Thread: New 1994 Deefa owner

Originally Posted by Defendozer

Thanks for the advice Chucaro, the Engine Saver alarm looks like a great product. From reading some of the threads about them its a "must have" if you are ever going to let a woman drive your car!!!

Congrats on the defender, when I was 17 the last thing I wanted was a fender haha how things have changed.

Well in my marriage I have to beg and grovel to get the keys of my wife to drive the landy.I sold the 2 door buzz box a few weeks ago and bought a nice Falcon Futura as a second family car(we have 2 girls) thinking after all these years I would finally get the keys to the landy to drive to work FAT CHANCE.

She loves that car and drives it well and I also have the Engine saver alarm the old style that goes in the hose great device.

Congrats Pete, good choice of vehicle - same age as mine

Find a good Land Rover mechanic and keep her maintenance up, if you don't know when she last had her timing belt done then make sure you get that done immediately and keep up regular changes of the timing belt every 80'000km's.

Also as mentioned get a EGT gauge and a low coolant alarm.

You look after her and she'll look after you.

Originally Posted by Grizzly_Adams

Congrats Pete, good choice of vehicle - same age as mine

Find a good Land Rover mechanic and keep her maintenance up, if you don't know when she last had her timing belt done then make sure you get that done immediately and keep up regular changes of the timing belt every 80'000km's.

Also as mentioned get a EGT gauge and a low coolant alarm.

You look after her and she'll look after you.

Thanks Grizzly, I plan on doing a lot of work on it myself (Maybe even timing belt when the time comes). I have a Low coolant alarm installed already

Cheers

Pete

EGT gauge will change your driving style once you see how hot the exhaust gas gets. She's only an alloy head so it's important to keep her EGT's down - preferably below 600 degrees (yes - degrees centigrade!)

If she goes much over that there's risk of the head warping and then you're into some serious $$$ to get her fixed up, it's not pretty.

Have fun working on her, they're relatively easy to work on so shouldn't be a problem apart from a few scraped knuckles and curses now and then