'Twas a breezy day here in Wales, with rain until about lunchtime. Nothing out of the ordinary.

I'm sitting here waiting for storm Floris. So far there's a breeze and a bit of drizzle. It's very silly to give every westerly low pressure system a name.

I got one of their 'roadspec' ones. I've got a TD5, so the friction plate doesn't have any springs in it - all the springs are in the dual mass flywheel. But I liked their one piece design, with no separate boss in the middle to come loose. I...

Yes, I had something similar with a clutch friction plate in the spring of 2019. I had just changed the clutch 18 months prior and hoping for a much longer life. I can't remeber offhand if it was a Valeo or an AP, but it was the sort of thing...

Yes, the Defender TD5 fuel pump is below the fuel level whe the tank is full. The Discovery version has a flatter top on the tank and doesn't have ths problem. When I got my Defender, fuel would drip out if I filled the tank completely. On...

I read on here many years go that TD5s start on 4 cylinders rather than 5, and then the ECU lets no. 5 injector start releasing fuel. Also, no. 5 cylinder doesn't have a glowplug, which might have something to do with this design feature. So I...

Might be a good idea to take apart and clean up all the other earths, so the tiny earth wire isn't the path of least resistance! The best thing to happen to my earth connecctions was when I treated myself to a battery powered angle grinder...

My clutch pedal started feeling spongy yesterday, and the bite point got nearer to the bottom of the pedal travel. Hmm. Not another gearbox out job I hope. On unscrewing the cap the problem became apparent: Not much fluid. I topped it up and...

We had something similar to that bearing wear once, on our old Series Forward Control. The rollers had 'peeled' themselves. I think they'd been case hardened to provide a more durable wearing surface, but over the life of the bearing, the fact...

I've seen a few more jobs to do while I was under there. There's a crack in the exhaust pipe near the rear silencer and the brake pads are getting thin. The exhaust was a stainless one which I fitted in 2012, so that's thirteen years it's lasted...

They're just yellow Britpart ones - nothing special. Standard height. The last lot did me for 12 years so they're clearly not too bad.

I've had a go at the rear suspension bushes and ball joint. I last did them in 2013, so they've been good for 12 years. I did a whole thread on this in the autumn of 2013 so I shan't repeat it here. Plus I forgot to take very many pictures...

The door trim is held in place by push-in clips so you can't get the whole thing off with the door shut, but it is possible to release the top and spray stuff in in the general direction of the latch mechanism which may help. As per @tottot's...

Yes, this can happen for various reasons. On the driver's side I had this problem - the door latch wouldn't work, or if it did, it would stick in the shut position. The culprit turned out to be not the latch itself but the plastic housing that...

I had a session on the handbrake this morning. It's been getting less effective lately and as I suspected, oil has been getting inside from the transfer box. I'd got a new kit of shoes and springs so I put those on, and a new cable. I got a new...

I fitted one of these https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/313276778283 Seems nicely made. Cheaper models are available, of course. If it's the TD5 you're buying for, it's a 16mm thread you want. I can't vouch for other species of Land Rover as I don't...

Just done an oil and filter change this morning. Now I've got such a high mileage engine I don't work out the service intervals by doing sums in my head. I do this in the spring and the autumn instead, so it happens about every six months. I've...

I know it's a controversial opinion on here, but I quite like the LOF clutch for the TD5. The friction plate is all one piece which is good. I've had problems with the centre boss coming loose on makes where it's separarte, and just staked or...

Don't forget the bolt between the R380 and the front nose cone of the transfer box. It's easy to miss because it's hidden.

Well, I don't know - I've had cars where the previous owner has powered accessories by stuffing the stripped ends of the wire between the positive battery terminal and the clamp, so anything's possible. There is a fuse bay specifically for the...

Oil can accumulate on the base of the transfer box from a variety of places. The O ring seals on the intermediate shaft of the transfer box can leak, there's a seal where the output shaft of the main gearbox exits the primary box, and another...

The clutch master cylinders do vary a bit from one to the other, and from batch to batch. I had one once where the thread was poorly formed and the nuts were always extremely stiff which made adjustment difficult. Interestingly, when buying them...

By the time they got to the TD5 they went back to a very chunky cast jobbie with replaceable inserts where the centre pivot and the slave cylinder pushrod go. I've had clutch problems but never the clutch fork.

That oil around the air intake pipe could well be diesel leaking out of the fuel pressure regulator which is just above. Mine has been known to do this. It's doing so at the moment, but not quite badly enough to merit a new one. The existing one...

As well as injectors, there can be intermittent faults with the ECU. I had one that would start the car only when it felt like it. Eventually this deteriorated to being functional only around 1 time in 10. Mine also has been known to cut out...

Well, it's a good ideda to do the slave and master when you do the clutch anyway, so at least you've got those all ready to go. Sometimes when I've changed clutches, the 'fingers' on the clutch mechanism look very worn, where the release bearing...

I've had a few things that made squeaky noises. One was hard to solve as it was coming from the front and didn't seem to correspond to anything I could see from looking at things, wobbling things and rotating them by hand. It carried on whether...

The bolts and bushes typically need a lot of force to move them - a lot more than you'd usually need for Alfa Romeo maintenance, anyway. I've got a hydraulic press with a dial on it and it is not unusual to see 10 or 15 tons needed to shift...

I'm sure the organisers did say that. My experience is much more like your daughter's. It's lovely when the wind drops a bit and the sun comes out, but equally you have to be ready for the wind-blown rain driving its way through the seams of...

That sounds very like the weather on Anglesey to me. It's a bit bracing at times. You don't even have to wait for the winter either - you can get incidents like that in the summer too. I used to live there in the early 1980s, mostly leaning over...