I cant seem to find the mounts anywhere other than on a new galv chassis. that said, it does give me a reference point for the location. does this sit right with what im thinking and what jamesmartin said? got the image from here. http://www.marslands.com/defender-90-mounts.html

hehe yeh there is, it was actually covered over with some kind of tooth paste to hide the atrocity beneath. Is the best thing to remove the mounts and bolt to the engine, lower in and bolt to bell housing. then scribe where they should be or tac em on, take the lump back our and re weld. or is...

picture attached. left side looks much further back. not sure if this is normal.

It's a g reg 90 that I believe has been changed to a v8 by previous owner. Checkered history unfortunately

Quick question. Are the engine mounts slightly offset? I ask because the engine mount on the left as stood at the front looking in is about 20mm further back. Normally I wouldn't question but the previous owner has splattered bird **** at them rather than actually welding em! So quality of...

Sorry :) its a G reg 90 with a v8 that i have just bobbed out.

I have dropped my engine out because of all the issues. figured id strip it as its really an unknown. as i was removing the bolts from the bell housing i looked at the transmission and it looks like its sat too far back, either that or the mounts are wrong. The reason i think this is because...

spun the pump with a battery drill for a god 10 mins with nothing. spins freely. ill check the pickup and filter but after that will have to go for the pump. incidentally there is a an oil cooler radiator fitted which i don't believe is standard. Could this be causing a problem.

any ideas on the oil smelling of fuel? With regards this link http://www.gomog.com/allmorgan/plus8oil.htm it says there are 3 options to prime, option 2 is to spin with a drill to prime - is this correct. 2. Turning the Oil Pump Drive Gear Remove the distributor. Make an adapter to fit the...

hi all. been a month but had some time over xmas to have another look. first thing i have done is cut some steel tube and made an attachment to spin the oil pump. before i removed the dizzy i checked the oil level which was at max.... and smelt of petrol again ffs. For reference the SUs...

Sorry I mean psi. I did grav feed it from the fule tank out of my lawn mower. Before I got a decent filter/reg

Thanks bud. Will update later with my findings

Yeh you could be right. Like I say, I'll do one think at at time to eliminate. I could also use the timing gun to make sure each cyl is firing. I did spot an odd wiring setup on the fule pump. Neg was bolted to the chassis and the pos to the neg of the coil... It worked but I've moved it as...

Came like that. The guy who put it together took the 3.9 out of a rr classic and put some SU carbs on. He got it through the mot but was running rich. I have put a service kit on the carbs and a pressure reg. I take it your saying there's an issue with carbs on a 3.9. I'm based in bradford.

Thanks for the help guys. As I say; No LPG just petrol I have not taken the oil pump off I'll check timing again Will compression test at weekend I did the cranking and turning the dizzy last week which got it started. Thing is it won't start again. We achieved it maybe 3 times in one day...

Wouldn't have thought so. Mines carb not efi

That's a brilliant idea. Will try that at the weekend. I did read about rebuilding the pump and packing with vas but was last resort. I don't want to be continually cranking to get it to start if I have an oil issue. In terms of running. If I give it choke and lots of throttle I can keep it...

It's dusty lol. I'll try get some pictures

When I had fuel pressure issue I dropped oil and changed filter as I had petrol in sump. I put 5 litre in, waited an hour and checked dip stick. Was mid way up. Have ordered compression gauge

I was considering writing off my 3.9v8 engine(truck was bought as unfinished project) as after days of trying I can't get it running for more than 5 seconds. Carbs have been serviced. New coil, electric dizzy, leads. Malpazzi fule filter/reg set at 2.5 bar. Can occasionally get her to fire...