Recent content by crowmann

Britpart - never fit the rubbish they sell unless you are happy to replace within a couple of years.

Have had Good Year Wrangler 235 85 MT's on for nearly ten years. Excellent tyre - good on and off road - had become tricky to source a couple of years ago as the old composition failed Euro noise tests - now all good, even LR started fitting them to the last year of production.

Your not wrong - all stainless too. If I ever break old Daisy they will be saved. The transfer pump in the middle is plumbed to the tank or can be used to suck and fill another tank. The other pumps are for neat diesel, veg oil and the Eberspacher. Currently the gloop I bought as 'new' soya oil...

The pump room. Four in here.

OP Its a tidy enough truck but with every panel dented I think you are way off on price. £7k looks its money to me.

OP I did two clutches in 20,000 miles (****part being the cause of the replacement) - I also went down the gearbox off route as I have so much stuff attached to the engine / engine bay. Its a pain of a job and one I will not do again. Sympathies. Ps fit Borg Clutch - light and quiet.

Wrong. Whilst it is true that is what the springs do when they get forced out of the plate they quite readily jam the clutch solid. Given the unchanged clutch travel and operation I would wager that's exactly what has happened. BTW Britpart clutches are cheap because they use cheap soft steel -...

Mine went the same way last year. It was not the clutch release assembly or anything related - I kind of new that as they always feel different in some way when the fail. Sadly it was the Britpart HD clutch plate that had decided to disintegrate and jam up the assembly. Odds on it will be similar.

Becs Well done for calling him, I would bet a pound to a pinch of pig **** he knows plenty about certain aspects of the car. As an aside when I used to trade in Defenders I had a rule never to look at anything in the West Midlands - a rule that came about after wasting many miles looking...

There was a time when ringed Defenders were priced cheaply on the Bay. You know too good to be true but everyone likes a bargain type of thing. Now they want the same money as one that's not been pinched and treated to a paint job and a new ID. We have come a long way. Any how back to...

Its never had the engine out that's why. The seller may not be aware in fairness but that car was built as 300tdi of 94-97 vintage and has had a light disguise put on it and either sold to some one unsuspecting or kept by the seller until he feels its OK cool enough (as in the opposite of...

Lightening that's the least of this cars issues imo. Its bent but shall we all pretend otherwise and just say its been 'rebuilt'?

Bec That looks nice - now before everyone leaps on me I would view it though with extreme caution. Every single aspect says late build 300tdi which would be OK except that its supposedly been rebuilt off a 1984. In my long experience rebuilds are never rebuilt identical to later cars so I...

Slow and careful or you will break the cheapo crappy plastic clip Land Rover in their wisdom thought was OK. If you do you will need to pull the gearbox off to replace (well on a 200tdi you will) and that's a lot of work. Quite surprised no one has made a better solution.

I found the same on my head - two valves needed gently drifting out and the level of coke around the inlet ports was off the scale and this on an engine with water injection albeit only for the past 10,000 miles out of 134,000. Truly did not expect the state of the head when I got to inspect...