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The original shaped early Series drive flanges are no longer available …. They were start shaped, like this net sourced picture: the later (available) ones looking like this: How would you cut the latter to have the shape of the former? (or close to it) For small numbers I know people would be able to bench fit it - but I know I wouldn’t end up with a clean edge in sight. Ive seen joiners use a router attachment where a special bit has a long shaft with a rotating cylinder on it above the cutting edges - so you can trace a shape with the cylinder and replicate it by cutting into the material below. I can’t imagine that working on a mill though.. For large numbers I guess you’d get it into CAD and cnc them - but I would imagine that’s only viable for fairly significant numbers. Any thoughts or machining wisdom? I’d be interested in how I might do a couple - but also how it might be done for a batch.

Seriously ! Flow is to the hydraulic indicator - earth is the return 😀

Pretend it’s hydraulics ?

That all sounds very exciting - will they take photos and share them with you as they progress ? I remember Retro Power talked about sharing pictures through WhatsApp with their customers.

Great News. What’s the brief for them ? Is it chassis and shell or the whole thing ?

That is fantastic!! 😂

⬆️ Me too !!

Not much done … other than planning and cutting a whole door frame…

I think it’s the only Government Department that doesn’t have a Minister. They have more autonomy and freedom than any of the other Departments I think.

Some of this build has been a bit of a blur - like your chassis work seemed to be about 4 or 5 weeks work and ended up taking you around 15 minutes. It’s like watching a TV Boxset, where I’ve seen every episode, but I’m convinced I’ve missed some.

We need @FridgeFreezer’s meme

I’ve been trying to find a picture of the exhaust - this is the best I’ve come across .. Looks to be quite a lot of room there ?

Woah - steady there ! Please don’t delete your posts. I just thought you must feel very strongly about it. I have no criticism of your posts at all. There are people with very strong feelings about billionaires and land rovers too ! I just wondered if that was you. I’m a bit more ambivalent towards the car - but would come across as more generous I think. I won’t be buying one - I want to try and save for retirement instead. I think he’s done quite well - it seems the main criticisms are leg room, wipers, and the steering - which seems very little from a brand new vehicle from a brand new manufacturer? I think of plenty of cars that came new with more faults than that. There is a lot that he seems to have got right that I would expect to resonate with our shared interests on here: utility over fashion, emphasis on build quality and repairability and so on and so forth.

Reading across your posts there seems to be a theme that you hate Jim Radcliffe and his car? Is that right ?

Oh sorry - I missed that. I haven’t seen a rotating one …. I’d guess it to be more expensive than the linked ones though? I bought my seat 2nd hand - thought I may have just been lucky.

They do them for each side of the vehicle and it’s a different fitting for the Puma engines Defenders with the different rear wheel boxes / inner arches. This one is for the original square arches: https://www.exmoortrim.co.uk/loc-and-fold-right-hand.html I have one in my 90 which my daughter has used for many many years, she’s 11 now and using it with a booster. I fitted just the one and on the passenger side, so I could look over my shoulder and see her.

They made an Ineos video too:

Has this been posted …

I’d not seen this channel before … it’s excellent. What I’ve never seen though is how frequently these occur - but that may just be because I’ve not known any people with a tdv6, rather than there being tons of people out there without issue.

That giant engine crane is worth its weight in gold. I can see why you’d want to sew your own canvas now. I wonder is undercover covers would sell you some? They buy their canvas in from a German company and it’s really fantastic quality.

You are much more positive about it that I would have guessed Fridge. My bad as the kids say !! I think Alex’s dad is in the Series 1 club so he probably grew up with them in the background? I enjoyed the beginning of the series - less so the last couple of episodes where it felt a bit rushed and a bit lighter on content.

Kevlar - with solid hood sticks.

Is this when it is ok to call a Land Rover a Jeep? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266108515468?

New CEO - wonder why that is. Probably for the different skill sets as it moves from project into production.

That train is definitely in a rut !