My guess is around 14mm id. I'll find out for sure when I cut the pipe. Cheers anyway -- thought you would have finished it months ago! :D

Question for ya... can you remember the size of the pipe you used to extend the oil cooler pipes? :p Thanks

My guess is that it would be the same year that the legislation came in. :D

Yes is it possible -- as mentioned, Mark Evans did a Defender 100" hybrid built on a Range Rover Classic chassis (almost identical to Discovery chassis). Google 'A 4x4 is Born', he shows you all the important parts of getting a Defender body to sit on the 100" chassis.

Sounds good. That bull bar looks nice -- and whilst it would be illegal to fit it to a newer vehicle in the UK, it is still legal to fit it to a vehicle of an age where they were fitted from new, for example your 90 being from 1986 would be fine. Keep on updating... and yes pictures would be...

Sold.

Another question... Are Defender and Discovery 300 Tdi flywheel housings the same? Mine is slightly damaged (chipped) and I want to replace it before fitting the engine. ... James? :D

That on axles off a proper Landy? Does look quite good! :o:D

Sounds dodgy, if police have only just told him it's nicked, then surely it's been nicked fairly recently and therefore he can't have had it in his family for years? :confused:

Due to different tuning on the injection pump as opposed to turbo positioning. Turbos are all in the same place on 300s, and are the other way round than a 200 turbo, i.e. exhaust outlet faces towards the front of the engine.

IIRC that's only on 200s, 300s are all the same across Defender/Disco/Rangie (with exception of aforementioned EDC bollix)

Does the injection pump look like THIS or THIS? If first one, 122bhp with EDC, if second one, 111bhp with no EDC.

Dunno where that came from, but my engine is definitely a 23L, and definitely has the manual type injection pump. Realised that the EDC (fly by wire) pump looks totally different to the mechanical one haha

Yeah just worked this one out by asking my mate who has a 300 manual Disco :D As far as I know these are the codes for 300s; Serial code prefix: 16L (non EGR), 23L (EGR), 24L (EGR Auto) Defender 17L/18L (EDC Manual), 19L/20L (EDC Auto), 21L (EGR Manual), 22L (EGR Auto) Discovery/Range...

Collected the engine and gearbox yesterday, and all looks well (especially gearbox, looks and feels like new!), but there is something about the engine that is worrying me... The engine code (on the side of the block) is 23L, which means it is a Defender unit. However, the injection pump...

Complete 200 Tdi removed from my 110. eBay Link: 200 TDI ENGINE

Nice! :D Thanks James, you are a walking (at least I presume you can walk?) Land Rover bible!! :D

Just a quick thought, seeing as the new engine is a 1997 model from a manual Defender, will it have the electronic EDC stuff on it? If so, what are the implications of fitting it to an older vehicle? Cheers all

Yeah, ill get a chance to do this on Wednesday when I drag the 200 & Lt77 out of the workshop and drag the 300 & R380 in. Will take pictures and make note of the differences and post them here for future reference. ;)

It's locked by default, only 'unlocks' when cornering, so it is the best of both worlds!