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I will update this thread as the work progresses.. but a major reason for posting this thread is to learn from the hive mind here. I know Defenders are most of the time straight forward tractors, and although I have a reasonable mechanical aptitude there are gaps and limits in my knowledge to do...

Front axle is off.. Over next week I will start to strip it and assess the innards. Then it is off to the blasters.. I still have some black epoxy paint for both axles.

Day 2. This is 800 miles and 8 months since UK MOT. Just wow! Gotta be 20,000 miles left in the pads at least!

Day 1.

Hi, I haven't posted much at all in the while I have been a member here, but I thought I would share this.. and maybe learn from the forum as well. This is a 200 TDi 1991 HiCap. It was my truck for nearly 20 years and has been an absolute workhorse throughout my time as a tree surgeon. I...

Thanks for the ebay link Kwakerman, but I don't want two hitches that don't work, just one that does. The one I have was an unknown quantity when I bought it off a land rover scrappy/ fixer upper. I'd rather know the devil I currently have. I just need some seals... Will try IFOR and Delta...

Mines a bit of scaff bar and a wooden wedge...

I have this... https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27991552/Trailer/13127897zs.pdf And this... https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27991552/Trailer/Technical%20Handbook%20Sankey%20Trailer.pdf But neither tell me what to look out for that might be bust, or where to get parts from...! How do...

Thanks Zeaphod, I'll try those contacts. Will post this on Military LR4x4 forum too. I've had it apart as far as I can go. Will post results when it's done so the next man has a head start...

Hi everyone. I recently put new 3.5 tonne axles and leaf springs and a hitch to my arb trailer. It had horse box running gear on it but it was crap, and the hubs were rusting through. I still need to sort the ram out to get it tipping, but the modulars on new axles are great. I'm trying to...

Other gears are fine, I drove back about ten miles. Just no reverse.

I have to bed down for the night, knackered after cutting all day. But all theories welcome, will check in in the morning. Thanks. Ps any exploded diagrams/photos etc of what I need to look at welcome. Ive trawled the net, but mostly its all about completely stripping gearboxes in nice well...

My manual isn't with me. Why would it be in two gears? Selector fork loose?

I did try to start the engine and have another go 1/2 an hour ago. Thought it might have magically freed itself. It actually stuck in reverse, jammed tight. I had to rock it backwards and stop it with a wedge under the tire, and then I could get gearstick out and into nuetral. I've checked...

Hi, thanks for reply. Yes lever goes into reverse no problem: when clutch is let out it wants to go, but just won't, engine almost stalls, exactly as if the handbrake is on. Which of course it isn't. Sometimes a bit of scrunching, yes.

Hi. Im new here, kinda need some help. I have 110 hicap, a rough old tractor really. Use it for tree surgery and woodland jobs. I'm in Somerset with a stuck gearbox. LT77, I was trying to reverse up to chain out some slabs of wood and it just wouldn't go back. Reverse selected ok, but it was...