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Picture please! I love the look of those Fiats. I had a 450DT which gives me nightmares just thinking about it, nice to drive when it was working but was a poor starter when cold, ate starter motors which were a pig to remove and the electrics were a constant source of issues too. It was parked up for years in favour of the two much more reliable MF135's before I sold it.

I agree. Have just added those two people you shared to my blocked list! It does make me wonder if those people have had their accounts hacked? I like to message them now and again to play them along and waste their time 🙂

I agree. Easy to spot. for lots of reasons - Too cheap, descriptions generic, location of item clearly not from where the person lives What frustrates me is it makes market place almost unusable as there is so much dross, I have started blocking the people who do this to try and cut down the amount of this rubbish I see

Facebook is full of it currently. Very annoying

Well the forklift has decided it wants new tyres as part of this maintenance program. This is what greeted me yesterday. One tyre appears to have burst and the other is not far behind it, thought they were looking a bit delicate the other day when I was moving soil in the bucket

Always good to see though!

This post is worthless without pictures!

Thanks all. I think my plan of action will be to take the carriage off the forklift and then disconnect the top end of the ram, lower it down onto a trestle and unscrew the end cap. This then hopefully removes the unknown part of the job and I can then decide where to take it to have the seals swapped over which saves me trying to get hold of the correct seals. I am good mates with a local plant hire company so will see who they use or failing that will take a mortgage out and got to Stennetts as per Steve B, I can hear Derrick sucking in through his teeth ready to quote the job now 🙂

Most likely the diode in the back of the alternator has failed

My trusty old IH rough terrain forklift (was a combined project with Manitou so some are badged IH and some Manitou) is leaking hydraulic oil from the single stage and single action main mast ram and also the double action tilt rams. The leak from the tilt rams is minor and I can put up with for a bit longer but the mast is now leaking enough that I have a small bucket hanging underneath to catch the oil so it is not all over my yard, it has gotten progressively worse over my 10 years of ownership. It lifts 2 ton easily and does not creep under load so with my very limited knowledge it could be just a case of replacing the scraper seal? I really can't be without it for more than a couple of weeks. I have never stripped a ram before but am assuming I should follow the general procedure below. Any tips would be much appreciated - Lower carriage fully to push as much oil as possible back to tank - Remove ram from machine - Unscrew end cap which may need a big pair of stilsons or try and make something up to fit? - Pull out ram and inspect seals and then replace what is needed Buying a seal kit off the shelf seems very unlikely so how do I go about measuring and buying replacements? The ram is in good condition as it is always closed up when parked so is not exposed to the elements if left out overnight

if it is the one in the completed history on ebay for £21 then I absolutely agree!! I would have outbid you on that if I had seen it. Good luck and post up how you get on

I completely understand what you mean by that. I really like the positive action of the gears in the Series 2

I like that. Probably quite heavy but with the trade off of being sturdy enough to follow a Land Rover off the beaten track Avoids trailer SVA, easily sourced brake components etc and the design at the back is nice too

I think that is a Rover P6 2 litre engine

This should help

That looks great

I am guessing it is now built into an enclosure.....

I used to get picked up for work to go to the airport frequently and one of the drivers was ex police. He spent the last few years as part of a specialist team trying to stop stolen vehicles being shipped out of Felixstowe docks. The last year he worked in that team they stopped £20m of vehicles from exiting the country. That obviously begs the question of how many went out and not detected. He said the majority of the vehicles going out were Range Rovers and that a lot of them were stolen from posh areas of London, the volume of Range Rovers in that area being so great that thieves could literally steal the exact colour and spec that wanted. He then went on to say that the feeling in the police was that a lot of them were being shipped to places in the world where the roads were poor/non existent and therefore demand for a Range Rover was always going to be much higher than a sports car/saloon Whilst my information is now 4-5 years out of date I think a lot of the above still applies and has extended to the rest of the range

Looks more like a dog to me than a lion.....

There is one parked above a clear perspex panel. I will take a picture tomorrow providing it is not blown off by the predicted 50mph wind!

Looks good in green at Goodwood

Day 2 of Goodwood is all about the rain unfortunately. I really like the pickup version. Really decent load space and the proportions look much better than I expected

I like the hookloader option for many reasons - 1 Body for camping, 1 flat body for plant, 1 Tipper body for aggregates You could also drop the Camping body off to nip down the shops 🙂

a lot cheaper than when I bought mine new 7-8 years ago!

https://www.devon4x4.com/maxxtrac-mantra-wheel-nut-for-defender-discovery-1-range-rover-clasic.html You can still get the wheel nuts though