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    K110

    in Modified Vehicle Builds & Special Projects

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    It hasn’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 wouldn’t fit , hadn’t thought of that ! I’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 can’t remember 🙄, 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 there’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 don’t you !!!

    Improved Tdi cooling

    in Defender Forum (1983 - 2016)

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    2 hours ago, Chicken Drumstick said:

    I suspect this depends what you are doing. In the UK, yes the Tdi can seem to take long to warm up and for normal road use not really need additional cooling or air flow from a fan. But go laning (using low range) or do a lot of work in low range such as setting up a trials event and they will run a heck of a lot hotter. And will need a fan.

    FMIC and tuned pumps can also make a big difference too. The FMIC will restrict airflow somewhat to the rad and more highly tuned engines will run high EGT's, meaning more heat in the head and block.

    Sorry but I’ve never overheated a tdi in my life , laning , pay n play in serious mud , towing 3.5 ton over the hills in Buxton !

    What do you do when struggling with enthusiasm?

    in International Forum

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    Fingers crossed I can convince SWMBO to let me keep the Octavia as my daily ,DEFINITELY won’t sell it as it only cost me a grand  and is worth keeping MOT’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 I’ll happily run round in the rat van or at the worse I’ll daily MUD if i have to . I guess I’ve been lucky in that I’ve usually had a vehicle I could fall back on when the land rovers were inevitably broken , more than once I’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 !) 

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    What do you do when struggling with enthusiasm?

    in International Forum

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    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 I’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 £125 ( still got it and will never get rid of it )and used  the wife’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 😖. 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 😬, 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 🤗. 
    All this whilst struggling with depression of varying levels , something I’ve struggled with for most of my life , the last 12 months have been very bad BUT I’m out of the other side of it now thanks to my doctor and some new meds 👍🏻
    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 I’ve enjoyed it so maybe it wasn’t wasted time and money 

    So ......
    I realised not that long ago that it’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 wife’s behest but my heart was very much not in it and within a few days I’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 I’m going to remove tomorrow then order the parts next week and once that’s running I can finally , finally start on MUD , and it’s about chuffing time ! I can feel a thread resurrection coming on .
     

    My point is , motivation? I’ve got mine back , if you’ve lost yours then don’t worry , just do what makes you happy 

    James 

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    Automatic Fire Supression

    in Modified Vehicle Builds & Special Projects

    Posted

    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 ! 

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