geoffbeaumont

Any up to date forum software will offer pretty much the same features as this one - when we needed to get this site up and running as quickly as possible I had a choice of two that I could install from the point and drool install panel for my web space, and this was the more full featured. The package that Trevor was considering (still is, I think) for the green forum looks to be at least as good as this one.

I can answer that one. Entertaining titles, insulting changes to your posts...

It's been suggested before (and not by me, but I can't remember who to credit) but going forward we could look into accompanying the forum with an online magazine, with articles authored by forum members, maybe a few regular slots and we could perhaps talk a few recognised experts to write on their field. Great PR for them if we've a decent readership, which seems almost guaranteed, so I'd guess many would be happy to write for free, especially if they've a commercial interest.

Well, I paid £3,500 for my '93 K Vogue SE a year ago. Bought from a local garage and advertised at £4000. Slightly less mileage at the time (low 120s IIRC), same colour, air suspension bladders were shot but in my ignorance I didn't pick that up at the time. Reasonably tidy body work but definitely not mint, leather with memory seats (minor problems with the drivers seat switch). Excellent chassis, decent lower tailgate, upper's definitely been replaced. Driving lights were missing from spoiler and the stalk on the dichromatic rear view mirror was knackered. Tyres had plenty of tread but were eleven years old and starting to perish (didn't spot that either - it's amazing what a bit of tyre black will cover ) Aside from one that got a puncture they're still on the car, though. Same problem with the cruise (didn't know about that when I bought it either - it worked on the test drive). Has a tow hitch, dog guard, hi spec OEM stereo (the Clarion one with the seperate amp and sub) but no CD changer. Working air con. Standard OEM alarm (had to fit a Thatcham approved one to keep my insurers happy). Heated seats don't work but everything else does. No service history but seemed to have been generally well looked after and ran well. ABS and EAS working fine. No sign of off roading/greenlaning - I suspect it spent most of it's life towing horse boxes. Didn't have any of the aftermarket mods yours has, but did have a good quality venturi type LPG conversion, with under floor tanks in place of the original petrol tank, and a small underwing petrol tank to replace that. It's not necessarily what I'd pay for the same car now, but I guess it gives some clue as to what it might shift for?

2 of each on each side? Mine's only got four total! The coolant pipes have two brackets - one goes on the same bolt as the front right fuel rail bracket, the other gets it's own bolt, but I'd guess it's the same as the fuel rail ones.

Anyone know what size the bolts that hold down the fuel rail and heater coolant pipes on a 3.9 V8 (RR if it makes any difference) are? The ones on mine seem to be a bit small for the holes, so I probably mixed them up with something else

We're currently hosted on a package I already had when we needed to get this forum up and running quickly, as that was the quickest option and (less importantly) zero cost. In theory it should be up to the job, as it's Canaca's top of the line package with ridiculous amounts of storage space and bandwidth. Unfortunately they still host it on some old PC the office junior refused to use any more (okay, I'm exagerating, but you get the idea). The current situation isn't ideal, but it'll do until we all know where we're actually headed with the forums and can make some proper plans.

That's because Canaca's servers aren't up to the job. We've got shedloads of bandwidth and storage space but hardly any processing power (so we'd never actually be able to use the bandwidth I've paid for ).

One of my friends named mine. Her rules: Starts with the same initial as you Sex has to suit the car's character and the relationship you have with it (?!!) Must evoke the car's character So in this case it had to start with a G, was definately female (unreliable, attention seeking ) and had to make you think strong, wilful, rugged. Vicky struggled a bit coming up with anything decent that started with a G, so she cheated - the Range Rover's named Gemima

Got more important things to do right now. The avatar was on my old site, which is now closed down - I just need to upload everything to the new site (same domain, just on the same web space as this forum) to get most of it back up and running, but...

Let's not jump to conclusions - Trev is not yet a free agent, and I doubt he'd be doing things this way if he could avoid it.

You haven't and he's still an admin on this forum. Confusing having two 'LRA's, isn't it?

Calling this forum 'Land Rover Addict' was actually a bit of a misunderstanding - Trev had those domain names from the start, and it was me getting my wires crossed. As far what happens to this forum is concerned, I can't tell you, and there's a very good reason for that; Contrary to what quite a few people have suggested, this isn't my forum, it's yours, and nothing of major significance will be happening to it without the consensus of the members (you lot). Does that set your minds at rest? Please bear with us for the time being - if and when there are decisions to be made, we'll let you know. Sorry to carry on the cloak and dagger stuff - we're not enjoying it any more than you are

Please don't.

Stop double clicking on web forms then Seriously - yes, it can be blocked, same as it is on the ex-LRE forum (or whatever we're supposed to be calling it at the moment), but it requires a bit of code hacking and I don't want to start on anything like that until we see how things finish up. Right now I'm not sure which way is up...

No helicoil kit, and from the looks of it no bolts either (unless they turn up in the next half an hour or so) - and a desperate need for a working car... Anyone got any idea whether I'd get away with putting everything back together as it is and driving it for a few days? It'd be next week before I got a chance to do anything with it, unless by some miracle I manage to get everything and sort it tomorrow night... I can get a lift to work tomorrow, if I cycle across to Maypole (boss isn't going to tolerate me working from home any longer, even though I'm getting more done without the interuptions), but after that things get a little more tricky.

It wasn't bandwidth we got pulled for though, it was processor load - the forum software puts a much higher load on the processor than a simple download such as an image. However...this forum software is provided by Canaca as part of the hosting package, along with a number of other highly dynamic solutions, and we weren't actually working it that hard. However, even with simple downloads I doubt it would be possible to get close to the bandwidth limits without putting considerable demands on their plainly very inadequate hardware. Further, Canaca gave no warning that they weren't happy with our usage but simply pulled the plug without even telling us, which is totally unacceptable. There is nothing in their contract or FAQs to suggest that processor load is severely limited, in such a way as to make the stated limitations on the account essentially meaningless (and at best misleading). I already had a suspicion, given the PHP errors we've been seeing, that their hardware wasn't up to the job - and we've been getting those right from day one, when there were only a couple of dozen users on the forum...

The head is still on there at the moment - not in a tearing hurry to remove it again if I don't have to. Hadn't thought of wrapping something round the drill bit - I'll see what I can find. Bit of gaffer tape would be better than nothing, I guess. Unfortunately, I don't think I have anything suitable to practice on, so I'll just have to risk diving straight in...

Helicoil kit on the way (should be able to pick it up from The Toolbox this afternoon). Never used one before, so no idea what I've let myself in for. Hopefully a couple of new head bolts arriving from MM4x4 as well. The hex bolt was 7/32" (which is fractionally over 5.5mm).

I've switched off some of the forum features to reduce server load, and hopefully keep us on line, at least until I can get to the bottom of how much traffic we're actually allowed on this '600Gb' account...so if you're looking for something that isn't there any more (like users currently online) that's where it's gone

Apologies for the recent absence of this forum - our host Canaca pulled the plug on us yesterday, without any form of notice, for 'overloading'. They switched off my entire account - email, database admin, control panel, the works, so first I knew about it was when I tried to access the site. This was Canaca's extremely helpful response to my support request: The hosting package I have is their Gold account, which they advertise as having 600Gb of bandwidth and 30Gb of storage - neither of which we have come anywhere close to! In fact, I doubt we've even come close to the bandwidth limits on their basic package. They also advertise 99.9% uptime, which they clearly have no intention of honouring. Anyone know anything about Canadian trade descriptions laws? And no, the disappearance of this forum had nothing to do with the reappearance of the former LRE one (which I don't know any more about than the rest of you). As of 10.10am (GMT) Canaca have just switched us back on: As to exactly how much load is '10% of ... system resources' I'm going to have to try to find out from them. Sounds like they're running supposedly high capacity accounts on very low spec servers... Needless to say, I'm not a satisfied customer.

Sorry if we've offended you HfH. Do I need to make some modifications to the bad word list?

You're surely not going to all the trouble of building MogLite and still using a dizzy?!!

Nah, life's good at the moment. If it wasn't for that wretched car... ...which would mean finding someone with an engine hoist Guess I'll just put it back together and see how it goes. I suppose I might get away with it in the short term, but I'm sure it'll mean early failure of the head gasket. Even though this bracket is a late model year modification? I'll buy one of each and see if one fits better.

That certainly trumps the stirrup pump and pop bottles I was messing around with last week