Thread: What did you do on your Defender today ? (well, this week anyway)

Fitted Ashcroft axles/cvs/drive members. So much slop has disappeared. Money well spent.

New fuel tank and rubber filler pipe looking for a leak. Filler pipe looks like it was melting internally and had delaminated. Found due to clogging in the super expensive $2 fuel filters.

Rubber had become almost molten.

Originally Posted by ezyrama

I removed the fridge, fitted a draw and remounted the fridge. Then spun the left hand door around to access it through the side window.
Only problem now is after a shoulder recon op, I cant drive for 8 weeks until the arm comes out of the sling. Two weeks in and its killing me
not being able to take the Tardis for a run!

I highly recommend replacing the sliding window with a Gullwing, you will not regret it with your fridge access from the side.

Stopped my rear door from closing on me, always.

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Cheers Glen

Installed a high level brake light on my 96’ 300Tdi using a second hand D2 housing and brackets and a secondhand Defender adapter/spacer which alters the angle a bit! Also replaced the incandescent bulb with a led which required reversing the polarity but offers a much brighter and instant light.

I used black bear double sided black tape to mount to the rear window leaving a gap over the heater element to circumvent rubbing as this is a year or two before these were standard fitment.

Works well and hopefully will provide a ‘higher’ profile warning to those behind. The sidelight/indicators were replaced with Wipac LEDs a year or so ago.

I am just about to get the scan tool out and see why the truck dropped into fault mode on the run into work this morning when I hooked around a corner a bit too quickly. Unfortunately I have to get all the camping gear out to get to it in the storage box though, and its raining at work.

Originally Posted by barney

Well, for the last couple of weeks, I've been tracing a fault in my rhs blinker circuit on my 1984 110 truck cab.
I'm finding some horrible things and it's looking like I might have to install another wiring loom to run the auxiliary lights, (blinkers, brake, tail, Parker, reverse) because it will be near impossible to run a new wiring loom without ripping the body off the chassis, and I don't want to do that.
I'm finding that a lot of the cables that are or have been exposed to the elements are perished and the insulation has cracked and caused the cable cores to break down. Still haven't found the actual short yet, but getting cloSer. It's not the actual blinkers, the hazard switch is by-passed, the relay is fine, and it's got a new indicator stalk, this is why I am thinking about the loom.

Rear loom replaced with trailer wiring loom from supercheap. Lights all working well, took for a test drive - all good, for at least 10 minutes, then back to the same shenanigans.
Bugger, its the front loom on the passenger side, now i have to trace that out.

Hooked up a trickle charger on the battery - I'll need it charged in the morning seeing I have to go & pick up the grandkids, and it has been hard to start on cold mornings since winter has arrived. (I really must replace the battery!)