Haha that clarifies it.... Now I search for LandRover 90 gaskets I suddenly have a wealth of options!

Fingers crossed.... It's coming apart nicely but am having trouble removing the exhaust bits. Again showing my inexperience.... I'm just about to order a gasket set, now my engine is the old 2.5 turbo original engine in the 1988 defender... This is the 19j?

Not overheated ever, was just trundling down the road at around 40!

Much appreciated

Great thanks.... all I need now is a walk thru on replacing the head gasket - time to start trawling

Ah OK. .. it's a td.

Pmsl thanks for all your comments helpful and otherwise!

Ok brilliant thanks... Will get started

Am pretty sure it wasn't a piston hitting the head as I replicated it a couple of times to check! I will remove the head I know which bit that is! However when it's off ... What exactly am I looking for?? (told you I was a novice)

I think the clonk was the oil filler cap hitting the underside of the bonnet

Thanks guys. When I take off the oil filler cap (not that it needs taking off, it blows off on its own!) I get oil being splattered out in all directions! I don't have a compression tester....

1988 90 with the original 2.5 engine around 110k miles... whilst driving along today there was a clonk from under the bonnet and clouds of blueish smoke came blooming into the cabin. Lifting the bonnet revealed the oil filler cap completely off and oil everywhere! I replaced the cap and...

That's really helpful thanks guys Is lacquer a necessity? If so how much dya reckon I'll need

After buying a compressor and a spray gun :) I am now about to embark on my very first respray. Can anyone recommend a good paint and a good place to buy it? And can anyone give me an idea of how much thinners and lacquer i will need for my 110 please. Thanks in advance Gonna go for a dark...

Hi guys I will soon be spraying my 110. I would like to paint the arches to match the body but don't want to use the standard textured black ones. can anyone suggest where I can get some fibreglass wheel arches that will paint up well?

That's helpful cheers! I live near Tewkesbury...

Fancy giving me a lesson??

Ok just been hard at it with wire brush and wire cup thingy that goes in the end of the drill. At best I can get it to come up to similar to your first pic. How the hell do I get it as shiny as yours in the second pic ??

Yea i reckon you might be right. Still it's a defender. ... how hard can it be?