Hi all, I have just joined after a recent defender purchase, looking forward to asking many questions and hopefully helping out with a few.

welcome.... any more details on the purchase ? year ? 90/110 ?

It's a 110 hardtop td5. Ex Mod released in 2015 after 10 years being used for nuclear accident response on the naval base at Plymouth. Luckily for me they don't have many accidents to respond to as it's only covered 15k. Ive been researching about it in the last month as it has quite a few non standard parts; a gkn storm chassis, split charge, some uprated bits and seems to go quicker than I thought it would. It was fully kitted out with aluminium cabinets for equipment and field testing, fitted with what can only be described as tank rivets and bonded so it's been a challenge to remove. I'll add some photographs of the build as it starts coming together and hope to give a bit back from what I've learnt. I've spent many happy hours reading posts on here when I have needed an answer.