Leave them out unless you plan to go through deep water

That's good about the chassis, they tend to go rusty on the back crossmember, front end normally stays clean because of the oil leaks . You are correct about the wading/drain plug, there is also one at the bottom of the timing cover on the engine

Hi welcome, looks like you got yourself a nice one. What's the chassis like? Bulkhead looks clean. Steve

Made some progress on the front bumper today, trimmed the winch tray to the correct size and tack welded it on, bent both ends of the bumper back then cut and drilled the mounting plates which will hopefully get welded on next weekend. I've also started to make a full roofrack...

Looks like it for the glow plug relay, seem to remember the glow plugs had yellow/black wires on my 300tdi

Bumper came back from the powdercoaters today, so managed to get it fitted after work, just need to connect the lights up. Looks so much better now it's painted

Just had a look, there's some on there for around £400. Unlocked for disco td5

Hi, welcome There's a few nanocoms for sale on facebook marketplace. Or if you want a new one I got mine from Defender2. Net forum, they do a group buy now and then so you get a discount Steve

Hi, I can't help with your question, you might want to ask over in the freelander section, more likely someone who knows will see it and let you know. I would have thought the speedo works of the abs sensor? Im not sure though. Steve

Someone has paid a deposit and supposed to be picking it up today. If he backs out I will let you know. Cheers

Thanks, that's the idea really, don't want to be making them again lol. I can't wait to get it finished either. How's your disco? Still going strong?

Thanks mate, did think about it but we don't get much stuff galvanised anymore at work, would have saved some money without paying the handling charge the galvanisers screw you for. Think it was about £70 a couple years ago. Plus if it gets chipped it's going to rust anyway

Rear bumper is now finished, will be sending it to the powder coaters tomorrow, hopefully it will get back to me before next weekend so I can tick that job off the list. Started on the front bumper aswell today, and as I have a winch in the shed doing nothing I will be fitting that too. Here's...

Cheers mate

Just reply now sold on your thread

I know what you mean, I can only spend saturdays and the odd sunday on my build, been about a year and a half now.

Impressive work, I've not seen this build thread. Keep up the good work and the pics coming

Made the recovery lugs at work this week and welded them in today. Just got a little bit more to do then it's finished at long last ready for powdercoating. Also cut and folded some 4mm for the front bumper, so will start that next (might get a chance tomorrow).

Hi and welcome. I seem to remember the vcu were a problem with the freelander 1 which caused the ird to fail then the cheapest option was to have 2wd rather than replacing the ird unit. I couldn't tell you what the issue was though.