hi all had to destroy the fitting ends to all the brake pipes on the old freelancer 1 cause very rusty and had to use angle grinder to cut them off. Bought new flexible pipes etc. Gona have a crack at making my own copper brake pipes. heres the problem I've got the flaring kit and cause i...

Looking to replace the master cylinder on my Defender. Seen a few threads slagging Brit parts. What are Allmakes like? Seen PR2 TRW brake parts online. The price of these seem somewhere in-between. These ok? Genuine parts are three time the cost of Allmakes. Can I be sure of quality and...

Cheers for that. Seem reliable and coming down in price. Gona run me old s reg petrol into the ground. Still going quite well after head gasket change and body condition is brill. Diesel next though. Butty

Can anyone tell us what the freelander 2 is like. Is it any good. Does it have any faults that have shown up yet? butty

Hi mate. First thing i did was remove the drain plug in the ird box. Not easy. The oil was clean with only minor metal sludge on the drain plug magnet. I shone a torch into the ird box and rotated and looked at the teeth which seemed ok. Apparantly they get badly damaged if viscous is ko. So...

Top tip Cured the prob. No more tapping! Butty

Cheers for that will do it this week. I hope the garage kept them in the same order. If they aint could this cause the problem and would the engine have to be stripped down? Butty

Hi Just had head gasket replaced (1.8 petrol) and every now and then on starting there is a single loud tapping coming from the engine. It goes eventually after a few mins and does not occur every time. Did it before i had head gasket changed but very faint and went after a few seconds...

Hi Iam about to change the head gasket on my 1.8 freelander. A couple of questions please. Ive seen a number of gasket kits (with head bolts) for sale ie ebay. Are the quality up to much or is it best to buy from a landrover dealer? Do I have to skim the head if i cant see any visible damage...

Hi Other symtoms are a bang when putting my foot down on accelarator in any gear including reverse. Changed oil and apart from being a bit dirty no metal chunks. Will take pto cover off and chack, will i need to drain the oil first? Cheers butty

Hi When i lift the clutch to set off there is a loud metallic, almost like a bang. Happens in reverse as well. Prop shafts all ok but when ii rotate the prop back and forth i can hear a clatter in the gearbox? I think the box is a LT77, reverse is left and up from first. Guess the gearbox is...

soz 1.8 petrol. Everythings been ok till i changed the antifreeze to the blue stuff. Its something thats rarely needed to be topped up before. The water level does go down pretty quick now. Bought it when it had 30K on clock and its coming up to 100K. Never had the head gasket done. Thought...

Hi Just changed oil in ird box when i replaced the vc so its ok. Thinking it could be not being flushed out prop. Are there two types of coolant which dont mix???

The coolant level slowly drops in the expansion tank and also brown sludge floats on the surface of the coolant? Temp is normal and engine starts and runs ok. No sludge in filler cap or dipstick? Been like this for three or four months now since I replaced the coolant totally.

Hi Took recommendation from this site regarding recon VC. Ordered from Bell Engineering. Arrived next day all sparkly painted with support brackets and new quality bearings fitted. Excellent friendly service. Fitted within the hour and runs excellent. Just hope the IRD box will last now...

Hi all Will the one piece windscreen from the defender fit my series 3 bulkhead to replace the split screen. The car has a range rover chassis shortened to 88 inch, coil springs and discs all round. It has the 2.5td engine with a LT77 gearbox that is about knackered. Would the R380 fit as a...

cheers, will give them a try. Butty

Hi all Drained oil from ird after having to use irwin nut extractors to remove filler plug. Would recommend trying to get filler plug off before draining oil! No lumps of metal fell out and oil quite clean, just a bit of metallic sludge on the drain plug. Removed the vc and propshafts and ran...

got it out with irwin bolt and nut removers. Brill bit of kit.

Hi all Will try all methods suggested. Butty