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| ickle Member Since: 22 Jul 2010 Location: South Vendee Posts: 1822   
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A simple mechanical fuel tap on the line from the tank
It'll start but be within a few hundred yards when it conks! |
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6th Dec 2016 6:57am |
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| Anderzander Member Since: 08 Feb 2011 Location: Lancashire Posts: 1000 
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Other than the glowplugs there are really only two wires to the engine - the starter and it's solenoid and the stop solenoid..... you could put a switch in one of those.......
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6th Dec 2016 7:20am |
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| geobloke Member Since: 06 Nov 2012 Location: Nottinghamshire Posts: 4410
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As above really, stop solenoid or starter or traditional battery cut off or something mechanical (fuel cut off or clutch hydraulic switch).
The easiest is the Stop solenoid: you can be dead sneaky with where you put the switch and it is a dead easy install. It is a femal spade connector, so create a loom that has a male spade on one end and a female on the other, switch in the middle (routed to that sneaky place no one else knows about), plug it in and bobs your uncles sister-in-law. I do really miss the simplicity of the 200 sometimes, actually especially at the moment... TD5 is clinically brain dead... 😭😢 |
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6th Dec 2016 7:46am |
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| shaggydog Member Since: 12 Aug 2012 Location: Kent Posts: 3347 
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As above really.
I would say with Tdi engined defenders it is far more important to invest in lumps of metal (xeng gear lock, peddle lock, ignition shroud) and a good tracker than fancy electrical immobilisers and bits of kit as there is so little wiring on them to begin with anything extra will stick out like a sore thumb and is very quickly beaten. I'm not saying don't do it, by all means the more layers the better but if you have a budget, I would put it lower down the list than other physical lumps first. Running Restoration Thread http://www.defender2.net/forum/post323197.html#323197 Self confessed mileage hunter  |
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6th Dec 2016 12:37pm |
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| Huttopia Member Since: 23 Feb 2016 Location: West Midlands Posts: 1978
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Have a look at your switch rack and see if there are any blanks. Put a switch in a blank (ideally a second hand switch) that is wired to stop the engine from firing but still allows it to turn over. The noise of a 200tdi is enough to wake the dead so having it crank repeatedly on the drive should be enough!
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6th Dec 2016 2:52pm |
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| Tiger Member Since: 06 Jul 2012 Location: Wales Posts: 2265 
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Pre-puma Defenders have a sneaky switch hole under the RHS of the instrument cluster.
See here  Click image to enlarge Most of the old Austin/Rover switches fit in it. Like this one for £8
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CLASSIC-MINI-HEA...Sw2s1UyrUp |
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6th Dec 2016 3:05pm |
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| xcentric Member Since: 17 Jan 2016 Location: Midlands Posts: 247 |
nice, thanks.
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6th Dec 2016 5:16pm |
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| ickle Member Since: 22 Jul 2010 Location: South Vendee Posts: 1822
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If you could sort out a simple timer that connected to a change over relay- say 5 seconds or so - that initially allowed it to start and then cut the fuel off and swapped the feed to a sounder, an immobilised LR in the middle of the road blowing a horn should attract attention!
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6th Dec 2016 8:24pm |
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| dorsetsmith Member Since: 30 Oct 2011 Location: South West Posts: 4554 |
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Land-Rover-Wolf-...Swa~BYRFQu
red top of the Isolator can be removed in the off position kit includes all parts need |
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6th Dec 2016 8:49pm |
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| xcentric Member Since: 17 Jan 2016 Location: Midlands Posts: 247 |
got a x-eng plate, got battery cutout switch, got padlock for battery compartment (though thats a minor inconvenience), gps/gsm tracker, and got most of the vehicle marked with smart water. Disklok - made offers on gumtree/ebay, and putting in one or more cutoff switches. Concept is that they all have to be easy to use when active and when not (Disklok is an exception), and able for me to sort the car in the middle of nowhere, knowing what I know about where stuff is. Might take me an hour but needs not to let me down!!
getting there.... |
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6th Dec 2016 10:50pm |
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