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| donmacn Member Since: 06 Nov 2017 Location: Nth Scotland Posts: 1852  
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Oh dear! Now you’ve done it….. but thanks for asking.
There actually should be many updates to this. I just haven’t got round to it, or found the ‘mojo’. I’ll see if I can make a start over the weekend. Donald 1994 Defender 300Tdi 110 SW - owned since 2002 - 230k miles and going strong (The 'rolling restoration' or tinkering thread: http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic58538.html ) 2000 Range Rover P38 4.0L V8 in the past.. RR classic - fitted with 200Tdi 1984 RR classic - V8 with ZF auto box 1993 Discovery 300Tdi not to mention the minis and the Type 2 VW camper... |
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18th Jul 2024 7:47pm |
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| L110CDL Member Since: 31 Oct 2015 Location: Devon Posts: 10854 
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Many thanks if you can Donald
 Clayton.
1996 Golf Blue 300Tdi 110 Pick up. Keeper. |
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20th Jul 2024 10:08am |
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| bbolstad Member Since: 13 Jan 2025 Location: Bergen Posts: 1  
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Nice work!
Where did you the ‘water channel’ for the 2nd row doors from? I really want a set of those! |
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13th Jan 2025 5:34pm |
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| donmacn Member Since: 06 Nov 2017 Location: Nth Scotland Posts: 1852
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I must get around to updating this thread. Even if I say so myself I think there's some useful stuff to say!
On the water channel things, I'm sure these were 'proper' LR parts. I assume I saw them in one of the parts diagrams when I was sorting out which stuff I needed to buy. If my memory's correct, at the time I could get one side easily enough, but the other took a little while to order. On my old 2nd row doors, the part of the frame under the lock mechanism was one of the places where the corrosion was quite bad, so I thought that anything I could do to keep some of the water away had to be a good thing. Of course the new doors are galvanised, so less of an issue perhaps, but I still felt it was worth doing. I know the whole online parts diagram thing is a bit up in the air at the moment, but I went to the JLR classic parts one, dug down and found the right page. The parts are on the diagram - a "waterdam" - but showing as no longer available.... https://parts.jaguarlandroverclassic.com/p...and-rover/ Donald 1994 Defender 300Tdi 110 SW - owned since 2002 - 230k miles and going strong (The 'rolling restoration' or tinkering thread: http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic58538.html ) 2000 Range Rover P38 4.0L V8 in the past.. RR classic - fitted with 200Tdi 1984 RR classic - V8 with ZF auto box 1993 Discovery 300Tdi not to mention the minis and the Type 2 VW camper... |
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14th Jan 2025 9:49am |
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| donmacn Member Since: 06 Nov 2017 Location: Nth Scotland Posts: 1852
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Well, at long last I'll try and make a bit of effort to bring this thread a bit up to date. There's a bit to do, but rather than do this chronologically, I think I'll try 'themes' (transmission, electrics etc). But to start with a bang, here's another gratuitous 'Defender posing' pic...
 Click image to enlarge Cragster asked about our camping set up. We've used it for another couple of trips now. 2023 was the Pyrenees (as in the pic above) and home through France; 2024 was a month wandering through France - in through Dieppe, and home via Rotterdam/Hull. This means we've refined things a little, but still kept them fairly basic. The set up is the same hard shell and awning as shown in earlier posts. We don't often use any of the awning sides, far less all three of them, but we had some pretty wet and unseasonal weather in France this year.... Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge This pic also shows the rear door tent which we designed and made. Well, I designed; the boss sewed it up. I habitually carry a couple of adjustable awning poles, so the idea is that the tent fits into a 'keder' rail attached to one of the roof bars, and is held up using those two poles. Up in just a couple of minutes. Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Pretty simple. It just means we can have some shelter/privacy over the back door without deploying the awning. We're off to Portugal at the end of May, and currently wondering about refining this design. The roof is a bit flat, and if it rains, it pools up there. I can lower one pole, and shed water... so it's not at the top of the to do list. A little set of twinkly lights makes all the difference... Click image to enlarge Inside the car. For our first trip we used one of those powered coolboxes. OK, but struggling in warmer temps, so for the Pyrenees trip we got a fridge. I didn't have time to fit a slider mount, and in any event it wouldn't have worked with the bikes, so in the best LR tradition I cobbled up a kind of agricultural platform, and the fridge was ratchet strapped into place. Not many cars you could literally use scaffold fittings and not look horribly out of place.... Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge For all that it's a thrown-together-in-a-hurry solution it works OK. It's certainly strong enough, and the fridge didn't budge throughout the whole Pyrenees trip, and it can almost all be removed with 7 bolts. It gives good access to the fridge, and the space underneath holds shopping and campsite hookup cables. I mentioned bikes. We didn't want bikes on the back, so a couple of folders behind the driver's seat. In France (2022) and the Pyrenees (2023) the space above the bikes became a '  's muddle' of towels, clothes, jackets etc. So for the 2024 trip I rigged up another rough 'n ready shelf. It's only for light stuff like jackets/towels and 'hangs' from the dog guard and roll cage. Made a positive difference.
Click image to enlarge For the rest of it, we're not 'cordon blue' type folk at home, so no need to change when on holiday. We need just enough to make some one-pot meals. The 'cages' above the wheel arches have different uses. The one on the passenger side, under the awning, is the 'kitchen'.. Everything instantly accessible when the gullwing is opened. Click image to enlarge On the driver's side it's camping/other stuff: mallet, pegs, windscreen cleaner, insect repellent, go pro... Click image to enlarge I did buy storage backs to go between the cages and the roof - but don't think I'll fit these. We've no need for fancy kitchen storage, and we had these clothes bags designed and made to fit the space between the middle and upper shelves. Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge The bungees hold the bag in place when we're whizzing round hairpins... or roundabouts. That's it, more or less. From the back, there are four Wolf boxes under the shelf; and table, awning sides, stove, chairs etc on the left. Click image to enlarge Once you're used to your system you can have a comfortable camp set up in less than 30 minutes, and only a little longer to strip down. Works for us! Next, maybe a bit of electrickery! Donald 1994 Defender 300Tdi 110 SW - owned since 2002 - 230k miles and going strong (The 'rolling restoration' or tinkering thread: http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic58538.html ) 2000 Range Rover P38 4.0L V8 in the past.. RR classic - fitted with 200Tdi 1984 RR classic - V8 with ZF auto box 1993 Discovery 300Tdi not to mention the minis and the Type 2 VW camper... |
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1st Feb 2025 4:42pm |
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| Cragster69 Member Since: 15 Jun 2021 Location: Scotland Posts: 206  
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Thank you, some really interesting options there.
At the moment I need the middle seats, but I could make better use of the rear load space. Looking forward to the next update Craig.
“Don't believe everything you read on the internet.” ― Abraham Lincoln www.scotgrc.co.uk |
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2nd Feb 2025 9:28am |
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