Recent content by TuppyTrucker

Nobody told me, I read it in the rules. You can continue with your UK insurance for as long as your insurance company lets you and the car is regd in UK. I have 1 UK reg'd car, which commutes from Normandy to London on a regular basis, and 1 ex UK Disco now French regd which pretty much stays...

If you keep calling it a jeep, it's no wonder it won't work for you. Rangies have feelings too.

New price in UK is £143 + tva. Keep looking on ebay.

Ha, rejoindre la file d'attente.:) I need both front door locks for a P38. Tres difficile a trouve. :( Try ebay, but there are none on there at the moment, only a drivers side front door lock. (OSF) English sellers will sometimes use 'near side' or 'NS' and 'off side' or 'OS' when refering...

Bonsoir Patrick. Je suis en France aussi, mais je suis anglais. Et un amateur de LR et aussi un mechanicien 4x4. Aussi je faire les escortes des convois exceptionnels anglais en France avec mon Discovery. De temps en temps de St Malo. I am near to Bayeux in 14, Calvados, Basse Normandie...

Hi Ho It would seem that you have little work to do to make the Disco pass the test. Swivel pins are also known as king pins and it's where the front wheels turn from. 2 pins, 2 bearings, 4 bolts and some shims, each side. And a small spring balance to set the preload. Cheap as chips. As for...

You have 6 months to get a French registration, more if you go back to the UK regularly. I have a set of LHD 300 series lights going spare here in Basse Normandy as well as most of a 300tdi manual RHD Disco to go with them. Make sure you have a bill of sale before you go to get the various...

If you need a new head, then bite the bullet and get a Turner Engineering Performance head. I know it costs over £600 but you'll save that in diesel in under a year. Mine 95 300tdi went from 21mpg with a knackered head to 39mpg with a performance head.

I've done the job now. There was some other stuff to do on the engine (alternator and glow plugs) So I took the engine out. Much easier than the gearboxes I reckon, but I do hate lying on the floor and balancing heavy gearboxes on jacks. The dual mass flywheel was knackered. I replaced that...

I have just taken custody of a 2002 Defender 90 Td5 LHD with 100,000 km on it. Nasty squealing noises and vibes in the clutch pedal suggest a failing clutch release bearing. Difficulty to engage gears R and 1 to 3. My question is: Is it better / easier to remove the engine or the gearboxes to...

1 mile = 1.609344 kilometres, so you're off by about 3% in your formula. My Disco1 has 142000 miles, but my neighbour's has 320000 miles. He's on his 2nd engine though.

If there is no bulb, you could blank it with gaffer. If there is a bulb, you could replace it with a suitable resistor to keep the ECU sweet. I removed an offending ABS warning lamp on a RRC, the ABS worked fine.

You have to ask yourself why it broke in the first place. Early Disco1 had solid arms that bent, later had thick wall tube arms, that don't bend. Never heard of one breaking without serious abuse.

They run fine without it being connected.

Try pulling up on the lock button while working the latch. If it works, then you need a new doorlock spring. You'll need them on all the doors eventually, buy a full set , available on ebay. If it doesn't work, get a new door, cut the old one open and operate the latch from inside.