[How Do You Splice A Thimble..]

on a rope that already has a hook and thimble on the other end?? Must be a different technique than normally used. Can anyone enlighten me.

It's for my extension rope.

Thanks

Steve

[Darin Tap On Bellhousing]

It's on the bottom of the bellhousing.

It's a brass drain tap (no typo this time ) on the bottom of the bellhousing. Looked quickly on rimmer bros and there is supposed to be either a drain tap or drain plug there. I can take a pic tomorrow if you insist!!

Cheers

Steve

[Darin Tap On Bellhousing]

What's the purpose of this tap?? I assume that the bell housing takes in water gradually and hence drain tap?? Is this correct??

Should the tap be open all times apart from wading? Lastly if I'm having a 'homer' moment and forget to put it in what's the likely issues??

Cheers

Steve

[When Are You Going To Start Making It?]

As soon as I can find a chassis of that length available. The rubber springs should be no problem..

[Pictures From Tonys Bash]

I can help you with the flask, Chris found it in the back of the trailer, but unfortunately that's it.

How are your arms Dave from all that steering between the trees etc without any power steering??

Cheers

Steve

[Optima's Vs Exide]

I run two in the 24v set up thatJon put on the hybrid for the winches. Never had a problem with them, and when I first got the hybrid they went through long spells without use.

Cheers

Steve

[Pictures From Tonys Bash]

If the nut won't come off after a good dose of WD40 and holding shock, try using a G-clamp on the shock. Tighten it up enough but not damaging shock and hold clamp whilst undoing nut. This worked for me.

Cheers

Steve

[Pictures From Tonys Bash]

Ok here's some pics..........

The site is set in pine woodland with several streams running through it, here's Si White in the first one..

The site allowed Chris to set out a range of punches, from really difficult ones..

the above punch is on a tree at the top of a vertical bank above another stream/gloopy mud run!!

To medium..

To easy.. (unless you owned anything wider than a 90/110!! )

Here's one of Fi being winched up by Rob so that she can scream on the way down! This happened a lot that day

This scream ended in her being stuck and holding up us getting our lunch

The site was very deceptive and even innocuous looking ditch crossings needed winching after you ended up ground on the diffs..

resulting in waffles weighing 300lbs!!

Here's another example of a simple punch needing waffles to cross ditch and to provide traction to the rear wheels on the slippery surface..

BishBosh's RR getting across..

The ditches were mostly deep enough to stop most things and slippery enough that using waffles was difficult..

Here's simonr winching out..

Here's Mark getting ready to take on that hard punch, while another team decides on whether to do the two punches here..

Fortunately the site was big enough that there was hardly any waiting

Here's Mark doing whatever it takes to get the punch..

and then because they were a single car team they had to do it all over again on the other side ..

Here's Nick going through a nice section..

Unfortunately this is where his alternator gave up the ghost, good timing!! ..

Nevermind Little Si reaches in to give hime a hug..

Here's the steaming RR..

and Les in another water run..

Here's the Suzuki's that were tearing round the site well...

They don't seem to have accelerator pedals, just on and off switches!! ..

The majority of people were observing good winching practices and the marshalling was easy and fun..

Here's some pics taken by DD of the hardcore crew still going after midnight the last ones going strong until around 3am..

Here's the food tent

Here's Les looking really happy

and Les's new girlie on the left at the back..

and here's DD's pic of the bright stars

Thanks to Tony for inviting us, setting it up and opening up his house and field to us all. I had agreat time.

Cheers

Steve

[New Members]

and a lot of new names that I don't recognise from the old site.

That's just because we all changed our names Les

Steve

[Kam Shafts And Uprated Cv's]

Stripped down the hubs today to try and find out why my CV's

move in and out by about 10mm. I've been running them for

14months now without problems and Jon before, but it didn't

seem right for there to be that level of movement.

Everything seemed ok when we stripped everything down apart

from the fact that the play is still there in the CV. Well actually I

wouldn't have know any different but fortunately I

had Chris Watts, Nick Watts and Paul Wightman on hand to

provide the expert opinion.

So I've just down some digging on the Kam stuff and noticed on

pic below that there is a 9mm spacer between CV and half shaft

that I don't recall being there and the larger 3mm type shim between

circlip and the hub. Now I had thought of putting in shim's here

before now, but as movement was so large, I didn't see the point.

I need to look at CV again to see if the spacer is there or not, but in

the meantime I thought I would check to see if anyone else

experienced the same prob and was the spacer the issue??

Here's the Kam pic, excuse the size ..

Cheers

Steve

[Birthday Bash]

There will be a spare seat in mine.

Cheers

Steve

[Paint]

I've never seen a black and white paint. I think you have to buy a pot of each and paint one at a time.

A little tip - remember to clean the brush in between or you'll get grey.

Cheers

Steve

[Hydraulically Operated Arb?]

Fi's weekly shop:

• Bread
  
• Milk
  
• Tea bags
  
• Red Wine
  
• White Wine
  
• Chocolate
  
• Baby Oil
  
• Cucumber
  

Mark! wait till Fi sees this

BTW Just turn on compressor when off-road and leave it running. No delay.

Steve

[Welding Kit]

£87

You can always count on me for a really helpful post

Cheers

Steve

[2yr Old Td5 Or Stick To 1989 2.5td?]

Seems expensive to me given mileage and others available.

Have a look on LR Used Website, Hunters have one similar age but with just 19,117 miles

Hunters (Guildford) Defender 110 2.5 Td5 5 dr - Man 5 Dr Caledonian Blue Oct 03 (53) 19,117 £16,990

Your local dealer can source this car for you. Tell them you'd rather buy this one and then see what price they do on their white one for you. I bet you could get another 1000 off with this tactic.

Cheers

Steve

[Ot - Bluetooth Car Kits]

Hi Bish

Everyone seems to rate this one...

http://www.blueunplugged.com/Products/Parr...ee_Car_Kit.aspx

or also the more expensive versions of Parrot

Cheers

Steve

[Argyll Forest]

Paul W and Simon are, so I assume he's teaming up with Tony B again.

Cheers

Steve

[Dislocation / Relocation Cones]

LR90 is right, a couple of jubilee clips keep it in place.

Yes the cones fill up, but for the amount of times you'd need to unbolt them it's not that much of an issue.

Steve

[Oram Shock Absorbers]

These are the ones used on the extreme suspension set-up from Scorpion. You might try posting posting on LRO forum as a few on there use extreme kit.

I also saw the King shocks at Billing that they use for racing. These are very heavy duty shocks. They also are component based so you can strip, replace seals and re-gas in the field too.

Expensive too, but if it provides good reliability and saves buying multiple sets of shocks, over the long term it probably pays back.

Cheers

Steve

[White90 - Chassis Cleaning Attachment?]

Hi Simon

I'm sure this is the guy Tony bought from..

Drain Cleaning kit

If you have the hose already I think the nozzle is about a tenner

Cheers

Steve

[Dislocation / Relocation Cones]

Gwyn's design has a surprizingly simple design to allow you to hold the spring to the chassis when you need to lift a wheel in the air (to change it for example) whilst using a hi lift style jack.

You don't have to jack it up too far!!!

Here's the cones on the bottom..

So Nige, how come it's more likely to get ripped out attached to top than bottom??

Cheers

Steve

[Snatch Blocks For "the Bigger Winch"]

I have one of these. Work's well with rope.

Masterpull Snatch Block

Cheers

Steve

[Picture Of Your Landie]

What have you done to the Range Rover? Been out with the T cut or something a little more involved?

yeah just Autoglym paint restorer at the moment, I've got to call Graham (Ripley) on Monday to get it in for dents and re-spray etc

Cheers

Steve

[Picture Of Your Landie]

Hi DD

here's another pic, you're down there somewhere! Remember this??

Nick, no I missed, yeah was probably straight panels that made me miss it!

Cheers

Steve

[Picture Of Your Landie]

Here are mine..

Here's the hybrid when I got it..

run it on BFG's for laning and summer..

also running it with bikini top, or LR Thong as Nige calls it, this summer..

Here's the p38..

now morphing back into stock..

and finally family hack , latest and very reliable RR..

cheers

Steve