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Hey comrades! The diesel situation seems to be getting worse every day. I live in Germany but I use my defender as a pure travel vehicle. Here in Germany it's already impossible to enter the city centres with an unmodified TD5 (mods will cost you 2,500 GBP). And currently they are releasing...

Hello! Since my bulkhead corners are a bit rusty, I'd like to properly seal the gap between windscreen and bulkhead and fill the gaps to the bulkhead corners to prevent the water from running into the gaps and down the A-frame. Has anyone done this without removing the windscreen frame? I...

Hey, good evening! :) I would like to hear your opinion on my front shafts. When I changed my drive flanges today on my 110 TD5, I noticed a rusty colour in the grease between shaft and flange. When I removed the two washers behind the locking ring, I noticed that they too were quite rusty...

Hi everyone, we just drove for about 15 minutes with the hand brake on (TD 5). I was sitting on the passenger seat when I noticed the middle console getting really hot. We stopped right away and I checked if the heat had produced any damage. I saw that the rear diff was leaking right at the...

Hi! I have just stripped the seats out of my Defender and discovered some serious holes in the aluminium underneath the steal attachments. 1. How can I best treat corroded aluminium. Just sand it down, prime it and repaint? 2. How do you isolate steal from aluminium? Is it enough to insert a...

Hi everyone, I have just stripped the back of my defender to bare metal. Now I'm wondering two things: 1. The seat belt attachments had been partly attached to the chassis. Do I need to put the screws back in to maintain the connection between body and chassis or can i just close the wholes...

Hi everyone, I introduced myself in this post: https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/building-the-most-beautiful-defender-camper.319302/ I want to turn my defender into a overland camper but I want to start out with some repairs and fixes. First of all I want to repair some rusty spots on the...

Hi everyone, my name is Bastian, I am from Berlin, Germany. I spend a good share of my time on my parents' farm where we have a fully equipped metal and woodworking shop. I have just got myself a beautiful Defender TD5, built in 2005 with 75,000 miles on it. I started throwing out all the...