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My Disco 200 Tid runs 235/85x16 and 1.22 box - it's fine with towing and often tows at 3.5tonnes. It's gearing is well spread. All up vehicle weight - with all the junk I carry, is 2.15 tonnes My 100" had a 1.22 box, 200 tdi and an ealry military LT77. It was carp at towing. Gear were in the wrong place. Big gap between 3rd and fourth, huge gap between 4th and 5th. All very odd, The Box was from a 2.5 110. If I don't sell the Disco, I'll go down the R380 route, simply as part of the sound reduction

I have a similar problem - the buffalo board on my smallest trailer is like sponge. I've bought some used scaffold boards. I'm in the process of planing and sanding them down, then I will soak them in proper cuprinol and old engine oil . I'm going to router them into T&G first though. The Trailer is designed with 5 steel supports running lengthways, so I will run the boards transversely . I've aquired some 12' x 6' traffic signs form work, made form vac formed GRP and resin coated, so I'll cut one down to size to make a sacrificial layer on the top (and maybe the sides)

I use a discovery 1 bearing retaining ring, cut through with a slitting disc

They didn't do the drums - I was using standard drums, with delphi shoes. A really good set up... The discs were vented, drilled and grooved (all a bit ott to be honest) The bit about maintenance was a genuine point. So many people moan about brake performance but it's generally poor maintenance or missuse. I'm lost as to how much weight you are adding and what size tyres you are running, so as to need such upgrades - unless you are looking at on road circuit speed events

probably. Gave excellent improvement on the existing caliper set up...but that was a 110, which has pitiful braking due to over heating on the front. The rear drums were excellent I fail to see the issues really - but then I do maintain my brakes well

Fulcrum Suspensions were selling upgraded stopper a while back, through their SuperPro brand. Their Tech support is easy to speak to - even form the other side of the world!

Now there's a question I can't answer. Try the Project J facebook page - it's a very useful site. Ask Alan Young

If you aren't going to do it - sell it. All the while you do nothing, it degrades. Sell it to someone who has the time to do the work. Buy a toy with some of the money

In the drivers footwell are a number of nice big relays. one of these is the starting relay. The position varies and can sometimes be in the passenger footwell. Start there

I have a feeling, based on past history, I might be propping up the bar with you, when it's time for the Grim Reaper to come knocking. He'll probably get a bulk load of souls if the boys are all there as well

I'd look at what you want to do with the vehicle. Off road a manual is better - far more control unless in sand Street racing - manual is better Ultraboring 4x4 - auto is better, with cruise control Asda Car Park - Auto is better, with a line lock to allow for better burn outs Driving like a twonk - who cares If it was me, I'd go for a manual, and I actually like Auto's

How big is your carbon hole? I was on a course, last week, with one of the senior concrete engineers at Hinkley C. Some of the specialist mixes are so high carbon as to be scary. Carbon hole on a car is 7-10 years, Hinkley will be 100+. Creating carbon figures is easy - much like rolling dice. Every vehicle is worked on a 'factory' figure, concrete is worked on a 'factory' figure. Better to have some common sense and create better carbon sinks*, stop pointing the stupid finger at any and all 'causes' *with a wetter climate, we can easily re-wet existing wetland and create more, stop the 'tree planting will save us' waffle, learn to be sustainable....

That chap's spotter should retire, soon. Alomst like he was deliberately trying to ruin the climb

Fuel prices rise like a rocket and drop like a feather

I'll give you a shout next time we are collecting timber

Bowie I can probably sort you for logs for next winter. I manage about 3.5k hectares of trees - One of my subbies stores a load of timber for me and a couple of friends. We collect form his yard. Maybe 25 tonnes a year or so. We log it up in the yard. Two lads on the saw and a posch log splitter on the BM600. If you fance helping haul logs back to the yard, we can work out a swap for split sawn logs, or you can haul back to your place and cut and split your own. Oh and see if you are close enough to Sedgemoor to join SLOGS - it a local buying group with over 2k members

Zuzana is collecting the pennies as well

To be fair, a radioactive wasteland would lend itself to a challenge

Bide on. Finish the build. Unless the whole of the Northern Hemisphere becomes a radioactive wasteland, events will be back

If they aren't maxi cross, then they might be alligators - Neither tyre was speed rated for a Disco That's a 27.6% increase in diameter so yes it's going to effect everything about the vehicle apart from the seat comfort. Brakes will be appalling (even without the tyres), any fault in the autobox is going to be announcing itself very quickly. But hey, why not. Most folk who run 37's on a Land rover auto, swap in a 1.66:1 T Box, and spend a fortune on uprated drive train components Might also be an idea to move the form axle forward, to avoid the huge lift needed to clear the footwells

Sounds like a plan Although our biannual BooBs fest at Nash Oaklands is quite entertaining

Might be as far as I can drive then! Thank you for the invite

Are Zeus still doing them - I had to get the aforementioned because I could get Zeus