Defender door hinges - permanent fix for an old problem 

This is brilliant - very much looking forward to watching more of your videos.

Land Rover tips from a man who looks like an elderly William Saddler. This is truly the pinacle of the internet :)

Thank you for a brilliant video - from South Africa

Very clever idea -- it's the experience of Landy Lovers like you that keep these Iconic vehicles going and they will still be here in a few hundred years time . When all the modern cars have already been recycled ! ! !

This is one of the best ideas I have seen and it's cheap.

Thanks for another good video. I am always amazed by the lack of grease nipples on so many items that clearly benefit from them.

Fantastic upgrade, so simple to accomplish!

great idea, now done this to my 110,

Great solution. Nice work.

Very nice idea and work, sir. I liked your cap! Best regards, from Brazil! 🇧🇷

Very good Idea ! Jens

had not seen a manual impact driver before, very good

Thanks mate, I've been through a few hinges in my travels!

Great functional solution to S3& Defender Hinges. The Series 2/2A had much nicer simple hinges with a replaceable drilled brass ball separating the door & post which worked well & were easy to replace if not exactly hi tec.

What a fantastic solution to an age old problem. Well done gonna do this myself shortly thanks....

Yes well worth repairing your old original LR hinges. I’ve avoided the blue box parts an I have a very reliable series2a109.

Even if don’t agree with u I can’t argue new subscriber

brilliant idea i think i will give it a go on one of mine

I did sumilar, just druled the holes inside of the hinge and grees them and I do that realy often. Cheers. 🍻

Good man.....thought of doing this on the S3 I bought new in 1975....but never got around to it. I did try to know a pin out once.....gave up in the end would not budge. Fitted grease nipples to all my steering joints....still has several that were fitted in the factory in 75....also fitted a nipple on the parking brake joint bolted to the chassis.

An old-school solution that works!

Great solution

Currently watching this from my home in Morzine and enjoyed the rallye memorabilia in the garage!

Brilliant!

Very simple solution 👍

It’s a shame the Defender has been discontinued. The revamped version is hideous. This channel seems like more evidence of the continued demand for the old style defender.

great hack there sir

Good video, ive been putting grease nipples in my hinges for years. You used to be able to get new pins, but that seem to dissapear.

Very clever young lad,must admit was unhappy when you dumped us here in Australia in 1770 but that is fine because the weather is great. Please say hello to the Queen for us.😁😁😁😁

Great content as always! As a side note there are several German suppliers that have a Hinge Set with Grease Nipples built into the vertical orientation of the pin but are as expensive as Optimill?

Did you use a Drill Doctor to sharpen your bit ? I have a Drill Doctor 850. Brilliant kit. I can do do 2mm up to 16mm. Thank you Bill for keeping engineering alive and relevant.

Bill, i've recently acquired a 110 wolf that I intend on using for long-distance travel overland. It's really in great shape having been waxoil injected into the chassis and bulkhead from the factory and kept in Cyprus for most of its life. You've mentioned you've done this too on your example. Could you do a video on the maintenance of the chassis and bulkhead? There are videos out there but I'd very much appreciate your take on it. Cheers.

So it's the pin that deteriorates rather than the surrounding hinge plates? Can you buy replacement hinges? I have to 'lift and slam' my Wolf doors, great solution with the greasing, cheers.

Old man’s wise I like your attitude them fancy expensive Crome pieces don’t get you home my dad fluid films everything on his truck to he also uses red heavy duty cv axle and knuckle grease to put on the high rust areas he washes the underneath very good and makes sure it stays wet with oil theirs not a single bit of rust anywhere on his 2008 GMC Sierra and we live in the rust belt of western Pennsylvania he swears that the rubberized undercoating is made bye the auto industry to rot cars out sooner and sell you a new one and I believe him that salt dust is so fine it gets in everything and in between everything don’t ever raptor liner or bed line line x or other rubberize your undercarriage will give the salt a new spot to sit inbetween that and the actual paint intended for bare metal those aren’t meant for that

You provide some useful information , thank you for posting your videos. i would advise cautious use of copper grease anywhere near aluminium. Add water to those two elements and you have a fine battery = galvanic corrosion. Nickel anti seize is kinder.

Your universal lump hammer was impressive in all applications; no ball pein frippery here ! BTW I persevered with Alfatronix on a battery disconnect unit and bought some of their USB outlets also. Indirect sales sources apparently lack stock and it took a few attempts to connect with the in-house sales team. Where did you find your unit ?

Great idea mate but is the clearance sufficient between the pin and the bigger part of the hinge enough to allow the passage of grease?

what if you replace the pin with a slit pin a pin witch is hollow and has a slit running down one side then you could put the grease nipple in the top hole and plug the bottom one

LR would not have been able to do this as the protruding grease nipple would not pass the safety regulations which required them to introduce this flat hinge design for the series 3. In reality this mod is unlikely to be an issue unless your vehicle needs inspection for import or is used somewhere with very strict roadworthyness inspections (In the UK this would fail an IVA but likely pass an MOT). Series 2A and before don't seem to be known for maiming pedestrians on their hinges so its unlikely to really be hazardous as its within the narrow tolerance between someone already having had a slap from the mirror to being fully ran over. None the less that is perhaps why no one on the aftermarket has taken on the liability for this design and instead hide them underneath if they bother with serviceability at all.

hello mr defender mods and trevels, this is really good! however, I have seen a flaw in the system! if I remove the screws from the hinges, the door is open! then with the tire lever I can force it open, that is correct - right? It seems to be a completely flawed system!

Interesting that your hinges have no provision for lubrication. On my Series III when you open the door fully there's a slot on the back side of the hinge where you can oil the centre pin. I'd never seen them before until I bought a set of Genuine NOS ones from Cyprus. When you close the door the slot isn't visible. It also says to lubricate every 3,000 miles (5,000 km) or 3 months in my Owner's Manual, so they've obviously increased the interval later on.

Really struggling to remove hinges because the screws are rounding, any advice appreciated ❤

They don’t put grease nipple’s in so that they can sell more hinges. Would not sell many if hinges worked for the life of the vehicle!!

Ugly but works! They should have put hinge inside like other normal vehicles!

Do you use standard differentials on your Defender?

Not many people EVER want to touch a grease gun for any reason.