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This is a Land Rover forum, not a conspiracy theorist’s forum - please keep things on topic.

Lightweight working for its keep today regards Stephen

You’re an inspiration to us all Stephen, after a snowfall last night I figured it was time to whip up something to get me out of the drive! it’s not on par with yours of course, but I can send you the blueprints if you want?

....when you forget to finish the post title correctly.

First post here, but I just finished reviewing the new Defender for an upcoming Wheels Afield magazine. I own a 1984 Defender 110, so I retain great fondness for the original. With that said, I realized from the first rumors on that the new one would be a different vehicle. There was no way JLR was going to build another bolt-together oxcart, which had been steadily losing market share for two decades or more. Likewise, they were never going to retire the Defender name. That's too bad in a way, because if they'd named this vehicle anything else Land Rover fans would have greeted it rapturously

Looking through this & seeing the original post about it being linked to, maybe we should just take a step back & remember a young person lost their life in this incident, horrific though it is, just think if it was your child how would you feel to find it & the possible cause being discussed again. I think we should let the inquest give the verdict on their findings, the guilty person has to live with this for the rest of their days. ultimately the true cause will probably not ever be known by us due to the fact the subject vehicle is not available for anyone on here to inspect, J

Here's another option: Saw this and thought of you 😛

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Thanks to Daan and the other mods for approving this post, I think this may be of interest to some people here I have been interested in the Italian Piaggio Apes and seriously considered one to drive on a moped license way back when I was 16 (I bought a Leyland 272 tractor and drove round in that instead but that is another story), I then moved onto cars and normal sized trucks and the interest dropped off. A couple of years ago whilst perusing that popular internet auction site I came across a bigger version of the Ape, a TM703 which was far more useful in size but still small and had a

Taste has nothing to do with sympathy or charity lol regards Stephen

The doors arrived safely and were unpacked and marvelled at and then the missus looks at me and says ' I've had an idea ' We were never happy with the original Landy colour, it's a bit boring if I'm honest and so we ventured down to the local paint shop to look for a new idea. And we found it And now the workshop has been turned into a spray shop and I'm wondering why I put myself through this sort of thing when I've got a list as long as my arm to do already The colour? Unlike Binky, I won't make you wait 9 months to find out

Not even remotely Landrover Made this dish for my good lady for valentine's day regards Stephen

Not much to add, made a jig on the lathe so that when I cut pinion to length I can drill and tap locating bolt in square Knock on fit to pinion so it wont turn when I'm drilling And finally drill piece in jig / guide regards Stephen

Yeah you can.

A friend of mine from my days working at Pinzgauer, who then went on to lecturing At Harpur Adams has recently started a new Youtube channel, covering engineering of off road vehicles. Hopefully this might be of some use to the members here. Youtube Off Road Engineering

this is the start of the slippery slope, before long you have jumped to 37" tyres, twin lockers, twin winches & then promptly buried it way beyond the reach of any of your mates to come & help you, did this at drumclog & i think we had 6 vehicles all stuck trying to get to me, to get mine unstuck

Look, this thread is making me feel increasingly uncomfortable. Let's just drop all the speculation and conjecture and instead again remember that a child was killed. Show a bit of decorum and respect please.

I think we should buy Ross a new mug.

Thats the worst attempt at pretending to be a customer I've ever seen - the car in your avatar is even on your website 🤣

Nice little haul today from old workshop that's closing in my village 3 phase Alfred Herbert drill will need to convert to single phase Two evolution mag drills newest one not working but seems like a dodgy switch A jig saw and some power shears working fine and a large 3 jaw lathe chuck,, very happy regards Stephen

Loving Meccano's approach. I've had a fallow few months because it's really cold outside(!) so I've been learning more about Fusion360 and getting better at 3D-printing stuff. It can dangerously become the answer to everything though, but I've found an economic source of MIG gas again too so we may be able to add metallic fabrication back to the arsenal soon. My progress has taken much longer than the photos suggest - essentially I've put the electronics in a box and made three brackets; I'm hoping this is the bit where lots of effort doesn't bear much fruit. 3D printing brings a nice cus

You can put forward any opnion you might wish to, so long as you do so with the basic respect and decency we all should expect of each other. Getting angry because someone doesn't agree with your opinion is not an option, though. All of the credible science does point to it.... But I didn't mention climate change. I merely said these schemes are designed to keep more-polluting engines out of areas. Separate climate change from this for a minute; we can prove that air quality increases when traffic is lower. We can prove that smog is a thing. We can prove that instances of respiratory d

If you would rather have 4 wheels you could look for one of these. It is a Jiffy pickup truck, a kit marketed by Indespension the trailer people in the 1980s. The front end is straight mini front subframe with power plant, the rest isd a ladder chassis more sturdy than a land rover We turned one into a camper in the lat 80s, we had to stretch the chassis in the middle by 300mm to get the Romahome demountable body to fit Peter

Love this thread, I told my son jokingly over Xmas (he's 19) in front of his mum that I had been spending a lot of time with my mistress recently (he obviously looked shocked) and that she was high maintenance but also really dirty (he then looked appalled). His face was a picture when it dawned on him that I was pulling his leg as I put my padded overalls on to work on my "mistress" out on the drive. 🙂

We all know what needs replacing don't we? 😉

I've found there's a massive difference between good and crappy screwdrivers. Just how well they fit in the screw and grip it etc.

Given that 190k is similar to how much you could spend on a new RR or a Bentley or something I know which I'd have if I was that minted. Don't blame LR for selling these any more than the factory-restored Series 1's and 2-door RR's they're turning out for 100k+, it's a good low-volume high-value business using British engineering skills even if we all think it's ridiculous money.

First year we moved to this house we had 9" of snow fall overnight so I knocked this plough up to assist with the intention of making it better ( as it's quite rough ) , I raise and lower it with the winch on a snatch block as without it wants to go to quickly and slams to the ground but typically just to spite me, barring the beast from the east the snow has stayed away, so this is the third time in 9 years I've had a chance to play and obviously I've ploughed all my neighbours drives to prolong the fun regards Stephen

A locker will enable you to spend waaaaay more time winching yourself out, as a locker allows you to get more stuck, waaaaay more stuck. A locker will not stop you getting stuck, that is down to the nut behind the wheel.

One of these, I used to dread using rivets as my hands are abit buggered, this tool is a god send and unbelievably useful & cheap

Hmmm vice will not tighten been on the phone to axminster and fair play to them they are sending a new vice nut out, was only on the phone a couple of mins, very helpful I do appreciate stuff can fail but good customer service certainly makes it a lot more palatable top marks to them regards Stephen

My wife made me chuckle the other night, I brought vent panel into the house to show her before I painted it she looked at it and said " what do you want one of them for" I said " what do you mean " she said " well why do you want one of them things that goes on top of the car, I mean will it even reach across" I said "what are you talking about" she looks at me like I'm stupid " why do you want a flashing light holder like the police on top of your landrover" I went back into the garage in desperation, go figure !!!!! Regards Stephen

Vent seals and flaps fitted and also painted in brush olive drab But best of all it actually looks like its gonna fit regards Stephen

So 2 pages of people slagging off baseless stereotypes and patting themselves on the shoulder is fine, but analysing what actually happened is not? I agree with Ross, I think it's important to discuss what effect some modifications/oversights in maintenance can have.

Hello Gentlemen, As promised, this is to bore you stiff… er, I mean… update you on how things went with this particular challenge. Bad weather slowed progress under my tarpaulin outdoors a great deal hence the delay. But first I’d really like to thank everyone who offered practical advice and suggestions on how to remove steel bolts seized in aluminium, in situ - albeit here on a VW Passat. This is such a common problem that it was brilliant to hear how others have gone about the task. Hopefully others may find the ideas shared helpful. I certainly have. So, thank you! Sadly, h

I was about to suggest adding a bit more science to this by instrumenting either side of the rad with some sort of temp sensor - I dislike the madman gauges but being able to see a bit more what's going on is helpful. I think @Daan is the only person on here who's ever actually measured the temperature drop across a TDi intercooler rather than just jump to "uprated == better innit" Likewise, instrumenting the cooling system could provide some information rather than assumptions. Temperature sensors / indicator labels are cheap. You've asserted that bigger/thicker rads won't help

Whilst this is very useful and interesting, will you please just build your truck. I'd quite like to see it before I shuffle off this mortal coil. Mike

get a propshaft socket << get one off these If they are destroyed you can easilly cut the heads off the bolts with a grinder

Sliding windows are the proper Land rover fitment, and the future in hot climates.

That has been going through my mind as soon as I started to chop up my old loom! I have added a few mods to mine like upgrading to modern connectors, relays for the headlights, better earthing for each corner and glow plug relay. Also indid a little more on it today with a fresh mind. I sorted out the parts that were bugging me yesterday and it's really taking shape. I think I spent too long on it yesterday.

My battery box is the aluminium YRM one so one less piece of steel to worry about. That thread is good, apologies I didn’t find that in my search. Rather embarrassingly I even contributed to it

They’ll still get used as chisels by someone

Well, we didn't drop anything inside the casing (as far as we know anyway), but we did need to take it all apart again to remove a shim. There was too much preload on the main shaft, which meant it would only work in 4th gear and be very stiff in all others. So off with everything, remove the shim (and add the reverse splash shield I forgot about first time 'round) and put it all back together. Now it works as it should, and has been sitting on the bench wishfully looking at the transfer case that's just a few meters away. Maybe I should get them to meet up on valentine's day. 🙂 Just one

Problem is, when you have stock shafts you can break them without a locker, add in a locker, and you can be putting all the engine torque through one half shaft by itself. This makes for many breakages, and as alluded to above, a breakage of a shaft often involves breaking something in your nice shiny diff as well. You don't have to be 'going some' at all, just get caught out once where traction is suddenly gained by a single rear wheel, and ping! Ashcroft stuff can look pricey when you browse, but factor in your 25 quid half shaft could cost you a £700 diff, and to me it is cle

https://www.mccormicktools.co.uk/tools/hand-tools/socketry/ratchet-wrenches/sealey-ratchet-wrench-flexi-head-extra-long-600mm-1-2sq-drive-ak6698.html I originally bought this tool to undo tight bolts in a small 45 degree opening as a breaker bar had limited positions and didn't work. Since them I'm always using it! It undoes tight bolts, but I still us a proper breaker bar for the really tight stuff as it does state on the packaging not to used as a breaker bar! and it's sealey premier so has a lifetime guarantee. I think I payed £32 as the flexi head was on offer at the time!

Nice to see you young uns have respect for your elders regards Stephen

Hi Everyone, Pictures as promised, apologies if this is a bit wordy, just wanted to help anyone else planning on doing one in the future. This is for an LT77 gearbox. From my experience I would recommend measuring your seatbox top and cut a bit of ply to the same size and lay it across two work mates (I screwed mine to a block of wood which was used to hold it all in place). This will allow you to lay the WOR seatbox matting on the ply in the exact orientation you want for cutting and measuring. NOTE: I frequently took the matting off, cut and refitted and double checked through

I get the impression Ross, that standard hinges are just not shiny enough 🤣 Mo

I hope it’s bad reporting by the paper, with incorrect details or items quoted out of context, because if the police special examiner report said there was a missing wheel bearing but also said the wheel came off because of a snapped shaft, then the police aren’t competent to be doing the job. Frankly, I have very little faith in the competence of news journalists, so I think the fault probably lays there, but who knows?

I thought this, but surely it must have come off when the wheel detached and disappeared in grass/down drain, not to be found at the time. Also, the retaining nut and lock washer would not be able to be used, and surely the wheel would have sat an an "interesting" angle.