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Evening guys. I'm looking at adding a bigger fan to my Defender's heater box and doing away with the hot cold flap thing, but this means that it will be blowing air through the hot matrix all the time. I'm therefore thinking of adding a flow control to the hot water inlet pipe so that I can shut...

The glass cover on my temperature gauge broke recently and ever since then the needle has been showing as red, even though she's running fine and dandy. Does the glass act in some way to create a vacuum for the needle to work? In other words, do I just replace the glass or do I need a new...

Had a hose blow out on my 2006 L322 a few days ago. Changing the hose was the easy bit. Trying to get the cooling system to bleed properly has been a nightmare to the extent that it has left me stranded pulling my hair out twice thinking that the engine had blown up. From cold I added water...

This started out as an ex-Police Land Rover 90 petrol before being used by an off-roader as a weekend toy, before being bought by a mechanic and converted to 200tdi, before being used as an off-roader as weekend toy (again) before being bought by me as a project 3 years ago... Comments welcome...

Does anyone happen to know when Land Rover changed the fuel filler location on the 90? Mine is a 1988 with the filler cap just behind the door, but newer models have them situated further back after the rear wheel arch. Does anyone know what year this changeover was introduced?

Glad to be here... I bought a Defender a few years ago with the intention of making it into a modern truck, whilst retaining its original Landy character. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any of the parts I wanted, so resorted to designing and manufacturing my own in my spare time. This developed...