Stage 1 V8

Don't do it - seems every once half decent 80's defender has now been 'restored' by fitting push button doors, resprayed metalic silver with a black roof and whatever alloys they can find (usally ones off an old disco that aren't load rated for a 110) and some vulger intereour with bucket seating to...

Well that is a mystery then. Certainly seen many raised yellow Z logo'd sets over the years - can't imagine they are fakes given how many seem to have been made with such prominant branding as part of the mould, though maybe LR changed the design at some point and I'm just not old enough to remember...

There are a few types and they can get mixed about a bit. Below are the more common 16 inch ones in the UK, (the numbers quoted are the width, profile and ET which are usally stamped between the stud holes along with other stuff I don't really care about like the FV number which is usally there - th...

Series mudflaps would have had yellow rased letters though they can fade to whiteish. I think the colour is in the rubber so they don't seem to loose it completely, rather like white wall tyres. I hate to nit-pick (tho' I'll go ahead and do so anyway!) but the lettering on original Series 3 mudflap...

Series mudflaps would have had yellow rased letters though they can fade to whiteish. I think the colour is in the rubber so they don't seem to loose it completely, rather like white wall tyres. You can now get "genuine" replacements with rased logos in black, they are a bit thin and flopp...

I saw a Pilkington stand at a classic car show once and asked them this question as its the only non sundim glass in mine too. Can't actully remember the 'quote' but it was rediculous for what is is given you can pick up a clear one for about £20. The price was more comparable with a large curved sc...

You can buy all the parts to rebuild a relay seperately from places like Craddocks, not that expencive either, though its comparable to a complete pattern relay for a standard series 3. They might give you some dodgy looks and tell you its very dangerous to attempt as theres a spring in there but wh...

Can't remember exactly where I got mine from but it was one of the usual suspects using a rover part number, not a generic Smiths aftermarket one. There seems to be more than one type of these gauges so you've got to get the right bits paired together and they do seem to be different to the standard...

Factory white is definitely an option, though it doesn't seem to feature in the brochures much. Maybe that's because fleet operators who'd want it tend to do special order where as the brocures designed to sell more to the private buyer go for something more exciting (or at least more photogenic for...

I'm not at all sure what your question is. Yes, no one prints specs so it's down to salesmanship and owner gullibility for buying the wiz-bang brands. I buy genuine or the basic direct replacement item such as BOGE. And BOGE aren't as good as people profess. As said I'm asking for others opinions o...

These things seem to be a bit of a 'marmite' device as many seem to think they are useless and just make steering heavy, at least on a series, though LR engineers seem to think they are worth fitting to basicly any coil (or air) sprung model with a steering box and they seem to be a fairly popular o...

A former owner of my 88 did. See picture. But my car has a 4 cylinder diesel in it, which leaves more room for the fan. Standard after market fan or some japanese thingy. Works great though ;-) You might as well take that viscous fan off there, without the ducting (any ducting off a pre 300Tdi 90/1...

What colour is it? if pale green it could well be an ex SEB one (see my recent posts on that subject) which may well have had a higher gross weight, they were also converted to USW spec. Nope, its ex enviroment agency, its white, very white, white everywhere, even in the places no one bothers to re...

Yep, that might just be the money shot.

A friend of mine asked me about his non functioning difflock the other week, I had a look around under the bonnet and think the vacuum pipeing is missing under there but couldn't work out how its surposed to be. HAd a flick through my parts book and V8 sup but couldn't see the difflock plumbing - pr...