Does anyone know the detail of the differences between a “Landrover radio for the US market” and one that was OEM UK? Reading between the lines of the various adverts for radios it seems that the UK ones get Long Wave and the US ones don’t. FM band is the same (or near enough?) One advert on...

If it’s been sitting there a while then the leak might be very slow and not immediately apparent? You didn’t bleed any if the brake cylinder?

Perhaps you pumped brake fluid through against the air pocket in the system and then when you stopped, the air pressure pushed it back into the master cylinder reservoir?

I was hitting the nut on the head, but that was me so I gave up the headache inducing whacking and I tried all the styles of whacking (ooh err) including your suggestion but to no avail.

That’s confused me as I’ve been winding pressure onto taper joints etc and then giving them a clout to shock them apart for years. I’ve not heard of a Boomslang harness. I must go and google. Had you tried replacing any of the switches and stalks?

Regarding the steering wheel: I've tried the big pull while whacking the end of the nut with a soft faced hammer and nothing. A Landrover garage said, "Oh they come off easily with a bit of a pull..." Five minutes of grunting and heaving and he admitted defeat as well...

As per the title. It doesn’t do it all the time, but occasionally the windscreen wipers do a single sweep and park again when I flash the lights on the lighting stalk. At the moment I can’t get the steering wheel off (I need a puller as it’s REALLY jambed on tight!) so I can’t get at the...

Hmm... Not what I’ve heard from my local Land Rover specialist? Perhaps others will comment?

Latest result: It's doing well over 30 mpg. A revelation for this Defender. I'd heard about such economy figures but I haven't exactly been light footed the last few miles so it's a delight to report that the economy has been transformed along with the performance. Motorways and Dual...

I thought heel and toe was brake and accelerator... ie a way of blipping the throttle while braking at the same time. wiki (FWIW) seems to agree: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heel-and-toe

Yes. A PC came round and took a statement but said as there were no leads it probably would be filed. Scene of crime quizzed me over the phone but without the burglars leaving anything they wouldn’t send forensics.

No worries. We've only had our current defender for 18 months and it's better than ever atm. Enjoy yours.

Welcome to the forum. Did you mean to type 2018 Defender? Did you mean 2008?

Now that I've removed the EGR, how important is it to disconnect the electrical connections from the EGR modulators? I have sealed the ends of the vacuum pipes (that I assume were connected to the modulators) and therefore I imagine they will just be puffing and panting against nothing? I...

Result! In taking the old pipes out (I suspect that they were the original ones and have done over 180k miles...) I found that the pipe between intercooler and EGR was half off at the Intercooler end. It just fell off when I was taking the EGR off and by the look of it, it’s not been on and...

Those are nylocks and torqued down “at the end of the scale” of my big torque wrench if I remember correctly. (162 newton meters or 120 lb ft). I just looked it up!

“That’s the one?” Which one? The one in the middle, visible when you take the propshaft off? Just interested.

Do you mean the single nylock nut holding the flange onto the front output shaft of the transferbox or the four nuts and bolts holding the prop shaft onto the flange? I guess either being loose would cause a problem... although if the flange falls out you’d lose your transfer box oil.

Apologies if this is a regular question but I've done a search and I can't find the answer or any threads on the subject. I've picked up my Defender TD5 after a new gearbox (the old one dropped its lay shaft) was fitted plus a change of transfer box with a change to 1.2 from 1.4 ration. (I...

I'm finding the whole 'shed or garage alarm' business very complex. I think that what I'd like is an alarm with a PIR plus detectors on the door and windows. I would like a remote fob or similar that I can put on the workshop key ring and when I'm walking over to unlock it, I can just press...