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    series doors in a defender

    I'm sorry if I have missed the thread but what is involved in changing defender doors to series doors?
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    loose dip stick tube

    the tube is loose in the block
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    loose dip stick tube

    I'm not being a dip stick but me dip sticks loose, how do i tighten it?
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    I'm Impressed

    I'm a land rover virgin and have recently bought a defender 200 TDi, I didn't know you had to wait before turning the starter only ever driven cars (mostly petrol) ever since I have had the defender I have turned on the ignition and the starter straight away and it has always started first time...
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    series seats into a defender.

    does anyone know if series front seats will fit in my defender?, mine are shagged and second hand decent ones are going for anything upwards of £250. well Paddocks are selling new series seat sets for £85. plus vat and these are not the square slab ones but deluxe ones that look a lot like the...
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    Help! me nuts are yellow

    is being able to read gobbledegoop also a prerequisit?
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    Help! me nuts are yellow

    Thanks Animal 1988, one of the few sensible answers I have had, I think it has been worked on before I got it as I have found other evidence, such as copper slip behind the disc pads. I dont know what all these in jokes and daft text speak being submitted as answers is all about and I don't...
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    Cost of insurance for 200tdi 90?

    yes take 5 is bang on, Iv'e just insured my 90TDi fullt comp, 4000 miles, breakdown and homestart cover and legal assistance with Lancaster for £184
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    black oil?

    it's not me brakes, it's comming from the centre of the hub, from the threaded hole right in the middle.
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    black oil?

    whilst checking the front brakes on my 90TDi I thought I would have a look behind the plastic cap on the end of the hub. Wish I hadn't, the cap was about 1/4 full of black oil and oil was slowly seeping from the centre (threaded) hole. I checked the other side and that was just the same? is this...
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    Help! me nuts are yellow

    slowly finding my way around my recently purchased 90TDi, and I have noticed that some of the nuts underneath and the drain plug on the front diff have some yellow paint marks on them, there is quite a few, the most recent one is on the front brake union where it meet the flexi hose. Any ideas?
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    want, a middle seat for my defender.

    anyone got a middle seat, black(ish) vinyl?
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    how tight shocker nuts?

    I have just fitted two rear shocks and in the absense of a torque wrench how tight should I do them?, untill both bottom bushes are fully compressed or is that too tight? I didn't think to check first to see how they were originally.
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    High Jack Lifting Points

    sorry if this has been covered before but where are the best lifting points to place an high lift jack on a 90?
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    un(captive nuts)

    when trying to remove the seat frame on my 200, TDi two out of the four captive nuts decided to turn (and turn and turn) and one of them is above the fuel tank! Anyway how do you fix these captive nuts on and where do I get them?
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    foot off throttle but still high revs

    A funny thing happened to me on the way home from work today, I had been bombing down a dual carriageway and as I approached a roundabout, I took my foot off the gas but the revs stayed high, I quickly blipped the throttle and the revs went down but it happened again and several times before...
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    viscous fan not turning

    I recently posted a prob "hot (ish) temp gauge, well today I was having a peep at the fan and it only went around when the engine revs were increased but not at all if I held it with my finger (even at high revs) Is this arrangement normal or have I stumbled on a possible cause of my original...
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    square number plates

    Thanks bustersbusI am in wales. by the way what does je suis prest mean?
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    square number plates

    Having recently bought a defender, I noticed that the rear number plate was looking very tatty. Are square number plates as easy to get as long ones?
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    hot (ish) temp gauge

    it's an original TDi but I can't vouch for the origins of the sender/gauge.