No, it was clocking up the miles through 2020 and 2021. If anything more so, because things like public transport and grocery deliveries were unavailable. Plus farming and land management were permitted activities in the UK right through the Covid period, so I was still building sheds and planting trees, and burning diesel too.
 
For the last few days and the next I have been installing a ThermoTop C FBH. I do hope my defender appreciates my efforts :D
I cringe at the thought of tallying up what I've spent on it over the last year or so. I've replaced so much, there surely can't be that much left to go wrong.
 
Finally got a decent set of headlights fitted to my 1992 110. Bought the Ore 4 x 4 LED lights. Took me two days to fit them though because disturbing all the old wiring resulted in multiple indicator failures! Left hand turn meant both rear indicators come on and only one in front. Fixed that and the other side went. Ended up replacing all the Lucas bullet fittings and connectors for all the light earths. Then, randomly, wing mounted indicators stopped working. Bulbs OK but once again it was the old Lucas connectors. Removed lights & soldered new bullets on & all working. The joys of working on old wiring looms!

New lights brilliant though & I’ll probably invest in new stainless bezzles as originals getting a bit rusty.
 
I'm still a bit disturbed at the level of reliability my Land Rover is showing. I plugged the Nanocom in, in the hope of finding faults, but all it's registering is Tachometer drive open load and Gearbox ABS open load, which is what it usually does because these options aren't fitted. I gave it a matching set of new headlight bulbs as one of the the old ones failed a couple of days ago. But where are the major breakdowns that necessitate a journey home on a flat bed truck? It's getting to be like having a normal car. Surely this can't be right?
 
Took a picture of the leaky swivel ball seal and promised to get some new ones (been saying that for at least 6 months ...

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miktdish said:
Took a picture of the leaky swivel ball seal and promised to get some new ones (been saying that for at least 6 months ...

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When I rebuilt my swivels I used st/st seal rings. They much thicker than the LR jobbies and really do hold the seals in place

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Birdbrain said:
Finally got a decent set of headlights fitted to my 1992 110. Bought the Ore 4 x 4 LED lights. Took me two days to fit them though because disturbing all the old wiring resulted in multiple indicator failures! Left hand turn meant both rear indicators come on and only one in front. Fixed that and the other side went. Ended up replacing all the Lucas bullet fittings and connectors for all the light earths. Then, randomly, wing mounted indicators stopped working. Bulbs OK but once again it was the old Lucas connectors. Removed lights & soldered new bullets on & all working. The joys of working on old wiring looms!

New lights brilliant though & I’ll probably invest in new stainless bezzles as originals getting a bit rusty.
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I was at the Gaydon Land Rover Show today and saw several 90/110/Defenders with LED headlights. According to my MOT man they are illegal. If you read the regs from 'the ministry', they must have the self levelling capability to be able to pass even if they pass on the beam tester.
 
Brown said:
I'm still a bit disturbed at the level of reliability my Land Rover is showing. I plugged the Nanocom in, in the hope of finding faults, but all it's registering is Tachometer drive open load and Gearbox ABS open load, which is what it usually does because these options aren't fitted. I gave it a matching set of new headlight bulbs as one of the the old ones failed a couple of days ago. But where are the major breakdowns that necessitate a journey home on a flat bed truck? It's getting to be like having a normal car. Surely this can't be right?
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Blimey. You're brave!
You're like the bloke in the film who scratches his chin muttering, "It's quiet. TOO quiet!"
We all know what happens moments later... :eek:
 
yfo866 said:
Blimey. You're brave!
You're like the bloke in the film who scratches his chin muttering, "It's quiet. TOO quiet!"
We all know what happens moments later... :eek:
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It's now a few weeks since I wrote that and it still hasn't broken down yet. The only thing that went wrong is that somebody in an agricultural merchant snapped my mirror off while putting some timber on my roofrack. But that was easily replaced.
 
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