Mounting the valves in my drill and working with the dremel and air die grinder, I swirl polished the backs and with the exhaust valves smoothed off the sharp leading edge which gas leaving the cylinder would have to move around causing turbulence and slowing the velocity somewhat. I’ve read...

Yep the safari roof with the vents kept open and the front vents too, does feel much cooler for the dogs indeed.

All the internal parts of the ports are rough and casting joins don't quite match up so there's an bit of a jagged edge running the length of each port. The valve guide supporting casting is shaped a little, but on newer vehicles these areas are better designed and harder too.prove on. I knew if...

How much does a safari roof go for anyway

Heres that air flow pic btw

I was quite pleased to see the original honing marks still in the cylinder walls. They are a little more worn off at the back of cylinder three, and this seems to fit with others opinions that no 3 cylinder gets more boost than the others, because of the inlet manifold design, which has the...

I guess once stripped and cleaned, you'll see what you've got. Maybe it's not tha bad 🤞

After some work, I ended up with a little airbox mount kit to build. It felt like being a kid and getting an airfix kit to paint and build. A couple of the mount rubbers were separating from the bolts so really did need replacing. But a most satisfying job.

The new head arrived and I set it to the side until needed. Not wanting to damage the machined mating surface. This was a mistake as it turned out, because the couriers had been somewhat unkind to it. They had dropped the new head not once but twice causing some damage to each end. I realized...

I did notice it was double skin, and figured if I didn't sort the rust now it wouldn't be long.

300 tdi I gas flowed my new cylinder head, after head gasket fail, 97 Defender pick-up Peggy Head gasket on Cyl 3 leaked into water system and had white smoke :eek: Here is a pic of the failed area Done 140,000, and pic of engine You may be able to see piston no 3 has been steam cleaned a...

Land Rover Panel gaps,now there's a whole topic unto itself lol

Actually starting to look like a car 😀

That's looking amazing, and it's all really coming together now 👍

Picked it up from eBay £6.88, it's ok, although I got rid of the plastic covered locking screw and put a small bolt in so the locking pin doesn't shift 🤬...

Absolutely, too easy to miss the bracket when refitting the head, then realise you just f®©¢¥d up 😀

Yep, this has caught me out, and after torquing down my newly built head I realised I had not got the bracket on 😱. So I'm hoping taking the two bolts out and refitting them will not cause total disaster 😬. I figured since the bolts will have app 4mm less travel I I will use an angle gage to...

the rubber mounts were all quite bad and separating from the metal mounts But are available Well time to refit and move on 😀

The fun stuff about restoring your Landy is when you've taken it apart, cleaned refinished the rusty bits by arduous labour, etch primer and 2k gloss. Got new replaceable consumables and end up with a kit to put back together. It's like when you got an air fix kit to build as a kid 😀

This is my7 1997 Defender 300 tdi engine It's origional, and I'm building a new cylinder head for it as the gaskets gone on cyl no 3. I've poeted and polished it and modified the valves to to improve flow and efficiency. But yours looks like a 300tdi, the disco has some ancillary differances...