When I built my flatbed I had a ton of unused connectors that I just cut off and taped up. I've had no problems.

Whatever you feel comfortable with.

This thread needs pictures.

3 bolts on each end into captivated nuts in the inner side of the chassis rail. 2 more bolts going through the bottom of the bar up to captivated nuts in the chassis.

Presumably it's the lift pump in the wheel arch at that price. Seems reasonable. A decent fuel pump would be around £200 to buy. You can get them as cheaply as £40 but I'd be pretty suspect of the quality at that price. If the garage has fitted genuine parts then it's about right.

I tackled the side steps on the donor vehicle this morning. Surprisingly they came off really easily. So this weekends work will be fitting those and the towbar. Seeing as I had a lot more time than I thought I was going to have this morning I put the blank window panels and hard top on the...

It also doesn't have the requisite number of wheels.

Hmm, not sure when the Freelander got the facelift. I assumed this was a facelift model as it also has the later dash. The rear quarterlights are fully working. The hinge brackets are there to mount them on. Took quite a while to clean up the edges of the openings as the blank panels are sealed in.

I've started a project thread for this now. Here.

It wouldn't be a project without me doing something to it would it? As luck would have it, another 3 door Freelander came up for sale nearby at a price that couldn't be ignored. It was a 2005 TD4 manual with no MOT. It was being used as a farm vehicle with an appropriately filthy interior but I...

With my wife's car suffering major electronic problems a while back and likely to be off the road for a considerable amount of time we needed something for her to use in the meantime. This was a fantastic excuse for me to buy another Land Rover and this tidy 2003 TD4 automatic van happened to be...

KInd of. But it all belongs to someone.

It's just the 5th one I've owned. I only have two currently and it will be one again when I've swapped all the bits over. Unfortunately don't have room to keep it for spares.

And now I have Freelander number 5. This was a total bargain. It was someones hack for just driving around his croft so no MOT and a total **** tip inside. It requires far too much work to be worth putting back on the road but I wanted it for parts anyway. So now the plan is to use the hard top...

It's a standard clause in recovery subscriptions that they will expect you to pay for recovery if you call them out for the same fault again in any subscription year.

I'll take the turbo shield off to do this.

It seems to be almost impossible to buy stuff on ebay these days that doesn't come from China.

I see. I meant the vacuum operated bit that opens the wastegate. Pardon my ignorance. That was going to be the first thing I checked. I can see I might have a bit more work to do then.

Copy and paste works just fine for pictures.

OK, yes I have silicon hoses but they've been on since the rebuild and have given no problems. The pipe I'm talking about is the small elbow that joins the turbo outlet to the long metal pipe that runs to the intercooler inlet. Also, I've done a code read and have an overboost code so I guess...