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Unless my eyes are tricking me, you don't have any defender badge on the front of yours (unsurprisingly, given it was made before they were called that.) The "Land Rover 110" logo is much nicer looking in my opinion anyway, I like the way the 1 is separate from the 10 to encourage you to say one ten instead of one hundred and ten
The 2.5TD is indirect injection and sounds a lot smoother than the later engines (but needs more preheating and doesn't have the same power or torque.) I quite like them though, with the turbo working it pulls well enough and should sit at 70MPH without too much problem.
Yours looks the same as the first one our family had back in the 80s, it was a 2.5 petrol. Its replacement two years later is still in the family today, although we did rebuild it nearly 20 years ago... I doubt many people will be doing that with the "new defender"!
That's the real beauty of the Land Rover, the modular way it was built - there's really nothing you can't replace or rebuild yourself with just a decent collection of normal tools, and there are several decades worth of vehicles you can use spares from.
Peachy!":mztrj78r said:
Unless my eyes are tricking me, you don't have any defender badge on the front of yours (unsurprisingly, given it was made before they were called that.) The "Land Rover 110" logo is much nicer looking in my opinion anyway, I like the way the 1 is separate from the 10 to encourage you to say one ten instead of one hundred and ten
I'd guess that's the 2.5TD, not one of the TDIs (200 and 300 TDI were later - came in along with the name change IIRC)BTW although she's registered as November 1985, she's got the '86 2.5L TDi modified sometime in the 90's apparently.... sounds fantastic
The 2.5TD is indirect injection and sounds a lot smoother than the later engines (but needs more preheating and doesn't have the same power or torque.) I quite like them though, with the turbo working it pulls well enough and should sit at 70MPH without too much problem.
Yours looks the same as the first one our family had back in the 80s, it was a 2.5 petrol. Its replacement two years later is still in the family today, although we did rebuild it nearly 20 years ago... I doubt many people will be doing that with the "new defender"!
That's the real beauty of the Land Rover, the modular way it was built - there's really nothing you can't replace or rebuild yourself with just a decent collection of normal tools, and there are several decades worth of vehicles you can use spares from.
