You have onley got to get a 1HZ hot and the heads crack.Īs for the rust they worked on salty beackes, they are no worse than any other 4x4. In the next 6 months it will blow the head gasket but the head wont be cracked, machine the head reset the valves and its all good. let it cool down, replace the hose and drive it home. You can blow a radaitor hose and drive it till it sizes. Or dont worry about how hot it is ,just flog it and turn it off. The onley way the garrot turboes died was when the rust on the turbo housing got that bad it rusted a hole in the oil gallire. Replace timin belt and send it back to work. The fix, remove the tappot cover remove and replace bent pushrods and broken rockers. The timing belt problem, every now and then a belt did break, due to shifting down gears 4 to 1 by a backpaker.
#Defender land rover 1997 mods
They had a problem stripping the gearbox output sharft, a phone call to Landrover and a new gearbox was supplied with the mods so it didnt happen again. I worked on a fleet of 25 of them that worked on the beach as hire cars to the backpackers Well, If you want a car that is watertight, not noisy with air leake and drives nice get a Landcruiser.īut for a very caperable 4x4 a mid 90 defender 110 130 with a TDI engine is good.
#Defender land rover 1997 series
I would own one again definitely, but with a 80series cruiser and a series 2a land rover They are archaic and quirky, but brilliant.
If you self maintain they are a good fun truck to own, if you use a mechanic, it can be expensive. It all boils down to what you want and are prepared to do. My headlights used to go out if you hit the indicators sometimes, but randomly hitting other stuff (usually the hazard switch) would bring em back up. Yep it leaks but as it was vinyl seats and 2 rubber floormats it was never a real issue, we just chucked some of those silica sacs that absorb moisture up into the headling to stop it going mouldy over winter.Įlectrics are dodgy - but 200/300TDi doesn't have any that really matter. Its been super reliable, apart from a wheel bearing failing (and that was really my inexperience - I heard the growl and ignored it!) I thinks its got nearly 300,000 on it now. Can't say much about the 1997 Defender, but I had a 1990 200TDi which I bought with 140,000miles and sold with 165,000 on it to a mate, who's had it for the last 10 years.
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