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90/110 anything with old style body and before they introduced all the digital gadgets. My belief is that these have much more straightforward, logical engines and gearbox and bodywork , great place to start with my mechanical tinkering. Any...

Welcome and good luck with your dream. Out of interest what do you class as an old Defender?

Thank you, it’s not far for me, so I’ll keep my eye on their courses. I saw that report on fb this morning 🤦🏻‍♀️ poor lad. Hopefully it was just a freak accident, I’m more worried that the resulting health and safety review will lead to less...

https://store.reaseheath.ac.uk/short-courses/engineering Reaseheath occasionally do short courses on vehicle maintenance, but skimming they dont have any at the moment. I did their welding course last year which was ok.. but missed a lot of...

I can recommend the Haynes manuals as a start point if you prefer to read. The actual factory manuals can also be found in line and from booksellers. Britannia restorations, Mike, from Canada, on YouTube, is excellent.

Youtube is a very good resource to help tackle a lot of DIY jobs etc these days. Ultimately as a lot of people say Land Rovers are just giant meccano sets, everything is just fixed together in one way or another and can be unbolted etc. I've...

Amazing, thank you

Workshop manuals and parts manual are valuable sources of the breakdown of most land rovers series to early-ish 2000 range rover. Unfortunately when the push button is pressed into modern, the costs for parts become beyond the reaches of the...

You don’t need to do a course. As long as you have a methodical way of taking things apart & can weld you will be good. Have a look through of the threads where people have rebuilt these & you will see what’s involved. Good luck & enjoy.

Does anyone know of a Land Rover mechanic course in Cheshire? I’m looking to retire soon and my dream for retirement is to buy an old defender and do it up myself.