gopher
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Hello folks. Thought It would be a good idea to sign up here. Im hoping you guys are willing to help me out with a little project.
The story is thus, I don't own a Landy myself (yet) but I have just agreed to wield a spanner at my partners dads new purchase. Its a 1996 Ex MOD Defender 110 300tdi that has had a hard life (I assume that is nothing new).
Now I am an experienced engineer and mechanic but am used to working on much less agricultural vehicles. That said I am actually looking forward to working with nuts and bolts instead of plastic clips and fiberglass.
I spent a day on it today and so far we've found that;
the fuse board is wired completely differently to the layout on the cover or the haynes wiring diagram.
the heaters don't work.
the cooling system is massively over efficient (73 degrees max on a hard run up a welsh mountain).
the engine is leaking oil from multiple locations.
the engine is leaking water from the distribution block.
the engine is leaking fuel from the injectors.
the water pump is screaming like a banshee.
the front axle is leaking a lot of oil from the nearside hub cap and around the top of the steering joint (sorry not sure of the technical term, its the large spherical object where the cv joint would be on a car).
All that...
and I still want one!
Got a load of bits on order to fix some of it. Not sure about curing some of the leaks, I know the joke about the whole marking its territory thing but this thing is leaking like a sieve. Will be asking about that in due course though.
I'll see about putting a photo up tomorrow.
Cheers
Chris
The story is thus, I don't own a Landy myself (yet) but I have just agreed to wield a spanner at my partners dads new purchase. Its a 1996 Ex MOD Defender 110 300tdi that has had a hard life (I assume that is nothing new).
Now I am an experienced engineer and mechanic but am used to working on much less agricultural vehicles. That said I am actually looking forward to working with nuts and bolts instead of plastic clips and fiberglass.
I spent a day on it today and so far we've found that;
the fuse board is wired completely differently to the layout on the cover or the haynes wiring diagram.
the heaters don't work.
the cooling system is massively over efficient (73 degrees max on a hard run up a welsh mountain).
the engine is leaking oil from multiple locations.
the engine is leaking water from the distribution block.
the engine is leaking fuel from the injectors.
the water pump is screaming like a banshee.
the front axle is leaking a lot of oil from the nearside hub cap and around the top of the steering joint (sorry not sure of the technical term, its the large spherical object where the cv joint would be on a car).
All that...
and I still want one!
Got a load of bits on order to fix some of it. Not sure about curing some of the leaks, I know the joke about the whole marking its territory thing but this thing is leaking like a sieve. Will be asking about that in due course though.
I'll see about putting a photo up tomorrow.
Cheers
Chris
