Peaklander

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.

Nice work both. It’s a job I will need to do eventually. @oneandtwo can I ask, is that a 300 TDi chassis and is it a 90? As I sit here looking at my rear crossmember, the chassis holes are identical. (Don’t know what they are all for). Mine is a 300 TDi 110 Richards. My mudflap bracket is the earlier type that sits forward of the tailpipe. I’d be interested to know if those later ones fit and if there’s an improvement gained. Also the distance from wheel to rear crossmember looks to be shorter than on this 110. I’ve never looked closely at at 90, are they different or is it an illusion?

In Albania we have been playing “spot the UK registration plate”. It’s easy. The drivers are definitely not on holiday. I checked a RR and it is taxed and tested until 3/24. Checked another car and it was due last year. I talk with locals if I can and one old guy proudly showed me his car sporting a UK plate. There’s hundreds of cars in forecourts that are being slowly stripped or waiting to supply particular parts. Lots have UK plates on. I am sure that some have been brought over legitimately but those that haven’t have got through border checks but then are lost in this melée of cars, SUVs, vans and trucks.

Yes they are designed to split in the middle and ours were mounted on upward facing pipes, well out of the way. The one I caused to burst would have been on an LN2 system.

Bursting discs stop debris and damage. They go off with a bang though. I made a programming mistake causing one to ‘pop’ on the evening of the 1987 hurricane. I had to work all night, on my own, to sort things out. Meanwhile it was carnage outside, something I discovered later.

We have the older 300TDi 110 and it is a station wagon so originally had 2nd row seats and the bench seats along each wheel box. There’s only two of us. Initially I temporarily removed the 2nd row and the rear seats but could put them back in a moment. Now the rear bench seatbelt bars have been removed (for more space) so it wouldn’t be as quick. We used to camp in a tent but sometimes also slept inside, on a platform at bottom of window height, with boxes underneath. With time we wanted a bit more autonomy and went for the lifting roof, Icarus from Alucab. The only major surgery is that you unbolt the roof and after checking seals, you bolt on the new one, with a bit of work on the lighting and low power outlets. If I had storage space I would have kept the old roof. Now we have a true upstairs/ downstairs arrangement with what is essentially two rooms. We don’t have a professional conversion, just homebrew that works. No sink but a removeable gas cooker, two way fridge off solar and a small Porta Potti that slides along the 2nd row floor and under the fridge. The space for four to travel ‘seat-belted’ would compromise the interior downstairs anyway but maybe you could find a way. I could go on but that’s probably quite enough.