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mikeh501

Member Since: 07 Jan 2013
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 1142

Mikes Defender 90 Rolling Resto!

As a long time motorcyclist doing a lot of touring all over europe in my 20's and early 30's; well along came some sprogs and i decided to drop the bikes and get into something else - land rovers, green laning and P&P's.

So after getting rid of my old pride and joy...

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I bought this 94 90 200tdi about 3 years ago now and have enjoyed every minute, even those when it broke! which is often lol.

I use it primarily for off roading on P&P and some green lanes, but my intention wasnt for it to be a monster truck and still look fairly at home on the road.

As you do, over the last few years ive done quite a bit to it, and wanted to stick a thread up so others could have a looksie and perhaps get some inspiration, or at least know what they dont like lol.

Any questions about any of the mods welcome!

So this is where it started, an old fairly tired 90, but straight and unmolested example with the venerable workhorse 200tdi engine. It must have previously had some work done as the chassis is pretty decent and the axles have been replaced with series 1 disco items.

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And so it started! The first changes were to give it some decent protection off road and so a winch bumper was added (ebay jobbie £220), some tree sliders from richmond shot blasting (£90) and diff guards.

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15th Jun 2014 8:49pm

mikeh501

Member Since: 07 Jan 2013
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 1142

Well it spent many an hour visiting the tip, blasting over derbyshire, getting me to work in the summer occassionaly, in the snow and being blasted around various pay and plays lol.

It called for more mods!

Flatdog standard height and weight springs
Flatdog skeletal turrets
Koni dampers
Spring disclocation cones
Cooper STT 265/75/16 on black steels with 0 offset.
Heater cowl from muduk.
Remove stripes from sides.

and it ended up looking like this. I think a fair upgrade, excellent articulation and the difference in capability before and after was huge. The tyres and extra articulation made a huge huge difference. Getting addictive now!

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15th Jun 2014 9:00pm

mikeh501

Member Since: 07 Jan 2013
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 1142

But it couldnt last, the vehicle was now in need of a little TLC after all the abuse its suffered. So what started as a little job of fitting a raptor dash resulted in me taking it off the road for nearly 4 months lol.

Taking things to peices is easy, putting them back together takes a little more time....

15th Jun 2014 9:10pm

mikeh501

Member Since: 07 Jan 2013
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 1142

So once I started pulling it to peices heres what I found!

Found some corrosion on the rear cross member which was fairly ominous so decided to get it sorted out. Knocked it all back and then had it patched and blended.

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I started pulling apart the rear eletrics to fit new LED lamps, but found a right mess of previous bodge ups. Had to pretty much rewire the whole back of the vehicle. Also thought I would spray the rear load area, sounded straight forward but was a major major job.

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So what started as putting a dash in (and may I add I never have and its still in my garage waiting fitting even now) ended up with completely ripping out the interior! The plan had got bigger though, including twin batteries, winch, accessory wiring etc. So you cant do that until its all been painted out! So now your talking complete internal spray job excluding dash.

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The rear door was completely shot, rusted to

so I got one of those £99 doors off ebay and had it painted. Also fitted some zinc plated door hinges, and had to fix some of the paint on the body due to bimetal corrosion

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and while I was doing that I decided to fit a snorkel, but that meant pulling apart the intake, which led to knocking the rust off it and repainting... one thing leads to another etc.

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15th Jun 2014 9:28pm

Gert

Member Since: 11 Jun 2014
Location: Vaassen
Posts: 9

Good luck with all the work. Sometime you should take a bike to relax from all the work on your car. It's a good combination for sure. I combine my Def 90 TD5 with my other toy:

18th Jun 2014 7:53pm

mikeh501

Member Since: 07 Jan 2013
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 1142

Thanks! Nice bike too. I never had a ducati, but owned numerous aprilia, BMW, Suzuki, Kawasaki etc.

18th Jun 2014 10:58pm

mikeh501

Member Since: 07 Jan 2013
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 1142

Right then the next job was painting the interior before i fit the electrical installation. All painted by me in my garage in single pack polyurethane.

Running repair and painting of bulkhead. a few years life in it yet!

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Footwells and painted chassis underneath

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New floor panels and rear storage boxes getting painted up

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Rear load area painted. Cappings looking a bit tired, but one for another day.

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In front of bulkhead area.

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23rd Jun 2014 12:52pm

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