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I'd check the glow plugs as mentioned and change the fuel filter just to cover the bases.
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Going back to you saying you have not had the vehicle long, Did you buy it before all the cold weather?
Did the previous owner make ant mention of running it on Veg oil? Does the exhaust smell like a chip shop?
If it was run on poor WVO that could be your answer.
Just an outside the box thought.
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It is possible to use a Hi lift to winch very slowly if time isn't an issue. A few lengths of synthetic winch line with eyes spliced into either end and a couple of shackles. Allowing for multi uses. Hangs washing well and you wont need to use pegs either! Not exactly ground anchor I know but multi use and lateral thinking.
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Just thinking of the air intake made me
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NFU gets my vote to.
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Blimey, thats a bargin well done. How much skin do you think you keep on ur knuckles now lol. Enjoy.
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The overdrive is worth money on or off the vehicle, I know of someone that purchased an S111 for £300 with an overdrive in it whipped the overdrive out and sold it for just over £400.
In all fairness the money sounds like its in the tires and now the overdrive, free wheeling hubs are a bonus to you but dont really do much for the seller.
If you go in low and can always come up a bit.
I think I'd be pitching things around the £350-£400 knowing you could sell on the overdrive unit if the worst things happened and you woulnt be out of pocket.
Things are only worth what someone is prepaired to pay for them at the end of the day.
Hope that helps you
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I purchased a Garmin Nuvi for personal use sometime ago now because I prefered the look of the map layouts/graphics etc. Now this works fine and the maps can be updated however not so long after we got some tom toms at work which I have ended up using alot more and find the address search funtion alot more intuative than the garmin and now I think the the tom tom maps are less clutered making them easier to follow on the move. The tom tom maps can be updated also you can buy some discs with different voices on (yoda, darth vada to name but a few)
The next one I buy will be a tom tom as I now personally find them easier to use.
Hope thats of some use to you.
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Most of the money is going to be in the tires by the sounds of things. Do you have any pics of it?
Does it have an overdrive or free wheeling hubs?
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I agree fore warned is fore armed,
we have been fore warned its on forums and in most of the mags in some way or another.
Now all that is required is to fore arm ourseleves with the address of a local class 7 MOT station well before any MOT is due. Write the information down and paperclip it to your current MOT cert.
Job done.
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Being the post is about the MOT classification I can't see what all the fuss is about personally just get a class 7 test and be done with it, its about another £10 a year or there abouts.
Why make a mountain out of a molehill at the end of the day.
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The slow starting does sound like the starter is on its way out, did you replace it with a good new one or second hand?
If you wait for the glow plug relay to go through its complete heat cycle (after you hear the click) then turn the vehicle over is there any difference in cranking speed?
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From what I have heard Kam Diffs are in the R&D stage of producing a bolt on diff, as in no need to weld on a new diff pan making the fitting very similar to an ARB locker except no air requirement. It will still need to be actuated, ie switched from what I understand.
I know very little more about this project but I'm pretty sure others on here will and have more up to date information.
Maybe of some help to you.
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I have one on the front of my 90 and it keeps going through MOT's.
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My first thoughts were Judge Dread when I saw the picture!!
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Watching with interest here.
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There is a thread on here somewhere that has pictures of a few raptor consoles.
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Like this?
Thats what I ment. But with the faded wording, however thinking about I doubt you will get faded writing once its embroiderd or has been washed a few times.
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I'd go with that and it would also keep the costs down.
Just as a second thought what would that look like with a silver/metal oval around it? (I have no idea how to do this sorry)
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I had a MUD center console which cracked and broke very easily, in some areas the plastic is very thin to my mind. After a while it seemed to go very brittle. I replaced it with a Raptor center console which is alot more robust and should you wish to change the layout of the dash you can just buy the individual front faces.
No connection just a happy customer.
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Cor blimey, that would be handy on the drive. I bet there a pretty penny mind.
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Hand bags at dawn it is
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Looking good Nige
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"The x best x Tech x far"
Do the marker pens smell good ?????
On the tread pattern thing its kinda used by Difflock. Not good or bad just already in use.
Wire rope rigging
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If you have a yacht rigging company near you, you should be able to purchase any parts you need from them. They would make any lengths of wire you require.
If you have any boat yards near you may be able to find someone that is replacing the rigging on their yacht, more often than not the old rigging would go in the bin. That would give you the wire rope in stainless most likely with an eye ready to go in one end.
Then cut to length.
All you would then have to have made up would be the eye in one end of each wire and a couple of bottle screws and possibly a couple of deck fixings.
I darn't think how much I have seen in the bin over the years!
Hope thats of some help.