Anderzander

Follow your enthusiasm 😊

Great to read your progress

The best advice is really to join GLASS. You gain access to a national database of lanes, with up to date information on their status, and a ton of people you can speak to about them.

It has other customer demographics 😊

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We’ve had a few things posted on here about the new Bronco - the more I see of it the more I like it and the more it seems to be a reinvention that is really true to its roots. British designer too 😊👍🏻 Here’s the new factory variant

I made an additional hole - a super tight fit to the hoover, but right next to the gloves - so the blasting is moving away from it. It does get some media - but not much. Someone on here helpfully said to me that you should get just enough negative pressure to slowly lift the gloves - set up like that - mine does.

I have smaller tyres, but at one point fitted the 3.54 diffs and found it horrible to drive. The low gears fell just too high to make pottering about and country lanes enjoyable - It relied on the 200 tdi’s torque pulling too high a gear and I couldn’t see the transmission being happy with it for long. So I have 4.2’s in it and they make the back roads a joy - but they are still too low for it to be comfortable at higher speeds. So I’ve an overdrive to go on. Basically, with the spread of gears in the box and just 4 gears, I think we can’t have the best of both worlds. You'll find a

Can’t wait to see this new chassis come together

£80k for another copy https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/153851075639

50 grand for a copy : https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/153977760347

That’s interesting- difficult isn’t it though to pick out what’s there for the test mule and what will carry into production. The suspension links look chunky ... big windscreen, not sure I like the windscreen. Functionally though it looks there. Also strikes me that seeing it like that it looks less like a 110 than on many of the images. Parts of it look more older style G Wagen than Defender to me.

😮 is that for changing the tyres on ships? 🚢

Wow 🤩 I missed this thread - and it’s awesome. Well done Stephen - super skills !

Land Rover ‘made’ some alloy bulkhead for a while didn’t they - it didn’t catch on though !