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Discovery to Defender gearbox conversion

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EVER since the first Discovery came on the market with its superb 200Tdi engine, Land Rover owners have been transplanting the engine to their utility coil-sprung vehicles as an upgrade from their lower-powered 12J diesel engines and 19J turbodiesels. In the early days, the engines were taken from accident-damaged Discoverys but, as values dropped because of age and corrosion, the practice only became more popular. This is also true for the 300Tdi-engined Discovery and even the Td5 version, where a good engine can be taken from a rusty vehicle to keep a Defender with an expired engine on the road. This is exactly what is being done for this 110 HCPU project.

Often, these Discovery donor vehicles have excellent transmissions, too, and the transfer gearbox from a Discovery is a popular upgrade to a Defender. However,

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