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    Motorway cruiser - options

    I have a 1984, 110 van, fitted with a disco 200tdi, tranfer box, with 235/85/16s and lots of extra sound insulation . It will quite happily cruise at 65-70, but to overtake someone going just slower than I want, takes planning. Its quiet enough to listen to a radio easily . Round town and on...
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    Windscreen washer question

    I too have nozzles on the wipers, I find they work much better than the originals. I replaced the plastic tubing supplied with silicon tubes. Never had a problem with freezing. But as above use a high percentage of anti freeze and the new piping takes a few turns round heater pipes.
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    Power Steering

    I'd definitely go for PS, I've got it on Mine now it wasn't on my 1984, 110 As standard, as I get older and more decrepit I'm not sure I could cope without it.
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    I've brought a ringer!

    By which time you'll have transferred all those bits then it will have all those different numbers.
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    LED headlights

    That's what I did, A set of crystal lenses, a pair of good quality halogens, that's all you need. I'd probably go for the up graded wiring loom but the previous owner. Did something strange to the loom, I have to find the energy to sort that first.
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    1981 Defender 110 Door Lock!

    1981 defender 110? That's clever, the 110 didn't come out till 1983 and the defender till 1991
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    What have you done to your Landie today.

    Not just today but over the next couple of days, new back door, the back axle is leaking, MOT and service
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    Transfer box Ratios and economy

    I went from a 2.5na std transfer gearbox to a disco 200tdi and transfer box. It went from 24mpg to 32mpg
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    Smokey Joe likes a fag in the morning.

    Or read "She" by H, Rider Haggard written in 1886 as that is what Rumple is quoting . She, Who Must Be Obeyed, That is, her indoors , your wife. "She" is a very popular book it's never been out of print. Around 15 of rider haggard's books have been made into films.
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    lining and insulating a defender

    I clad the entire interior with flashband, filled all the spaces between any bars with camping mat then kept the whole thing in place by using interior cladding planks , a lot easier than sheet ply. Then I built a solid partition on top of the rear bulkhead , fixed behind the driver hinged...
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    Embarrassment

    Went up to Scotland in the car a journey made many time, coming back got to 1/2 mile from southwaite on the m6 ran out of fuel, most odd, used more fuel than usual, went to boot no fuel can.... SWMBO has taken it out to load her art gear and not put it back.. .
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    In line heaters

    On a 120volt American generator
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    Defender Headlights

    Crystal lens make a big difference and look original until you get really closes.
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    how long have you been driving for?

    Yes driving in Saudi is not fun, you never know which way they are going to drive at you. Their road designs are strange, based on American formats but with Saudi oddities. Like a 120kph dual carriageway built from opposite directions but miss aligned by almost a lane when they met, so there...
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    how long have you been driving for?

    Spent 6 years doing 50,000 Miles a year from covering from St Andrews to Salisbury , one year doing 30,000 added to that 12, 000 miles a year ish private mileage (relatives from Aberdeen to Torquay just visiting parents takes 1000 miles) So just short of 800,000 miles. Not much compared to a...
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    how long have you been driving for?

    Passed test in 1977 a mere 41 hears ago, held a Raf driving permit for strange things like landdrover snowplough, landrover fire engine (series 3they were). With or without out a Coventry climax trailer pump, A variety of cars and mini buses. Also had a Saudi forklift licence..
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    Caveat Emptor

    Illegal on the road as well..
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    Stolen for ram raids

    When I lived in MK the local supermarket got ram raided a couple of times so they put a couple of giant plant pots in front. The yobbs then tried to ram raid with the only vehicle that would go through the remaining gap.. An old type mini. .. Shop frontage one mini nil. . The police...
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    Other How many Land Rovers have you had in the past 5 years?

    1 110 since about 2002
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    L E D Light bulbs

    If it's like my 110 you have a single Bulb in the dash board that flashes with the indicators, this effectively shorts out the LEd indicators. You need a couple of diodes added in the circuit to stop it. The circuit is on LZ somewhere. I have boltonbits NAS stop tails they worked perfectly. ..