Lewis

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I had an N reg 306 d turbo years ago with a number key pad immobiliser, hardly cutting edge! Also, just checked with a colleague - the code is the same on all JCB products

Okay, it's been six years since I worked on the farm, but when I did we had new, state of the art tractors and telehandlers, none of them had an immobiliser, and none of them had unique keys. The only immobiliser I ever encountered was on a 1997 JS200LC tracked excavator - and that was an aftermarket jobbie which was next to useless A JCB key fits all JCB's, a case key fits all case, a Valtra key all valtra's, likewise all of the other brands. Have a quick look on eBay at the amount of sellers listing "plant key" and "farm key" bundles where you get one key for each brand. Machinery is all keyed alike. Any of you that think tractors or plant is hard to steal needs to think again

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Same ^^^^ I've extensively repaired and rebuilt the RHF chassis leg on my 90

Have you got the right thread? Surely that belongs in the "pass the bucket" eBay thread?

Given that most start with a Lucas key I'd say not at all

That's a very interesting post Simon, thank you for taking the time to give that information

Want! How much £ you asking?

This ^^^^ I'd like to know what works and what doesn't

Woah there! As Land Rover enthusiastic we are not supposed to encourage each other to sell our land rovers. We are supposed to egg each other on until every piece of real estate we own is completely filled with land rovers, until our spouses are sick of the damn things, we are borderline bankrupt and we own more cars than the local dealership!

If it's the original gearbox it's the short bellhousing type

As per my reply to your PM, the discovery 200tdi fan does not foul the steering box in any way shape or form when using the short bellhousing LT77 in the original position

When my timing was slightly out I got a lot of white smoke when cold, no blue though

Yes to both questions

I lol'd

Oops, sorry, that'll teach me to read properly before posting

There should be a gasket, item 3 on the link below http://www.allbrit.de/UNI.cfm?PAGE=800847&SPRACHE=EN

What you are proposing is almost exactly what I have done with mine I found the guard for the drop arm was important as I kept killing drop arm ball joints as that was the furthest forward part of the car As you can see, I cut the dumbirons right back, and had to reshape the chassis rails too The bumper bolts ended up just under the grill, and the winch is well back

Good write up, would be a useful addition to the tech archive

Once you have the CCJ against them go straight for a High Court judgement, it only costs £60 and that cost and the costs of enforcing the judgement are added to the fund being recovered, plenty of info on Wikipedia

I don't care enough to look myself, but if any of you are keen enough the MOT test manual is available online @ a .gov site. Largely the enforcement of this change in legislation will rely on the testers knowledge of whether a vehicle should have a cat or not, so I suspect most people will continue to pass MOT without them for a while longer yet

I have no direct experience rebuilding Ashcroft CV's but I would try the bell in the oven at 60degrees and the spider in the freezer for a couple of hours, then see if it'll just drop in then. I've had success with this technique on other things before