1988 Land Rover Ninety

I’ve finally fitted all of the bits (sumo bars + damper) I bought last year to the Landy, the on and off road handling have improved massively money well spent. I’ve also got a track rod guard from Gwyn Lewis, nice but if kit that weighs a fair amount, the only down side was my diff guard wouldn’t fit to the new guard so I’ve had to buy a new one and modify it.









I was due to compete in a rtv trail this Sunday coming but I’ve had a slight set back. While driving the cabin filled with smoke, managed to pull over rip the battery out, pull most of the dash out and was just about to soak under the remaining dash panel with the fire extinguisher the smoke stopped. After leaving it for 10mins I started it back up and managed to drive home with no other issues.

Once home I set about removing the rest of the dash.




I’ve found the issue it’s a white cable leading to the engine bay (the crimped wires were originally heatshrinked together. Where the loom enters the bulkhead it looks like 4-5 wires have fused together.

I think I’m going to disconnect the loom in the engine and fed it into the cabin, then try to repair it. Failing that I’ll have to get a second hand loom or a new one (£600 gulp).

if any one has any suggestions or knows what these cables feed I’m all ears and I’d appreciate the help, don’t really like doing car electrics it’s all witchcraft in my mind lol. Once I’ve sorted this I’m hoping to jet wash underneath and treat the chassis with lanoguard, then hopefully compete in some more rtv trials and do some greenlaning and pay & plays over the summer 

Thanks for looking,
Josh

Thanks Kevins that’s good to know and yeah think that’s going to be the plan not looking forward to it.

If the white wire only went to that terminal then it must have been a redundant circuit for something that wasn't fitted to your car so there would be no need to replace it.

Amazing a supposed pro wired a fan in with no fuse!

Good find mate, just checked on trail wise and it’s open, that’ll teach me for believing everything I’m told.

So since my last post I repaired the loom, took the Landy for a drive and 2 miles before I got home it started to stutter and cutout, just about managed to get it home.
It stopped working all together and would just crank but not turn over, no smoke coming out the exhaust so I thought it was a fuelling issue. 
I noticed the fuel line from the lift pump and filter were empty so tried to prime it with the lift pump, couldn’t prime despite rotating the engine to try and engage the lift pump. Purchased a Delphi lift pump put it in and could now prime the engine but still wouldn’t turn over after much investigation I found out the connection on the fuel stop solenoid had corded away, reconnected and she fired straight back into life.

I’ve been trying to make the Landrover a bit quieter by putting sound deadening mats and closed cell foam everywhere.






it’s not complete and I’m going to finish it with 4 way stretch carpet. It’s made a bit of a difference but it might be just a placebo. I think it will be a lot quieter when I get new doors and sound proof them. 

With the recent decent weather I’ve undersealed the Landrover again. I’ve always used dinitrol 4941 and I think it’s done a good job of protecting underneath. This year I’ve decided to try lanoguard on top of the dinitrol.









Its still wet in the photos, goes on easy enough but the filter in the spray gun you get given gets blocked every 2 mins so was a bit annoying while applying it. I used 2 litres in total and 6 cans of dinitrol, a lot of people complain that lanoguard stinks but me and the gf actually quite like the smell.  I’ll try and get a some better photos when it’s cured in a day or 2. I put some photos on the 1st page of when i originally undersealed the landy about 3-4 years ago and don’t think much has changed so I must be doing something right.

Thanks for looking.