Recent content by samdaman

Now sold!

I've spent the last 7 years working on this little lady, and the at the end of last year I bought a new 110 Utility for work, which made more sense with the family to be honest. This is a 1993 200tdi County, 73,000 genuine miles. I had asked my local LR dealer to keep an eye open for one of...

Did you ever find anything??

Well I've jacked her up at each of the front corners and turned from lock to lock without a problem, but I suppose time will tell. I'm guessing I'll change to the boost rims on a 30mm spacer when the new truck comes, but these do make her that wee bit different! ☺️ .....although, I've just had...

ok........so ive changed back to the original springs and I think its looks much better now, I might even keep the wheels after a bit of black powder coating!!

That's the one! :p

I happened to notice a guy on eBay last nite advertising a door repair service........summat like £120 per door!

Im in the same boat........both doors are knackered and I'm trying to shift as much as possible, but the channels are rotten.

It is a failure over here in sunny NIR, so I'd have to swap them off for MOT. It's about a stone being thrown onto another vehicle behind, so extending the mudflaps should reduce the risk of that, but reasoning and logical thinking ain't in the rule book........it's a fail! I also had...

Hmmmm.........that's what I bloody thought myself. :( I bought the wheels (tyres are 33x12.5x15 bloody monsters) shortly after I got the defender and my intention was more off-roading to be honest, then that bloody paint man got carried away........he laughed when I told him I was considering...

This may show the problem a bit better!

I've been rebuilding my 93 200tdi for the past couple of years (that way she never misses the money) and it's went a bit wrong on me. I started out with a more rough and ready idea in my head, but it has become more refined as I've progressed. The guy that did the painting went way over the...

My problem is I bought the outer skin only, and the carrier plate on the inside was not included. This is different, and it carries the latch, winder mech etc etc

Most of the moving parts seem to be in the same place, and the same type, but the mounting plate is different. Does anyone know if these can be bought seperately?? Of course the bloody doors are painted. They were really just new door skins, and the were bought as seconds really, one had a...

Need some advice! I'm rebuilding my 91 200tdi, and as the doors were rotten I bought two new ones some time back, I think from Craddocks. The snag is the new doors are the all steel ones, at least that's how they were advertised. The inner layout is different. I've just started to swap...