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Really surprised if it is the spigot but I am often wrong.
My experience is with a Series 1 but.
Spigot bushes are suposed to be reamed out after fitting. I didn't and mine is fine other than it is so tight that to get the gearbox installed I need to hang the box off a single bolt at the top of the bellowing and use its own weight to pull it in. The box has been off twice, no issues. Terrible bodge but that was nearly 40 yrs ago
Only lube used was grease to hydrolic the old bush out. No issues since
Yes putting the car in gear from a standstill will have the input shaft spinning with the engine, until you press the clutch where you will still have a small amount of drag but not enough to make the car lurch when it goes into 1st, so that does not support the 1st gear view to me.
Given the above I obviously have no experience of the TD5 spigot but is it different?
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On 10/30/2021 at 11:18 AM, Anderzander said:
That has a good logic to it - though the puma engine change I’m not sure on. We had a few engine changes from 1.6 to 2l onwards that didn’t reflect in a model change ?
stage 2 was the engineering term for the move to coil wasn’t it ? Used at the prototype stage ? I guess by default putting all of the Series versions under the single stage 1 banner.
On the wheelbase thing … I think all the series 1’s were just called Land Rover, made by Rover, and the 80”, 86”, and 88” wasn’t part of their branding ? Other than perhaps the 107 - which I think was ? Not sure on that though.
And when we got the big redesign at S2 - weren’t they referred to as SWB and LWB ?
So perhaps the wheelbase is something that’s come and gone 🤷🏻♂️
Hmm,
I haven't thought of it from the original marketing point of veiw. I got caught up in my own experience.
In fact now I think of it i am not sure when wheelbase became a thing. For me I saw it as the major change descriptor but back in the day it may not have been even mentioned until you bought spares so well into the hobby owners time?
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Read the Air Jack a couple of times,
Well Constructed - not sure when they say it is well constructed, OK if it is someone else's view not theirs!
Chinglish description not too surprising.
No mention of pressure/air consumption or compressor tank requirements! sure if this was a professional tool maybe they might expect you to know or have a professional air set up but the description suggests non professional use to me?
Bottom line would i buy it, well I've bought from Lidl and Aldi which are probably worse quality.
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My sons junior school had its own memorial and are studying past hero's. So not all teaching is just PC stuff they are remembering and highlighting the sacrifice.
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Of course, the pic was the final safety road block not the front of the road closure.
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1 hour ago, jeremy996 said:
As usual, I and about 35 of Leicestershire & Rutland 4x4 Response will be out marshalling the Remembrance parades in North West Leicestershire. A scary number have been cancelled, usually because of parish council issues. (Picture, Ashby de la Zouch 2017). We will be active in Ashby, Coalville, Castle Donington, Ibstock, Long Whatton and Ellistown; there'll be the usual muppets wanting to drive through the proceedings, as they "always go that way". That is why road closures have to the staffed.
Unfortunately said muppets will see LRs blocking the road. People only see what they want to see.
But keep doing what you do.
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Yep, filled up yesterday £58 it's normally £45!
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Works for me both on a mobile and laptop. Though my laptop came up with an unsafe source warning.
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Even using quality significant suppliers does not guarantee continued supply. Looking at the Adwest power steering thread shows that they stopped producing/selling boxes for LR products after LR stopped production. It was LRs requirement to support for 10 years not theirs so LR has to hold the stock.
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Yes but after looking on tintornet an 1988 110 should be 5 speed?
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Honest description explaining its build, work left and legal status.
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Interesting, there aren't many of those around so I was wondering if it was my mates one tarted up.
His was purple with a muzzy engine and a majorly scarey locker in the rear axle, however his has a rear tailgate as it is a CJ2.
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2 hours ago, Tanuki said:
Of relevance:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/11/05/sir-jim-ratcliffe-pumps-90m-grenadier-4x4/
"Chemicals billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s Grenadier 4x4, a “spiritual successor” to Jaguar Land Rover’s original Defender, cost his company another €106m (£90m) in development last year.
The company’s loss narrowed in 2020 from €137m in 2019 as research and development investment slowed.
Ineos Automotive Ltd, controlled by Sir Jim, has been set back by intellectual property disputes with JLR because of similarities between the Grenadier and the Defender.
There has been speculation that drawn-out litigation could set back the launch of the car, planned for summer 2022, although the company’s statement suggests next year is still the target for production.".
So it's not over yet!
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9 hours ago, Escape said:
Just like the Stage1 and 90/110 were based on Range Rover Classic running gear. But back then there were a lot more differences between both models than just some design cues and clearly a totally different target audience, unlike today.
Don't quite agree that Stage 1 was RRC based, only the engine and gearbox transferbox are RRC. The rest was Series as the 90/110 did not exist yet.
Sure the 90/110 was RRC based but this was when the RRC was based on Series technology so it could be argued the other way. Semantics probably, stubbornness on my part sure.
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It would be useful if someone with shock knowledge came along not just my thoughts as I am wondering if it is just poor valve design in the new shocks making them very stiff.
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23 minutes ago, Jocklandjohn said:
Pretty sure its the stops - I can feel the whack and the axle shimmies a bit which I can feel in the steering. All the bushes etc are fine, relatively recent (greasable) track rod ends installed and well greased (last week).
Previously the whole front end would go down and gently slow then rebound (with the Armstrongs) but now it goes down more easily and not as progressively and 'thumps'. I'd not expect new shocks to have (apparently) so little progressive damping.
I can recall fitting the Armstrongs and compressing them to get them inside the springs and the self-extension was very strong to the point where it was a struggle compressing them again to get the bushes in, when they were actually inside the springs. The Monroes were really easy to compress and it was signficantly and noticeaby less bother.
Fair enough very odd for new shocks!
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1 hour ago, Naks said:
https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/land-rover-defender-becomes-company-best-seller
"The new Land Rover Defender scooped up 16,725 retail sales around the globe during the three months to September 30, up 70 per cent year on year.
As such, the reborn retro icon became the company’s top-selling model overtaking the Range Rover Evoque, despite its role not being that of a conventional high-volume chart-topper.
The Defender was also the only Jaguar, Land Rover or Range Rover product to grow its sales over the quarter – a period in which JLR’s wholesales and retails both tumbled.
The smash sales success of Defender overseas echoes its take-up in Australia, where it has likewise become JLR’s top-selling model with 1495 YTD sales. ..."" the Slovakia-built Defender " oh dear i never knew this!
"Meanwhile, Autocar reports the Defender name may be used for a new, luxury model based on the next-generation Range Rover underpinnings. Thus making ‘Defender’ its own sub-brand. " makes sense given the history of RR becoming a brand not a model but I hope not.
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I think you need to see a Dr ASAP, leave this too long and it will take a major op to surgically remove them!
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Dumb question, but ate you sure it is hitting the stops?
You say you changed as the shocks were old, if so they would be soft. New ones will be stiffer so it could just be the shock stopping the movement particularly if the new make is a stiffer rate?
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6 hours ago, Escape said:
Not a clue what you're on about, honestly!
(it wasn't hard to guess was it?
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No but i had to say it.
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And there should be no lack of speed, it's a twin turbocharged flatplane V8 from a well known British brand. 😎
Lots of trouble usually serious?
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Another thing with alloys though is balancing. Never EVER let the monkey at a tyre shop use standard hammer on weights.
I took my D3 to a large and well respected local indy tyre company and was appalled when it came out with hammer on rim weights. I went back in an told them that they would never do that to a BMW or other make so change them for stick on on the inside.
So they ended up doing the job twice hopefully that taught them to ask at least.
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Thanks Escape for looking and replying.
So I tried my Torsen out yesterday.
It does not lock up when a wheel is lifted as expected but this is what I found.
Under power in 2wd at first I felt the grounded wheel try to snatch backwards for a split second, then the lifted wheel rotated forwards but I could feel it pulse as the LSD tried to grip through gear wind up. On tarmac conditions it will wind up. It is designed that if one wheel is rotated faster than the powered wheel I.e. like turning a corner it rotates fine.
Conclusion.
Still not sure it really depends on what the rollers do so I will stay off them.
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Knit picking, both exhaust pipes are guaranteed to be blocked with mud first time you reverse into a mud bank or flattened if you drop of a ledge.
But generally looks like they have given a lot of thought to it.
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But by your description you have taken a load of stuff off as and when you needed to. This has made taking the engine out seem easier. But you don't need to take it off to take the engine out if you remove the body first. People who have taken the body off have said how simple it is.
The post above has said that people who have done it your way wouldn't again, so until you try it that way you won't know which is better.