Profyaffle wrote:

Vineyard ??!!!! Do you make wine when you aren't messing with the LR?

It's coming along great... I've got a combined boost and EGT gauge to fit... its not quite oem looking but not far off.. unfortunately is was very expensive, not helped by having to pay £69 import tax....

I will be interested to see what improvements the boost pin makes.. I was looking at one, or turning my standard one, although I'm a bit apprehensive about tinkering with the engine...

Yeah, it does between 5-7 tons a year

The 200Tdi is a very tough engine, i'm going to set everything to standard and see how it behaves, then i'll have a little tinker with the timing on the fuel pump if I feel the calling.

Have you got a pic or a link to the gauge?

Procta wrote:

looking great there kit, did you see the amount of soil i removed from mine? you could have used it to pot a plant with! i am sure there is more still to remove, you may be right about those guards, the rear cross member area, where the rear indicators are, is a mud trap!

Kit wrote:

Profyaffle wrote:

Vineyard ??!!!! Do you make wine when you aren't messing with the LR?

It's coming along great... I've got a combined boost and EGT gauge to fit... its not quite oem looking but not far off.. unfortunately is was very expensive, not helped by having to pay £69 import tax....

I will be interested to see what improvements the boost pin makes.. I was looking at one, or turning my standard one, although I'm a bit apprehensive about tinkering with the engine...

Yeah, it does between 5-7 tons a year

The 200Tdi is a very tough engine, i'm going to set everything to standard and see how it behaves, then i'll have a little tinker with the timing on the fuel pump if I feel the calling.

Have you got a pic or a link to the gauge?

Procta wrote:

looking great there kit, did you see the amount of soil i removed from mine? you could have used it to pot a plant with! i am sure there is more still to remove, you may be right about those guards, the rear cross member area, where the rear indicators are, is a mud trap!

Yeah it's starting to come together now, I think mine and yours are the same kind of restoration by the looks of your thread! There was a whole bunch more that came out while i was blasting around with the air line, that last pile just came out while I was rummaging around with my hand!

Profyaffle wrote:

This is the where I got the gauge from...
http://www.mcnallyelectronics.com/BoostEGT..._p_13.html
I went for green led but now I'm thinking white might have been better..

I've fitted the Gwyn Lewis front mud shields to Alan.. keeps all the crap out well

So how much wine does 7 tonnes of grapes make

The gauge is pretty smart, but I suppose it should be at that price!

There are a couple of variables but it's about 4750-5750 bottles  1993 200 Tdi 90 CSW
1956 Series 1 Hard-top
1958 Series 1 Soft-top

Procta wrote:

yeah I am starting to thing the same thing, I need to get in with the hose pipe really and have a good blast. sadly I don't have an air line, you should have seen the amount that came out from the out riggers, so god knows what ours has been used for in the past.

Kit wrote:

Procta wrote:

yeah I am starting to thing the same thing, I need to get in with the hose pipe really and have a good blast. sadly I don't have an air line, you should have seen the amount that came out from the out riggers, so god knows what ours has been used for in the past.

An air compressor is a useful bit of kit and there no where near as expensive as they used to be these days, if you do get one make sure its got a pretty good capacity as I had a little one and it was frustrating to use.

I think most defenders built before they became fashionable have had a fairly hard life, mine has definitely been through a workshop at some point and had a wad of cash spent on it in the last 5-10 years, i'm fairly convinced the front end has had a blow over at some point too.

Mine has had some love too in the past, with galv inner sills, and a new fuel tank, Me and my dad have talked about air compressors, we were thinking about getting air tools. With us both having Defenders now, so it could be all still on the cards.
My dads also had some money spent on it, He found that out the hard way, when stripped the thing down to replace the clutch that didn't even need doing, it already had a new one in! He is hell bent on clutches! had the 306 clutch going for the past 10 years! and its till going strong now! Even tried to start on mine, but that was due to a prop shaft cv joint going. Anyway enough of me winging on about my dads clutch fetish Have you looked at the tappets? Mine where way off! Defender TD5 90 ---/--- Peugeot 306 HDI hatch back

Success is 90% Inspiration and 4 minutes Preparation # you can make it!

Kind of tempted to raptor them obsessed with the stuff at the moment

Stoney wrote:

Just read from the start, really nice truck Will be really interested to see how you get on with the Timing advance kit is it from M&H ?