Recent content by j_g_uk

You obviously finance cars in a different way to them or me. If they do finance it (and I think they’re more likely to pay cash) then it would be a bank loan and the bank will have no ‘interest’ in the car. The price asked might be more to do with trying to beat a trade in offer the seller has...

What difference would buying it on finance make? It’s a private sale. Anyway I’ve also looked up valuations on Autotrader & Parkers online and it’s severely overpriced. She’s going to ask where they got their price from but I’ve told her not to hold her breath to get the several £k off the...

It is the V6 diesel. Car looks very tidy & well spec’d Xenon’s & full leather etc with full service history. I’ve suggested they find a local independent Landy specialist to give it a pre purchase inspection.

Our daughter is looking at buying a Landy Disco 4 - 2014 plate, with ~101k miles. It’s got two advisories on the MOT. Front to rear brake pipe corroded and prop shaft centre bearing rubber worn. I’m currently 3,500 miles away so can’t go and look at it or do the work. 1. Are these expensive...

I sold my TD5 eighteen months ago when I retired to go sailing. (Everything in store and we went blue water for a while, boat is now in the Caribbean…) For family reasons, plans have changed and we have given our tenants notice and plan is to move into our house and sail six months of the year...

For anyone interested in the outcome of my problem. I got my local garage to fit the excess fuel pipe that I couldn’t access (as far as I found see without taking the inlet manifold etc off) The leak was chased town to the injector seals. All replaced and the injector loom replaced (as usual in...

The pump was replaced a couple of years ago with a decent quality one. It’s hasn’t been noisy until recently so I’m rather hoping that eliminates it as the problem. edit. I also replaced a clutch slave cylinder a couple of years ago and then had to replace that one a few months ago. I try not...

Thanks for the tips. With a couple of squirts of starter aerosol into the snorkel I’ve managed to start the engine. The downside is that the pump is still screaming away and is obviously still sucking air in from somewhere. Tank is half full. Filter and it’s mount and then injectors next I...

I'm 100% certain they're correct now. The line from the tank (and pump) goes to the upper hole and the line from the fuel cooler goes to the lower hole in all the fuel diagrams I can find and that's how I've configured it. It was late and getting dark and I only took the lines out to allow me...

I've listened again and there seems to be some strange gurgling sounds coming from under the rocker cover as it's purging air from the system. Is this normal?

Like a muppet I accidentally put the lines from the fuel cooler and fuel pump in the wrong way round when I fitted a new fuel regulator on my TD5. I was changing the pressure regulator as the fuel pump had started to scream (because it was pumping air?) and I knew the regulator was leaking so it...

Thank you. The sun gears and planetary gears seem to be unaffected. The previous LT230 I rebuilt had the spacers intact so I wasn’t sure whether finding them all gone was particularly worrying or fairly normal.

Has anyone got a scrap LT230 that I can buy the rear output housing off please? It's listed as part number FRC6578 and its the casting that holds the bearing and the speedo drive. Someone has mangled a bit of the casting round where the speedo drive fits in mine and although it might be OK, if...

I've finally got round to stripping down to rebuild the old transfer box from my Defender TD5. (I swapped it for a 1.2 ratio one that I also rebuilt completely when I changed the gear box) As I started to remove components, I kept finding bits of copper like metal flakes in corners of the...

Gunned black rubbery mastic in behind the door seals where they don’t quite fit snuggly at the join between windscreen surround and bulkhead. This is part of trying to chase down an annoying leak that makes the undermat floor in the footwells wet when it rains. The door seals are new and...