Orgasmic Farmer

My TD5 Disco used to have a dodgy feed wire to the starter solenoid. Gave same symptoms you describe. Was worse after driving wet roads given the location

Quality issues, maybe limited to the galvanised skins, but on some of the folds there were inconsistencies, and buckling that was visible from the outside. I appreciate that steel skins are much harder to fold than the ali but some may find the imperfections unacceptable. There were also issues with the lining up of bolt holes with the winder carrier that needed easing a few mm's, and the actual brackets carrying the winder mechanism was different on the original 200tdi ones and I had to fabricate some additional ones. All in all, not a problem as I have the kit and wherewithal to make things work. If I was just buying something expecting it to be a straightforward swap, or a garage charging for a job then it would be annoying to have all those extra little bits to sort out.

Good excuse to post a couple pics :-) Before After

Just did 4 news doors for a mate. Bought the Galv frame/skin doors from SP at £290 but while waiting for them noted they had gone up to £320. Quality was OK but if you are a perfectionist may not be up to scratch. However, completely transofmed mates truck and he is very happy with it now.

Contrast their actions with those of other residents..... http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/article4635131.ece Keith Harriman and about 15 others laboured long into Saturday night to clear away debris James Glossop/The Times​ Mike Wade and Gabriella Swerling Farmers from a picture-book Lake District village defied police advice to save their community from the floods that devastated much of Cumbria. As residents of Braithwaite, near Keswick, struggled with ropes and tractors to rip away broken trees and debris blocking Coledale Beck they were ordered by police to stop. The locals’ answer, said Keith Harriman, a 59-year-old farmer, was “sharp and to the point”. Mr Harriman and about 15 others, laboured long into Saturday night to clear away debris that had blocked the beck and caused a terrifying “tsunami” to break over the village earlier in the day. On Sunday morning, with their village submerged in mud, the men were still working hard to prevent a second catastrophic flood, by clearing tree roots and broken wooden footbridges from under Braithwaite’s stone bridge, when the police arrived. “We had one guy in the bucket of a JCB in the middle of the river, trying to put a chain round a huge piece of wood,” Geoff Davidson, a local volunteer, said. “You can imagine the reaction. The police said: ‘You haven’t got this man on a rope. You haven’t done this, you haven’t done that. What if he goes down the river?’ Sadly health and safety people, rescue services, they just have to abide by the rules.” The villagers made it clear that they would continue, whatever the officers said. “You don’t pussyfoot about,” said Mr Harriman, of Keskadale Farm. The police left after about 20 minutes. Later, when a senior officer from the Environment Agency arrived he was advised to “look the other way” as villagers shovelled mud back into the river, against official practice. In nearby towns, many others were angered by the authorities’ response to the second heavy floods in six years. In Keswick, Richard and Sheila Callaghan surveyed the wreckage of the cottages they run as holiday lets. “This is our livelihood,” Mrs Callaghan, 55, said. “The Environment Agency are not interested, we are completely left to it. As for the politicians, they do a token photoshoot and that’s it.” At Fagan’s gift shop in Cockermouth, devastated by floods in 2009, Sonja Moor, 43, praised an “awesome” community response, as locals helped in the clean-up. Even the manager of the local Aldi had given a 50 per cent discount on essentials she needed after she was flooded out, she said. In Braithwaite, Daisy Sowerby, 67, was the most fortunate survivor of the floods on Saturday. With Keith, her husband, and Margaret Parker, 74, she was in the doorway of Bridge House when a huge tree trunk and two wooden footbridges, swept downstream by the torrent, thumped into the village’s pretty stone bridge, immediately blocking the flow. “The water just ricocheted off the tree and flipped back like a tsunami,” she said. The three struggled to reach the back door through a metre of filthy water. Mrs Parker, who had a hip replacement in September, escaped with Mr Sowerby, but his wife was trapped, the force of the flood pressing the door against her leg. With the water at his wife’s neck, Mr Sowerby, a builder, dashed to his van, found a crowbar and smashed the back door open. “Terrifying isn’t the word,” Mrs Sowerby said. “ I’ve never done so much praying in my life.” Ruth Denby said that she was shocked by the response of the rescue services to the plight of her 93-year-old neighbour. “About 4pm [on Saturday] we rang the emergency services to help get Gladys out, but we heard nothing for three hours,” said Mrs Denby. “Then I messaged my daughter on my iPad. She phoned Keswick mountain rescue. They came out and saved her.” Daphne Eddington, 55, proprietor of the General Store, had seen her business swamped when the beck burst its banks, but marvelled at the heroic work of the farmers. She said: “You still couldn’t walk here [by the shop] on Saturday evening because the current was so strong. But there were the guys with their tractors and spotlights trying to unblock the bridge. You feared for their lives. Between the riverbank and this shop was a three-foot high rushing torrent.” Superintendent Mark Pannonem, of Cumbria police, said that the conditions had been had been “extremely challenging for emergency services”. He added: “We were made aware of the situation in Braithwaite but to ensure the safety of the local community we advised them not to enter the water.”

20 km is not that far. See if any of the local farmers would be happy to tow you over that section on a solid link using a tractor. Be safest option I would have thought

That is what I suggested above (without the bit about .iMG file as I assumed Basecamp would read .gpx files). Another option I thought of could be to use NOtebook to edit the gpx files. You can create a file and just copy and paste the "content" of all your various files into a single file. Not sure if it would work but no reason why not.

Pretty straightforward. Save all your routes in a place folder on Google earth and then save place as (kmz) to your PC then use GPS Babel offline or GPSVisualiser.com on-line if not too big and save the output as a gpx file. You can then import that into the gps program of your choice.

It definitely had the hand throttle, as most of that was still there (bar half the cable), but didn't appear to have the extra tank under the front seat.

My 110 is plated for 4 tonnes (ex Scottish Power) and came with the vacuum receiver still under front OS wing. All other bits were missing however. I still have the tank if anyone wanted it. What it would have been like towing 4 tonnes around the Scottish highlands with a 2 & 1/4 NA diesel under the bonnet doesn't bear thinking about :-)

^^^^ great link there Les. I might have a go and rebuilding some of my duff starters. Lord knows I have enough :-)

What is the Mountain biking and climbing like in the area :-)

With 500 bhp on tap I doubt the transfer box will last that long and even Ashcrofts stuff will struggle at that sort of power. You better go ask those Icelandic boys what they are fitting to their Formula trucks

Hope you have very deep pockets. :-)

I removed mine with no ill effects. I think they are only to aid sliding stuff in.

Very broad generalisation but there seems to 3 main seller types on Ebay 1. Genuine businesses (maybe solely Ebay based or may just use it as a shop window). Characterised by large numbers of sales, a professional layout and contact links/details to trace the company 2. Proper private sellers, characterised by small sales volume of completely random stuff (though may be a theme if people have certain hobbies) 3. Wannabee Delboys. Easy to spot if you look at selling history. Often have a few negatives to their record, even with sub 1K sales volume. I will buy from 1 with confidence, from 2 if they have a good 100% record, and very very rarely from 3 and then only small items if I can't find them anywhere else, and also only if they have a 100% record. This seller is a typical 3 in my book.

You can tell a lot about an Ebay seller by their feedback and what they tend to buy/sell. I would not contemplate buying a used Land Rover off this seller regardless of condition of the vehicle

My 83 110 has the same as Mikes shown above.

My grinder consumable ratio would probably be 20 slitting disks, to 3 flap disks to 1 grinding disk. I buy all mine in bulk from http://www.rightlines.ltd.uk/ Good prices and good quality

VDO. I bought a TD5 which "just had a new pump fitted guv'ner" First drive home it was as noisy as hell and the fuel gauge seemed to drop like a stone and then stabilise at 1/4 full. Rang the seller and he assured me he had really just fitted a brand new pump from that reputable after sales company known as Britpart. I lived with it for a few months but it drove me crazy so eventually bought a VDO one and it cured the noise and the fuel gauge probs in one.

Yep, those bits. I think I found them on Ebay too, but that was 3 years ago now. Sounds like the chap bought a job lot :-)

Marina, Maxi, MGB, any BL car of early 80s vintage really, they all will fit. That is how I managed to find replacements for the thin plastic trim that goes around the latch.

Portugal Extreme Challenge has just finished in that region. Maybe ring Jim @ Gigglepin for local contacts. Must be load of locals with parts/knowledge/workshops???

I may have one in the shed. Can't remember if it got sold or not

If more than a couple of patches are needed then just get some proper box section steel and weld it in after cutting out all the carp. Plenty of archive examples of it being done on t'interweb.