Bigwood

I think I have found the clue to the ridle of the strange threads on my arms. I contacted the owner of the origional vehicle these arms came off. He says he bough the vehicle from an inporter that said it had new arms because the bushes were shot. These are after market arms fitted in Southern Ireland. Strange why new arms not bushes but I supose they should be ok as they were on the vehicle for nearly ten years. If they are different I will find out this weekend.

Hi Folks, I am about to re-bush my Disco so I aquired a pair of front arms so I could have them ready to fit, cant have the tug off the road for long. Bought the bushes and fitted them no problem so far. Now comes the but and err bit. The bushes fit ok in all the holes and the chassis end of the arm but now I realise the threaded bit is a smaller thread than the ones fitted to my tug. As the bushes seem ok is it just a matter of thread sizes. Any clues would be aprieciated.

I recently bought a pair of front calipers for my Disco with a view to changing discs/ calipers and check the swivel pre-load.. My local motor factor promised to mach any price quoted from the mail order Landrover supliers so this seemed a good deal. They were not new but looked profesionaly refurbished so I took a gamble. Started the job on Friday lunch time and by four pm was ready to fit the first caliper. To my suprise I found the mounting bolt holes too small. My local motor factor tryed there hardest to resolve the matter but it will now be monday before I hopefully get another caliper. As I am in hospital for a foot operation Tuesday I would have liked the tug ready to use when I get fit again. I supose this is partly my fault for not checking but at least it was someone local that I can go and shout at. I dout this being any diferent from mail order supliers but it feels better face to face to resolve issues like this. The moral of this being check carefully before acepting any goods. The work on the other side whent well all done in three hours even if it required stilsons and mole grips to get the caliper pipes out of the flexi pipes.

I run my 200 on Cooper ST,s, standard size and they seem ok. They are a lot more agresive than AT2,s and can be a bit noisy if you run with the window open. I only wish I had gone for 235/70 because standard size can be dificult to find in my area of the world. I bought mine as a set with gunmetal coloured modules as well, the extra offset is worth it.

Thanks for the coments, I only thought in the direction of change because of the price comparison, its not much diferent. The green lane runs I do tend to involve a long road run first.I have always thought the four pot calipers fitted to my tug would be suited to better discs. As I am changing my calipers at the same time because they are worn causing the pads to clatter in the slides, so the end results may be worth it. I will quize Paddocks about the calipers during working hours.

I am about to change my Discs and calipers on my 200TDI. I noticed Padocks sell Slotted and Drilled Discs for not much more than the price of standard Discs. My tug has solid discs fitted as standard. These are not the EBC Discs so I wouls asume they would take normal Calipers and pads. Any thoughts would be apreciated.

A bit off the Landy subjects but my father had a Rivet lathe for his clock making. Far too big realy but it was so much easier than having too think if he could manage jobs. Origionly bough by the british army for boring out rifle barrels so I belive. I have been down the line of Harison and Colchester lathes and even a very old Myford converted to electric from treadle. Not realy needing a lathe but I have inherited a nearly new Mini Lathe. I realy cant think of things to do with it but wont sell it incase I find an urge to turn things. Apart from the sugested atachements I made a tailstock die holder for tapping threads in the chuck. You are garantee to get the threads straight that way. The sound of swarf falling on the floor is good therapy untill you realise it too much.

Just bought a brake flaring tool from Vehicle Wiring Products. Strange place to buy this sort of thing but I have dealt with them before with no problems. With this type of flaring tool you can make new flares in situ if nessesary. Plus there are only two bits to this so things shouldnt get lost as has happened to my last kit. Treat youre self to a pipe cutter as well, I certainly cant cut straight standing up so for cutting under trucks its nearly garanteed to be straight. Got to sort my front brakes, discs and calipers next long weekend. Will not be able to drive late September for some time so its a mad rush to get things done before the tug is layed up.

Fitted a swivel kit, both front dics and bearings from Padocks last year. My Disco is a daily comute vehicle and ocasional green lane use with no problems so far. With an old truck on a limited buget some times you have to risk the cheaper options.

AFter the local scrotes slashed my tyre I bought new wheels and tyres in one hit. I run an Azure Blue Disco now fitted with Cooper ST,s on Gunmetal modulars. The deeper offset makes the track wider and the colour looks the rite even on my old Disco. I used to run my 90 on Insa Turbo Dakars and they were no trouble on or off road.I think they are a copy pattern mud tyre.

Had a week on Fraser Island at Christmas with my son. We did the 4x4 bus trip and played at being tourists. We didnt have time to hire a 4x4 and as it was just my son and I we thought it easier to try the organised camp and 4x4 bus trip. It was a great adition to our Christmas with my the the inlaws. I agree it was a bit tourist orientated but our driver- cook and the group we were with were great fun. Tuesday was ladies day, they got out and pushed The camp at Cathderal Beach was very diferent to uk camp sites, snakes and lizards in youre tent is normal aparantly. We stayed at the YHA in Hervey Bay. Good place to stay and it was cheap. Next time we go to Aus we will be on our own and will do more 4x4.Amazing country, whish we could emigrate just for the 4x4 trips.

I have solved the transfer box isues thanks to a forum user from another site, sorry but any help in a storm ect. Were the change rod goes into the top of the transfer box there is a shaft that has a finger on it. This pushes the high/low selector back and fowards. The finger is atached to the shaft by an allen grub screw. If this screw comes loose you get too much movement hence not quite going into low box.If the srew falls out you get the last thing you selected, not good if you have to drive home in low box for 150 miles, I was lucky. This is a bit of fidle on the Disco due to having slighly resticted access to the top of the box. Consul out again On checking the linkage to the lever I found an M8 bolt and not the proper pin, no bushes. Also the edge of the access hole was bent and bashed on the nearside. What has some one been playing at. Now got M8 bolt,nyloc nut and bushes. No pin available when I got the thing to bits. To make the job easier the access panel is now in with self tappers. All done now ready for a trip to Andora later this year hopefully.

Irwin wonky nut nut sockets , buy both sets from Machine Mart. The second set are for the rest of the spaces in the box. Mine get used every day at work.

It looks like I will have to get the centre consul out again. All the bushes are fine and the adjuster is as far as will go down the rod. I can get the box in low but I realy have to push the lever foward. Next move will be to have a look at the gear change its self. I noticed there is a splined shaft coming out of the side of the gear change. I am going to disconect that and see if I can select low by operating the rod by hand. This way I think I can prove whether the fault is in the box or something external. These Brumy beasts are certainly good at trying our patience aint they.

The new tyre preformed well, cosidering we did the first half of the run in a snow storm. Most of the lanes were deep snow and lots of ice but we battled through. A 90 and a 110 amongst the group had more traction problems than me. Due to the conditions it was hard to tell wich tyre had the best traction. The Cooper has more agresive side walls but for my use thats not much of a problem.Silverline cant be thanked enough, I am limited to my play time so it would have been a shame to have missed the run.