Defender 300 TDi Project!

ifloochies · Mar 7, 2014

Stunning piece of work...
Is it just me or that defender looks like its smiling.

Keep up the good work mate.

SJW2511 · Mar 8, 2014

Didn't get to do too much today because of the football, but plugged all my breathers into the 5 way manifold, bottom three are the front/rear/cam cover breathers, side two go up the snorkel

Also painted the botton of the door

SJW2511 · Mar 9, 2014

made a start on the roof, but sadly cant finish it off still waiting for more cans to turn up

SJW2511 · Mar 9, 2014

Also replaced the old knackered rear lower door seal with a new one and new steel plate

the old one

SJW2511 · Mar 11, 2014

Quick preview of the roof, still drying though!

marshy714 · Mar 12, 2014

What did use on the roof? Rattle cans or out of a tin and a roller? Why not wrap the roof? I imagine it would be a ball ache in the wind outside

SJW2511 · Mar 14, 2014

Ok so heres an update of what iv been up to,

Stripped the doors off

Washed them down and wrapped them

Wrapped these bits up the sides and put new nuts in

Rear door plate

Sprayed it black

Then removed the two vent flaps

One hinge pin was rusted solid so had to angle grind it in half

Then put the doors on, new hinges etc

Fitted that trim plate I sprayed on

Work lights bolted back on

Then wrapped the vent flaps

Southernlandy · Mar 14, 2014

Looks good

How do you plan on doing the bit on the bulkhead around the windscreen?

SJW2511 · Mar 14, 2014

Take as much off as I can and do it in two sections, around the windscreen as one and below the little ledge/around the vents as the other

Allyipod · Mar 14, 2014

When you put the breather up the snorkel did you put a u bend on the end? It looks like it is pointing straight up and water could enter.

SJW2511 · Mar 14, 2014

Not yet. It's not really bendy pipe, I suppose u could try heat to bend it. To be honest I'd be impressed if much water managed to find its way down there lol

Allyipod · Mar 14, 2014

I was thinking more like rain over a long time as they say every little bit helps.. Cracking thread by the way.

SJW2511 · Mar 15, 2014

A few updates today, new door handles arrived, will be nice to be able to open the doors now

Then decided to try and wrap this bulkhead around the air vents. Stripped the car down as much as poss

Several hours later...wrapped!

its not 100% amazing but considering how fiddly it was I think its come out ok

Nathan1992 · Mar 15, 2014

Looks really good! I'm just rebuilding my 90 and I was going to paint it but i think I'll wrap it now! I imagine it will be easy with all of the panels completely off! Keep up the good work!

SJW2511 · Mar 16, 2014

So now officially the whole front end of the car is wrapped, its just these panels left on the whole car unwrapped

First job today was to finish around the windscreen etc

Fitted these new bulkhead to windscreen brackets

Fitted everything back on doors etc and some pics how it stands now

Almost can pretend the whole car is done from this angle :lol:

bigvinnie · Mar 16, 2014

cracking thread mate, your 90 looks a lot fresher now, I'm allways on here at night checking your progress!

keep up the good work

SJW2511 · Mar 16, 2014

haha cheers

aaronmorris · Mar 16, 2014

Good work. Looks good mate.

SJW2511 · Mar 18, 2014

Quick job this evening, stop the leak from the rocker cover! Had a new genuine land rover gasket here for a while now, so finally got round to fitting it.

Covers off, can see where its leaking where the oil is sat on the mating surfaces on the left hand side

Cleaned up the mating surfaces and surrounding areas

Cleaned up this

Sealing nuts done back up to 10nm

Everything back on

Old gasket

SJW2511 · Mar 19, 2014

Another boring update, more servicing today, oil and filter change and main gearbox oil.

Drained oil, replaced, heres an excellent pic of an oil filter

Then removed gearbox filler plug first

Followed by the drain plug

crappy old gearbox oil

Magnet on the drain plug doing its job

Cleaned that up

Filled it back up, my injection device

I also replaced the diesel spill off pipes as they looks brittle and on the verge of splitting, if they haven't already

Quick pic of the roof

Runs really nicely now, especially the gearbox, one of the claims of this difflock evolution 1 oil was that it transforms the feel of the box, and it actually really does, gear change is far slicker, and I no longer get it sticking in 4 or 2nd when changing down, so id highly recommend this gearbox oil even if it is expensive

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