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If they’ve done that then they’ll have to flash the ecu as it’ll have the engine light on permanently

That’s food for thought...does supplying a box help reduce the cost of the tdci conversion?

Price is a factor as with anything. Just shy of £7000 will get me a TD5 electronic gearbox fitted to the current TDCI built and fitted by Ashcroft. That's the top end of the scale which is a large wedge but the easiest solution as i don't have to think about swapping anything, i hand it over, they do the work and i get a controllable TD5 best of both worlds Auto box in the Landy. The other options are any number of Tdi engines and manual autobox D2 Auto and Td5 with electronic auto box V8 with an auto ( electronic? ) box. I've chatted with someone who is interested in my loom and parts should i go along the route of swapping the engine out for another.

I’ve spent too much time and money on the wish list at Ashcroft

Which box did you have in that?

Toying with some ideas, one being moving away from a manual box due to ongoing medical problems. TDCI autos aren't too good unless you spend mega money so i'm sitting here looking at TD5 autos. I've owned TD5's and enjoyed them The other option is a V8 with an auto Should i just shelve this idea as stupid or is there some merit in running a TD5 with an auto in a defender?

You should know that we know that you know what you're doing and even if it's not the prettiest, we all know it'll do the job

Thats the bugger! Would make a great horse van....removing the machine first ofc!

You’re an inspiration to us all Stephen, after a snowfall last night I figured it was time to whip up something to get me out of the drive! it’s not on par with yours of course, but I can send you the blueprints if you want?

I think he likes you @Snagger, he quoted you three times

Awesome!

Aye, sounds abit kaput

Shame i can't link it here but someone is selling a mobile x ray van with large side opening doors on face ache. Access is great but after a time you'll get bored of photographing yourself, not to mention the slight radiation poisoning...

The cameras are gimbal mounted and will provide a smooth viewing, it’s fairly easy to fly them if I’m honest but I’ve been brought up since the 80’s playing computer games, a fair few flying so it comes quite natural using the drone, but again, it really is easy dji do some nice compact drones with decent cameras and loaded with some good software. Yuneec and Parrot are the other 2 main suppliers for the market with Yuneec using quite larger units and Pareot make some nice specialist units for mapping and agricultural work. a Mavic mini or even a Mavic 1 isn’t going to break the bank and will give you an idea of what it’s like to fly them. There are rules and regulations as well to flying these, commercially and for pleasure only. You’ll need to read up in these and pass a simple online course to fly

No , I fly the drone using the camera as my eyes. I only use pre programmed routes if I’m planning areas for farmers or doing 3D mapping You can use goggles which are similar to VR Google’s which allow you uninterrupted view of what the camera/drone sees although you tend to find this being used by racing drones. Some of the stuff those guys do is madness!

With this particular video i wanted to get the distance so it was done using 4 people ( plus myself ) as spotters along the route which was roughly 3 miles out and back again to my house. I use spotters mainly for legal reasons but also as a safety aspect. Manned aircraft aren't allowed to fly below 500ft unless landing or taking off ( drones can't go higher than 400ft ), but military and emergency services will fly below this level. Once a drone is out of sight, i have no way of knowing if a helicopter from either of those is near my drone without a spotter. If one turns up, i get radioed and land the drone until they've passed. There are a lot of videos of people flying drones well beyond their LOS ( line of sight ) and it's only going to be time before one causes an accident in the air. This one was done with a Mavic 2, the camera is great, the machine is a well rounded one and i've only had one issue with it ( which the manufacturer replaced ) I also have an Inspire 2 but i don't use that unless it's paid work as the drone and camera are nearly £7000 and i have commercial insurance to use that! Drones are great bits of kit and allow you the ability to see the world from another angle and show others Tbh i uploaded that in 2019, but i think the issue is this site only showing the smaller version. Here's a direct link; https://youtu.be/-DJRnJafKdo Mavic Mini's are good little drones which will do just that, however it's a lot more difficult to get a drone to follow you down a lane without it hitting anything or provide a good shot. I did a few shots in scotland but the wife was driving and i was piloting the drone, however even then it's difficult to explain to her how to drive and direct the drone at the same time without having to keep going back and re shooting the footage. Single takes are very rarely perfect!

You need a plastic tool to remove them ( called Christmas trees ) they can be re used but for what it’s worth, replacing them isn’t expensive. I bought this set and it covers all sorts of those type of clip removal

I’ve found another video of where I live...no Landy’s in it so it may not coincide with the rules but I figured some of might like to see more and appreciate the music. I’d advise you to take 15 minutes with some headphones or decent sound output to gain the experience. This isn’t a public video due to licensing laws by YouTube so don’t share...just enjoy. I’ve got another one from Scotland which is waiting for my MacBook to arrive....delayed for 2 weeks now

Me neither until I couldn’t use the hand tool and was looking at air tool riveters, I saw this and figured for that price it’s worth a punt over a £100 air tool.

One of these, I used to dread using rivets as my hands are abit buggered, this tool is a god send and unbelievably useful & cheap

Top job sir but does needs ageing to fit in with the rest of it

Do you need my address to send the prize of a packet of salt n vinegar smiths crisps, 2 wham bars and a tube of smarties, for getting the nearest guess?

That looks like a slimmed down ARB bumper

I thought these were an interesting idea if you went for standard hinges as you can’t pull the door off https://www.optimill-uk.com/defender-door-hinge-security-kit.html

Ahh I see, I will check that once these are rebuilt, thanks for the heads up. One or two pictures of the pistons As you can see some of the seals are missing as well as this metal ring which I found squashed under one of the calipers When I collected the truck from the dealer about 3 years ago now, there was a knock on the driver train. The local Indy to me did an inspection as the dealer I bought it from was too far away and they found the discs were beyond the manufacturer’s thickness. To cut a long story short, the dealer replaced the discs, pads and a few other bits but never touched the callipers. If a disc is worn and the pads were low, would the pistons be beyond the seated position at rest, ie exposed?