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So in reality we are all Nigel in some way

Once upon a time, whilst pruning shrubs in the garden, I broke my nose and stabbed myself in the face with my secateurs... A lifetime of vegetation management, more tickets for big scary machines of death than is necessary and I do a 'Nigel'. All I was doing was pulling a cut branch out of the shrub, it stuck, I yanked hard, it snapped my hand, containing the secateurs flew back into my face.... I have a frequent flyer points card at A&E....😔

We used to call them a 'Howard', after a young lad who used to work for me. If he was in the wood, you felled timber in another wood...boy was a disaster zone. Much like Nige

Fridge Way back, you mentioned a potential lack of SARS's in your area...you would be surprised just what and where SAR are required and in fact, the first ever Response was founded in Berkshire to help SAR involved in searches on the common land around Pinewood and Dereham.. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/593127/mca_uksar.pdf This is a useful link After I left my local 4x4, I supplied my name as a trained volunteer for the local medical practices, county SAR and local midwifery service. I get called out regularly by these groups when we have bad weather or when they are particularly overstretched. They cover insurance, although I have volunteer status on my insurance. Often all they need is someone who can drive in poor conditions, at 03.00 in the morning and is happy to sit with a particularly stressed partner. I also ferry people about when a vulnerable individual goes missing. I'm DBS'd to the hilt through work, so that helps, as do my various driving qualifications; but it's nice to put something back into the community

If it's anything like the bulk of the 4x4 Responses in the UK, you won't last five minutes. The bulk of them are full of very well meaning individuals, but badly trained, if trained at all. Mixed in to the members are what the blue light services like to call "Beacon Addicts" or 'High Viz Fashionista" Join you local SAR as a driver and support crew. Professional, well trained and well run, with the proper insurance for the job But as be careful of Mountain Rescue as their training may be highly suspect due to a certain individual who is now training them!

I ended up working every weekend running a business fixing badly prepped overland vehicles. I got so fed up with Land Rover in general that I sold my 110, then cried like a little girl as it drove away. So I bought the Disco (200tdi) which is wonderful. I use it as a daily driver, so I keep up on the maintenance. I'm now at the point where ever fix by the previous owner is sorted and every lapse by the PO's garage is sorted. I average about 700 miles a week in it. Generally smiling. Costs come out of my car allowance... When it needs to come off the road for a couple of day's I use the Mighty Modus. I've jacked in Greenlaning because, again, I ended up immersing my life too far into it. County Rep for two counties, SW area liaison for GLASS, LAF Chairman... all soul destroying. I still cover these roles but spend my time working with the Police Rural Crimes team to help nick the rednecks who misuse lanes. It's fun and feels worthwhile... Finally I bought my wife a T4 Caravelle. Living the DubLife is great. T4 owners are very loyal to each other, very friendly and very helpful. Like it used to be in the LR world... And they are just unreliable enough to be fun and relatively easy to work on What I'm saying here is this. Do'nt sell up. Mothball or reduce, but keep something. Back away for a year or two, do other stuff...

I'm 'Socially Distancing' and working form home as of Wednesday this week. Having an impaired immune system and being Asthmatic, I could do with not getting yet another chest infection (just had one) I'm classed as a 'key-worker', as is my wife, so I'm doing site inspections at night, in night-time TM and we've kept one daughter in school. I'm still on call, but the busy season is almost over. There's also a chance I will be called back in if it all goes down the pan... Biggest issue with working from home is which coffee to drink...

It was a one off job lot - oddly enough, I've never used it

EGT kits are so cheap now (as compared to 15 years ago), you might as well fit one for safety sake. Having said that, I haven't got one fitted - just never got round to it. I'm running about 135 on the dyno, with pump tweaks, lots of head work, easy flow exhaust etc. I'm not running a boost pin upgrade - waste of money, unless, as Red 90 said, you use it for what it is meant for... I wanted a strong, reliable, economic, flexible engine, that will last forever. I don't want to roll coal or try to drive my disco like a sports car

I bought a brand new Bosch one for the disco. Amazing! Scares the engine into life, as good as when I fitted it five years ago. Expensive, mind

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I have a 270ft length of Tirfor rope, to fit a T1500, yours if you want it

I like Bearmach... I always ring up to order. Nice people. I like to be manufacturer specific - only using Lockheed for clutch hydraulics, only using Valeo for clutch plates; that sort of thing. Bearmach are cool with that. Price is good, delivery superb; all with lots of discounts I've not used Allmakes since the great Timken scam of 2006 Steve, you aren't reverse forced bleeding it enough. You need to connect a reverse bleeder to the slave, then run at least three reservoir refills through. It'll be worse if you fitted the damper as well

Heat, then when it's cooled, freeze with plumbers spray

The 300Tdi dash will fit in both RRC and D1 - it's not simple, especially if you want a proper job. One would wonder why? As the 200 Conran dash is simpler in all aspects except heater maintenance

The Buick 3.4 litre 'Odd Fire' is the favourite, but fitting seems to be a huge undertaking. The gearbox will be a T84, T90 or T96, if it's original. The Buick lump doesn't produce huge power or torque so works well. The best information I've had on this conversion is form a guy called Brennan Metcalf; he's on Pirate and OF. Clever bloke The original lump is a 'Go Devil' , whereas the later CJ3B has a 'Hurricane'; the later was made under licence literally everywhere

The genuine under bonnet stuff is fire retardant and held in place by rivets and hoofing gert washers Seeing as how you have a 200tdi - get a 300tdi engine sound proofer thing and cut it to fit - big difference, then use 'Dead Mat' tiles (10"x 10") for the bulkhead, then cover with a Wright Off Road doofer

From experience, I would have a chat with your local DVSA station - and by chat, I mean go in. Take the details with you. These are the guys on the cutting edge https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/192721/VOSA_SVA_Test_Stations.pdf The Five0 are only interested in easy to prove stuff - like those issues highlighted by the ANPR camera or other such easy to use devices. They are too busy for messing about and simply not trained in the stuff the DVSA inspectors are paid to do

I'd break it, properly The days of wrecking a D1 around a P&P site are numbered. D1 200 tdis are going up in value, certain 300 tdis are also going up in value (3 doors, Aviemore etc). If you run a 200 you'll know that certain parts are getting hard to find - even second hand; so 300 stuff is being put to use. A cheap replacement to engine or drive train on the 200 is to use stuff form the 300, although not as good an engine, it's got a larger variety pf readily available parts...

Copy the Pivlock design?

Dodgy bloke that Nick 🤣

Fold the rear seats down in the L322 and you can live in it - sorted

I'm with NFU - on a multi car policy. The Disco is the only modified vehicle out of the three on the policy. It has Cat 3 business use, As does the Mighty Modus. I offer up a list of mods, signed off by a chartered mechanical engineer... They aren't the cheapest, but I like NFU. Nice folk to talk to. Got free RAC recovery this time round - which was very good, when I needed it

IIRC the 2.5 has 94mm pistons