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Not sure what kind of light you are after, But I've fitted something like these DRL of ebay in my Disco bumper. This is how it looks
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I've been wondering, what is the cost of SVO pr litre in UK ?
Here in Norway it's far more expensive than Diesel.
But WVO is still free. I've been using ~290 litres of wvo since the end of may, and that is ~32% of the fuel used in the same period. If someone are using > 2500 litre of svo per year, they drive alot if it's in their LR...
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There are regulations on how fast you can tow an unbraked trailer, and I think they differ from country to country.
In Norway, you have a limit of 60km/h if the total weight of the trailer is more than 300 kg, and (i think) 80 if its under 300 kg. (that is trailer and load).
In Sweden, I think there is a limit of 40km/h if the weight of the trailer (with load) is more than half weight of the unladen truck.
That's why I mostly drive trailers with brakes.
There are some restrictions on use of NATO hitch when registering trailers in Norway, but I dont know what they'll do if they stop you when visiting Norway. I guess they will let you continue driving.
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I found the dvd from "a 4x4 is born" to be nice, also there is a dvd (or cd) availible with lots of pictures taken during the process. But I'm not quite there yet. I still plan kind of turning my Disco into a pickup, but not sure. I guess it's some years until I will get around doing it (if I ever will)..
// faj
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I buy Texaco MTF94 here in Norway. Good (for me) to see that some of the prices in Norway is lower than in UK. Although when I bought MTF at a LR dealer, i paid ~20£ a litre, I now pay a lot less for the equivalent Texaco MTF94.
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Hav you tried to put a drop of oil inside the chuck ? If the chuck is hard to tighten, then I would have tried a bit of Oil. I did on my, although inot a keyless chuck, and it helped.
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Sorry bushwhacker, didn't see your reply/question until now.
I have a Tankgguard produced by SouthDown (I believe) with a detachable tow-bar. I've made my own cradle which fits in the same mounts as the towbar would fit.
The tankguard looks something like this one
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I have a couple of these which are going into my disco at least maybe another car as well.
Pyle PLMRMP3A
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The only problem is that it's not that much fun to go offroading here at home anymore ....
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This year we will try the Tourist class. Especially since we're driving on our own, with neither a support veichle to tow us home, nor Any other drivers from Norway. That's why the 32 inch tyres is a perfect match.
Last year we had borrowed some old 33 inch tires..
The wheel arches was modified as we drove
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"The Bee Team" is traveling to Poland on april 25. 2012 to participate in the 33rd Pomerania
Rally website: http://www.njz.pl/njz.ang/index.html
The car is almost a stock Discovery, from 1990, with a 200Tdi engine.
It's a bit modified, with Detroit Locker in the rear axle, TrueTrack in front, front mounted winch (I guess from the car was new), and a rear winch mounted in a tray, wich will fit on tankguard, instead of the removable tow hitch.
We have a webpage of uur project here: http://teambien.no/en/
This is our second trip to the Pomerania Rally
Last year, we went together with 4 other cars from southern part of Norway, two of them was D90, the other was some japanese stuff.
We're driving all the way down with the car, and hopefully back as well.
This year, it looks like we're the only car from Norway, I know some of you were in Poland in october last year, not sure if you will be there this year ?
Some pictures fgrom last year: http://cm.bzz.no/dis...1/31stPomerania
This year we managed to get some local sponsors, one of the contributed a set of stock new 32 inch tires. We're leaving home on Wednesday april 25th, heading for Sweden and down to Ystad. The Ferry leaves late wednesday night, and we will arrive in Poland early thursday morning. I guess most of Thursday, we will be using most of the day on wednesday to look through stuff in the car.
Then it's driging in ~48 hours, driving on Notes. On sunday morning the score cards is handed in, and we have som time before leaving for home again. The final destination is at the local LR dealer here in souther part of Norway, where the local LR Club is haveing a meeting on Monday at 19. We should be there by approx 1830
There is also a goal to get home that night, be if we manage to get to the dealer, we should manage to get back hom the last 50 km as well. I guess we've driven ~2500 km during this short week.
This year we're trying to use tracking from greenalp.com. You can track us using the track-page on the tracking page at teambien.no
How the car looked like last Tuesday
The page is from our Blog where we will try to update during preparation and on the way home
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... I do recommend carrying a spare fuel filter, even a cheapo one, just in case you should have an issue, but the fuel filter I'm running is the one that was fitted to the engine when it was removed from a disco, and hasn't been changed in 4 years. The disco had been running on bio before I bought it, and has had several hundred gallons run through it since with no problems.
You mean you haven't changed the filter for > 4 years ?
Haynes says 12000 miles or 12 month..
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When I got my disco, the oil lamp lit whenever I was doing under 1500rpm. Added some oil pressure gauge, and found that the oil pressure was way to low. Changed the oil pump after some months, and everything has been fine since. Not a big/difficult job, a few bolts had to be replaced, but other than that. not a big job. I replaced the oilpump with the engine still in the car.
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I managed to get my winch working sometime after midnight on friday. We was to leave ~8 am the next morning. I slept until ~9
Looks ok from behind
The winch sits a bit outside the bumper, which by the way is a standard bumper, with some reinforcement.
More pictures here
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I've come a but further on my rear winch mount.
I've a tankguard from SouthDown with "detachable tow bar". I've put together some pieces of steel, together with a "winch cradle", which is actually a piece of 6mm steel, bent to make a cradle, and hardened.
Will stick a bit out back, and will not do the departure angle any good, but should be better than the normal towbar.
I have to modify the rear bumper to make it fir over the winch, but my hopes is to test it this weekend.
(sorry for poor picture quality)
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During Pomerania this year, my disco got really stuck twice.
Both times I was down to the frame. I also had my Tow kit on. We had to use both my old Superwinch, and a friends Warn 8274, with a snatch block on both, Together with mud ladders. The next truck drove through on clean land
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Did some pulling myself earlier this year
A lorry bringing some toilets to a scout-camp got stuck in the mud.
Attached my car to a tree, then rolle dout the winch cable, added a few more tow/tree straps, and pulled the lorry out of the mud. The driver mentioned something about 13.5 tonn
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if it was running on it's own oil, why did it stall when ignition was switched off ? Was he just luck to do it early enough so that it still had to have some diesel to run off ?
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5hp ok - I dont doubt that
12000kilo, should that be 12000 lbs ?
28meter/8mm steel cable, I don't doubt that either
but 6MM LIVE AND EARTH CABLES ? (Sorry for shouting).
You wont get 5hp out of that one.
16mm cables could work, but be careful when using the winch on a heavy load. Do you have a fuse on your winch ?
I have 4x40amp auto reset fuses, and they do cut the power to my winch when I use it.
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When your engine is running, and your alternator charging, you should get 14.2-14.4volt.
When the engine has been idle for a while, typically over night, you should have 12.6 volt.
If you have less than 12.6 volt on your battery when it's been idle over night, then try to charge the battery fully using a charger, not the alternator.
If you still cant get enough voltage from you battery after it's had it's beaty sleep, then replace the battery.
If you can get enough voltage on the battery using a charger, then check the voltage again when engine is running. If you don't get 14.2-14.4, replace your alternator, or maybe the regulator/bushes. It may help to open the alternator and clean it.
If you get more than 14-15volt from your alternator, then the regulator is gone, and it may help to replace the regulator. or replace the alternator. on a lot of alternators these days, you cant replace the regulator.
Also check the wiring if your battery is good, the alternetor gives 14.4 volt, but you only get ~12 volt at the battery when charging. Replace the wires as necessary, using 35mm² or better wiring Also check any junctions, like on the starter, earth point etc.
I have 0.3 volt loss over the negative cable on on of my cars when the engine is idling, lights and fan on. That is too much, and I'm hunting for voltage drops.
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That's really interesting finname. What are you measuring the light output with? I want one!
I'm using this one from biltema.com.
Looks like this is the same as from ebay
It's not easy to do the math, but I think it is possible that if your wiring is poor and you fit 100w bulbs to try and compensate, you might end up with less light than you started with!
Yes, I agree. Also, to get 100watt, you need more current, and with more current, you get more heat in the switches and other places, and possibly more failures
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I was out testing on the RRC today. I have a problem with voltage drop and also some misfiring when idling and warm engine. anyway.
I have 14.2 volt on the battery. 14 volt on the ignition, but if I run both the main light (although dimmed) and the fan, I get 13 volt on the "other side" of the ignition. I know I have a problem with a voltage drop, but that's not my point.
If I turn of the fan, I get something like 13.5v. When measring the beam with 13.5 volt gave me 155 lux about 1 meter from the headlamp. when turning on the fan, I get something like 130 lux. .
Not sure if the bulb should give 55watt on 14 volt or on 12 volt, but the effekt is almost the same. Lets says it should provice 55 watt on 14 volt.
Then with 13.5volt, I would get 51.1 watt
with 13.0volt, I get 47.4watt
But the light changed from 155 lux to 130 lux.
47.4 watt is 92.7% off 51.1 watt
130lux is only 83.8% of 155lux
I'm going to rewire the mains, but first I'll try to locate what causes the voltage drop.
But if you only get 13.2 on your main light, then I guess you only get 60-70% of the light you could get with proper wiring/charging.
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Anyone found a fuel tank which allows a rear winch mount in front of the cross member ?
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I never checked the volts before i up graded the wiring in the Landy, but after the up grade it reads 13.4 volts..
I think that is to low. have you found out which way "the missing volts" are taking. What voltage do you have at the battery ?
RDX lamps on 200tdi Disco
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Found these on ebay, and not sure what I think of them.
But I've had some plans on doing this myself before I found the RDX lamps. Has anyone mounted them, and if so, dop you have a picture of the car with them on ?
How is the quality on them. I always try to get the car in between some trees that stand a bit to narrow.
There are a couple of caveats, first the seller only ships to UK, and second, the headlights are for RHD, and since I live in Norway I obviously have some problems with both of them, but it's only minor problems so far.