Defender 300 TDi Project!

Stunning piece of work...
Is it just me or that defender looks like its smiling.
Keep up the good work mate.

Didn't get to do too much today because of the football, but plugged all my breathers into the 5 way manifold, bottom three are the front/rear/cam cover breathers, side two go up the snorkel





Also painted the botton of the door

made a start on the roof, but sadly cant finish it off still waiting for more cans to turn up

Also replaced the old knackered rear lower door seal with a new one and new steel plate



the old one

Quick preview of the roof, still drying though!

What did use on the roof? Rattle cans or out of a tin and a roller? Why not wrap the roof? I imagine it would be a ball ache in the wind outside

Ok so heres an update of what iv been up to,

Stripped the doors off



Washed them down and wrapped them



Wrapped these bits up the sides and put new nuts in



Rear door plate



Sprayed it black



Then removed the two vent flaps



One hinge pin was rusted solid so had to angle grind it in half



Then put the doors on, new hinges etc







Fitted that trim plate I sprayed on



Work lights bolted back on



Then wrapped the vent flaps

Looks good How do you plan on doing the bit on the bulkhead around the windscreen?

Take as much off as I can and do it in two sections, around the windscreen as one and below the little ledge/around the vents as the other

When you put the breather up the snorkel did you put a u bend on the end? It looks like it is pointing straight up and water could enter.

Not yet. It's not really bendy pipe, I suppose u could try heat to bend it. To be honest I'd be impressed if much water managed to find its way down there lol

I was thinking more like rain over a long time as they say every little bit helps.. Cracking thread by the way.

A few updates today, new door handles arrived, will be nice to be able to open the doors now



Then decided to try and wrap this bulkhead around the air vents. Stripped the car down as much as poss



Several hours later...wrapped!





its not 100% amazing but considering how fiddly it was I think its come out ok

Looks really good! I'm just rebuilding my 90 and I was going to paint it but i think I'll wrap it now! I imagine it will be easy with all of the panels completely off! Keep up the good work!

So now officially the whole front end of the car is wrapped, its just these panels left on the whole car unwrapped



First job today was to finish around the windscreen etc



Fitted these new bulkhead to windscreen brackets



Fitted everything back on doors etc and some pics how it stands now







Almost can pretend the whole car is done from this angle :lol:

cracking thread mate, your 90 looks a lot fresher now, I'm allways on here at night checking your progress! keep up the good work

haha cheers

Good work. Looks good mate.

Quick job this evening, stop the leak from the rocker cover! Had a new genuine land rover gasket here for a while now, so finally got round to fitting it.

Covers off, can see where its leaking where the oil is sat on the mating surfaces on the left hand side



Cleaned up the mating surfaces and surrounding areas



Cleaned up this



Sealing nuts done back up to 10nm



Everything back on



Old gasket

Another boring update, more servicing today, oil and filter change and main gearbox oil.

Drained oil, replaced, heres an excellent pic of an oil filter



Then removed gearbox filler plug first



Followed by the drain plug



crappy old gearbox oil



Magnet on the drain plug doing its job



Cleaned that up



Filled it back up, my injection device



I also replaced the diesel spill off pipes as they looks brittle and on the verge of splitting, if they haven't already



Quick pic of the roof



Runs really nicely now, especially the gearbox, one of the claims of this difflock evolution 1 oil was that it transforms the feel of the box, and it actually really does, gear change is far slicker, and I no longer get it sticking in 4 or 2nd when changing down, so id highly recommend this gearbox oil even if it is expensive