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Oh all right then Dave I know I've been a bit quiet recently. Here's my 109 looking a bit schizophrenic with UK and US plates on. Haven't got the heart to take the old ones off... Cheers Luke

Ahh... Nova Scotia?

Hi Guys, please excuse my ignorance but where's Woodville, NS? Sound's interesting. Cheers Luke

Yes, pics would be good!! Thanks guys. Your booth rental idea sounds good Bill but I'm not sure I can be bothered!!! At least I now have a garage I can actually get the Landy in while it's being painted - the last time I painted it, outside, I found one of our cats asleep in the front tyre after she'd wandered all over the bonnet. Not to mention the time before when it went from beautiful blue skies to rain in less than 5 minutes after the "best finish ever" had been achieved... Cheers Luke

I feel a mild case of deja vu coming on. I wrote this on LRC on the 26th of Aug: "It seems to me that the list of Land Rover forums gets longer and longer, a bit like the list of mags. And, like the mags, the content gets steadily more diluted, samey and commercially driven until people get bored and wander away. Unless of course someone comes up with something refreshing and different, but then that's always the clever bit isn't it?" Funnily enough that's STILL the last post on that particular forum, which would rather seem to prove the point... Cheers Luke

You've been to the moon?? And the cheese was green?????

OUCH!!! Not a good day for this owner... Hurricane Damaged Disco

Thanks guys. I've not found "Home Hardware" yet. I'll search out Melmine in the stores round here - sounds good. However, my digging around is suggesting that there are now good alternatives to 2-pack out there that are shiny straight from the gun and don't kill you if you're "only" wearing a face mask. Does anyone have any experience of these? I quite fancy having a go at spraying but have always been put off by several crummy finishes I've seen using cellulose. Cheers Luke

See, I only left Northampton in May and I've COMPLETELY lost touch...

My truck needs some moderate blinging in the form of a nice coat of Marine Blue and Limestone. In the UK I used to use those wonderful paints known as "Tractol" and "Tekaloid" but I'm drawing a serious blank over here looking for a good, slow drying coach enamel I can slap on with a quick wash and a roller. Can anyone suggest any good alternatives this side of the Atlantic? Cheers All Luke

Don't tell me! The mods are planning to take over Bling too!!!

100 quid a page is it??? I received 50 quid for each submission to the "Yours and Ours" section - a page each...

I wouldn't get too worked up chaps. I've just strayed into the LRC forum and am left feeling that if LRE chooses to endorse a website that is so obviously lacking in the technical expertise, the wide breadth of experience and the camaraderie available here - in preference to the rich home-grown resource they had at their fingertips - then they are endangering any modicum of "enthusiast" credibility that they have remaining. Despite being mindless, I can still spot where the worthwhile content is and there's already more on here after only a couple of weeks. It's a real shame to see such a major contributor to the LR movement as JT being implicated in this petty mess. It would be nice to see him move on... Cheers Luke

Apparently it doesn't need to be dry. Check this out... http://www.robisonservice.com/articles/RonR_waxoyl.asp Cheers Luke

Thanks Ivan, I'll check them out. Cheers Luke

Hi Folks I changed the front shoes on my 109 in May and they've been getting progressively more "squealy" to the point where it's now quite embarrassing. I only get the noise when braking at slow speeds and it generally goes away, apart from a very high pitched squeal, when they've warmed up. Anyone got any bright ideas for a cure or shall I just fork out for some different ones? Cheers Luke

Good morning Bill, nice to see you made it over

Mornin' Dave - sorry, I don't normally do Saturdays... Glad you found it. What was the oil pressure problem?

Very neat and tidy and very interesting. Thanks for posting Mr Pear. Where is the kit from? Cheers Luke

Thanks Dave. Interesting stuff. When my last engine went pop I looked into all the options in the UK and ended up going for the simple option of finding another 2.6 to put in, albeit the Rover 90 version with a few extra horses. I'm not sure all that conversion work for anything else is really justifiable unless you plan to do an awful lot of modifications and spend a lot of money. In which case you then have to ask, why not spend that money on a 110? Looks like you might be at that point - easier in Canada I guess where I believe the import age is 15 rather than 25 years for compliance exemption, IIRC? I helped my father put a Merc 240D into our IIa in the '70s and there was a huge amount of work involved. He used the standard gear box and made up his own mating plate. Took weeks and weeks of free time. Good result but I'm not the engineer he is. I may well end up exploring the idea of shipping over a 3 litre six-cylinder as an eventual replacement. Fits the bell-housing but you need to move the battery to make room for the larger head and different intake layout, etc, which is why I didn't go for it the first time. Plus the 3 litre is a rarer beast as it's more desirable. No silver bullets, eh? Cheers Luke

Hi Dave, how's the NA engine inventory coming on? Is the 2.5 still winning favor or have you come up with other possibilities? My own engine is OK at the moment but the gearbox layshaft is complaining. I'm thinking if it's off the road anyway.... Cheers Luke

I'm not sure I can cope with the suspense for much longer.

Sorry, nothing to see here. I've removed what I wrote originally...

Oh dear. The Series forum seems to have only 3 more replies than the Freeluncher forum at the moment Never mind! I'm sure those thousands of series owners will be along shortly.... won't they...? Er.. hello...?