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Simon Smith

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  1. I use really cheap stick on led ones from Ebay, they don't stick out too far and if they get damaged it's cheap to replace them.
  2. Having watched battery recycling plants at work, they used to just smash them and the acid went into the drains, it is after all relatively dilute and basically the same as most drain cleaners anyway, though I would flush it away with plenty of water. (Not saying this is now legal though) Normally adding water to acid is a no no, but the fact that we can do this safely when topping up shows how dilute it is. As for Acid most garden machinery places will keep it too, we do as nearly all the replacement batteries are sold without acid.
  3. Virtually all lawnmower and garden tractors up to twin cylinder have a very primitive system, just like an old motorbike. The bigger stuff tends to have a regular automotive type alternator.
  4. True, but I've never seen a three phase flywheel alternator on anything I've worked on, normally only four wires unless ther is direct lighting, or possibly for an electromagnetic blade clutch But like I said, I don't see these engines on anything we work on. Kubotas and Shibauras tend to have seperate alternators like a car.
  5. I'm wondering why it has six wires, unless it has direct lighting you should only need four. The standard is two yellow for AC from the alternator, red regulated positive DC and black negative DC. Though Yanmar might be different to the rest of the world, don't often see them in our place.
  6. Sounds like the regulator has gone, the best people to talk to about these engines would be Meetens in Gosport. www.meetens.co.uk 01329-288977
  7. Seen much worse than that, I would ignore it. I helped rebuild a 110 from the ground up that had a bigger dent in the chassis and was therefore very cheap. We didn't bother straightening it, just replaced the rusty sections and painted and waxoyled it.
  8. The rep reckoned that with the heavy flywheel it can cope with pretty much anything you can put in it. But of course they use nice soft straight grained stuff in the video, so unless someone's going to the states to try one we'll never know.
  9. Was talking to the importers of DR equipment a while back. It's a pity that the stupid EU health and safety police won't let them import these. http://www.youtu.be/usk0cV0nD1g Why cant I paste a proper link had to type it in ??
  10. I had a couple of goes moving the gear lever on it's splines before I was happy with the fit, you might need to adjust the transfer lever linkage too.
  11. Sorry, just read it again. My Rear fog isn't RDX, it's home made, as is the reversing lamp.
  12. Buy the RDX relay, it works the trailer light properly which you need for the new MOT if you have towing electrics. As far as I know the Wipac one doesn't do this. Don't know about the lights, I have the RDX ones which are excellent.
  13. I confuse everyone by waving at Defenders when I'm on the bike, and nodding at bikes when I'm in the Landy.
  14. I improved mine 100% by removing all the leaves, mud and water from the heater and the plastic duct, then fitted a snow cowl to stop the rain going in when it's parked.
  15. Yes, it took me a long time to work out what the problem was too, but was simple to fix once I worked out what the problem was. Are they wired differently in different years? mines a 1992.
  16. Physically impossible for them to make any difference. They are there to stop the turbo stalling when you close the throttle, without a butterfly there is nothing to make it stall in the first place, the only diesel Landrovers with a butterfly were some of the series ones which used it to create a vacuum for the servo brakes before they started fitting a vac pump.
  17. It's because the dash lamp is wired between each circuit left and right, it earths through the side that isn't flashing but doesn't pass enough current to light the indicator bulbs. The LED's need such a tiny current that they all flash. I rewired mine by connecting one side of the warning lamp to earth and the other side to both left and right circuits with diodes. You can remove the warning light bulb temporarily, but need to get it working for the MOT.
  18. Well not quite. Actually it won't even make a noise, as without a throttle butterfly it will never operate, I suppose you could argue that as it has mass it will actually make the vehicle slower!!
  19. Alternators don't seem to mind clean water one bit. They won't charge when full of it but usually work again very quickly afterwards. Mud on the other hand will kill it fairly quickly. I used to hose mine out when I was doing trials.
  20. Legally you can't, if he's taxed for a month he must be insured for the whole month as well. Anyway I've usually found it costs a fortune to have short term insurance, usually much cheaper to have a year with limited mileage. Not that I have tried for a long time though. Why would anyone have something not insured anyway. Just because you're not driving it doesn't stop it being stolen or catching fire!!
  21. What bits have you changed? If the seals have gone in the master cylinder it is perfectly possible for it to pressurise the reservoir when you pump the pedal. This would also make the brakes not work on that circuit of course. Never had any of the problems mentioned when bleeding TLS brakes by the way, just used to wind the adjusters up tight first and use the two man "up-down" method.
  22. LR need to employ some good old fashioned engineers as well as the university graduates that design everything on a computer. Don't get me wrong, modern technology is essential in engineering, but so is experience.
  23. LR thrive on tradition, so obviously they decided that this had to be done. Seriously though what a carp bit of "engineering" but I suppose when you stick an old van engine and gearbox into a landy it's only to be expected.
  24. I can't remember when I read it, but I recall a test where four people were kitted out with monitoring equipment , and cycled into London. Then the same four people drove the same journey in a Freelander. The total CO emmisions from four panting cyclists was considerably more than the total from 4 relaxed people plus a Freelander. So if you want to save the planet, just drive everywhere.
  25. I used to run LEDs in the standard lights, but still had all the usual corrosion issues, filling with water etc. This made the LEDs not last any longer than the bulbs so decided I was wasting my time and money. I reckon the RDX ones would survive quite a hard impact too, they appear to be very solid. I havent done a comparison with the Wipac ones so I can't comment on them, but have heard good reports.
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