Nonimouse

It's the under seat water storage area that was causing the problems

After spending a few hours trying to fix a drowned TD5 the other weekend, I'm even more convinced that electrical is the thing to avoid

top job Mike

The only reason the Standard isn't the best is because the Perkins 3.152 was and still is one of the finest three cylinder engines ever manufactured. The Standard is a lovely engine and the cold starting issues are easily worked around with modern gloplugs, batteries and starters

Just waiting on confirmation of dates from 4x4 Days. We've agreed we will run the refreshers at 4x4 Days Events

Don't place value on the extra's. Use them as a bargaining chip - ie what can be used or sold on to reduce cost of owning vehicle In the Project Jay (your is a Romulus, not a Jay) Club, we look at every Jay having worth as a collectors vehicle, so price on how much it will cost to return to standard or approaching standard. This becoming the same with Romulii. Take a base, well serviced vehicle as being 3K, then reduce by what needs doing - for example sills or inner wings, then reduce by what can't easily be done to return to standard - for example a camel cut A Romulus with flaky sills is going to be nearer 2k than 3k as a repair isn't just patches The interior needs to be clean, tidy and preferably not eaten by a dog. If bits have been removed, put them back on. You have three markets Beat it to death 'off road' - they won't pay for a tidy vehicle, so just put you op picture up, say it's got loads of 'Off Road preparation and hope to get 1.5k The huge market that need a decent tow vehicle/family barge/4x4/room for kids - they will be impressed by cleanliness, lots of good pictures and a decent service record. 2.5K is achievable as this vehicle needs to last The collector - weird lot, may pay 3k if it's really tidy, may not even offer 500quid I was chatting to a chap last Saturday Morning (03.00) who is looking for a decent solid 300 and he has budgeted 3K for the buy, with 6 for the tidy, respray and a few goodies. He's looking for 10 years plus form the motor.

Big difference is whether it's made with apple juice or apple juice syrup. The former tastes far, far better

Imported juice, probably from down here. We export juice to Wales, Ireland and Scotland

Hecks - finest cider in the world

And too far. An old friend moved to Elgin when he was invalided out of the Army. Bought an amazing house to do up. But it's 14 hours driving to get there And they don't make cider in Scotland

Start points are Launceston, Popham and Cirencester, converging on Bridgwater

That's a shame, I was hoping you would chose the South West

It was the Lands End Trial last Friday night/Saturday morning. As per usual we ran recovery at Riverton Hill (open 23.45 to 07.30(. It was the 500th running of the event, with over 400 entrants. Some amazing cars, including two GN's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GN_(car) and 6 Model A's all running together. Thanks to repairs on the hill, it was much better than last year

Land Rover 110/90 Defender maybe. Prices are dropping now, but the end of the manufacturing run didn't justify the huge hike in prices

I always avoid Jocklandshire cars, and cars for Derbyshire (more grit than any other county), coastal areas, liverpool/manchester, east of england and south wales

Rover 800 had a 2.5 VM engine.

I was reminded why I don't like TD5's on Saturday. One of the set up crew got stuck in a very deep water hole, in his 110. flooded the seat box and drowned the ecu's. We dried everything out. Eventually. But it would only run for a 30 seconds or so, then die. Cleaned all the relays out as I couldn't remember which one was the fuel pump. Still wouldn't run. Checked everything again. Still wouldn't run. Gave up in the end and yellow taxi to Scotland. I pulled a 10 tonner MAN truck through the same water hole, later in the day, (although it was with a Yankum rope) no issues

When I bought the Disco, it had a 'funny' clutch, just never right. After about 30k I decided to swap it out. Clutch plate was in backwards. According to the service history, this was the original factory clutch. I also discovered the interesting little snail cam adjuster on the pedal, at the same time. I fit Valeo/Borg and Beck clutches. There's very little difference between any of the vehicles type of 'HD' versions

Saxon Express was, as usual. brilliant. The the whole training are was like porridge with grinding paste mixed in, so hard going for all. There were a few fairly major stucks, but it all went well

Mike (Tomcat), James and I have recently been trying to fix a Fiesta 1.0ltr three cylinder lump. Non Turbo. I think it's an EcoBoost. The original lump had put the number three rod through the block at 115k. It sounded bad before it happened. Turns out the 120k service includes oil pump change and big end replacement. The perfect example of modern design for minimum life expectancy

Looking in all the usual places. there are so many TD5's for sale, for sub 400 quid, a fair few complete vehicles for the same. A few 300 Disco's, loads of M57's, PD130, Audi V6 and one OM606. Also about 5/6 200Tdi's between 450 and 1k

I've now had 12 200Tdi's since 1990/91. Only 1 has had cam creep. I've blown two head gaskets, almost needed one turbo and had some annoyance with a vacuum pump. Total mileage over 34 years is approx 700,000 miles, with some doing more, some doing less. I can happily say that the 200Tdi is the most reliable engine I've ever owned

Next to a pile of shagged BMW parts...

What diameter is it Stephan?

Where did you live in Somerset