What have you done today to your LAND ROVER (Non Defender)
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BarryO
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I've bought kits of Weather Packs on McMaster Carr. Makes ordering easy, although probably not as cheap as buying the individual housings and pins from an electronic supplier.
I got some new heat shields installed on the 110. In the interest of over-doing it, I had the motor mount shield (the one that is bare silver) ceramic coated. this part must have improved along the way because this part was stainless. I recall the original being aluminum.
The cat shields are a definite step up. These are steel with a reflective foil on one side, the originals were the wafer material riveted to brackets.
Does anyone have a starter heat shield laying around? Mine disintegrated...
The cat shields are a definite step up. These are steel with a reflective foil on one side, the originals were the wafer material riveted to brackets.
Does anyone have a starter heat shield laying around? Mine disintegrated...
WreckITFrank
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Put this on after much unnecessary deliberation on how to fasten it. Very worthy upgrade. Piston has a good amount of force, and soft finish on extension so not obnoxious. The pre 2002 version has much less of a bracket on the door side. I used M5 rivnuts as I new it would come off for paint and other maintenance, so didn't want to fill the door with rivets.
Thanks @Angus for the rivnut assist.
Thanks @Angus for the rivnut assist.
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LiquidMoose
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^^^^
Does that thing-a-ma-bob assist the door to open or close or both?
Does that thing-a-ma-bob assist the door to open or close or both?
Who makes that?
I saw one 80's Defender that had a mechanism to lock the tail door in the open position. It looked factory based on the design and age from what I remember.
Finally pulling the 110 into the shop. Long list of repairs. Minor rust abatement to sills, footwells etc, new dash, roversnorth AC, vnt turbo, rear main seal, new clutch, ashcroft r380/lt230 with atb, minor repairs to seatbox, clean up of wiring to battery box and then finally interior refurbish.
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WreckITFrank
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Britpart DA1203. A few companies have them, they all seem to use the same easy open, soft finish piston. This was the cheapest and easiest to get and it works great. Good amount of load, so as soon as you hit the latch, the door pops right open.
https://www.britpart.com/all-parts/da1203
LostChord
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Shipfitters syndrome. One thing leads to another! Can’t wait to be back on the road. This truck has been down for a year with a blown tranny.
Awesome!...looks like the same state of progress mine is in
No worries! You did not come off that way at all. Thanks for sharing to the community. I need to find time to fire up the printer this week.
Single handed. Not too bad. Took out the transfer case first with crossmember, then supported engine via sump, took off lt230 adapter and ratchet strapped the r380 to tranny jack and dropped it out. The tranny jack is a beast and with alittle jacking up the rear axle I was able to slide out on the jack near the rear links. Now time to build out.
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erover82
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Did you finish the job?
WreckITFrank
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@LostChord man, if those are the shoes you wrench in, I'd like to see what you roll with when you're getting fancy.
LostChord
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@LostChord man, if those are the shoes you wrench in, I'd like to see what you roll with when you're getting fancy.
Gotta stop the wrenching every now and then to go pay the bills !
acheck
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half way finished. other things just keep getting in the way.
here is a photo of the passenger side lamp installed.
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mgreenspan
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hillstrubl
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Installed some vintage* Hellas on Pickle today that I had been saving for such an application.
Note to self, just make your own harness from the parts next time. Defenders are too weird for anything premade/precut/precrimped/preplugged to easily use without having to extend most of the lengths and/or run wiring with plugs already installed through holes that would be fine if it was just the wire itself... End result was pretty good however, clean and should last for years.
*I can't back that up, they're prob ~15 years old, but they're the old cadmium having lenses which are SUPER yellow when on.
Note to self, just make your own harness from the parts next time. Defenders are too weird for anything premade/precut/precrimped/preplugged to easily use without having to extend most of the lengths and/or run wiring with plugs already installed through holes that would be fine if it was just the wire itself... End result was pretty good however, clean and should last for years.
*I can't back that up, they're prob ~15 years old, but they're the old cadmium having lenses which are SUPER yellow when on.
