Recent content by smthack

Years too late, but according to the service handbook, there are indeed 'tourist levers' inside the lights themselves. This is what is has to say: Tourist Lever On all headlamp variants a tourist lever mechanism is located on the side of the projector module. This mechanism moves a flap to...

Ah, so there was also a spring that I missed? hmm, will need to go hunting for that too. Thanks for the reply James.

While unscrewing the high pressure side of the PAS pump in order to have a new pipe made-up for my recent TD to 300tdi conversion, I managed to unscrew the larger 22mm reducer rather than the actual 14mm pipe-end. This worked, but as the pump is in-situ on the engine, I didn't notice a machined...

Thanks for the suggestions. There's a definite possibility that the speedo drive has been changed at some time in it's past so I'll go take a look at that. Right enough I did see something on another forum taking about the colour coding. Cheers!

Im looking for some thoughts or advice about what to do about a problem with my recently aquired Defender 90 td (constructive comments only please :D ) I've long suspected that the speedo was over-reading by the way I was holding up HGVs on the motorway even when travelling at warp-speed...