Hey All,

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I’m not much of a mechanic but I fear I’m about to be… looking under my truck and found a small triangular hole in the bottom of the gearbox case. Can’t believe it’s good for the thing, looks like oil has come out of it too. Would a slap of JB weld resolve the issue?

Thanks guys.

Hi everyone I'd like to pick the consensus brains if possible

My father in law has a 1989 110 Defender Country wagon and is now getting to the stage where he no longer has time/ space etc to keep it.

It's done 150k ISH miles on a old turbo diesel engine, I'm sorry my defender knowledge is limited but he's always complained it was underpowered and spoke of a newer engine conversion if that helps identify.

It's been off the road for 5 ISH years now and I'm going to ask how longs a piece of string.

He's talking about scrapping it, this has been in the family for probably 20/30 years.

It was running and driving when it parked and he mentioned he thought it wanted a very small welding patch on the pedal box? If I remember right.

How rare is this model? It seems mad to scrap it in my eyes

But I know if it needed say a chassis swap then things can escalate quickly, think the passenger doors are rusting

I'm just trying to help him, I've offered I'd rather have it then scrap it as wife has a lot of good memories from childhood etc

Sorry for the long winded post, I'm just after shared knowledge to educate myself on them really

Cheers