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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 observations above, a bit of vibration can help. I...

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 the lock button goes in which had broken. On...

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 seal and flange kit too, in the hope that it'll be...

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 have them!

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 also fitted one of those oil valves that go...

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 peened into a sheet-metal disc. So I'm hoping it's...

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 windows. Mine's got manual windows but it's still...

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 where it enters the transfer box and if these...

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 I noticed that the part number remains the same...

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 is just about to reach its tenth anniversary, so...

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 and fail to start when there's oil in the injector...

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 touches them. I've never seen any completely wear...

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 or not I pressed the brake pedal. On taking it to...