Tirran's latest activity

Took the Tomcat to the SLROC driving day, we were competing in the Defender yesterday however, this was a play day. The Fox Dampers had been set by the previous owner to 50psi to help with trialing, we reset them to 150 psi and completely changed...

Some B’stard has graffitied your clutch, no wonder it was cheap😂

It took me longer than that to do mine although i've been repainting bits and renewing and futtering about ... I also discovered that my flywheel had a 17thou channel in it which needed to be smoothed out. And then the gearbox needed a clean...

Looking good, remember that the clutch plate has a wrong way and a correct way to fit.😂

Why Kirkcaldy? Can you not get it done locally?

Depends on the difference in price I guess.

Gearbox crossmember fitted. I say fitted, fabricated more like. The td5 crossmember was too wide by 3mm, the offside mount has “kissed” a large rock and needed an oxyacetylene torch to reform it. I couldn’t widen the space so, cut the x member...

Wipers fitted. However, the knurled “nut” that the wiper fits on to is a d shape on a defender, this one has series wheel boxes, round spindles. Schoolboy error, to change the wheel boxes means changing the gear in the motor too, old one is 35 mm...

Tell me about it! You could pick up a decent series wing for a tenner in the mid 90’s!

I wish they still were as cheap, still looking forward to it.

Cool, interesting towbar angle 🤣 🤣

Now that I have “completed” my Defender 90 rebuild last year, and taken it trialing with the Scottish Land Rover Owners Club, as I intended. I have decided to continue the madness with a new project. Seduced by the sound of a rover V8 and fear...

An unfortunate trick of the light ...

I’m fairly thinning out on top!

l've been watching (and sometimes bidding!) on Ebay mainly for TDCi 110's Most remain unsold as they seem to have high reserve prices. lt may be due to some dealers still advertising them at high prices, making people think theirs is worth...

The market has been overheated due to supply & demand during covid lockdown, and is only now normalising. Defenders we’re always going to be in demand as they had the following, but add the ending of production prices went stratospheric which...

Try this idea from Mike of Britanica Land Rovers

I take the engine and gearbox out, then clean the oil stains and then just put it back in ready for it to fail it's next MOT.

I have limited space for “ another” project😄

Might get my nephew to collect