miketomcat
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That what's on the inside of mine. It bolts to the side of gearbox tunnel tucked up under the dash.
Mike
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You speak better English than most that live here.
Mike
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To be honest if your truck was an early one or a special edition then yes keep all the bits. But as yours appears to be nothing special (no offence) then modding it to suit your needs make sense. Yours is of an age where the value is the value the only real difference is saleablity. If your tasteful this won't be a problem either.
Mike
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Nice pics.
Re- the windscreen most older cars only had toughened screens. Laminated became widespread in the 70s so it's probably original.
Mike
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I bought an aluminium one off eBay(200tdi), the radiator itself is fine and work well. However after fitting it I started having low oil pressure issues, it turned out where the spigot's for the oil cooler were welded on they had only drilled 5mm holes into the tank. I've since opened them up to 9.5mm and all issues have gone away. So worth checking before you fit it.
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Here's a photo of the n/a set up. I don't think it would be that hard to make something.
Must get round to it at some point.
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Finally managed to get a new windscreen cut this week. So out with the toughened screen in with a laminated replacement today. That should be safer and it better not leak with the amount of goo round it.
Mike
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The n/a version is a choke cable with a bracket and lever on the pump. I have one on ours but haven't modified it to fit the 200tdi.
Mike
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Cars:
3 mini saloons.
2 mini vans.
I mini cabriolet.
4 mini Marcos.
6 mini Jem's.
1 mini Jem estate.
1 abs freestyle.
1 series 3 88".
3 200tdi discovery.
4 110s (still have one).
1 range rover classic.
1 90.
1 tomcat.
1 ibex (still have).
1 Skoda Octavia estate.
Bikes:
KE125.
MZ skorpion sport.
Honda firestorm.
Africa twin (I wrote this off).
Aprillia caponord.
I think that's it but don't ask for them in order. Quite a few were donors and several more never made it to the road before being sold on.
Mike
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14 hours ago, landrover598 said:
Tool box porn, but what can you do now to distract you from actually building the landy?
*Cough* girl friend.....
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If I remember correctly bfg specifies an 8 inch rim for that size of tyre. I think it's to do with the way the tyre moves on the rim in side loads (cornering).
Mike
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Don't worry Ross the bend will just make it look like you have far to many tools and it weighs a tonne..
....running fast
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Looks great.
Mike
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3 hours ago, De Ranged said:
Lol yep I've been there a few times .... was thinking I might still use the wrong one on the other side of the X brace to bolt the trans tunnel too
In that case make two opposite hand brackets then.
Mike
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The wheel boxes in the back have an angle on them which does give more space but it means nothing sits on them. I want to be able to mount the fridge there for trips. Que some bent aluminium, rivets, a bungee and some bobbin's to locate the feet.
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Most of the kits come with the tensioner but not the idler (disco 200tdi).
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I have a spare engine, gear box (only fits the ibex though) and now a transfer box. Oh and steering box that will fit either the 110 or ibex.
Mike
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I've had them in the past but always ended up changing them for muds. But they seemed to wear and grip ok.
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Well that's the transfer box changed just need a test run now. The original ones input bearings have died. I'm planning to replace the bearings, gaskets and seals on the original one and keep it as a spare.
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19 minutes ago, CwazyWabbit said:
Do you mean the pyramids? Google 'painters pyramid'
Ahh yes they belong to work. Easily made though.
Mike
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This one was originally red with a black rim so not much better.
The wheel is a mach 5 beadlock wheel this one has a clamp ring sandwiched between the outer rim and main wheel. The other 4 have the clamp ring welded to the main part of the wheel and it's just the outer rim that bolts on.
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Just because it annoys fridge freezer I've painted my spare mach 5 to match the rest.
Mike
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George, I had a whine on the ibex it stopped when you knocked the t-box and gearbox in neutral but returned. However if you ran through the gears in t-box neutral it got louder. Turned out to be t-box input bearings found by removing the input gear and running the engine in gear.
Mike
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Has anyone got contact details for the overland cafe on lewis. The web site wasn't working last time I looked. I'm going up that way this year and would like to pop in on pads and nelli.
Mike
....running fast
Where is the cheapest winch motor
in International Forum
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I bought one of these a few years ago but when it turned up there was a bow 1 motor in the box.
Mike