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just an update on the ongoing bodge-it school of engineering... * the araldite on one of those radiator hoses let fly last week. amazing that it held for nearly three weeks. i put a bit of copper pipe into one (two jubilee clips holding it so far), and managed to get the hose over the...

there's a ford where we live, over the river luce, which used to be a main road, up until about 40 years ago. tractors apparently are quite happy with it, so i thought i'd give it a go (defender 90, 200TDI, insa turbo tyres but otherwise nothing special). got through it fine, got out and...

yes - someone else recommended that. hmm...

noo, we don't want another L-Series, we want a little bit more than £200 for _this_ H.O.J!

*lol* yes i thought, hmm, i'll invent a bacteria which converts plastic back to oil, but apparently someone's already done that, so i'll have to make do with a celebratory and gleeful dance around a smoking wreck. on second thoughts, £130 per tonne down at the local scrap metal merchants sounds...

folks, hi, right. 2001 K-Series 1.8i freelander, head gasket gone, quoted ridiculous amounts of money to fix it: me mum wants nothing to do with it, so i've volunteered to find ways to get a little more than £200 scrap value out of it. first question is of course: does anyone want to buy a...

*lol* yeah that sounds about right. well, i've just been in contact with mr oilybits, and he's suggested that, because i have the 2nd tank coming into the cab, i might as well put a manual 3-port Lever valve in, instead. i can run the 2nd outlet from the valve baaack to the diesel return...

weell... think about it: i'm messing with £3000 of equipment which, if i screw it up, i can't replace _and_ i'm stranded. so, not taking it "seriously" is a good way to be able to laugh rather than cry or freak out if it all goes horribly wrong. i have to say there isn't a chance in hell i'd...

:) there's lots of people who, on various forums, wish people such as yourself "good luck with that" as in "part X Y or Z is likely to be destroyed fairly soon" - injectors, pumps etc. etc. i really want a setup where it'll run on pretty much anything (except petrol, meths etc.), so i...

thanks for responding, lynall. you mean the radiator, right at the front? assuming so, those pipes - they're huuge diameter, and i didn't feel comfortable cutting into those.... ... oh wait, you mean the thing right at the back, near the bonnet hinge? ahhh yehhs, the one with the metal pipe...

no i'm serious all right. ok, the job's done, so i'm stuck with it, bad bits or not, so yes i might as well laugh about it. especially the huuge clouds of smoke emanating from the exhaust until the temperature guage gets up to 50%, then everything's fine. the reason is that the tank switches...

hiya lynall, thanks for the advice :) yes i kinda ran out of bits to get this together and not be stranded 9 miles from the nearest car accessories shop: i live a couple of miles from the penwhirn reservoir [translation: middle of nowhere] so, um... where are these heater hoses, then? :) l.

just in case anyone is interested in making sure they don't make the same mistakes that i did (such as connecting the heat exchanger to the air intake) i've taken a video YouTube - ‪Landrover Defender Veg Oil Dual Tank Conversion‬‏ after successfully installing a pollak...