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Ouch... Shoulda stayed quiet haha!

I get the drift! Trebuchet is the only solution!

So I've got a bit of a little theory; The land rover website labels the new defender as that, literally 'New Defender's that's what it's branded as. What I like to think about is that by doing that they can also still slot in an 'Old Defender' if the new one was/is a flop. I can't be the only...

The fact that your missus actually initiated the idea makes this a little strange haha! Nice Landy mate! The v8s are a beautiful tone...

Could try the same thing in low range and determine if it's when it's under load or just throttle position? Not really sure if it'd work that way but it's just the process of elimination at the moment, electrical gremlins are a bastard...

Honestly sounds like fuel pump or filter issue (air filter too) more than sensor related, you seem to get sufficient fuel/air when not under load but loaded at 3k rpm it struggles. Fuel pump issues can be quite misleading because you'll never really know untill it fully fails.

Well as it turns out it was all of these problems worn cam, valves carboned up soo bad they no longer seated properly, rocker oilways clogged, piston rings well worn, cyl 8 had gouges over 3mm deep and piston was swaying in bore.. but hey, the crank was fine as I just had it machined and there...

Why of course good fellow;

Hello all, I recently did a compression test on my 1981 Stage 1 V8 (Carb 3.5). This came about as I was chasing down a tappety/lifter like rattle when warm and the car backfires cold or warm. I was dumbfounded when Cylinders No8 and No2 returned values of flat 0 (psi) and 25 respectively. All...

New kid on the block, from the land a hop skip and a jump across the world over in Australia. I'm joining to seek knowledge and spread the journey of my beautiful S3 Stage 1 V8. Rv8s are fussy machines from what i can tell but boy do they sound well... Good to be a part of things -Tinny