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Take a look at the following site which gives you the option of calculating different tyres and the % speed difference:
http://www.carbibles.com/tyre_bible_pg2.html
My Series only has 205/70/16
So I can't even clear a muddy rut...Great find, however not totally reliable since his comment on Motorcycle speedos would make all motorcycles illegal in the UK due to construction and use regs!
Marc.
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My SeriesI has SD1 V8 on carbs, SII box SI Transfer box, SII Diesel rad, 3.54:1 diffs and LWB Brakes. The adaptor plate is a Phillips conversion and the manifolds are P5 cast iron.
The original V8 was a P5 engine but it went south in sand on Salisbury Plain as the P5 has rope oil seals on the front cover.
I use to regularly drive it like a hooligan when younger, sliding it around roundabouts and drag race it away from the lights.
The only time I broke a halfshaft was when trying to free the clutch after a long period of non use.
After many years use (I have had it for 25 years as a V8 now) it bust a layshaft once when my girlfriend was driving at 30mph!
It has never overheated even though it has an old single Kenlowe on it.
MPG is around 20mpg and it pulls past a ton as I just had to overtake every 90/110 that I saw on the motorway no matter how far away (hooligan again), off road I still have not matched it's total ability yet.
The only thing I am looking at now is to fit Discs.
If anyone needs a write up on the conversion I have the complete one for my LR as it was done as a Hot Car project all be it back in 1979!!, and I can scan it on Monday.
Will I ever sell it, not a chance.
Marc.
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The welding did not look too nice when the picture was blown up!
Marc
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I don't know about Santana but LR I would consider looking at the Swivel pin preload.
Marc.
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OK
This from Yahoo News 1 1/2 hours ago:
But Hertfordshire County Council, one of the councils which said stocks were running low, said it was seeking additional supplies from abroad.
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There may be a really obvious reason not to do this but....
If you are going to breath it could you not use a diving tank refilled from a shop?
I guess if you ar egoing to use air compressor hose then you would either need to ensure that it has only been used for this purpose or you need the filters again?
Marc.
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Of course the big question is why did they change it, what makes them (the government) think that someone who past their test post 1997 is less capable than someone who passed before.
I can think of a lot of people without the entitlement who can tow a lot better and a lot safer than those who have it. It wouldnt be so bad if it wasnt so bloody expensive to get the test.
Most likely guess, two letters
E
and
U
Marc.
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Dont take this as gospel or the truth ( i hate givin bum info on legals) But If you passed your test before Jan 97 you can tow up to the train weight permitted by the vehicle and not to exceed 3.5 t trailer weight , After Jan 97 only upto 750 kgs .You will have to add "E" entitlement on your licence for anything larger
Someone hopefully will clarify the facts on here ,Failing that I still have the books somewhere from when I did my CPC but that was ages ago and any updates may of changed by now .
Not sure about the actual regs but this was the situation when I and a lot of other tried to renew our licenses.
The license came back without the entitlement to tow a trailer over 750Kg the sneaky buggers had removed in the hope that no one would notice. We had to register a complaint that the entitlement had be removed in order to get it reinstated.
Long winded way of saying that just because your license should include the entitlement check as it may not any more!
Marc.
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OOPs
Very embarrassed now
:wub: I just changed from IE to Firefox and the spell checker is in the browser not the Forum software.
I got so exited that I wanted to thank the organisers but did not think about Firefox?
Please delete topic as it has no use unless to cause me embarrassment and suggest the browser as a better option?
Marc.
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I see that you have instigated a Spell Checker for us poor spellers.
Thank You
Marc.
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I asked my insurance company what they wanted for my 300 tdi conversion they said a copy of the reciept from the garage was ok,after i had the uprated intercooler and disco transfer box fitted the insurance co. told me they wanted the brake's converted from drums on the back to disc's and vented on the front not got aproblem with any of that..
I am very surprised that they asked for a higher spec braking systems than standard!
PS I see that we now have a spell checker on the Forum Editor. Well done guys.
Marc.
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Although I like Total Off Road magazine and the cars in it, most of the modified coil sprung UK cars probably
should be SVA'd and Q reg.Marc.
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Nor with those that have vehicles who compete in events that require road tax and covered by MSA insurance but who do not drive on the road.
Surely this is getting more difficult anyway as soon you may not be able to SVA the modifications to get it leagal in the first place?
What happens if you claim the vehicle is scrapped as it is a Track Day vehicle or play vehicle and will never return to the road?
Will these be invisible as the DVLA is using records to find the culprits?
Marc.
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Could be you were dropped in it by someone who is not to keen on you?
Or it maybe that we have a DVLA member on here who has reported a few things rather than an active big brother infiltration?
Isn't that the same thing?
Marc.
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The Police don't make the Laws they try to enforce them.
If some so and so is driving uninsured I hope they do get fined/prosecuted
Why the hell should they avoid paying what is due!
I just insured 3 cars and 2 lots of road tax and one MOT, cheap it isn't but legal we are in all cars all drivers.
Anything to get uninsured/no mot no tax motors off the streets is fine by me.
Whilst I agree that it is the Government aholes who make the laws, and I am sympathetic to the Police who have to prove that they are good laws by saving the public from ourselves.
However,
I think you missed the point? No one is supporting uninsured drivers just that it is the legal people who may get hit yet again with a SORN vehicle.
Marc.
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It's complicated, and I've put something on here before about it but cannot lay hands on it at the moment. When a policy is taken out it remains in force until it expires or is validly set aside. The example in my text book is regarding a disqualified driver failing to declare his/her disqualification. Although it is a false declaration (covered by separate part of the Act (RTA s174(5)) it remains in force until the insurance company sets aside the policy (this only invalidates the insurance in the future). I think the plain-English version is that the policy remains valid (at least for third party risks) until the insurance company finds out you've been a naughty boy/girl*
* delete as appropriate
This also applies to restrictions put on you by the insurance company e.g. age restrictions, times of use, modifications to the horse power, etc.
Once the insurance company has accepted your money in payment for a policy you are insured untill they notify you otherwise.
I paid for insurance but forgot to state the start date (oversight not intentionally) many months later the insurance company called me and told me that they could not continue the policy without the start date and returned the whole payment. I was concerned that I had been driving the car for the whole time however the salesman told me that as they had taken the payment I was insured the whole time but they could not keep the money so I had recieved freee insurance.
If you read this before then sorry for repeating.
Marc.
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Hate to say this but the tyre place was right. I had a full day driver training course before Christmas - aimed at safe driving practices etc.
The moto with new tyres is "Best on the Back". Regardless of driven wheels, front, rear or 4x4, best on the back.
I found this completely counter intuitive and questioned the trainer on it and the reasoning is that in the event of an "issue" be it blow out or loss of control for some other reason it is the rear tyres that will keep you on the road.
I still don't really understand it, but my new tyres now go on the back!
Now I'm even more confused as I ws taught that a blow out on the rear was uncomfortable but marginaly controllable but a blow out on the front was going to cause a major accident as the steeringwheel would be pulled straight to one of the full lock possitions?
Marc.
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ive seen both steel and synthetic snap and yes steel does make more recoil and will make more of a mess on a person or vehicle but surely there shouldnt be much difference with people having a "sail" to something heavy that slides along the rope
Nobby
I don't do winching or Challenges, however isn't the item on the zuki mainly designed to stop the rope from chaffing on the ground on hills rather than as a sail?
As to the location of the sail, I have never understood the random nature of placing the sail at the mid point other than as a warning flag?
Marc.
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The company fitting may insist they go ont the back as the guidelines say it is safer.
The reasoning being that most cars are front wheel drive. Fitting new tyres to the front and (worst case) on the limit ones on the back gives you a vehicle that can oversteer as opposed to the natural understeer of the front wheel drive vehicle. This makes the vehicle handling not predictable and thus less safe than having the partworn on the front.
Many years ago I crashed and wrote off a vehicle, one of the contributing factors was massive oversteer (from low tread rear tyres) when I backed of the throttle. The front dug in and the back slid and overtook the front. The other contributing factors were it was wet, leaves on the road, and I was going WAY too fast.
That said, if the tyres were less than half worn I'd still stick the new ones on the front
I'm fairly certain that if you have a 4wd and only one set of snow chains you are supposed to fit them to the rear, presumably for the same reasons.
This always makes me laugh.
Industry/Government.
Oversteer bad, dangerous, unpredictable.
Understeer good, safe, predictable.
Truth is -
Understeer you slide off into the bushes.
Oversteer you counter steer and just keep driving on!
I know which I prefer!
If excesive speed and oversteer is unpredictable how come Rallying and Drifting is consistantly acheivable!!!
If you learn to drive rear wheel drive cars it's not a problem. Everyone has been bulls*$t*ed into thinking that frontwheel drive is safer when in fact it is just cheaper to manufacture!
Marc.
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Don't know if they will sell to the public?
From Yell.com
Corus Service Centre, SL3 0HL
Classification: Steel Stockholders
Marlow Steel Works, Poyle Trading Estate, Colndale Rd, Colnbrook, Slough, Berkshire SL3 0HL
Tel: 01753 683131
Can't get much closer to Heathrow
Marc
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If you could get the paint inside. An exhaust usually rots from the inside out as an engine makes sulphur dioxide which mixes with the water which the engine also makes and forms sulphuric acid on the inside of the pipe.
I think that many exhausts are made from some zinc coated material anyway, ever noticed how they always seem to rust from a welded joint?
Chris
Adding to this,
My experience is that the pipe through the middle of the silencer has perforations then the box is welded adound it. this is structuraly sound until the perforations rust through leaving the welds maintaining the structural integrety where the leverage on the welds is very high due to gravity.
Most of my exhaust boxes have died whilst the weld and the box metal is still solid, it failed due to a fracture cuased by stress.
The life could be rextended if the box has external trangulation webs from the box to the pipe to reduce the stress after the inner pipe has weakened.
Marc.
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Cheers,
Just want to know if he has got the answer he needs or not yet?
Marc,
PS I will try to be more patient
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I presume Steve will read these comments some time?
Marc.
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Software development is an area where this problem comes up all the time, most new features take "10 minutes" to add but strangely it's notoriously unusual for a piece of software to be released on the first expected date.
A good solution to this in software development could also be applied to Land Rover maintenance. Rather than estimating a specific time you estimate in units. When faced with a task you break it down into units and give each unit a relative time. Pressing in a bush, for example might be estimated as taking 3 units while undoing a bolt is 1 unit. So in a job like changing a panhard rod bush you'd have 1 unit for each bolt (2) 4 units for pressing out the old bush and 3 units for pressing in the new bush. 3 more units to put the panhard rod back and tighten up the two bolts. So the whole job will take 12 units of time.
The principle is based on the theory that if you took someone to the top of a tall building and asked them to estimate the height of all the surrounding tall buildings most people wouldn't have a clue how tall they were. If you asked them which buildings were taller than others it's a lot easier to get a precise answer.
If the first bolt, which you estimated as 1 unit, takes 30 minutes because you have to cut it out then it's a fair bet that you should allow a total of 6 hours for the job (12 units at 30 mins each. If it comes out in 2 minutes then a 24 minute completion is looking good.
Over time you start to learn what your personal unit is in real time and it's amazing how accurate you can start to become with your initial estimates and when you are asked at midday on Saturday "are you going to spend all bloody weekend under that Land Rover ?" you can reply along the lines of, "well this is a 45 unit job and I've achieved 2 units per hour so far, you work it out !"
Our Sofrware Architects must use the same principal only they estimate 200 days for a job that only takes 75!
Not supprisingly my customers now question every quote I give them and I now spend 125 days of unpaid time to get them to trust me!
Marc.
So I can't even clear a muddy rut...
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should be SVA'd and Q reg.
Series III lost all gears
in Series Forum
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So it did stall in 4th then?
4th is so high that it would just slow down and cut out instead of biting and jerking to a stop.
So if it did stall in 4th and nothing in any other gear, then layshaft for sure.
Try lowbox 4th it should pull away fine if it is the layshaft.
When I broke my mates V8 SI and my girlfriend broke my SI V8 I drove both home in 4th.
As the post is now quite old I imagine that you now know what it was?
Marc.