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powerjunkie

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well lets get started my uncle has a defender 90 and its failed mot on a couple things well hes finaly decided to sell and im wondering what it take elctrical wise to drop a td5 engine in, can i use part tdi part td5 wiring loom?? i have wiring diagrams for a 300tdi and td5 system but im better at doin than reading lol and id prefer to know a little before i start. :)
 
I've read that its a lot of work to wire in the electrics.

Plus why would you want to, 200tdi is a far superior engine :rolleyes:
 
chassis aint realy a problem with a little bit of gringind an welding :p and im not sayin id drop a td5 in straight away, its just that landys are as a lot of people say like mecano and thats what like how things can be swapped and changed and engineed with a little bit of thought behind them :)
 
powerjunkie said:
chassis aint realy a problem with a little bit of gringind an welding :p and im not sayin id drop a td5 in straight away, its just that landys are as a lot of people say like mecano and thats what like how things can be swapped and changed and engineed with a little bit of thought behind them :)
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If you do a Google search there is a fairly detailed account of someone doing this.

All I can say is it looked absolutely hellish - not because of mechanically fitting the engine in but from the angle of wiring a TD5 up to a vehicle that wasn't designed for it.
 
not hard if you have ALL the donor parts including floors centre tunnel gear box x member etc.
They are put in offroaders regularly so no big deal for wiring
 
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