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I should be able to get some for you tomorrow as I bought a rear door at Newbury on Sunday that I am about to take the wiper out of! I drilled a hole on for one on my old rear door. From memory you need some holes and some rivnuts on in the frame...

The current handle does not fully actuate the lever that grabs onto the door jam. As a result the door does not fully close or at all . I was able to remove the housing for the lock, at the expense of the lock in general, and install. Works great.

I would certainly try that first before drilling the door. If it doesn’t work out you buy a new lock. H oh is much cheaper than buying a new door if that doesn’t work out! Out of interest what is wrong with your current lock. Usually a good...

As all the lock is is a sleeve to take a barre that then interacts with the mechanism in the flat section I would have a good guess that you could just cut off the lock sleeve carefully and have no impact on the latch mechanism itself. However it...

You can fit decent speakers. And it you wanted extra and to overpower the general road/wind noise of a defender you can put them in the headlining right next to you ear. That is where I have mine. Cruise control come into the same catagory of...

I am sure someone on here will have what I am looking for in theirs and save me a whole load of googling for measurements etc. Having converted my hardtop to a station wagon I have lost all of my storage between the front seats and the bulkhead...

Actually get this one. I struggled for a long time (years) with the cheap multi piece sets you get with the little round dies. When I eventually gave up and got this one I was cursing myself for not spending a little more and getting this one...

If the concern is the roof gutters taking the weight there are several roof rack designs that are available to try and mitigate that. The old brown church HD roof racks had additional support struts that came down to the windscreen hinges and the...

Is it, I thought that was about right for an anlternator output?

This is what I ordered LINK

The test sheet that came with my new alternator. If I am reading the performance curve correctly does that mean that at a little over 4000rpm it will produce 160amp? I will need to do some maths looking at the belt gearing but the engine can do...

This^^. I am in exactly the same position and could not have put it better myself. 200tdi 110 has been my daily drive since I was 18, I do about 30k miles a year, and the wife's car just feels terrible to drive. they are perfectly capable of...

I don't know what all the fuss is about myself. I drive thousands of miles in my TD5 and don't find it burdensome at all. The most miles I've covered in a day is around 700. My everyday motoring includes rural roads, motorway trips and the...

It depends on the alternator. You can do that with the Lucas alternators, but certainly not with Magneti Marelli as I tried that with the one I got form Newbury and then had to resolder all the windings before giving away as the end cover is...

You may want to skim through some of them, two of them are rather long documenting the whole build process most of which is not relevant to your original painting question!

I did not think t-wash was a true etch though hence I still used an etch primer on things that were getting a body coloured top coat. Everythign else is zinc 182 for as much protection as posisble.

New alternator arrived yesterday (my mistake, first one arrived Friday but realised I had ordered a defender one not a discovery one and they are handed opposite!) and was fitted today, all being well it should not require anything for a good...

No need to key the surface as it is a chemical reaction rather than needing to adhere to the surface like paint. This^^ I completely agree with. For the price and ease it is not worth the risk of not using it in my opinion. In terms of patio...

I have done bulkheads, chassis and lots of galvanised brackets from YRM. The technique and order I use is: T-wash Primer Topcoat Dintrol The primer I use depends on the applications and part, I use an acid etch primer for body panels, and Zinc...

I glued my old fabric back on with impact contact adhesive and it has not sagged yet. There is clearly different fabrics used though as three out of four of the sections I have done this with have been fine, but the fourth reacted and wrinkled...

Has it stood for a long time? Could be condensation? Also goes a pale pink emulsion colour if it is running low and filled wither bubbles. The power steering reservoir often looks like that but settles back to normal red atf.

need a little more information about how and when the sound occurs. Does it happen only when underload, or on overrun, does it happen when moving but in neutral, or with clutch pressed etc. Why do they think it is the axles not the main gearbox...

Was quoted similar by a company in Bristol, which included return delivery.

Price is about right for a full rebuild down in Essex. The green flat O ring is high pressure. Black is standard or low pressure. I'm remembering the black one is at the top of pump as a seal so put in wrong place however don't know why both were...

Mix it 1:4 with fresh diesel and run it in a tdi or any other old diesel! Mine is the same but last time they challenged my with a 25l drum of old oil, I continued emptying it while quoting and adding up the engine and gearbox quantities in the...

It depends where it is leaking from. I have just repaired a leak on my 200tdi injection pump and it was just an o-ring in the blanking plate on the side. I have previously done the throttle spindle bush when it was leaking form there. Both of...

That's the same with the series, but as @tottot says disconnecting the battery from the alternator risks damage.

^^ beat me to it! These vehiels were not "concourse" when they left the factory. I would go far more with the usable, reliable, and tidy rather than perfect. if you make it perfect you will not want to use it properly. When I rebuilt my series...

You can keep a tdi running with a 9v battery from a tv remote wired into the stop solenoid. They really are the old fashioned mechanical type that require virtually no power to run. On this I went with the safe option to protect the battery...

That is a job for tomorrow. Right now I need to get it to a point where I can drive it with or without the engine charging the battery so I can get to work in Stoke later tonight. Have a separate thread asking about that specific issue!