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MichaelAllen

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Hi all!

I'm a relatively new Defender 110 owner ('84 vintage with a 300TDi), purchased last October. I've searched your site numerous times, and figured it's time to join and say "Hi". And of course bug your technical experts with all sorts of questions :) - not many 300TDi service centers around here.

Michael
 
MichaelAllen said:
Hi all!

I'm a relatively new Defender 110 owner ('84 vintage with a 300TDi), purchased last October. I've searched your site numerous times, and figured it's time to join and say "Hi". And of course bug your technical experts with all sorts of questions :) - not many 300TDi service centers around here.

Michael
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:welcome2::welcome2:

hope you got a good sense of humour and skin thick as fook you'll need it here ;):D
if you can get past the **** taking should get all you need ;)
 
Michael, Hello There - Welcome to this place. I'm new here myself having just acquired a Landrover 110, Hi Cap pickup of 1983 vintage with fairly low miles which I have bought as a run around for work. So I'm a novice but I can say that people on this forum are most helpful and helped me with my questions ( about transfer box & PTO ).

It's 30 years since I last drove a Land Rover in the days when I was a student and towing the university rowing crew trailer to regattas. I had forgotten the joys of driving these things and their positive effects:

1 Time slows down : you drive for what seems like an hour at 50 mph and you've covered just 25 miles - enjoyably. That means a Land Rover stretches time, 30 mins has become an hour - so this is time travel !

2 You get time to think and meditate. At 50 mph there is no point in switching on the radio - you can't hear it. So you get time with your thoughts.

3 If you get tired of thinking it's no problem. Just speed up to 65 mph and you can't even hear yourself think !

4 Look up at the top of your driver's door and watch the sky going past in the gap between the door and the bodywork. On some modern vehicle that would be a hermetic seal. On a Land Rover the door has a built in 'View the Sky' feature. And it comes free with the standard model - at least after 17 years of being driven by hill farmers !

I wish you a lot of happy motoring there in Texas in your Land Rover - go safely and just remember you have a time machine there. I'd like to hear how you're getting on.

Kind Regards, Steve
PS Although I'm unlikely to be much help on L R technical stuff being a new boy too.
 
MichaelAllen said:
Hi all!

I'm a relatively new Defender 110 owner ('84 vintage with a 300TDi), purchased last October. I've searched your site numerous times, and figured it's time to join and say "Hi". And of course bug your technical experts with all sorts of questions :) - not many 300TDi service centers around here.

Michael
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First of all...Welcome to LZ.
I was in Austin with the Army around 1985. It was your anniversary (200yrs i think) of independence from Mexico. You can correct me on any of this as my memory is letting me down here. I was in the pipes and drums of The Royal Highland Fusiliers and based at a USAF base. We also played at the Alamo which surprised us all by being in the middle of a city. Loved Texas and Austin.
 
Your find us Politically un correct lot,do a search and then ask and help will follow
 
meego said:
First of all...Welcome to LZ.
I was in Austin with the Army around 1985. It was your anniversary (200yrs i think) of independence from Mexico. You can correct me on any of this as my memory is letting me down here. I was in the pipes and drums of The Royal Highland Fusiliers and based at a USAF base. We also played at the Alamo which surprised us all by being in the middle of a city. Loved Texas and Austin.
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Close - 150 years of independence from Mexico.

Austin's grown quite a bit since then. It's too much of a yuppie town any more. I see two Defenders driving around my area that are cleaner than my Lotus. Also, since the Texas government hasn't completely screwed up the economy here, we're getting a lot of people moving in from failing states.
 
steve2152 said:
Michael, Hello There - Welcome to this place. I'm new here myself having just acquired a Landrover 110, Hi Cap pickup of 1983 vintage with fairly low miles which I have bought as a run around for work. So I'm a novice but I can say that people on this forum are most helpful and helped me with my questions ( about transfer box & PTO ).

It's 30 years since I last drove a Land Rover in the days when I was a student and towing the university rowing crew trailer to regattas. I had forgotten the joys of driving these things and their positive effects:

1 Time slows down : you drive for what seems like an hour at 50 mph and you've covered just 25 miles - enjoyably. That means a Land Rover stretches time, 30 mins has become an hour - so this is time travel !

2 You get time to think and meditate. At 50 mph there is no point in switching on the radio - you can't hear it. So you get time with your thoughts.

3 If you get tired of thinking it's no problem. Just speed up to 65 mph and you can't even hear yourself think !

4 Look up at the top of your driver's door and watch the sky going past in the gap between the door and the bodywork. On some modern vehicle that would be a hermetic seal. On a Land Rover the door has a built in 'View the Sky' feature. And it comes free with the standard model - at least after 17 years of being driven by hill farmers !

I wish you a lot of happy motoring there in Texas in your Land Rover - go safely and just remember you have a time machine there. I'd like to hear how you're getting on.

Kind Regards, Steve
PS Although I'm unlikely to be much help on L R technical stuff being a new boy too.
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The reason I bought a Defender is that the wind noise from my Jeep Scrambler (stretched version of the Jeep CJ-7) was starting to get to me on long road trips. And I was tired of water pouring on my feet during a heavy rain. And the doors on my Defender don't have actual gaps like on my Jeep (which was a farm vehicle in its early life). And even though the Jeep doors are metal, they often start flapping and vibrating, adding a bit of rhythm to the wind noise.

I've lost the wind noise, and it it seals up much better. However, I've traded that for the drone of the 300 TDi - much worse than the AMC 258 with a Borla header. Any recommendations to cut down on the drone? It's actually fairly quiet if I push the clutch and coast at 65 MPH. FYI, I'm already running with 1.2 gearing in the transfer case.
 
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