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    Diesel talk 200 tdi or 300 tdi?

    I spun the boost pin, and dropped the star wheel down a turn or so on my 200. went from zero smoke, but zero pull under 2000rpm (difficult for hill starts and towing) to v. respinsive with a small puff off boost. well worth doing!
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    1976 Land Rover Series III 109 build "Montoya"

    sister truck! http://iforce.co.nz/i/pmjfa1xm.dg0.jpg
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    Replace trailer tires due to age not wear?

    I have two trailers. one wears out a set of 4 once a year, the other will dry rot before they get to half worn. once they start showing cracks etc etc I usually grab a set of half worn tyres from a tyreshop and pop those on. rinse. repeat. If you monitor them well there's no need to replace them...
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    1993 Camel Trophy 200TDI

    so is this thing still around? what's happening with it?
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    Post pictures of your Land Rover.

    My disco in the foot of snow (fairly large amount where I live) that we had near us recently. http://iforce.co.nz/i/ptguyjk4.k0m.jpg dunno why it keeps posting sideways:sombrero:
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    S111 hardtop , part time NZ dirtbag in a SWB Land Rover

    Where did ya get your seat kit from? Pretty keen to do to mine and aliexpress might be the place
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    S111 hardtop , part time NZ dirtbag in a SWB Land Rover

    loving the heated seat mod!
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    S111 hardtop , part time NZ dirtbag in a SWB Land Rover

    great thread! you part of any of the nz landy facebook pages?
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    Post pictures of your Land Rover.

    Just picked up this 3 Door Manual 200Tdi Disco from a guy i've known since I was little. I sold a lift kit for it when I first started out in the parts world. Sold him Konis which have recently been replaced with old man emu shocks. not sure what happened to the konis, hasn't done a huge amount...
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    Bringing Sexy Back. AKA 93' LWB RRC

    sounds great! hope the smoke clears up with the recon pump. may need a refresh on the injectors, or maybe just a good run with some load on it?
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    Aftermarket Isuzu Dash Switches?

    nice! substantially more expensive in NZ. always the way eh. I guess the connector is merely a conjoined bunch of spade terminals.
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    Aftermarket Isuzu Dash Switches?

    buy part # 1884345750 from your lcoal isuzu dealer. comes with a push on/off switch w/ a small pilot lamp, and plug/short amount of loom kit fits all blank switch positions (left and right of you instrument binnacle and down by the lighter socket on an NPS). aside of getting a switch from a...
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    Which truck to import from Japan?

    those smaller dyna trucks are just hilux/hiace vans with different bodies really. very ligth duty as far as trucks go. the 2.8Litre "3L" engine don't make a lot of grunt. Hardy and reliable, though. as for winding back odometers - that stuff stopped happening long ago. some people still bring...
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    Which truck to import from Japan?

    yep often 4x4 or even stuff that has snow tyres when auctioned has been run on salted roads and the chassis of those vehicles etc are pretty grubby. Often the jap models of late model smaller trucks (isuzu npr/nps etc) have the smaller engines too. At least for us here in NZ an Isuzu NPS will be...
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    Post pictures of your Land Rover.

    whipped the engine out of my series one this morning
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    Post pictures of your Land Rover.

    picked up this ex nz army series one 80" I just want the engine out of it (was rebuilt no long before parked in 1995). has had the same Holden 186ci engine conversion done as my s2a she was parked up due to chassis and firewall rot. after cleaning the corrosion off the points, she fired right...
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    Post pictures of your Land Rover.

    ^ mine too. been doing some work on a friend's very quick little e21 bmw. bit of a wolf in sheep's clothing. currently on his spare wheels which make it look very un-staunch. Lots of horrible wiring going on so have tidied that all up and did some upholstery work etc Thought it was an...
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    Post pictures of your Land Rover.

    got this thing a couple of months ago. was abandoned by some old bean whose kids wanted to put him in a home. so he become a stowaway on a ship and got the hell out of there. apparently living happily in some other part of the country now. He left behind two fishing trawlers and this landy at...
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    Post your Mitsubishi Pajero Pics

    all shined up and for sale http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=872578118 time for a road legal Series Landrover, given I don't *need* a super reliable late model vehicle anymore!
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