Use the recommended tire pressure at all times. On the farm if you get stuck - low range and diff lock - if still stuck get out and lower the pressures. They only time i've had to lower tire pressures was in southern africa and very deep sand.

Cracking knowledge!

Agree with above if that’s a 200tdi that plug isn’t native

If it uses the same LT230 then yeh

The glow plugs are sealed purely by the thread I thought and they aren’t tight either. You sure you haven’t over sized the hole. I had a glow plus strip pretty much all the thread out when I took it out. Just enough thread left for the new one and it’s not leaked past. Don’t think it take...

It’s more if you wanted to do a trip crossing a few borders and wanted everything to be in order. where would this information even exist?

@kevstar excellent I’ll be along with the loot… I mean genuine vehicles soon. @lynall I can imagine. To be honest you could just stamp with any punch roughly the same size and I doubt anyone would ever notice. But seriously though how can you get hold of these or are they just now relegated...

Haha yeh you got me. I’ve got a whole yard of old Land Rovers whose numbers have just ‘fallen’ off.

If you’ve changed the CV joint on that side and you’re confident it’s still in good order then it’s probably fine. In my experience new noise only on turning (especially if it’s on full lock) is the CV joint.

I’ve read a few threads but can’t find a definitive answer Is it possible to buy the punches (correct font and height) for the chassis no. And engine number for defenders? or is it possible to find out what the height and font should be?

Id have a look at the CV joint

@Plodwin589 i agree with @lynall if you’ve done the timing with the correct tools I’d back yourself to have done it correctly. It’s not a hard job. What were the circumstances around the belt snapping? If you’ve not looked at the push rods, rockers, valves etc and you’re just changing the...

Honestly mate, don’t bother with any of that. Save your money for the mechanicals as an when they need doing. There will be issues you don’t know about yet, sorting them is part of the fun, but harder if you’ve spent all ya cash on shiny add ons.

why Land Rover didn’t fit all of these with grease nipples I do not know edit - make sure you replace the ball joints with ones that are greaseable.

£13,000? plus 7,000 to spend on it? So 20k in total. I suspect you could have found a better deal. From the description it’ll have issues I almost guarantee it. Chassis rots from the inside out so it it needs welding now at that ages I would bet a new chassis isn’t far off. good luck tho...

Isn’t that an oxymoron?

oh nice. Thanks!

thanks for the info. Will try that

I've got that, there's a website and you can enter the vin and will give those details but after a bit more juicy info on its production.

Is there a way to trace the production history of a vehicle? In more detail than is described by the VIN. Mines a 1991 defender so one of the first ones made. I’d be interested in what no. Off the production line it was, date it was made, basically an nice tit bits of history really.