You can use the TD alternator, but I think that it needs to be packed out to align the pulley correctly & spun round a few degrees (not done it, but there's one done like that a few miles away from me). I wonder if it would be possible to fit a connector block and use the tails from the...

Or your paint job - really mess with people's heads! :lol:

Sounds like the voice of experience, so I'll leave that sort of thing up to you. Although, thanks for the kind thoughts. :rolleyes:

Watch it, or me and my brother-mother-cousins'll be after you & a six-fingered punch carries some weight!! :lol:

Thanks for the welcome folks! Barmatt, I'm over in Sea Palling. NN sometimes feels like two stops out from the back of beyond - just the way I like it! :D How can you say that Storm99 ?! - tis a thing of great beauty! Well the black on green is. The orange was just to get it noticed! :lol...

FWIW (given that I have only just come across this thread - guess what I'll be fitting to my 90PU when the 200 tdi goes in...) the reason that cowlings are fitted is to allow fans to draw air through the rad. Without the fans and cowlings in the way, something like a Defender cools itself pretty...

Ello, This is my 90 outside a client's office. Shortly to have a heart transplant, with a 200 tdi going in (but with a 300 turbo on it to clear the engine mounts). The 2.5td in it is OK & has been completely reliable, but getting out of junctions and the occasional (very) overtake can leave me...