So today I collected my 90 Defender 200 TDI back from Glencoyne Engineering. For those of you who don't know, Glencoyne is owned and operated by Richard Hall (of Land Rover Monthly "Our Man in Norfolk" fame) who is an expert on Series and 200/300 TDI's. Its taken me 4 years to get to this...

Do you know what brand those are ?

Did you have a set for just the fronts, or did you have it for all four wheels?

Ah! Snow chains, that's a point!

Gulp! I'm beginning to regret this purchase!

Ha! more analogue for me!

I might be able to add another sensor, I guess its where is the best place to put it though

I've got a madman mutlifunctional gauge, so have EGT sensor and Coolant running, so they are my only real window of temps. I did get one with a rollable flap, its faily generic, as the others seemed specific to grills and models

In preparation for winter, I've bought a snow muff, my question being, should it only be used for a start up procedure in very cold weather? What's the Temp where it should be used? And if the Landy is left to warm up, should it then be opened to allow cooling in transit. Having found out my...

I'm chatting to the my trusted fabricator, i'll do a bit more research and report back where I end up. I'm hoping to get my Landy back this week or next, so will also share the work to date as I embark on a month of running in!

I've replaced the Allard VGT with one from Allisport. I'll have a search for that thread, thanks for the pointer

Looking at the exhaust manifold, I was going to get a local Fabricator to do it, as he made my downpipe after I had to change out my Allard ANT and did a great job, I wanted to see if anyone else had done it, had any pics or experience of doing it.

Not sure, I was working of the basis the air would flow freer and potentially I could get it ceramic coated, primarily keeping the heat in the manifold and out of the engine bay. Keeping the temps down has got to be a winner, should create some minor performance gains, but if I can do the down...

This is the Fourby Manifold https://fourby.co.uk/Tdi-Twin-Inlet-Performance-Manifold

Thanks for that, I have that all covered, using a madman multi gauge to measure temps pressures etc, internals, heads, intercooler, turbo, exhaust all done (bar heat shielding), but its the Manifold that seems to be the last element

Having embarked on a rebuild of my 200 TDI (Defender) engine, it would seem the final piece of the puzzle will be the manifold, the rebuild is complete, but it looks like the current manifold is quite restrictive, not particularly good at retaining heat and also the ports don't seem to align...

I had this issue with my 200TDI. The resolve was two things, both identified by Richard Hall at Glencoyne engineering. Firstly was a faulty lift pump, bearing in mind it only had a few miles on it, it was replaced and fitted with a spacer, which should stop it from failing again. Its correct...

thanks for the welcomes Chaps, hopefully I can participate something to your forum