Disco-Ron

Thanks.... looks like i'll leave my newer deeper treaded tyres on, and i'll also bring 2 spares..... you never know!!

James......... Can you polease give me a hint as to what the type of ground we'll be using is made up of... ie, rocky, muddy... grassy etc.... as i have two sets of wheels, one with more worn out tyres than the other that i prefer to use if i know i'm gonna be on ground with rocks etc...... Cheers!

I've just fitted my X brake in readiness........ amongst other things...LOL!! My handbrake kept sticking last week after i dunked the truck in about 2 ft of dirty water... ie.. MUD!!

Come on guys, get your entries in.... i think James said he needs 12 for this event to happen..... and '5' is a long way short of that...... Hope to see plenty there on the 29th!!

Don;t panic, i'm not turning it into a full blown challenge truck, much as i'd like to, i just can't justify it..... however, what i am doing will hopefully mean that things like the winch will work all day, (ie, better batteries and BIG isolator etc...) i know it's not supposed to be competitive, but i want to at least get my money's worth.... And hopefully, as long as a few more people stump up the cash, then it'll be a fun day for all of us!!

I hope there will be enough entries for this to go ahead....... i'm already buying things to make the truck more reliable/stronger...!!

So, did he wear funny clothes in the 80's and go on Top of the Pops a few times.....

This might help, might not, try prying out the green oval in the door handle, then spray some wd40 or similar on the mechanism... worth a shot!!

Right, just printed the form off, and paid by paypal, will fill the form in and send it off in a day or two....... Will shortly be ordering a winch sail and some decent gloves.... and a 5mtr rope, all from D44....!

Right... i'm in!! What do i need to do next....??? Excuse my ignorance, but does this, 1 Long rope (>4m) mean a rope LONGER than 4 metres...... and would say a procomp recovery strap of say 20 or 30 foot be adequate, or do you really mean ROPE!

If you're handy with spanners, you should be able to do it easily in a few hours, whilst doing it, i would advise getting a brand new box made by adwest, from somewhere like craddocks.... i had 3 recon box's leak on me within a few hundred miles of fitting them....... the moral of the story is, buy new, not recon, cos it's a con!

James, thanks for the reply re the tyres, i'll ask a couple of people about bitchin for me, and let you know as soon as poss......

Google may be my friend, but if you go to the previous page, you'll see that I got there first....LOL!! Thanks anyway!!

James, they're basically the same tread pattern as the Greenway Machos....nicked this pic off paddocks site, it's not a perfect pic, but a fair example..... need to find a suitable bitch..... a have a couple in mind! I suspect you know the chairman of my local club, Roger Pardy...... good chap Rog eh!!

JST, i'm quite tempted at this event myself, my truck looks more modified than it really is, ie, open diffs etc, i am using 32inch Insat Turbo Sahara's..... are they allowed...??? they're not as aggresive as the special tracks......

Of a genuine Steering pump, for a 200tdi Disco, ie, from land rover, and not britpart or others......??????? Cheers...

Dougster, i recently did the clutch on my 200 disco, i pulled the engine out rather than take the box out, i found it easier..... i hate laying on my back under the truck with the thought of the weight of a gearbox about to fall on me.....

Yeh, i'm suspecting as much..... i fully expect to have to fit a brand new 'Land Rover' pump... and either get another box from Adwest, or see if i can find a seal kit and just replace the seal thats leaking at the moment,..... the fact that it is leaking tells me there's too much pressure, which is a pump problem... i'm gonna ring the pump supplier tomorrow...... just for someone else's opinion...... it was a britpart pump... and i've heard stories about them too......

The boxes have come through Paddocks, but delivered direct from their supplier, National Power Steering in Liecester...... Maybe they're just carp????

I reckon a teaspoonfull in 100 miles is too much.... i hate oily mess....... i was lucky when i got the truck, in that it had no leaks..... now i have plenty, and i'm fed up with it...... the front output on the transfer box is leakin too... u replaced the seal, and it's still the same...... maybe the bearing is worn moving the shaft too much i dunno..... but this steering nonsense has got me baffled..... and many others too!!!!

I hope you're sitting down..... April 07, steering box started to leak, so i got a recon one, fitted it, and went on holiday, got home 3 weeks later, and drove the truck, after about 200 miles the steering box started to leak again, from the big round 'lug' in the front of the box, rang the supplier, they sent out another one, and took the first one back, fitted the new one, another 500 miles later, this time the seal on the bottom shaft blew out..... I then spoke to the technical man at the suppliers, he said he suspected the pump was over pressurising the system.... they would replace the box this time, but not again...... so, in order to eliminate the pump, i fitted a new one, so, afetr about 1000 miles, i noticed dampness on the very top of the box, where the big square plate bolts on.... very odd!! also slight dampness at the front of the pump..... So, i took the top off the steerign box, and found a huge rubber seal around that plate.... no way that should leak... so i cleaned it all up, and refittted it....i have also now replaced the return pipe from the box to the reservoir in case that had a slight blockage.... and checked that the 'in' on the reservoir is ok..... I have just topped the system back up, a driven it for a while, and there still seems to be slight seapage from the top of the box.... Any ideas before i scrap the truck Thanks in advance!!