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

Perhaps worth commenting that the practice of balancing tyres except on high performance cars is relatively new - almost unheard of on four wheel drives when I first owned Series vehicles.

Yes, I have owned a couple of series 1’s and a series 3 over the last 40 years and I don’t recall if we ever got the bar treads balanced!

Originally Posted by Explorer30

Looks great. Which conversion kit/headlight did you go with?

I'm in the process of researching different options for my 110. Trying to decide between the Britpart Lynx Eye, the JW-Speaker or the Nugget Stuff option from Wayne (headlights).

A bit overwhelming to be honest.

Cheers,

Matt

Morning Matt

I used the mudstuff 73mm LED conversion kit for the body lights and the headlights I bought spare of the moment from Wayne actually but they aren't his. These ones are from ************ and he was using them for some R & D so I took them off his hands when I was picking up some other things from nugget.

New battery in.
I choose Varta H3. Price 390$

It's of exact same dimensions as the factory battery, with 10 ah more capacity at 100ah

Also I find out the factory battery in my puma defender is actually a deep cycle lead acid...CCA 800 90ah.
Code is lfd 90. Made by Varta

In many ways, I think It make sense to have a deep cycle battery with enough CCA in a off-road vehicle. At times you will have power consumption and run the battery really low....E.g. bogged in a mudhole at night with light bar on.....Waiting for help.....

Cheers
Martin

Recently received this
Now I need to find time and fund to install:
mt 82 adapter shaft
lt230 ATB,
rear p38 ATB...

Also dashmat on. Lovely bit of kit.
I placed the order via ebay and it was made to order in WA.

Also order for airbagman helper airbag.will put these on soon.

Cheers

Lt230 atb

Originally Posted by martnH

Lt230 atb

Getting ready to pull the trigger on one of those too.... they are out of stock now and for the past several weeks. Its not an urgent priority for me right now, I will be waiting for something to break (LT230, MT82, or clutch) before it gets fitted - just want it on hand so there is no "waiting for parts" delay when the time comes.

[edit]: Just asked DPL to organise some HD rear half shafts and drive flanges too. Will get those fitted next service in a few weeks time.

I installed a new gear knob - the old puma one cracked up and fell apart. While trying to short cut doing that I broke the turret.... so ordered and installed a slickshift! Very good mod, nice and clean shifts now.