one from bottom, two from top - use 2 extension bars between block and exhaust pipe, so that ratchet is in front of exhaust.
or use a ratchet ring spanner.
leave nut on loose.
or use a ratchet ring spanner.
leave nut on loose.
Shanec
Active Member
Would it help if I took radiotor and intercooler out to see what I'm doing?
Have dismounted them already to remove cowling as don't have the spanner to remove fan.
Haynes says just need to disconnect wires for removing gearbox but I couldn't see wires so thought just remove starter.
Have dismounted them already to remove cowling as don't have the spanner to remove fan.
Haynes says just need to disconnect wires for removing gearbox but I couldn't see wires so thought just remove starter.
starter motor wires.... remove battery first.
flat
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Pretty much impossible to get at lol u less you have 2 extra joints in your fingers!
Flossie
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Bloody hell!, I thought my disco engined starter was a swine to get out!
I know the engines differences but the starter is in the same place isn't it?
I drop down pipe off the turbo and remove it back to the centre box, stand on a stool or something by the front wing, it makes working on the starter bolts less strain, remove bolts from above and the bottom one from underneath. The starter on mine wouldn't quite clear the block and chassis rail (to drop it down) so I removed the engine mount rubber and jacked it up a bit and it fell down and out.
I restored my truck many years ago and used ss fittings throughout which made the job some 8 yrs later, much easier.
I know the engines differences but the starter is in the same place isn't it?
I drop down pipe off the turbo and remove it back to the centre box, stand on a stool or something by the front wing, it makes working on the starter bolts less strain, remove bolts from above and the bottom one from underneath. The starter on mine wouldn't quite clear the block and chassis rail (to drop it down) so I removed the engine mount rubber and jacked it up a bit and it fell down and out.
I restored my truck many years ago and used ss fittings throughout which made the job some 8 yrs later, much easier.
Shanec
Active Member
Oh dear. Manifolds gona need to come off. Thanks for confirming its tricky. Was very demoralised last night after 11 hours with one fifteen minute break only and only took angle grinder to one bolt on exhaust to be squashed by ****y electrical wires.
James martin once wrote dropping box is easy, that's why I was shocked last night.
Defender is literally in bits lol
James martin once wrote dropping box is easy, that's why I was shocked last night.
Defender is literally in bits lol
jamesmartin
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it is you dont need to undo all the starter bolts ,hardest parts floor plates and tunnel
top drive
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all i did to get starter our was drop the downpipe..... once that was done it fitted.
some folk on here swore it would come out with the downpipe on .... but no one dimension of the starter was going to fit through the gap between chassis and downpipe/downpipe and block.
some folk on here swore it would come out with the downpipe on .... but no one dimension of the starter was going to fit through the gap between chassis and downpipe/downpipe and block.
