cut it to 90" and the body won't fit anyhow, a 90 ain't 90, its 92.9, i know because 1) i'm a saddo anorak, and 2) i know a herbert who cut a disco chassis to 90 and wondered why the body didn't fit.
wahey, lets form a stiff stick club, shame seeing as my gearbox has a perfect mainshaft, no synchro crunch or noise yet my girlfriends has a cracking gearshift,nice and smooth yet clonks like a clonky thing
i fitted td5 headlights (same fixing as 300) into my 200, i cut the mounting panels out of a scrap shell and welded them in place. have done them before by cutting the existing panel and know its not the easiest task!
mines just the same, seem to remember this trouble with 77s when they were "recent" and it was a selector problem involving a strip down so i'm living with it lol, may just be worth stripping the top housing and lubing it up though, got to be worth a try!!
usual checks, excessive crankcase pressure from worn rings/bores, can also indicate blown head gasket, excess pressure in cooling system, immediate starting even from cold,little or nothing unusual go's wrong with 200s,just general wear really
if you use the td engine mounting brackets on the 200 block the chassis mounts can stay as they are. done plenty now, guess i'm biased towards the 200 but they just seem a little more sturdy but know of many big mileage 300s. good point about 200s getting long in the tooth now though, get a good...
honest i don't!!! last one packed up on m42 coming back from south wales at the weekend. having said that 3 hours before that it was towing a 27ftx10ft static caravan 5 miles through the valleys lol. don't give it much hammer when i'm laning, used to run 300 diffs in my challenge truck and...
td5 defender diffs are weaker then 300s IMO. i've bust 3 in my disco now,and i don't hammer it. i also see them busted on road cars at work, problem seems to stem from the cross pins in the diff being retained by roll pins rather then circlips like earlier diffs. the roll pins don't allow the...