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Last weekend we got lucky with the weather, mostly. We spent a couple of nights camping in Wales. On the way we decided we’d break the journey, by stopping the night at a pub that allows camping in their garden. So we stopped in Wiltshire at The Parish Lantern, highly recommended. The whole journey avoided […]
Vacuum Pump Failure – Covert Repairs Carole and Daniel have decided that they would like to look for a small camping fridge. We looked for a Decathlon and used the GPS find our way. It was along the way and we were heading towards Bari now. We found a Decathlon, but were not in luck,
Thanks to being the lucky recipient of a Safari Snorkel for my Birthday and many Christmases to come, I managed to get a Safari Snorkel fitted to the Landy last week. It was all fairly straight forward and I forgot to take many photos.The most intimidating bit for me was drilling the holes in the
During the trip last year into the Balkan states, we had a slight issue that the split charge contactor started failing to close. At first this was intermittent, then it became permanent in the heat. I was sometimes able to get it to close by tapping the contactor with a fair force. Eventually that did
The binnacle on the Defender is the part that surrounds the instruments in front of the driver, it secures to the underside of the dashboard top surface. The binnacle is also known as the instrument cowl. Item 1 In the picture on the left. The binnacle provides a frame to mount the instrument panel and
FTP8030 Land Rover Defender 300TDI This is how to check and test for intercooler leaks, the simple way. My Defender has had what I think is a typical intercooler leak for quite some time, which leads to some power loss often notable on hills. I attempted to sort it out last summer prior to our
The battery in a Defender is under the passenger seat. It is a large compartment which you can actually fit two batteries in. This is perfect if you want to use there vehicle for winching, camping or over landing. The main driver for fitting a second battery in our vehicle was to run the fridge.
I wanted to install a rear working spot light. It’s function will be to provide more light for situations where it was dark and we need to set up camp or do any other task which requires visibility for short periods in the dark. The working light is not intended to be for lighting the