Thread: Show us your Deefers !

I bought it off a bloke near Newcastle about 6 months ago. He used to live in Arnhem Land and owned it since 2004

Love my defender, here she is on her home turf, south coast WA.
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Internal windscreen pic....

Finally got around today to some NEW suspension under my Defender. The old stuff was really stuffed and the front end had sagged a fair bit'

Here's my measurement's Before and after:

Here's the original heights:
RHS: Front 690mm
RHS: Rear 740mm


LHS: Front 693mm
LHS: Rear 746mm


Here's the NEW heights:
RHS: Front 755mm (Increase of 65mm)
RHS: Rear 770mm (Increase of 30mm)


LHS: Front 750mm (Increase of 57mm)
LHS: Rear 767mm (Increase of 21mm)


Pics of BEFORE




an AFTER:

Good work Rob. A little bit of envy creeping in here.

Originally Posted by SilasM

Love my defender, here she is on her home turf, south coast WA.
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They look like new side stickers. If so, where did you source them, and what price?

Yesterday I did Ellis track in Gladysdale. Along on the trip were;

two GU's double locked 35s
GQ 35s no lockers 4.2td
60 series chopped 35s rear locker

40mm of rain was forecast so to say I was a little worried would be an understatement.

Hit the track and tried doing the hard lines one of the GUs was persisting with one difficult section and busted a hub. We were only 20 minutes in. That was the end of his day. Turned back.
Next was the gq on this section but decided to take the 'easier' route. Greasy as all hell and with no lockers he wasn't getting anywhere. He also made the track 20xs worse for me as he made it like an ice rink with all his attempts. We winched him up as he had no winch and then I had to winch up as well. From there we took hard lines as much as we could but with that much rain some sections were just not going to happen. Then we got to the bit where the gq ass fell into a rut. The 60 was in front and was battling to get to the next section as it just became real greasy. I was behind the gq and double locked and not moving. The gu had winch, and lockers stop working. All this at once. Then we got a message from the 60 series saying the GU and gq that had passed us, well, the GU was on its roof. We parked the trio who were all in our own little dramas and went to see what was going on up ahead. We somehow managed to walk there slipping and sliding everywhere and we came across the GU on its roof and the worst spot possible to recover which was in a walled out section of the track. The two vehicles were running 37s and beadlocks. We spent the next couple hours winching it down past the walls so they could try and put it on it's wheels. It was mangled. After that we went back to the three of us and decided we should probably turn back as they were still recovering and it was going to take forever to get to even them. So I winched the gq out and we headed back down. Going down was probably harder then going up. A lot of sliding and no control in sections. I must say the puma 1LO is amazing. Walked most of it. Had to avoid one ridiculous line down and had to cross basically 2 lines to get to the easy one. That in itself was very hard but with great spotters we all got across.

Easily the the best day trip I've done. Epic

Defender 90 on Ellis track - YouTube

Defender 90 on Ellis track - YouTube

Originally Posted by D90 orkney

Yesterday I did Ellis track in Gladysdale. Along on the trip were;

two GU's double locked 35s
GQ 35s no lockers 4.2td
60 series chopped 35s rear locker

40mm of rain was forecast so to say I was a little worried would be an understatement.

Hit the track and tried doing the hard lines one of the GUs was persisting with one difficult section and busted a hub. We were only 20 minutes in. That was the end of his day. Turned back.
Next was the gq on this section but decided to take the 'easier' route. Greasy as all hell and with no lockers he wasn't getting anywhere. He also made the track 20xs worse for me as he made it like an ice rink with all his attempts. We winched him up as he had no winch and then I had to winch up as well. From there we took hard lines as much as we could but with that much rain some sections were just not going to happen. Then we got to the bit where the gq ass fell into a rut. The 60 was in front and was battling to get to the next section as it just became real greasy. I was behind the gq and double locked and not moving. The gu had winch, and lockers stop working. All this at once. Then we got a message from the 60 series saying the GU and gq that had passed us, well, the GU was on its roof. We parked the trio who were all in our own little dramas and went to see what was going on up ahead. We somehow managed to walk there slipping and sliding everywhere and we came across the GU on its roof and the worst spot possible to recover which was in a walled out section of the track. The two vehicles were running 37s and beadlocks. We spent the next couple hours winching it down past the walls so they could try and put it on it's wheels. It was mangled. After that we went back to the three of us and decided we should probably turn back as they were still recovering and it was going to take forever to get to even them. So I winched the gq out and we headed back down. Going down was probably harder then going up. A lot of sliding and no control in sections. I must say the puma 1LO is amazing. Walked most of it. Had to avoid one ridiculous line down and had to cross basically 2 lines to get to the easy one. That in itself was very hard but with great spotters we all got across.

Easily the the best day trip I've done. Epic

Defender 90 on Ellis track - YouTube

Defender 90 on Ellis track - YouTube

Nice one mate! what sort of pressure were you running out of interest