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| Main Technical Page - for coil sprung vehicles (for Series Three click here) | ||
| Title of page | ALL= All Land Rovers, COIL=CoilSprung, DEF=Defender, DISCO=Discovery I, RRcl=RangeRoverClassic, RRNEW=New Shape Range, DEFTD5=DefenderTD5, DISCOII=NewDiscovery, FREE=Freelander, I sincerely appologize for the lack of dedicated Series pages |
Applies to:
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| Overview of the regular intervals | DEF, DISCO, RRcl. | |
| Weekly or before longer trips | DEF, DISCO | |
| Once a month | DEF, DISCO | |
| Once every 3 months | DEF, DISCO | |
| A guarantee for long engine life | DEF, DISCO, RRcl. | |
| What the official dealers check during inspections | DEFTD5, DISCOII | |
| More than a dozen further maintenance themes (checklists etc) | DEFTD5, DISCOII, DEF, DISCO, RRcl. | |
| Defender components | Where to find the important things on Defenders | DEF |
| Where to find the important things on Discoveries | DISCO | |
| Draining and changing the diesel filter | DEF, DISCO | |
| What's a weak spot and what can be tolerated | ALL | |
| A drop of oil | ALL | |
| Checking and topping up | ALL | |
| Often forgotten | DEF, DISCO | |
| Essential for your surviving | DEF, DISCO | |
| I can't do wrong here- or can I? | DEF, DISCO | |
| Easy | DEF, DISCO | |
| Also rarely done | DEF, DISCO | |
| Vital check | ALL | |
| The lost art of injecting oily slime | ALL | |
| What to look for and how to test them | ALL | |
| START HERE | COIL | |
| The Land Rover ID-card | a handy help for your wallet | ALL |
| Defender problems | The problems built in Defenders | DEF, DEFTD5 |
| The Perentie tech | Technical details | Special interest |
| Overheating | Excessive heat on the V-8's | ALL |
| Defender emergency procedures | Incl. wiring diagram | DEF |
| Fender trimming | How to cut your fenders to fit bigger tires | DEF, DEFTD5 |
| Fitting a Vitesse engine | a 'fast' engine for Defenders | DEF |
| Door hinges | Quick removal of the door hinges | DEF, DEFTD5 |
| The clutch damper | Often this problems arrises | DISCO |
| Long Travel suspension | A long travel suspension for Discoveries | DISCO |
| Steering Shimmy | Unprecise steering and it's cure | COIL |
| Emergency procedures | And some electrical problems | DISCO |
| Freelander problems | The problems page | FREE |
| Freelander emergency procedures | Some Freelander problems | FREE |
| Range Classic problems | The Range trouble page | RRcl |
| Emergency procedures | What to do if you loose your transmitter key? | RRcl |
| Emergency procedures new Range | Same for the new models | RRNEW |
| Replacing the Boge unit | Using a coil spring | RRcl |
| The dictionary | Translation english-german-french-finnish-swedish | ALL |
| The TestBook | The new 'must-have' in the workshop | DEFTD5, DISCOII, RRNEW, FREE |
| Modern suspensions | On the Disco II | DISCOII, DEFTD5 |
| Anti-Lock braking system | The anti-lock brakes and all the components as introduced from 1999 on | DISCOII, DEFTD5 |
| Modern transmissions | As used on Disco II and later models | DISCOII |
| ACE | The Active Cornering Enhancement | DISCOII, DEFTD5 |
| Safety systems | Air bags and how to handle them | DISCOII, RRNEW, FREE |
| The OBD system | On bord diagnostics system | DISCOII, RRNEW, FREE |
| The Instrument cluster | On the Discovery II | DISCOII |
| Extreme modifications | An page about several more 'extreme' modifications | DEF, DISCO |
| Fabitron | A small company that makes special parts | DEF, DISCO |
| Fuel conversion table | Conversion from Mpg to l/100km | ALL |
| TD5 tacho | How to install an revcounter on a TD5 | DEFTD5 |
| How to identify your parts | How to find serial numbers | COIL |
| Nuts and Bolts | What's the difference and what do the numbers mean? | ALL |
| Shorts | What the shorts like ACE, ABS and so on mean | DEFTD5, DISCOII, FREE, RRNEW |
| MAINPAGE Engine and drivetrain | Mainpage on engine, trans and axles | COIL |
| How to build engines | About V8 and TDi's | COIL |
| The 200 TDi engine | The first of the modern direct injection diesels | DEF, DISCO |
| The 300 TDi engine problem | The second generation of direct injected engines had more trouble with the timing belt | DEF, DISCO, RRcl |
| The TD5 engine | Page on the new standard diesel engine | DEFTD5, DISCOII, |
| The 4.0 V-8 engine | The petrol-burner at it's best | DISCOII, RRNEW |
| Quick oil change valve | A very good homemade system | ALL |
| Tyres | Deciphering the inscriptions | ALL |
| Wheel and tyre sizes | What fits and what hits | COIL |
| Steel or alloy wheels | What's the difference in materials? | ALL |
| Snow Chains | All about snow chains | ALL |
| MAINPAGE Suspension | Mainpage on suspensions and modifications | COIL |
| Modern suspensions | On the Disco II | DISCOII, RRNEW |
| ARB Lockers | How to fit ARB Air Lockers into a Rover axle | COIL |
| PU Bushes | What's the difference between plastic and plastic? | ALL |
| Steel qualities | As used in axles | ALL |
| Spring rates | The different coils, lenghts and capabilities | COIL |
| Suspension modifications | A page which shows different possibilities | COIL |
| Stock suspensions | The genuine Land Rover suspensions | COIL |
| Lee suspensions | Some excellent stuff | COIL |
| Rovertym suspension install | An detailed how-to on installing a new suspension | COIL |
| RTI - Ramp Travel Index | What the ramp is and how to interpret the figures | ALL |
| Safari Gard Stage II | Safari's medium suspension | COIL |
| Safari Gard Stage III | Radical modifications | COIL |
| Wheel wobble cure | Get rid of the wobbling steering wheel | COIL |
| Four Wheel steering | Making your 'other' axle turn | DEF |
| Swivel housing | How to choose the correct lube | COIL |
| Shock Change | Basically easy but with some pitfalls | COIL |
| The Ashcroft Underdrive | A modern crawler box for coil spring vehicles | COIL |
| Overdrives | For modern Land Rovers | COIL |
| Dual batteries or large alternator 1 | Considering a high drain and it's influences - part 1 | ALL |
| Dual batteries or large alternator 2 | Considering a high drain and it's influences - part 2 | ALL |
| How to troubleshoot a drain | How to find the problem if your battery slowly dies | ALL |
| How to wire up auxilliary lights | Adding long range beams | ALL |
| Heated mirrors | A very rewarding easy transformation | ALL |
| Spark plugs | Decrypting the letters and numbers on spark plugs (pdf-file) | ALL |
| Replacement ECU's | And about the inner parts | COIL |
| Check procedures 3.9 | Check procedures, hot wire ECU | DEF, DISCO, RRcl |
| Check procedures 3.9 early | Check procedures, flap type ECU | DEF, DISCO, RRcl |
| Genera Tricksl | General tricks on washing, theft proofing and so on | ALL |
| Engine Tricks | Cheap tricks for working on and around engines | ALL |
| Tires | Field fixing of tires | ALL |
| Nuts | Some tricks on nuts and bolts | ALL |
| Oil change | Tricks that make changing your oil easier | ALL |
| Tools | Tricks for your tools | ALL |
| Gizmo sounds | Ever wondered what that beep-beep-beep meant? | COIL |
| Land Rover electrics | Lucas or the Prince of Darkness | ALL !! |
| Murphy's law on Land Rovers | Did you know that Murphy drove a Land Rover? | ALL !! |