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last year was pretty misreable as i had an intermittent electrical fault, meaning i had to swap batteries over in the dark some mornings then drive to work in the thing. should be better this year- battery in the cab, 200tdi and fully re-wired. but then i did put a soft top on ...........

i've got an '82 series 3 which has never been pulled up on not having hazard lights but i did have to fit a foglight last year.

i though it was the Rpi engineering 5.2 v8 in the top gear bowler? i know they called it a hybrid but i was told that was just as its a higher compression than most of the landrover v8s?

about 5 miles away-ish. i think?let me know if your coming along as i'll be driving through keighley on the way up.

i was getting 20mpg. its 25-27mpg now with 200tdi

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i'm still up for it- anybody want to suggest a date- did you say weekends are bad dean? toby

i used silicon with no probs.

any damage done or just the hassle of changing it?

i'd be up for coming along. toby

i got mine for less than thirty quid from paddocks. i'm normally a big fan of salvage bits but i figured for that price you can't go wrong.

just a quick question- i'm think i'm going to (finally) get round to swapping the diffs over to RRC units in my series3. is anybody running a defender (or 90/110) speedometer with a series gearbox and RR diffs? i compared a 200tdi disco speedo with a series example and it looked like you...

just taken 2.25 D out of the landy so if anybody wants it PM me. don't want anything for it. too good to go to the scrappers. its a 1982 5- bearing (terracotta block) with 55k on it. flew through emmisions tests on the MOT last month and was doing 20-25 mpg even with my lead right foot...

is it a older transit engine in yours at the moment? presumably then engine mounts have been moved/ altered? can anybody correct me on that? other people have had good results with newer transit engines-you might already have the right conversion plate in there. i'm just finnishing a 200tdi...

i think series diffs are 4.7:1? toby

might be worth attempting a rebuild then. where would i get the set of teethed spanners(???) i need to strip it down?

i'm in west yorks aswell, and not really taken the landy out much yet (busy repairing 10 years of neglect...). shoot me a PM if your taking a trip out and don't want to be the only one whose abit green.

i've no doubt that the amount of work they carry out is worth that but for my box it would be £25 more than i paid for the landy.

i'm (hopefully) getting the 200 tdi into my series 3 over the long weekend. Problem is the gearbox i have in at the moment isn't the best and i'm guessing more power isn't going to help it get any better. it'll do for the time being though. question is where can i get a decent re-con box at a...

i 'made' mine fit. there is a lowered rectangle underneath it that doesn't quite line up with the series one. i just shaved it down a little and put some brackets to hold it in place.