I live in kendal so you should count me in really! :-)

I'll be there too with a disco, jimny and two other defenders. Hoping not to break anything serious as i've moved from bradford to kendal

I joined after reading the post as I know how frustrating it was when I couldn't work out what was wrong with mine.

Hi my 2000 td5 defender sounds like it had the same problem as yours. It had loads of power but seemed limited to 60mph. It ended up being the turbo wastegate actator lever that had seized. Sorted it out with plenty of wd40. I read it on a forum somewhere and thought it wouldn't be that but...