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Ah, now I thought it'd been too long without you having an injury lol, blimey Nige get well soon John

It really beggars belief people are still trying this on which Is why I made the comment above, John

Check your breathers on the engine-rocker cover etc. John

Just like the 90 in the mags too lol John

Not tax or MOT exempt WTF are these people playing at to think they can get away with anything like it? John

Jeff, I had the same problem with the passenger door and the rear door on my ex's 300tdi disco, and the door would only open with the key inserted and turned to unlock it, she got annoyed-I changed that damn spring in the passenger front door(lost blood and skin etc.) and left the rear door spring alone-as apparently she had no problem with the rear door doing that!!, It was the fact that she used to carry passengers that it annoyed her-it would've been easier to get rid of it than to keep fixing the bloody thing-one thing after another-luckily a mate of mine downloaded a complete disco manual-same as what I sent you funnily enough and that helped me sort the front door John

Yes the gearbox will still work, but seeing as you've put the transfer box into neutral you have disconnected the drive from the gearbox to the wheels-as the gearbox drives the transfer box and then the transfer box drives the axles-then you get motion to the wheels John

www.sbmcc.com John

Nigel, this isn't your answer to the cheaper motoring you were on about in your new host country is it? John

J2J, Phots would be great thank you, I have worklights on the rear of my 90 with a single LED bulb in them to replace the existing h-whatever size bulb was in them and they just about light up the area when I'm using them as reverse lights, and I also use them as tent type lights as I have a drive away awning I use for camping with my 90 too, So to get more light from a similar unit would be very beneficial all round, Thankyou for showing me what you've done for the lights on your rover. John

To hide it i suppose and to stop any weathering too John

Will, Do you have a link or pics of them fitted to your truck please? John

Taffia, Here you go-In the tech archive: http://forums.lr4x4.com/index.php?showtopic=1298 hth John

I've used my local to me truck repair place in Frome,Somerset-Reynolds I think it's called and they do all of the hydraulic crimping and good steel braided hoses etc. for a good price, My gearbox to oil cooler pipes on my stumpy R380 was about 60.00 all up and a patch pipe with connectors for the old and the new pipework for my milemarker when i cut into it by mistake-about 12 inches long was 12.00 too John

Jeff, with your tendency to throw things about your garden/garage etc.lol would it not be better to send them away to get them done properly, Plenty of diesel specialists about mate. John

If you have a look in the tech archives you'll find a comprehensive guide to doing what you need to do to your land rover, If you're going to muck about with your Injectors it may be a good call to get them and your FIP serviced as this will give a new lease of life to your fuel injection system-if you can afford to do so with a reputable diesel service engineer, I used diesel bobs the last time i had an issue with my FIP and it took 3 days to get delivered sorted out and returned to me after a spring seized up inside the FIP and took 4 teeth of the cambelt and bent all but one of my pushrods John

Ed, all military 90's and the majority of the 110's of the time my ex brother in laws 90 was in service were NAD's, there were some 110's that were V8's-but were few and far between things like the rapier vehicles(130's) and a few others had V8's in them John

I've not had any rattles with my X-brake, I fitted it without the need of silicone either can't understand why mine doesn't rattle if all of yours have done so by now? John

I've been looking into putting a temperature gauge into the R380 too, I came up with two solutions to the problem of where to mount it, I was going to place one in the the out bound oil cooler pipes to my 13 row mocal type oil cooler(Situated beside my full fronted intercooler) and the other was to place it in the actual drain plug of the R380 itself-that way you'll be getting a direct temperature, however I'd need to tap a thread in the drain plug and there is the question of the magnet in the cap too and how to get around that. John

My ex brother in law bought an ex MOD 90 that was originally an FFR and that had a 1:666 ratio transfer box on it-coupled with a NAD engine it was not only really slow but also very loud too. John

Ed, Some military 90's had 1:666 transfer boxes on them too John

Jamie, have a look at the sticker on the rear of your transfer box and see what ratio it is-you may find that it's got a 1:666 ratio transfer box on it, if so then that would answer why It's screaming as you say, Normal 90's/110's have a 1:410 ratio transfer box on them and some people including myself have the disco one which has a ratio of 1:222-which gives you longer legs, My personal choice but others have a different opinion on the conversion and not to everyone's taste John

Machine mart?

Hi Souster-yes thats all I used and I'm sure you could do this-use the brake warning light for example, my LED light is drilled through the dash clock panel so it sits facing me in between the clocks-Speedo and temperature gauge It's a 3mm hole and the buzzer sits under the lip of the clock binnacle where the vents are as that allows any noise from the buzzer to be heard, the self test button is drilled through on the bottom of the binnacle where it's easy access and yes even at motorway speeds you can self test it and hear it too John

I've got vented calipers/disks etc. on my 90-I did do a lot of towing at one time and it did make a difference, It's a very simple thing to do and one thing I did do was convert my caliper pistons over to stainless steel pistons from Zeus engineering, they've been on there for 8 years now and are still like brand new-did the front and rears together, I got all of my parts from Craddock's and fitted it all together-It's a bolt on jobby John