ones, the...

Has anyone in the area ever rebuilt an R380 gearbox? I need an old mainshaft. So long as it’s got some splines left on it, it will do for what I want.

Sorry if this has been asked before, but I've bought a Disco LT230 to fit to my Defender. I'm going to rebuild it, but when checking things over before I do the complete strip down I notice that there's a 1/8 turn or more play between front and rear drive flanges when the diff is locked. I...

My TD5 started instantly when I first bought her. She’s developed a habit of starting on first turn of the key but dying immediately. It’s starting to take several attempts to get her going. Once she’s running all seems fine and I’ve not noticed any loss of power etc. Any ideas where to look first?

As I start do odd jobs on the suspension of my Defender (TD5 2002) I will clean off and paint any bits I remove. Any suggestions for paint? What colour would they have been originally? Any particular tips? If this should be in Defender forum then please move it.