Recent content by STEVE PEARSAON

This is all good advice, stuff I want to hear as I am knackered as it is! I will investigate these tomorrow. Especially as I don't want to take the gearbox out again just yet! Another suggestion I've heard tonight is that possibly we disturbed the fork on it's pins without realising, which...

Yes it is in the right way round, as there are bosses and cut outs etc that would prevent it going in wrong. Can't hear any noises on pressing the clutch. When I say I can't get the gears,what I mean is you can push the stick as hard as you want but they won't go in. The gears could be changed...

Gents. Help needed. This weekend, with the help of a couple of competent but reluctant friends, I put a new clutch kit in my Defender TD5. The old one was snatching and the thrust bearing was making a hell of a din. This was the first time any of us had done a Land Rover and owing to the...

...by the way, it's STEVE PEARSON NOT STEVE PEARSAON!! A slight error when I signed up that I am waiting to correct... Steve.

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Here is my 130 Defender Station Wagon, built by Foley Specialist Vehicles. The chassis is from an ex RAF Regiment Rapier Tractor, either a 'G' reg or a 'K'.The running gear is from a written off 'S' reg TD5 110. The engine has been chipped and intercooled by Jeremy Fearn. It has a GKN...

I used to own a 300Tdi 110 and traded it in for a TD5 130 Station Wagon built by Foley. I was always a fan of the Tdi because of it's no nonsense ruggedness, and even used to say I wouldn't have aTD5! Well here I am. Mine has been chipped and intercooled by Jeremy Fearn (before I got it) and...