1. K

    Engine swap advice for Disco 300tdi into 1995 Defender 300tdi please.

    Thank you Discomania & Grem for answering, seems too good to be true almost! I will just be doing a straight engine change from the flywheel housing forward & keeping all my existing standard Defender ancillaries in the rebuild. Cheers Kev
  2. K

    Engine swap advice for Disco 300tdi into 1995 Defender 300tdi please.

    Dear All, I have the chance of getting a 300tdi Disco engine to go in as a replacement on the Defender 1995 Mreg. This must have been asked a hundred times before, but I cannot quite see a definitive answer anywhere after a ten minute search, so here goes! What changes are needed to a Disco...
  3. K

    Temperature gauge at max when lights or blower turned on.

    Hi Flossie, Just wanted to say thank you for pointing me in the right direction the other day. Earth at bulkhead was poor with some rust & paint overspray, sorted that & things improved but not entirely right. Went to Battery earth on gearbox housing to find a rusty buckled oversize washer under...
  4. K

    Temperature gauge at max when lights or blower turned on.

    Thanks Flossie, I will check these soon, but been thinking that because the system works properly under normal daytime running there cannot be much wrong with the actual circuit. Maybe I have bare wires somewhere that interfere with the gauge circuit when the lights & /or blower are switched...
  5. K

    Temperature gauge at max when lights or blower turned on.

    Hi All, Very new to Landrover as only owned a 1995 Defender for about a month & in that time I seem to have fixed more things than I did on a boring Peugeot I owned for the previos 4 years, but hey its more interesting. So my problem is the temperature gauge goes to max whenever side lights...