I have a bad experience with land rover switch starter, I have changed starter switch on my other land rover twice but it only fail me in few months. Probably it is not a genuine product like the seller claim it. beside I think the switch starter is too small (the coil is also small so the magnet to pull the switch is not very strong). to overcome this, my brother have very-very excellent idea to change it with Kijangs (Toyota) which you can see on the left picture.
Why it is very excellent idea?
* First because it is bigger and have bigger coil too, so the magnet is stronger to make sure it can pull the switch and guarantee the contact.
* Second, it has the special button, so if the coil fail and there is no magnet to pull the switch, you can just push the button to manually start the engine. It really helps me when I have to fix few things in the engine , I can start the engine without going to driver cabin. I place it in a way that I can easily reach it.
I really like this modification, it is simple and very good... as far as I know, I am the first one who do this type of modification... :-) so if you know someone who has this type of modification, he or she probably know it from here... :-). it cost you about $15 (secondhand parts + man hour).
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Hi....nice site and info especially on your isuzu conversion....regarding the starter swtich....could you put a large photo....I can't see the details....
we have so call Kijang in malaysia but called Unser....I'm driving one...I wonder the switch that you mention is the same.....I'm currently looking at a project to have Japanese petrol engine conversion or a 2.5 Landrover diesel engine fitted into a series 3 88.....cheers....
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