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Did you ever find a solution for this? I’m looking to do something similar but can’t find any way of doing it

Drill bits are easy to sharpen if you have an angle grinder. I lie it on its back then carefully dab the flat onto the disc. Only quick dabs so you don’t overheat the bit. Takes a bit of practice but the more you do it the better you get. Even...

That’s what I did but no idea if it’s the right way. It seemed a lot more effort to take the back plate of the housing off as well to rivnut direct to the chassis as there were two more bolts holding it on that definitely would have snapped and...

I finally got a chance to attempt it yesterday.. as ever it took far longer than I thought it would! I basically had to drill everything out, starting small then increasing in drill bit size until I could get two new rivnuts in. I then used a...

Really appreciating the replies. I’m fairly new to this but plan is to grind what’s left of the bolt/washer down flush to the back of the housing, tap the stud and, starting small, drill the centre with a left handed drill bit. I might...

Thanks for this. I’m not keen to end up with a snapped extractor stuck in there so will opt to drill them out instead. I’ve got m8 x35mm fs108357 as replacements so pretty sure it is m8. Just need to buy a thread tap now as don’t currently own one!

Thanks - I came to the same conclusion. Will give it a go 🤞🏻

That’s a bugger. Looking at those photos if you could perhaps clean up the damaged bolts to smooth it off then centre punch the bolt and drill a hole and try to get an eezee-out/ stud extractor into it and hopefully that gets them out…can be a...

Hi all, I’m looking for a bit of advice. I’m in the process of changing the fuel filter and assembly on my TD5 as the old one was completely perished and leaking diesel on my driveway. I’ve had my defender a few months and it wasn’t well...

Thank you! I worked out that it was a broken fuel filter assembly (had totally sheared off the bolts) so hopefully that will fix it when I put the new one in

Hi everyone, I’m new here. Bought my first Defender just before Christmas and have been on this (and other!) forums pretty much every day since. I live SW London / Surrey and definitely appreciate the advice of everyone on here. My first post...