Ever since the big rebuild, the 109’s wipers have over-swept the screen when wet, especially at speeds of over 40 mph. Â This not only damaged the paint of the wind screen frame, but also wrecked the wiper blades and made a loud noise on each over-run. Â In the past I have tried several rectifications, including […]
August 2013 Update
There hasn’t been much going on recently – I’ve been working too much and other things have been taking up the money anyway. The rebuilt head has cut down enormously on the oil loss suffered since I built up the Tdi engine in 2008. It’s hard to say whether it is still using any – […]
Head Gasket Failure
It never rains, but it pours. Â After just a week of driving about with the gear box behaving nicely, the engine coolant started pressurising. Â Even after allowing the engine to cool or having left it several days unused, the coolant expansion tank remained pressurised unless the cap was removed. Â There was no contamination of oil […]
109 Engine Mounting
The combination of the 200Tdi engine on Defender mountings and the axle upgrade lead to an unforeseen clash, literally. Â Under heavy braking, the front UJ of the front prop shaft was hitting the right hand side engine mounting. Â This came about because of two reasons: firstly, the Defender mounting hangs very low to clear the […]
Refitting the SVO System
Those of you who have read much of this blog may recall that when I built the 109, I fitted it with three fuel tanks and a heat exchanger to run the vehicle on vegoil (SVO – straight veg oil, hence the badging on the front wing panels). The system wasn’t used much after fitting […]
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