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Ok - I drive a 1987 Landrover 90 truck cab. It has just been fitted with Toyo All-Terrain 225 x 75 x R16 tyres. HMS Haddock (the name for her) is no longer used for towing heavy loads, pulling tractors and tourists' campervans out of ditches or towing anything beyond a light farm 1-ton trailer -...

I have a standard 1987 Land Rover 90. I am about to put in a standard refurb Ashcroft transfer box. I don't quite understand what happens to the drive when 'Diff Lock' is engaged. I will only need it to get through the snow on the five-mile potholed single-track road from my pit to the nearest...

1987 Landrover 90 hard top: my transfer box seems to have failed - in the snow a couple of weeks ago, when pulling out a stuck car, it was observed that the front wheels were spinning but the back wheels were stationary. Not a good sign in a permanently four-wheel drive setup. The...

This might be the stupidest question ever asked on this forum but my mind has gone completely blank. It's a 1987 Land Rover 90 but fitted with power steering (which was probably not on the original vehicle?). Is the black bottle in the top left of the pic, adjacent to the radiator filler, the...

I'm installing twin Italian air horns from the excellent Rimmer Bros on my 1987 LR90. The air horns come with a relay and the instructions advise a 20-amp fuse with 2.5 sq mm wire from terminal 86 on the relay to the positive terminal on the compressor and 1 sq mm elsewhere on the horn circuit...

In a moment of complete sanity I have just bankrupted myself with a 200,000 mile 1987 Defender 90 with a meaty Isuzu 2.8 motor, driving it home 200 miles across the Highlands in the worst weather Scotland can throw up. I've been hankering for a while for a replacement for the best vehicle (apart...