As someone who owns a 25 year old Disovery 2 TD5 (the best of the LR engines).and does many many remote adventures throughout Australia. You can always fix a landrover and it will always get you home. They are the very best of vehicles and I am truly loving your series brake downs n all adventure it highlights how simple they are to fix with basic bush machines 😉 trip of a life time
I’ve been waiting for this episode! Absolutely love this series and the landys! You guys rock. It’s awesome seeing how determined and handy you all are to keep them going. These actually are good trucks once someone who knows what they are doing fully goes through them, and you use them as intended!
Im a long time follower of the channel and I cannot express how strange it is to see Rich driving a car I have seen for sale in my town, using our local shitty yellow tool sets, and drinking black label next to the road. Lol
You guys are awesome. There's nothing best than have your friends along the road and have fun no matter what goes wrong with the vehicle. Keep travelling wherever you are. Greetings from Kazakhstan
Nothing like traveling to a completely unfamiliar continent to drive sketchy vehicles through some terrible conditions with a group of guys to see the scenery. Well played Rich.
This is a great series! I mean how much fun is it to take vehicles that half of the off-road world see as unreliable and take them cross country. You get to play with trucks, see sites, and see creatures that you may never get to see again. Good fun!
1:05:50 That's The storyline of any random road trip with a Landy 😂. You break the bank in the gas station and the parts store, drive through some terrain most people can't navigate on foot, pul a couple of Toyotas out of a ditch, fix 2/3 of the damn thing on the side of the road, get a sore ass from all the vibration and the nice comfy seats and still somehow you knowingly decide to do all that again 😅😅😅 and again 😂😂😂
Such a good trip ! Agree with some comments to tell : it's the best travel video since a long time !!! Almost stock Defender without too much accessories. Mechanic skills & road repairs. That's all the spirit Land Rover. Can't wait the next one. Best Regards from a Swiss Defender owner.
Thermostat is a separate plastic item on a TD5 not in the head - The piece they are missing for the rad fan shroud is an intermediate plastic frame the attaches to the radiator using the two holes in the rad and two clips at the bottom, and lastly if that machine is supposed to have been a "ready for sale" Land Rover the place that sold it needs to have a serious chat with themselves.....
For real man, I thought he said that it's inspected by that dealer(?) or something. It is a consignment but shouldn't they at least check it a little bit before giving it to the costumer. Problems right from the get go.
@@HPLP85 Well said. I have now 340k on mine, including a lot of towing and off-roading, without any major engine issues at all. That Trip to Brittannica Restorations would also be stuff for a really interesting video!
I've always found it easiest to reverse bleed the clutch from the slave cylinder. You just use a traditional pumpy oil can filled with clutch fluid with a bit of hose connected to the bleed nipple on the slave. Turns it into a 1 person job!
Ex TD5 owner too, god those engines are just total lemons if you get a bad one. The rest of the car was brilliant though, and I will own another. Just not with that motor.
lol in our defence all we covered up was Rich saying he could swap out the 300tdi sensor for the Puma one in the green landy to test, which wasn’t compatible so wasn’t ever done.
Really enjoying this, l have driven TD landys they are fantastic…. When they are working, no way known l would ever buy one. Looking forward to episode 3.
Exceptional piece of film! Love able but slightly flaky vehicles, good buddies traveling through exotic countries. What an adventure?! Thank you. I know how much time and effort must have gone into making this. Not jealous at all! 😂Incredible memories for sure.
Just found your channel & really enjoy it, and your in Dunnville I'm not far, I'm just in Guelph! Soon as I saw the Defender not starting I was saying it's the shutoff switch. Think you have about as many problems with those trucks as I do with my old GMC 6.5 diesel!! Anyway loving the videos! 👍
I lived there on the Skeleton Coast where the Orange River, ( border to the south with South Africa )...dumps into the Atlantic. Go to the beach, walk north, look for raw diamonds on the surface of the sand. Watch for the DeBeers guard jeep with dogs and full-auto weapons. Best to look like a polite semi-lost tourist. The diamond cutters in Soweto, ( Johannesburg slum ) will give you good job and fair price. Namibian girls are indeed most beautiful.
Little trick with Td5 cooling systems. When you need to bleed the system, you need raise the header tank above the height of the engine by 100 mm (4 inches) with the engine running and the cap removed because, believe it or not, air gets trapped in there and causes all sorts of issues.
Had the same problem with my headlight switch blowing on my Defender 110 200tdi. I fixed it by putting in a lighting relay, because they didn't have any in the 200tdi and early 300tdi👍
I noticed the same thing and wondered if anyone else did. Would recommend blowing air from the clean side of the filter to the dirty side of the filter. That way dust blows out of the filter without having to travel all the way through the filter. It’ll perform better and last longer this way.
The background sounds especially on the landscape b roll is fantastic!! And Rich, your content is fire lately!!!! Oh, and that video with zip tie was awesome 👍😎
Great job guys, These two episodes can hold up with the Grand Tour any day! Love the roadside fixes. Hopefully you will have these Rovers at a car show in Dunville next year!
your missing the entire fan shroud, you need the second part that bolts into the top of the rad, and has a little hook on the bottom to hold the lower rad hose and wraps around the fan, then that top piece you have clips into that lower one 👍
The main roadways between cities in Namibia are so quiet. Could be from a combination of being sparsely populated, good coming direct to ports rather than by transport truck, and the financial barriers of owning a vehicle.
Hi rich, I just watched the firts video of the 110 300tdi. If the snorkel was run using the original pipes, then there's a drain at the bottom of the bulkhead. It's a night to get to silicone, and a heavy bit of plastic bag with a ziptie will seal it up nice. The td5 can be a night mear do not drive in wather deeper then the bottom of the door
Pro Tip, don't park in the middle of a dirt road with three cards spanning the entire width! Thats bad news waiting to happe :D Awesome video guys! Brings back memories of driving there as a youngster in a red G-wagon!
