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Problem 1: Original Defender seats were invented by the Spanish Inquisition.
Solution: Throw out the original seats and find something more comfortable.

Problem 2: The new seats are very comfortable, but do not fit into the original holes.
Solution: Build something temporary, that converts the new seats holes layout to the Defender holes layout.

Problem 3: After 2 years of ignoring the problem that the new seats did not fold, I was looking for a better solution.
Solution: That’s the time to solve the problem and here is the story:

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There is a well known problem in the defender’s original thermometer. The thermometer is electrical and in order for it to work well it needs a good ground connection to the chassis. Heavy consumers of an electric current like the high headlights and the air conditioner blowers make the thermometer show a high value, that settles when the lights turned off. Those sides affects together with the fact that the original thermometer is not sensitive enough causes a situation when you can’t trust the value on the original thermometer.

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Note: In this article I will describe the process of installing an additional A/C compressor as on-board air compressor. In order to keep things simple- the original A/C

compressor will be referred as “A/C compressor“, and the on-board air compressor will be referred as “Air compressor“. Read the rest of this entry »

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