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I sold my TD5 eighteen months ago when I retired to go sailing. (Everything in store and we went blue water for a while, boat is now in the Caribbean…) For family reasons, plans have changed and we have given our tenants notice and plan is to move into our house and sail six months of the year...

For anyone interested in the outcome of my problem. I got my local garage to fit the excess fuel pipe that I couldn’t access (as far as I found see without taking the inlet manifold etc off) The leak was chased town to the injector seals. All replaced and the injector loom replaced (as usual in...

The pump was replaced a couple of years ago with a decent quality one. It’s hasn’t been noisy until recently so I’m rather hoping that eliminates it as the problem. edit. I also replaced a clutch slave cylinder a couple of years ago and then had to replace that one a few months ago. I try not...

Thanks for the tips. With a couple of squirts of starter aerosol into the snorkel I’ve managed to start the engine. The downside is that the pump is still screaming away and is obviously still sucking air in from somewhere. Tank is half full. Filter and it’s mount and then injectors next I...

I'm 100% certain they're correct now. The line from the tank (and pump) goes to the upper hole and the line from the fuel cooler goes to the lower hole in all the fuel diagrams I can find and that's how I've configured it. It was late and getting dark and I only took the lines out to allow me...

I've listened again and there seems to be some strange gurgling sounds coming from under the rocker cover as it's purging air from the system. Is this normal?

Like a muppet I accidentally put the lines from the fuel cooler and fuel pump in the wrong way round when I fitted a new fuel regulator on my TD5. I was changing the pressure regulator as the fuel pump had started to scream (because it was pumping air?) and I knew the regulator was leaking so it...

Thank you. The sun gears and planetary gears seem to be unaffected. The previous LT230 I rebuilt had the spacers intact so I wasn’t sure whether finding them all gone was particularly worrying or fairly normal.

Has anyone got a scrap LT230 that I can buy the rear output housing off please? It's listed as part number FRC6578 and its the casting that holds the bearing and the speedo drive. Someone has mangled a bit of the casting round where the speedo drive fits in mine and although it might be OK, if...

I've finally got round to stripping down to rebuild the old transfer box from my Defender TD5. (I swapped it for a 1.2 ratio one that I also rebuilt completely when I changed the gear box) As I started to remove components, I kept finding bits of copper like metal flakes in corners of the...

Gunned black rubbery mastic in behind the door seals where they don’t quite fit snuggly at the join between windscreen surround and bulkhead. This is part of trying to chase down an annoying leak that makes the undermat floor in the footwells wet when it rains. The door seals are new and...

Various vehicle passes for sites I visit. Some de-icer. (Very annoying to have it in there when the locks froze!) A torch and a spare headlamp bulb that got put there and isn't in the workshop yet. A duster and some gash.

I've added a fair amount of sound deadening and altered the final drive ratio on my Defender 90 TD5 and although it's still noisier than our family car (a Merc C Class), I can hear the radio reasonably well. (And my wife is always telling me I'm deaf.) I use the Defender as my everyday drive...

that makes sense. They still work perfectly, but they’ve become noisy at times.

My wipers click noisily when operating with the clicking appearing to come from the drivers side wiper wheel box. I guess it’s time to replace the wheel boxes and cable. There appears to be a huge range of possible replacements available. (eg eBay’s got lots of different ones at widely...

I subscribe to MST Auction alerts (because the warehouse and yard is only a few hundred metres from our place in the depths of Devon and I could walk up there to have a nose.). We now live in Surrey but I keep an eye open. I spotted they have a Defender (modified) for sale...

I use mine every day to get around as part of my work. Sometimes for towing my trailer for work related things too. A lot of the time I could use any four wheels or even a bike but where’s the fun in that. Besides which everyone knows me in my Defender.

May I jump in and ask where the breather for the rear axle is normally brought up to? My defender has a snorkel, but I understand that is more for dust than water unless the gearbox and axle breathers are extended. I've got three breathers coming up to the back of the engine, but I can't find...

Maybe you’re right, but rather than throw a perfectly good gear in the bin, I thought I’d offer it cheap. Perhaps someone has the machine tools to cross drill it?

My attempt to show that the splines are not showing any signs of wear.