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On 3/8/2024 at 2:31 PM, landroversforever said:
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. Hope you're doing ok Jeff!
Not so well! Now on a 3 month driving ban for a few minor health issues - unstable angina, secondary polycythemia (too many red blood cells produced - GPs suggestion of moving to the Andes or foothills of the Himalayas caused a serious fit of giggles) and out of control blood pressure.... Really buggering up getting the 110 done
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In my youth we used to use and expanded stainless mesh type stuff to stop fuel slosh in rally cars, couldn't find any on ebay when I looked recently
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14 hours ago, landroversforever said:
What happened Jeff?
Last week sometime (memory is messed up with morphine -been in hospital, again) I ordered 1000 small glass vials (use em for storing insect specimens). Delivered by APC overnight (yeah, well their idea of overnight and my idea of overnight are not even remotely similar) so they arrived a couple of days later in a box that looks like someone reversed over it a few times. Now most sensible folks would realise that if a box full of glass rattles, something is rather amiss....Not APC.
Still arguing with the persons of doubtful parentage.
Then i ended up in A&E at Carlisle....Useless bit of info - blues and twos trip in ambulance along A69 with curtains open and on morphine is REALLY trippy.
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APC is an acronym for "All Parcels Crushed".... don't ask, the swear filter will not be able to cope
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Just done this (for the umpteenth time....) used glass adhesive acquired from a mate who fits windscreens). He uses very fine wet and dry to "rough up the glass" in the contact patch.
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Having spent days of my life having to use a computer to interrogate the family passats (err kinda acquired another one yesterday....), the relatively simple electrics of my defenders and mini are simply bliss.
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A very long time ago (early 80's) I was quite into rallying and built a Mini (1558, 8 port), was sorting out the brakes (new pads n shoes). My father came back from work and announced that there was a puddle under the nearside wheel. Out I trundles, and yes, there was a puddle under the wheel. A quick taste test and I went back inside relieved that it wasn't brake fluid. My father was on his car laughing. Words to the effect of "oh yes, the dog (Brandy , a very bad tempered, self opinionated terrier) had marked the car as his territory.
Dog urine tastes somewhat peppery.......Was gargling disinfectant for a week.
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On 2/7/2024 at 11:18 AM, Bowie69 said:
Have you got some Torx screwdriver bits?
These are handy for this sort of tight spot: Sealey Ak6962 Bit Driver Ratchet Micro 1/4 Hex Stainless Steel : Amazon.co.uk: DIY & Tools
I have a slight addiction to 1/4 drive stuff, the dinky Sealey ratchets (also sold under many different badge engineered brands) are very useful, but can be a pain as the reverse lever thingy catches and causes absolute havoc, also bloody difficult to find after temper gets involved and tool flinging occurs.
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I like that, but, how many of my internal organs/children/wife will I have to sell just to place a deposit!
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1 hour ago, hurbie said:
they look the part , let's hope they work as well .
Yeah but they're shiny...... I will end up destructive testing them.....perhaps not intentionally, but in my world, everything is a hammer.
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So these arrived (wife says they are my birthday present, how does that work, i paid for the buggers.....) made by Liquid Levers. Don't care if they break cos they're shiny. seem to work too
T-handle is quite useful. 3/8th drive
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2 hours ago, muddy said:
As above or weld a nut/socket to a cut off old spanner.
tried that, also tried bending a suitable spanner, so off to carlisle for a visit to Halfords and Machine Mart.
Cheers folks
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Got a job on family car that requires the use of crowsfoot wrenches, anyone got a recommendation for brands? Keep in mind Its a one off job therefore cost is kinda important, can't justify a small fortune on something I'm probably going to use once or twice.
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I think I'll ultimately end up modifying the golf seats, the only problem will be height, so contingency is to rebuild standard seats with seat heaters (not overly enamoured with vinyl, but one works with what one has). I have to admit the golf seats are really comfy for bucket seats and quite narrow (luckily I'm skinny enough to need to run around in a shower to get wet) so they'll fit a defender cab quite nicely.
So watch this space
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Useless bit of information folks, one can get at least 4 seats in the airing cupboard, no space for clean clothes n stuff though. Wife somewhat peeved (actually effing livid), but the decision is kicked into the long grass, gotta go, need to make up my bed in the garage......... she's not that bad really. Agreement is that if I can make the garden resemble a garden (bit of a scrap yard at the minute) the seats can remain .Win win really
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5 hours ago, miketomcat said:
This world throws away many repairable and recyclable items. 80% of my home is recycled, my car is recycled, my wife's car is repaired/recycled. We as a family (especially my wife) are passionate about reuse, so yes I'm a fully qualified womble.
Mike
Mike, so which Womble do you associate yourself with....
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Our local recycling centre is pretty good about removing stuff, even phoned me when they had a load of chequer plate (local company does displays at exhibitions), sadly I was doon sooth at the time so missed out on 12 8/4 sheets of 3mm plate.
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11 minutes ago, bishbosh said:
Only the large parts Jeff?? 🤪
Err this is my office....
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Hopefully by end of spring this year the 110 will be functional (yeah I'm an incorrigible optimist...) and I have a choice of seats to rest my bum on.
Pair of Vauxhall Recaros I bought new way too many years ago. Cloth.
Pair of Recaros from a Pininfarina Coupe that I got given, also cloth but also almost unused.
Standard Defender seats (have a re-trim kit I bought a while ago from Exmoor Trim (black vinyl)
Now those three options are probably easiest to fit (Recaros just need nut plates on seat box moved)
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As my Golf gave up the ghost, body wise and engine wise and electrics wise, I have a very nice pair of heated leather Recaros.... Now the seat mounts for VW are a weird roller bent arm type of thing and would take a serious amount of modifying (read deleted) to fit a seatbox. But they are really comfy and heated and I live in Northumberland and I like heated seats in the winter.....
I know the other seats would take aftermarket seat heaters, but pulling them apart to fit em is an absolute pain, but modifying the leather ones is also gonna be a pain.
Oh and the wife is heading towards a biblical scale sense of humour failure about having a spare room that looks more like an upholsterers wet dream (come on, there's only 8 (spare set of heated leather for her passat) or so).
So I need help deciding.
What would you do (don't suggest divorcing her, cos the way my luck goes , they'd give me sole custody of the children....) ?
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On 1/14/2024 at 11:23 PM, Mutley said:
Well if the WIFE won't go in it again, the plus side is at least the WHINING Noise has STOPPED!?! 🤣
Or one finds out that it is the gearbox/transfer box/axle that has been making that whining noise after all....
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54 minutes ago, Anderzander said:
I have a cabinet and plumbed my blast pot into it. That worked quite well - what I desperately need to do though is change the hose and nozzle from the blast pot. It’s massive and so inflexible that it’s hard to use.
I also struggled with the light and visibility - some helpful suggestions on here though saw me cut a hole in the side that I can fit a vacuum in - that made a really good difference.
I say a youtube vid of some crazy russian using a clear plastic storage container as a blast cabinet, I'll see if I saved it anywhere. Thought it was a good idea if, like me, one cannot (space is a premium and I think the wife may well damage large parts of my anatomy in painful ways if I tried to hide one in the house) justify a cabinet for a small job.
There it is:
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Where do I start..... I've done some gems over the years.
Latest (last week) was wasting a day of my life trying to trace a fault with brake lights. New battery fitted, Continuity was fine in all the wires, no obvious shorts, all bulbs/bulb holders swapped out with known good ones, all the earths cleaned , all multi pin connectors cleaned . Gave up . Got a mate round to give me a hand......................
He opened the battery box and collapsed in fits of giggles, on his back unable to do anything. I'd left the effing plastic post covers on the battery.......
Just remember "To err is human, to really f£$k up takes a Jeff "
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VW horns (snail type) are rather loud and pretty effective, fit as a pair with opening down over otherwise they fill with water (don't ask.....)
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16 hours ago, Mutley said:
I'm after replacing the horn for something louder than a mouses f4rt!?!
I'm after something that is more URGENT sounding and not the twin trumpet type!?!
Heard BMW Horns were supposed to be loud and abrupt!?! Are they an easy install or does anybody recommend anything else???
Cheers Andy
If you go the BMW route, buy new. Second hand ones tends to be worn out from overuse in my experience. Unlike BMW indicators, which are always brand new as they are never used.
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. Hope you're doing ok Jeff! 
Snapped bolt Rover V8
in Defender Forum (1983 - 2016)
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Ive had better results welding a washer on on then welding a nut to the washer, much larger weld area