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EGo perceptum Latin procul schola tamen postulo ut servo is sursum ut Ego sum a vinco ortus Miserabile meus grammar est non optimus tamen is est melior quam nocens Grammar is a sh*t word to equivicate as it's bast*rd latin

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Jim - I'll have one on the proviso you get one made up for India - small - as well

I'm building one for the 100" at the moment. Got a 12 foot length of SS same dia as Southdown use - got it free - so I may have some spare I have to go from one side of the engine bay to the other to exit throught the top of the wing a'la Mantec V8 stylee so I have aquired some flexi hose to do that Got some SD clamps for the windscreen pillar Got a SH safari stylee intake Made a reducer to the air box 72m down to 64mm from B&Q for 98p Got some fleximastic that was left un attended on site Four SS Jubilee clips from the same scource

Doing my best. Wearing out my begging hat....

Rode a 2x2 SWM a few years back - bloody awful handling, simply awful, worse than TZR250 bleurghtrike on speed. It's inherant in 2x2's

Big old can of worms Springs - Britpart progressive are about the best VFM, don't bother with the HD jobbies. TJM are the best top end of the market VFM Eibach are the best full stop I am about to test a set of Britpart GAZ so can't comment There is very little difference between Pro-comp, Rough Country, Trailmaster, Rancho, Iron Man, De Carbon etc. If it hasn't got a remote resevoir or variable damping. Go by price and travel length AND guarantee. If if breaks replace it under warantee. OEM have a nasty habbit of snapping top rings. TJM are the same shock but with a stronger top ring - get the drift... As Bish says - work out what you want to do. Overland demands far greater wear resistance than Challenge.

Next time contact Richard at SuperPro - they do bushes to fit all shockers and I mean ALL! And once fitted you get that good old guarantee as well

David Bowyers off raod training site is only just 10 acres and you could play there... But he did shift 20K tonnes of soil/spoil/rock to build it

I had (briefly) a 101 with a jag IL6 in it. 4.7 diffs as well. Scarey so I sold it Also had a LTWT with a Chev350 in - bought it for the engine to go in my old 'Lux There was a LTWT around the Bath area back in the late 80's with a Courteney Turbos Twin Turbo 2.8V6 in it - went quick and stopped slow

Fixing cans to the exterior of a vehicle or trailer is a big NO in most European countries - it's an impact thing. Fitting full jerry cans to your roof is just plain daft As Chris (hello Chris) says, fuel carrying in (note the 'in') has big time rules and regs. Carrying fuel inside the open area of a pickup is a different story

I have one of these http://www.anchorright.net/productCategory...chor.php?id=aus It's bl**dy good

Tony The US Military have a system to work out the required pull needed to recover a stuck vehicle - so do the Brits The Yank one is 100% (of the vehicle MLW) to the hubs, 200% to the door handles and 300% to the roof The Brits do it a bit differently. There is a table for different mediums - ie Clay, Sand, West Sand etc. Then one 1/60th of the vehicle weight per degree incline up to 60 degrees. So, say you have lost traction in clay (rarely deep enough to hit hubs) on a 15 degree slope. That's 20% of the vehicle weight for Clay - a pull of 437kgs and 15/60ths added for the incline (1/4) so add 546kgs of pull - total = 983kgs. Shed 200kgs and what do you get - 900kgs of pull so are saving your winch less than a strong man can lift off the ground and don't forget this is rolling mass... Your winches are well maintained and run good batteries - no matter what type of winch they are, that saving of about 80-90kgs of pull in an avergae condition is bugger all.

Why bother? Do you know that by saving weight you will be any more succesful? Compare equally equiped vehicles to yours in ability. There are no real speed sctions in UK Challenges so, unlike Jesmond, you don't need to shed what is such a small amount of weight in the grand scheme. Losing the 200kgs is more than fair. What actually creates or loses traction is weight displacement. Axle to axle, corner to corner and never forget COG distrubution. You can get a challenge Suzi down to 1000kgs and an Auverland to 1100kgs but then you get issues with traction becuase you are too light - been down this road before...

If you want dims let me know, we have two in the yard with 3.9s and one with a 3.0

Interesting you say this - I would say that with thinner sticks on a bigger amps you can fill some pretty big holes. However the more I play with Mig the more it surprises me - the more I play with the stick the more I remember is possible.

Canter or Fuso Canter S/H engines imported from Japan via various outlest or throuth breakersyard.com Very impressive engine but not small

Speak to Anton at OEC International for a real world SH price - he may have a buyer for you as well.

Mitsubishi 3.9ltr TDi - 143bhp and 412Nm at 1,600rpm and it comes with it's own 6 speed box and an exhaust brake.

I had to weld up some of the frame work on one of our 6.3tonners today. Simple stuff. Vibration cracks on the cage framework, bend splits etc. So I brought all the bits home in the astra and fired up the mig. It's a nice mig. Bought it off Warthog. Sip 130. But is can be a pain in the a*** to run the wire through so after the upteenth time of wire sticking, I thought ar*e and took it all apart to find the kink/block/snag. Short of the long is I stripped the thread on the end of the torch where the tips screw in. Don't ask how - I just did. Oddly enough I couldn't get a spare brass tube anywhere on a saturday... So after kicking a few things around the workshop, my gaze fell on the sweet little 115amp stick welder I also bought off Warthog. Mmmmmm. Anything can be glued with stick. So I trooted off to Mole Valley Farmers and purchased the smalles pack of 2.0 x 300 sticks I could get - a mere 150 of them in a box for 15notes. So I have spent all afternoon quietly and very satisfyingly stiching 3mm and 4mm angle and box back together. Used about 40 sticks but all is strong and so very neat and tidy. As for the little 115 - it's great. Old 'Hog put a piggy back fan on the rear with seperate feed and the little thing just welds and welds and welds and welds. Love it. I can now understand why Les uses gas so much...

I was not amused at the time, but when I told Susie she almost had the baby early!

Would it be easy to copy and sell under another name?

Chris a TD will fit but it's got some hole issues onto the Bell housing. Enough studs will line up though.

In the 8 years since I last had to concerned by this, much has changed. I have been to Halfrauds, Mo'Care, Exmoor Trim and other seat type folks. The Recaro stuff is overpriced poo but the Babybjorn stuff looks good - but there is so much choice and so many complicated abbreviations. When you say Land Rover Defender and Range Rover Classic to a shop assistant they look at you funny - one even asked me if it was for my Grandchild (alomst a candidate for Rotten.com/foriegn objectsinsertedinthe body) So what works well? What fits nicely? What will keep small people safe from 0 to 4 years? What doesn't have straps and buckles designed by Tomas D'Torquemunda?

Damn but I like that bumper Steve