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  1. https://www.topgear.com/car-news/retro/restomod-week-chieftains-700bhp-range-rover-extreme WANT WANT WANT WANT WANT etc etc
  2. I love reading adverts like that , written by someone who knows naff all about land rovers , and probably cars in general , but knows a heck of a lot about writing BS šŸ¤£
  3. @HoSS not trying to tell grandma how to suck eggs but I take it you are going to support that top hose ! loving the build šŸ‘ŒšŸ»
  4. How much are you taking off the rear overhang AND is it really necessary?
  5. Ah of course , the a frame crossmember has moved forward , DOH ! Yeah you are certainly making packaging a problem for yourself šŸ¤£
  6. It hasnā€™t moved for 10 years so no problems at all , ha ha !! Seriously though I never had any problems with it , they sit well above the lower chassis line , I never got round to fabricating a tank guard for it but it would be prudent to do so . As you say with the new front suspension mounts a standard tank wouldnā€™t fit , hadnā€™t thought of that ! Iā€™m un-bobbing MUD so the tank will return to the rear of the chassis covered by an almighty tank guard that I got from somewhere that I canā€™t remember šŸ™„, I no longer do the sort of off roading that makes the 110 rear overhang a problem and the tank guard and body protection I have planned will cover me if I do decide to be silly. I reckon thereā€™s enough room behind the cab above/between the chassis rails for the tank although you are extending the cab so again it might not fit ? You certainly like to make life hard for yourself donā€™t you !!!
  7. 90 tank under the drivers seat , pre TD5 I think ? Thatā€™s what I did when I bobbed MUD
  8. Makes me glad to be in Blighty where I can remove my viscous fan and run standard radiators with out any problems šŸ¤£
  9. Likewise! @miketomcat so full width Ali rad is what you need then ? deeper core with bigger tanks , throw the viscous fan and fit a fixed unit plus an electric fan on the front .
  10. Sorry but Iā€™ve never overheated a tdi in my life , laning , pay n play in serious mud , towing 3.5 ton over the hills in Buxton !
  11. Yeah I would say that if you need extra cooling on your tdi then thereā€™s a problem somewhere, I always remove the viscous fan in favour of electric and it hardly ever gets switched on
  12. @missingsid awesome video thank for that , some of my all time favourite comp motors , the aliquat, guy smiths buggy , the appleyard buggy and Pete Roweā€™s landrover , brilliant.
  13. All marketing buff , surely itā€™s a bulldog with a station wagon body ? Having said that I want one šŸ˜Œ
  14. If you include your own time at Ā£60 an hour itā€™s be quite easy I suppose šŸ™„
  15. My favourite piece of ā€œengineeringā€ is the B+Q gate hinges holding the fuel tank in place , that will account for at least Ā£10 of the 65 grand build cost šŸ¤£
  16. A claimed 65k build ? To build that monstrosity šŸ¤¢, itā€™s simply awful. Iā€™ve seen it before , not sure if it was an article or a previous for sale ad , whichever itā€™s still a hideous thing
  17. I have to ask , would it put a diesel or oil fire out in the same manner , I have my doubts.
  18. Did I mention that I have two stockcar chassis that I would dearly love to rebuild/restore ,an F1 and an F2 (big and small!) the bad knee and wrist have most likely put an end to any thoughts of actually racing them ,at least thatā€™s one of my excuses as to why they havenā€™t been done yet šŸ˜‰
  19. I think itā€™s safe to say we all have a serious problem šŸ¤£
  20. Fingers crossed I can convince SWMBO to let me keep the Octavia as my daily ,DEFINITELY wonā€™t sell it as it only cost me a grand and is worth keeping MOTā€™d for emergencies, an hour in the computer and you can be taxed and insured , she likes driving it and it laughs at icy roads . failing that Iā€™ll happily run round in the rat van or at the worse Iā€™ll daily MUD if i have to . I guess Iā€™ve been lucky in that Iā€™ve usually had a vehicle I could fall back on when the land rovers were inevitably broken , more than once Iā€™ve collected Land Rover parts in the tractor ! A farm I used to work at they always joked that I had the most expensive car in the car park (25 grand worth of tractor !)
  21. This is my 110 , MUD , it originally came into the workshop for a clutch change after it packed in on the way home from work so to keep me mobile I borrowed my old 200 disco back from a mate who Iā€™d sold it to a year previous , ended up buying it back , then nicked the engine out of MUD when the 200 in the disco suffered terminal oil pressure loss (rod out ) , that disco died of terminal rot , bought a 300 auto disco , that went the same way , bought a Renault Clio diesel van , the rat van ,for Ā£125 ( still got it and will never get rid of it )and used the wifeā€™s Kia Sorento or the tractor for towing duties , all the while promising myself I would get MUD back on the road , wife got a new car (Ford Kuga , lovely ) so I had the Sorento , I fitted a new timing chain as it had gone noisy hence the new car for her , two weeks after fitting the chain , which is a horrible horrible job , it died on the way home due to the immobiliser ecu packing in , never to run again šŸ˜–. Bought a Renault Kangoo Trekka to keep me mobile and vowed to get MUD running , even started a thread on here about it , still using the tractor for towing duties (pita when moving just a few pigs in the livestock trailer ) THEN in March of this year a bolt came loose in the timing case on the tractor and locked the engine up solid ,breaking the end off the camshaft in the process , luckily it was only ticking over at the time šŸ˜¬, now down to borrowing tow motors when needed as I refuse to use the Kuga ( mucky boots and pig muck covered clothes in her car !no way ), 6 months ago the Kangoo was running out of MOT and needs two front driveshafts and an ABS pump , my mate offers me his low mileage Skoda Octavia 4x4 tdi estate at trade in price , a car I had found for him 18 months previous and always had a soft spot for so bought that , got a tow motor again šŸ¤—. All this whilst struggling with depression of varying levels , something Iā€™ve struggled with for most of my life , the last 12 months have been very bad BUT Iā€™m out of the other side of it now thanks to my doctor and some new meds šŸ‘šŸ» I have two bad knees from years of working on cars without a hoist , kneeling on concrete without knee pads , my right knee is pretty much shot , my left wrist is wrecked with arthritis, I put it down to nearly 30 years of driving machinery with the steering knob on the wheel (not the knob doing the steering!) ive spent (wasted ?) countless days /weeks /months / years racing or helping others racing stockcars , or building and off roading landrovers but Iā€™ve enjoyed it so maybe it wasnā€™t wasted time and money So ...... I realised not that long ago that itā€™s ten years since the clutch went on MUD , ten flipping years ! I recently put MUD up for sale on this very forum at the wifeā€™s behest but my heart was very much not in it and within a few days Iā€™d managed to convince her to let me keep it so today I dug it out of the corner of the workshop, fixed the workshop roof above it to stop it falling in on me and here we are , I have a plan and a rotten 300 auto disco donor for engine and box , just got the camshaft to replace in the tractor which Iā€™m going to remove tomorrow then order the parts next week and once thatā€™s running I can finally , finally start on MUD , and itā€™s about chuffing time ! I can feel a thread resurrection coming on . My point is , motivation? Iā€™ve got mine back , if youā€™ve lost yours then donā€™t worry , just do what makes you happy James
  22. One thing I will input to this thread , dry powder extinguishers make a hell of a mess , they probably do as much damage as the wiring fire itself , yes they are ultra effective at putting the fire out but the powder stick to everything! I put out an under dash fire in my previous maxxum (tractor, the ignition switch shorted out , common fault apparently) and the resultant mess wrote the tractor off !
  23. worked for me at the second time of asking too šŸ™„ @Daan yes yes and yes , those look very nice indeed
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