Thread: Show us your Deefers !

Originally Posted by aza28

my recently acquired defender 90

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Do they come any blacker???????

Nice.

Took off this week for our trip to Cairns from Melbourne. Hit a snag at Cunnamulla with the flooding, so we headed west navigating around them as best we could. Ended up passing through Euromanga on the way to Longreach. Some rough roads out there.

About a k out of Clermont the intercooler hose went. Some steel pipe in the hose, clamped down, worked a treat and got us through to Townsville. Will get a new hose from LR on Monday. 3500 k's so far this week, a fair bit longer than it should have been.

Here's my 2011 Deefer, post-timing chain breakage (driving in suburbia at 60km/h). This is back in February, and later this week I can finally pick it up. New engine (well, new reconditioned engine at least). Have asked them to fit the Brown-David long range tank as well (given it's sat in my garage for a year it's pretty clear I wasn't going to do it myself). Can't wait to get out on the road again - thinking of Cameron's Corner in April (after a few test drives first of course). All the rain out that way should make for some pleasant scenery. As for the money gone into an engine replacement - I try hard not to think of all the mods, etc I could have had for the cash involved - argh!

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Damn - how many kms did the engine have before it snapped?

Originally Posted by aza28

Damn - how many kms did the engine have before it snapped?

Do you mean on the 90 pictured on the flatbed truck above? If so, the timing chain went at 147,000 kms. Not happy Jan. It certainly looks like I was (very) unlucky. Hurt the hip pocket, but I've had it back for a couple of weeks now and am almost ready to forgive and forget! Quieter than the previous incarnation, and the clutch is a dream (while it was apart I upgraded - ClutchFix out of the UK). Keeping the old engine to see if it can be reconditioned - a spare.