Got the bikini winch mount from Bearmach today. Dispite being advertised for the SII/III, there is no way of mounting the thing further back so that its bolt holes line up with the bumper bolts. If it wasn’t for the bull bar, I’d just make some tie-strips from 5mm plate with 4 holes, tieing the […]
Steering Guard
The steering guard is on. The old outer shackles from the front springs has one end cut off in order to use them as spacers for the steering guard (perfect size and already have a spring-bolt hole). The cut end had a smaller hole drilled in line with holes drilled towards the rear of the […]
Billing Bits
No recent work except preparing the bits to fit the rad with front panel and the steering guard. Went to Billing twice (first with the family, as they all like LRs), the second time to look round all the parts bins. Spent about £150 on various things including a 200Tdi steering wheel, gen Defender battery […]
Diff Guards
Pics of the front and rear QT diff guards. The front is the Series type. It is cut at half height on the front (compared to the Def version) to make way for the track rod, but is otherwise identical to their std unit. The rear part bolts into the under side of the diff […]
Steering and Diff Guards
I then cleaned up either side of the front diff pan to prepare for muddybungy’s welding. He has fitted both the lugs for the front end of the QT diff guard, which will be bolted in after schutzing the axle case. I have already fitted the matching rear QT Salisbury guard. I have also been […]
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