Recent content by farmershort

Has all the tech knowledge moved to FB? ;)

Hi All, As part of my resurrected build: https://www.landyzone.co.uk/posts/5248373/ I've reached a bit of a stop when trying to move on to the clutch system. The slave cyl was fitted a long time ago when I got to the rolling chassis stage, so I now need to move on to plumbing between master &...

holy thread resurrection!!! The Ranger was fun for a couple of years, but gave it back at the end of the lease... Nigel the Mk1 v8 Disco was then dragged out of the hedge and given to a local landy mech for a fair bit of welding. Nigel then became my daily from summer 2019 onward.... lucky for...

Quite possibly true. I've never been a hard-core mud-plugger. Mind you, they used to say these sort of things about the gaylander and the disco at one point in time. It's like a top-spec mondeo inside, and a pickup outside - which I imagine only suits a very small number of users. I find it...

Yes it certainly is RIP Nigel. He's been slowly dissolving outside the barn for 12 month now... a bit of a shame, but rust is the death of all D1's eventually. At least his engine & gearbox will ensure I have plenty of life in the Defender V8.

To my great shame, I haven't touched my defender project for nearly 2 years! It turns out that moving to a smallholding (and holding down a normal job) has quite an impact on car projects! I suspect we all knew that before, to be fair! By way of a small update (relevant, ish), Nigel the Disco...

Hi All, firstly, I should say that my requirement is not overlanding... just short holiday stuff. So, I picked up a set of original D1 cross-bars for my Disco - the type with 2 pins at each end. Whilst these look nice and smart, especially when compared to adding another 4 inches of height...

Picture just in from jek fabrications...

have you got an oil cooler in your set up? or just the old td water rad?

What I mean is that most cars don't have the ability to be swapped cleanly onto a new chassis. Whole chassis swaps for normal road cars just isn't a thing any more. Most people/garages/workshops tend to class the landy chassis swap as a dvla "subframe replacement", as there is a vaugely sensible...

No. Richards offer the service... But marsland say they won't do it as it's illegal. Just find a garage with some stamps, and show them all of your materials to prove it's yours, and that the old chassis has been destroyed. The dvla system isn't built for vehicles with separate ladder chassis.

There isn't one... Well, in as much as the official procedure is to keep the old dumb iron, photos of the rebuild, receipts, etc. Officially you're not supposed to stamp the replacements chassis at all.

A set of stamps and a hammer :) Richards chassis did mine before they dipped it. You'll get tonnes of different answers regarding the legality, but at the end of it all you'll see that the dvla system doesn't work for landys.

righto... time to remind folks that this is still a "thing". The move down to Devon went pretty smoothly, and we've been living here for just over a month. The garage at the house is an ok size, but quite a come-down from what I had previously. We're builing a 30ft x 60ft timber framed barn in...

Cheers Discool. so it's odd given that my donor engine alternator was from a '94 v8 manual, and my "active" D1 is a '96 v8 manual. I'd expect them to be the same, although perhaps there's a difference with pre-AC vs post-AC? mind you... my active D1 is the later model, and is non-AC. Thanks...