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We have a couple of motorcross tracks near us - watching the really young kids go at it, without any fear, is mesmerising. That Disco looks tidy and very much at home in the slippy stuff

What size tyres do you run?

And Borg and Beck is owned by AP

Did you actually buy the HG from Elring or from a supplier - theres a lot of Elring copies floating about

I bought my last clutch from Partco, it was a initially a Valeo, but when I opened the box, it was the wrong clutch. It was replaced with a Borg and Beck, which has been fine

It's winch age dependant

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Plenty of cheap, sub £100, new ones on The Bay

B&Q timber should last 3 years - I would suggest you return it and speak to a decent sawmill. Will is right about hardwood. Ash is worth peanuts now and if treated will last. Your best option would be Douglas Fir

It's okay if you have a ramp - but if you don't it's a pita

Main reason for leaving the flutter valve in the air filter housing. Donaldson types seperate the water out as part of the centrifugal filtering and it drains out of a drain hole

Just fit a donaldson type centrifugal cap. Those nice Chines chaps sell them on ebay for not a lot and they work very well

There's always one. Social media breeds them. Reminds me of my brother. He was always "I'm right, even when the rest of the world say different". One of my friends collects Messerschmidt 3 wheelers. He commutes in one, travels to Southern Germany twice a year in one, drives one most days. Reckons they are the ultimate form of transport and denies there are any issues that might argue otherwise. You are the same....but it's your choice. Just don't ever tell me I don't know what I am talking about. No denying Aus is a big place, but it's nothing compared to Russia and the Aus climate is easy. And don't get me started on the boat anchor that is the Cummins

I'd suggest yopu go out and actually drive some of the base vehicles you are thinking about. I had wanted a 101 since they were still being built. Got to drive one a few years ago, whislt I was helping to renovate it. What a truly awful vehicle. Two useable gears - 3rd and 4th. Hot as hell in the cab. Noisy. Appalling handling - even with 3/4 of a tonne in the back. Awful brakes, even re-built....and so uncomfortable. Useless off road as well - utterly useless. It's all stuff that can be sorted out. But why bother? You can't polish a turd - just cover it in glitter. The Volvo is similar - more comfortable. Lovely engine. But anything more than a 20mile drive and your sanity will slip.. The Iveco Daily 4x4 is brilliant - designed for long journeys etc, good engine, good 4x4 system, easy to find spares across the known world. Avoid the 2.3 16 valve diesel. Fitting a cummins 6bt in a 101 would make it drive like banana on ice. The engine is soooooo heavy. The OM606, with an SD350 Pump is super frugal with more than adequate power - brilliant conversion...but expensive Be simpler to buy a 130 and mode that up to be comfortable, realtive high cruising speed and relatively frugal. You can sleep 4 in the quadtech - even the lower hardbody. I had a client the other week, who was sleeping in the hardbody on a 60 plate Invincible - he had fitted electrically powered screw thread jacks in the the corners to lift the hard body 18" - using neoprene to fill the gap. Long distance is about comfort for ALL the passengers and driver. It's about quite, sensible temp levels, easy and safe load storage, reliablity with simple fixing, frugality... Just by a VW T5

Do you not have the over-ride clutch fitted? like two discs, with dimples inforced together by an adjustable spring and ball bearings in the dimples

If you are going back to the 'normal' header tank, try and get a tranparent one - firtly they are less prone to splitting along the seems; secondly and most importantly, just lifting the bonnet allows you to see the cooalnt level.

Tht's fine - no problem

Keep the Diahatsu lump. Intercool it if it isn't. Rebuild the LT76. Run it as a running resto. It won't lose money and the lump is already in. If the lum,p fails, I would suggest a 2.25 petrol as a replacment...

Being pedantic, .65 of an inch

Have you checked all your earths?

I run 235/85x16's on my disco (albeit Falken Wildpeake MT1's) I chalk tested them when I first fitted them and have ended up at 30 F and 32 rear for general driving. Fully loaded or towing heavy, I run the rears at 38 Interestingly, I have dropped off road pressures to 16 and not lost a bead. I run standard Disco steel rims

I've used Britpart standard springs (colour coded the same as OE) for years (as well as Eiback and OME) I have never had any issues with them, apart from carp paint quality. The front springs on my 200Tdi are Britpart pink/yellow/red and were fitted in 2014. I'm thinking I may replace them in the winter as they are just starting to settle

What do you want to use the vehicle for?

A waste of time, effort and money

The Hankook MF31-1000 is one of the Hankook batteries produced for Hankook by Lucas - also sold under the Numax brand name