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Excellent. I never would have thought of that!
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If you live inside the m25 life isnt going to be great if you dont have much money.
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Agree with most of this. The bigger problem with ULEZ is that it hits the poor hardest. I have relatives in the zone. Some of them have always scrimped and managed. They spent inheritance from my grandma on a car (diesel). The car will not be able to be in the zone without paying a daily charge. They cant afford the charge, they cant afford a compliant car. They need the car to get the family to various places of work. Public transport is inadequate. They cant afford to move out of the zone. Their whole lives are there. They cant live in it, they cant move out of it. ULEZ will turn chairman khans suburbs into a rich suburbia while he swans the empty streets in his chauffeur driven Range Rover. Well done chairman khan.
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Its just a case of fiddling and levering gently. Move the pump so you have as much room as possible where you are levering. Make a couple of little levers like I did (old arc rod ends worked well for me - bend, trim and file them). It will flick off many times.... make sure noone is in earshot of the swearing.
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Sorry. I thought you had it out and was sharing your frustration. My tip is above in the middle of my posts. Read the bit from 'Now even sneakier...' you need a small hooked tool to get underneath one end of the circlip to hook it out of the groove. Then a screwdriver or second hooked tool to hold it out as you work your way round easing it gradually out of the groove. Circlip pliers are useless in there as it has no tabs for them.
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Certainly is!! Just when you think you have it, it slips back in the groove!
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What puts me off is getting the breathing gear wrong and killing myself with the 2k paints. What are folk using for breathing masks ?
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Nice RR. I have never heard of anybody fitting a GKN with an auto. It will mate nicely with the 300tdi, LT77, LT230 combo. I run my overdrive hard in the 110. Lots of long motorway (250 mile stints in one go) and it sits nice at 80 behind my 200tdi. My experience says use ATF and change it every 6k miles - which is when I do engine oils anyway. I ha e done about 150k on my overdrive like this and it was secondhand when I fitted it. You point out yourself why the non auto suitable oils arent really right for it. My ATF will come out a little brown but not burnt at those intervals. I wouldnt leave it longer though - the factory oil change recommendations are waaaaaay too long. I am looking at a getting a deeper sump. @vulcan bomber is looking at making one. This will have a massive benefit IMO by increasing oil capacity and helping cool the sump oil if designed appropriately.
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You may not want to hear or do this now. Some will consider it a bodge but as well as the o rings i would smother the end of that inyermediate shaft in some hylomar or similar for extra reassurance! You can drift it out without dismantling but it could risk disturbing your o rings.
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Thoughts and musings on the new defender
reb78 replied to Jamie_grieve's topic in New Defender Forum (2020 onwards)
Yeah. Whatever. You know what I mean. -
Thoughts and musings on the new defender
reb78 replied to Jamie_grieve's topic in New Defender Forum (2020 onwards)
Oh. I'm sure thats the case. I only butted in as people thought the freelander had dissapeared when i'm.pretty sure it was just rebadged in a marketing gimmick. -
Thoughts and musings on the new defender
reb78 replied to Jamie_grieve's topic in New Defender Forum (2020 onwards)
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Thoughts and musings on the new defender
reb78 replied to Jamie_grieve's topic in New Defender Forum (2020 onwards)
Pretty sure this is the point exactly. Ooo look, i have a range rover. Errr no, you have an evoque... -
Thoughts and musings on the new defender
reb78 replied to Jamie_grieve's topic in New Defender Forum (2020 onwards)
I disagree. The entire range had seen massive uplifts in price. I mean a disco used to be the 40k model and now its what used to be RR territory. If you look at the price gaps between models they are kind of relatively what they used to be but all models have seen a big upshift in price. I'm sure there was a lot of press about the rebranding of freelander to disco sport when they did it. It was the same engine wasnt it. Not sure if it shared running gear too. -
Thoughts and musings on the new defender
reb78 replied to Jamie_grieve's topic in New Defender Forum (2020 onwards)
Disco sport is just the new name for the freelander isnt it? Its as much the freelander 3 as the new defender is the discovery 4a... i think JLR are just confused. -
Issue during test drive of 73 88” Series 3
reb78 replied to English Canadian's topic in Series Forum
I've had layshaft bearings make that noise under load on my old LT77 (happened twice). I would say that's potentially a gearbox issue... I dont know the series boxes but on the LT77 fourth is on the mainshaft and so its a LOT quieter as the layshaft isnt under load the noise was still noticeable when accelerating. -
The reservoir is the thing with a diaphragm i think thats charged to a stupidly high psi. I think with nitrogen. Not sure how the rrc version works without it.
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Why would a shock absorber work at all? The Boge strut is like a pump with a preset height. A shock just damps the spring motion doesnt it, rather than maintaining height - the springs do that in combination with a shock absorber. I can see how an air strut might work but might also need some kind of damping function at one end?
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Just a note - i am pretty sure RRC and 110 versions are different sizes so dont get one to fit to the other.
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I was told there is a diapragm when I looked into this.
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Yeah - I tried but if you read to the end, I gave up. The recon one spat its oil out everywhere. The place that were looking at it for me were miles away and I just couldnt donate the time to the project as i needed the 110 on the road reliably. The TD5 progressive springs have been absolutely fine to be honest. I wouldnt hesitate to suggest just using them instead - especially given the ludicrous prices some companies want to recon the original Boge strut... the ride was nice but it wasnt worth what they are asking.
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I bought tweetyducks National Luna weekender in the end. Brilliant fridge/freezer. Kept the ice cream frozen and beers cool in Mediterranean heat across France. Low power comsumption. Think I ran it for five days on the starter battery at one point (without starting) and it started the car fine when we moved on.
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Do I need to separate engine/gearbox again?
reb78 replied to simonpelly's topic in Defender Forum (1983 - 2016)
At the end of the day though, it doesnt matter either way so dont stress about it as long as you can changed gear now. You wont have to worry for another 100k+ of driving! -
Thoughts and Musings on the Ineos Grenadier
reb78 replied to Bowie69's topic in The New Ineos Grenadier
I had a close look at one at the Cornwall Show at the weekend. Nice looking truck overall. Nice interior. More leg room in the middle row than in the back of an old Defender. The cockpit was a nice place. You can see the BMW influence which isnt bad but the screen and gearlever look very BMW! The rear doors make the load area much more useable than the Defender rear! Running gear almost looks very Discovery 3 in its setup (the bits you can see). Biggest surprise was the rear third ground clearance... much less ground clearance than I expected to have here. It looks like the trailing arm chassis attachments really hang down and what I think is the fuel tank is really low. Even my D3 and L322 have better ground clearance for sure (as do my 110 and D2) - what was most telling was how scraped up rear end of the underside was where it had been used off road. Lots of mud - more than my 110. -
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