Peaklander

I’ve just had a minor annoying experience with Evri. Just when I have got comfortable with them after their unreliable times, they tried one. I returned a box to @muddy and was careful to measure it to just achieve their maximum ’overall dimension’. It was collected (nice option) and moved to the local depot. Then it stopped. I had to use their Chat Bot. What a waste of time these things are. it didn’t move. They promised to look into it. I would get a reply within 24hrs. I used the bot again. Then it was being sorted. Then after a week it was due to be delivered between x and y. It was delivered but at the same time I was told it couldn’t be as it was oversize. I saw the photo proof. Then I got and invoice for a surcharge. I started to argue with their receiveables people. I asked for proof it was oversize. Nothing came. Muddy measured the box. The overall dimension was 250mm and the limit is 245. I challenged them that +5mm was splitting hairs and that their original claim that the driver didn’t have the correct sized van was unreasonable. They cancelled the surcharge.

I have had trouble at those relays. The third one is for the headlamps and on a couple of occasions they have died as I was driving. I think my intermittent fault was the connections at the relay base rather than the relay itself. I have tried to clean and spray with contact cleaner and all seems OK but I’ll find out during the winter darkness I’m sure. The only way to properly fix would then be to strip out the fuse box assembly and re-crimp new spade sockets.

Wow, it’s going to look fairly new after all that! What an overhaul. (I recognise the Ashcroft labels)

Are you in FL with an FL?

Just checking: are you waiting for the starter motor to turn? Is that the hesitancy? If so, carry on. Otherwise there’s the immobiliser feed to the fuel solenoid to consider too although that always needs to operate once started so I doubt it is relevant really.

What’s the implication of this? It sounds as though access needs head off or new head. What is it that fails or needs attention?

I have made an offer that assumes everything needs replacing. I don’t know what the reaction will be. Also I haven’t told Mrs Peaklander’s as I don’t want to spoil the holiday. I have been asking them about it for a couple of years so who knows; I might get lucky. Edit: I needed to google LS3 @fmmv I definitely can’t organise myself around doing that. 😫

I have watched, for some time, a T-reg 90 hardtop, parked on an exposed track near me. It hasn’t moved for a couple of years. Now I am finally able to make an offer. Is there any reason why I should be wary of the 10P engine that I presume it has? I have read about dowels and oil pump sprocket. I don’t want a project but I don’t want to watch it decay further.

Our Fordson had the arms for implements at the back, with adjustable top link too. They were raised and lowered at will. The snowplough was connected through to them using arms, via some sort of pivot, so it was lifted with that same hydraulic circuit. That must be why the ‘dead drive’ term is unknown to me.

I’ve just walked past this. Not sure if it is used or not, sometimes it’s just not obvious.

I drove two Majors in my youth, hay making, towing and a lot of snowploughing - winter 78-79 anyone? Also a bigger Zetor. I re-wired one, so we had lights - “her dad” didn’t seem to mind that they didn’t work but it meant we could snow plough in the dark and I did that and was given the council’s payment for the hours I did do. As I have rarely driven anything else, I don’t know what dead drive is!

They are great looking cars and sounded beautiful. I wouldn’t want to be driving back north from the Tunnel though, as they were. Just a bit low down for the motorways. We gave them a bit of direction over which route to take back through to Austria. I didn’t recommend the Grossglockner Hochalpenstrasse. We had done it the evening before but it is pricey €40 or so for the toll and really you need to do the side road up to the glacier viewpoint. That makes it a long ‘traverse’ that consumes time and it closes at 20:00 each evening. There’s a great campsite on the south side at Heiligenblut.

We used the Vršič Pass again, south from Kranjska Gora. It’s tight on the cobbled hairpins. Also more popular than last time. Had a good chat with these guys in their 3.9 V8 Westfields.

This is Theth in the mountains of northern Albania. The road over was recently surfaced and widened. Last time we came, in 2015, it wasn’t and we bottled it because of the dropoff to the side. (First trip in the 110).

Yes sorry. I see that with the metal. I meant on these rubber boot ones.

So even when they extend, do the boots remain attached and you can’t see the rod?

So on the damper ‘boot adrift’ question, is it a split points decision? Would inverting them help the damper adrift observations at the main stealers? I don’t think I’ve ever handled these kind of dampers so I really don’t know.

I’ve read good things about them, on this forum. I don’t know if some positives were for LT77 as well as the R380. I will probably try one but not until I have fixed my driver-take-up-clunk, as that requires me to shift slowly.

Here’s the photos. They also show his shockers which have “boots adrift”.

Thanks all. Just had chance to skim the replies. I also have a photo of the bracket which I will post later.

Thanks @fmmv I will look on that forum. I have asked again to see some photos of the work done. I hope he does send them through.

I’ll add a few pics in here when I can, to give a little idea of our current trip. (1996 110 300TDi) We are 3.5 weeks out and have travelled through Holland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro and Albania and we are now in Greece. Last night we had an elevated wild camp, high in the middle of the Peloponnese, with a great sunrise.

A friend drives a 2012 90 csw and very nice it is too. He isn’t an enthusiast maintaining it himself. It goes to a well respected independent for that. He asked me a question out of the blue about “are my shocks supposed to have a dust cover fastened over the operating rod”? I said I doubt they are supposed to be secured at the bottom and that at rest it probably protects the rod but not when extended. He had also sent me the result of a main dealer “health check”, which not only suggested that this was a problem (“boots adrift”) but the cure would cost front - £757 rear - £521 and also the wiperblades “smearing” - £64 I asked him why he had gone to the main dealer and he said there’s been a recall. The health-check was free at the same time. I’d appreciate some feedback on the adrift boots issue. To the title of the post… The recall was to correct a safety related issue at the front axle. The detail is in the pic and I have asked my mate for some photos of the work done by JLR but I was more surprised to see their description of the consequences of failure. Quote: “If the wheel hub assembly and the suspension collapse or detach from the vehicle, vehicle stability will be compromised and the degree of directional control will be minimised, significantly increasing the risk of an accident”.

I have two Scanstrut glands on my roof. They are very good and work well with the roof movement.

I have the Ashcroft ATB in the front of my 110 and most of the time I have no idea it’s there.