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I had an un-related issue the other day and jacked up the rear wheels, the play in them is huge. I can get about 4 inches of movement in the wheels before the propshaft even flinches. There are a few things which I want to do in the future i.e. bigger tyers. So the plan at the moment is start...

I have heard a lot of people say that, when I had the suspension lift the old self levelling unit was taken off and a new ball joint put on, now the clunk was there before this so there is certainly something else causing at least part of it. But since the lift / new ball joint there has been an...

Just checked and they look fine to me, I will check properly later. Its a special sort of clunk, not a 'its a 20 year old landrover clunk' its more of a 'oh s*** what just fell off clunk'

I have my 'staff' checking that right now! By staff I mean my partner as she took it to work.... well it was nice knowing you! I will check them, but from what I remember they are okay. Surely if it was the mountings wouldn't the noise in the cab be louder?

Since owning my Landrover (1997 300tdi 110)I have always had to be careful changing gear, the gearbox works fine – never had an issue selecting gear etc. However, when I release my foot off the accelerator there was a slight jolt or jump, then if I did ‘normal modern car’ style gear changes i.e...

Cheers, Ill do that now, good to know about the stresses. the more I think about it the more sense it makes but its good to have a second opinion. To be fair to the guys that did the work, I am giving them the benefit of the doubt as they have done a excellent job on everything and I think it...

I recently have had work done on my landrover 300tdi 110 and it involved the removal of the rear propshaft. When I crawled under there yesterday to have a quick look at a few things I noticed that one of the bolts from the prop to the transmission brake drum was missing. My first instinct is...

Update time, finally things are looking up!! The last few weeks have been a bit of a roller-coaster ride. When the chassis was removed a whole heap of "Oh no" was revealed. To start with the rear seat box was badly corroded - by badly corroded what I mean to say is that i had a huge extra...

Just come across this thread, I have a 110 Defender but the struggle is real! The garage spotted two tiny holes, I mean one you could barely get a screw driver in, the other was about 20p sized... little bit'o welding and jobs a guddun. Nearly a whole month of fixing stuff later and I am still...

I have the exact same issue. At one point I knew both dash light and fog light worked, but I rarely use the fog light, so the one time I came to use it the dash light did not show it working. I assumed it was just the switch so kept pressing it and no luck. When I arrived at work I tested the...

At this point I type with sweaty palms. Steve is still working away at it and I break into a cold nervous sweat every time he messages me, wondering what he has found wrong with it this time! Its getting closer to the date of of our North Coast 500 trip and there is a few things I want to do...

This week has been mixed emotions. The good news is that Steve has begun the surgery on the rear half of the chassis, the photos he sent me just go to show how bad it was getting, he also discovered that it also needs a new cross member under the rear seat box – easy enough to replace while the...

I love watching people, when I was in Fort William last year there were quite literally hundreds of them with roof racks packed to the hilt. Sure, going across the middle of the Sahara or a Mongolian plain and I can get on-bored with it. I am almost curious to see if they have anything in these...

You pay for the diesel and do the cooking and I will make sure there is a space in the back waiting!!! But in all seriousness if you want to join us we would be welcome for the company. Out of interest why anti clockwise? We were putting together a rough idea of things we would like to see...

Cheers! We have two now, also two (different!) ones for water. I remember there was a petrol station in the nearest village to us, still about 10 miles (the next closest was Thurso!) and there was often a note on the door saying "In the pub", we used to have to walk down to the bar and drag the...

Around 4 years ago now four of us stayed at a smallholding on the west side of Loch Eriboll for seven weeks to undertake geological mapping for our degree on the Moine Thrust. For the other two gents we were with it was hell, there was no internet, certainly no signal and it didn’t get dark...

Cheers! I think we all suffer the same issues. I remember reading once "Your first landy is your worst" even after just a few months of ownership I have learnt so much and have a far better idea of what I am looking at now. Cheers! To be fair, mechanically she is sound nothing wrong with her -...

Disclaimer: I don't have a clue what I am doing. I am writing this mostly for my own benefit, I don't feel like I have made much progress with the project and so I think looking back on here in a few months’ time will help me realise how far we have come (hopefully!). But also... who dosen't...

I have kind of gone with that idea. Prior to the rubber going down I could get it out in maybe 10 mins. Putting it back a bit longer, half an hour tops. With the rubber on top now its going to be more hassle, but still possible. I have kept it so there is no permanent damage to the back - i.e...

The base of the draw is ply, the draw is pine, the 'box' that it sits in and the rest of the construction is MDF.