Engine and box is out, degreaed and cleaned ready to split. Will clean and paint the block and head, change the timing belt, water pump, lift pump and check the tapet clearances an oil change and she’s good to go back in along with a new clutch...

Hi and welcome! As mentioned, YouTube and guides online are available. I’m sure a kit can also be purchased to make a hatch to access the pump. Good luck with it.

Hi and welcome! Nice looking Landy too!

Hi and welcome! I can’t help with the core plug as one has not gone on my 200Tdi. Have you run the engine whilst stationary and watched for a leak?

Hi and welcome!

Hi and welcome! Nice looking Landy too!

Changed both fob key batteries been meaning to do it , above posts reminded me, works now from the end of the drive

I know. I thought the wired remote was in there too, but no, or not where I looked. So will hunt that down. Don’t worry if it was me that was stuck I could have worked something out :p. With the tools available. J

I wondered if it was a dogging thing, as I can’t believe they would have tried to push it further in that mud puddle :p. J

I like the hand prints on the rear screen.

Some bloke 🤔 knocked on the door and asked if the “jeep” could get him out of a pickle;). Apparently a friend couldn’t help (out of town) but he said to go see us. Anyway only 5mins out the back and he’s in deep. It would have looked like an...

Light covers are a go. Very very happy with how they look. Particularly with the DRL’s. Just about in for the big chop on the roof for the shooting hatch 😬🤞🤞. Will report back later in the week with progress.

I'm doing that, there seem to be a lot more of the curved ones up for slae form discos than the straight ones for a defender. I am assuming as discos rust away and get scrapped people pull the accessories off whereas the defenders are kept running.

Personally, I think the light bars with 4 or 6 lights look better than the single light bars. Probably worth keeping an eye on eBay and FB marketplace for a used 6-light one to come up.

You killed Bambi!! 🥲🥲

Anyone got any the person before me already bodged a second sunroof in the back section, so there’s already a hole, and one which leaks aggressively. I don’t think it can get any worse. If anything it’s going to make it more rigid, warmer and...

This evenings tinkering consisted of removing the front end and tackling the left wing, forgot how many bolts hold them on and every one of them was rusted solid, Who would belief it ! 😂

Put a free standing roller garage door infront of the carport. Give it the correct amount of planning time then it becomes a garage… thats what we done after they refused it. Now have you introduced the neighbours to grinding & welding yet...

If you are doing the job yourself it virtually never pays for itself to go stainless due to the price difference. You need to swap it something like 10 times to break even which is 30 odd years of use. However having said that that is based...

Would it be worth buying a cheaper roof to cut a hatch into, keeping your original roof?

New plate and final lights addition. Just ordered some challenger wheels arriving in March. I quite like my wheels but they’re painted really badly and are chipping off everywhere so look really ratty. Shooting hatch goes in on...

Looking good.

already fitted mate as dash is all out for the recolour. I prepped dash and then added binder and what I’d call a scrub coat which is colour coat by hand.

Looks like a copy of mine when I got it!

Here you go, not managed to tidy it up as it seems to been left in a mess when i got it. It doesnt seem to have an air filter so i assume the previous owner had a snorkel with a mushroom filter on top but removed it as there are threaded holes on...

Not much to say! Been busy moving house, finally getting my own space back to work on the cars. Got a lovely car port (just over 2 cars long, 1.5 wide) and an outdoor workshop to start with. Will eventually try and turn the carport into a...

I recovered the original headlining, if doing it again I would copy what people have done on here and stuck foam direct to the roof and then covered that with material. Good glue is the secret ingredient.

Its the 200tdi out of a defender from what iv been told, it was done by the previous owner, only got 100k miles on the engine.

Hi and welcome! Very tidy looking Landy! I’ve got a 90 of the same age with a 200Tdi.😁