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  1. thats what i'm on about! thanks very much and a happy christmas!
  2. i remember seeing on a challenge truck some strip brush material that extended the arches out to clear the tyres, being a bristle it wouldn't get damaged when rubbing up a tree etc, thing is i can't seem to remember or be able to find where you can get it from, its kinda like the brush draught excluders you put on the bottom of doors but the bristles are about 6" long. anyone care to point me in the righty direction?
  3. whilst athe annagh hill challange over here this weekend i made the schoolboy error of letting the rope bunch up on one side of the drum on our bow2 powered ep9.... it dutifully broke the two stay bars off the casing and cracked the gearbox end plate, whilst dismantling it we noticed it had also taken the bearing housing (most of it) on the motor end is there anyone out there making upgraded , replacement end plates? something with more meat around the staybars and maybe physically bigger to accom more rope? this one http://www.firstfour.co.uk/item/2103914/superwinch-epi9-ep9-drum-support--motor-end and the corresponding one for the other end
  4. wife put 20l of petrol into an empty p38 diesel, it did all sorts of wierd things like stalling and not revving etc etc, i drained the tank and put a new fuel filter and 40l of diesel in it left it ticking over for 20 mins then thrashed it out the road, lots of smoke of varying colours. it ran better than it ever had before!
  5. i'm heading to the workshop on sat with a bucket of tea and a catering pack of jaffa cakes.... i'm going to have an hour or two with a rolling chassis i have and see what my options are regarding front susp layout.
  6. we did discuss the ball under the axle like the above, can't remember why we dismissed it tho? so if they are rock crawling with this then it must be awful strong to withstand the bangs and scrapes off the rocks, not sure that's the way i'd go. head melted looking at stuff this evening
  7. phew no tiddle taking!!! soo it could be done ....... the points covered above became glaringly obvious when i went and looked at the front of the trayback... gonna have a mooch around pirate this evening as well, might get some more daft ideas thanks for the pointers.
  8. ok then i hope you're sitting comfortably.... my head has been melted with 1,2,3 and x-link front ends, i've had a bit of a brain wave/fart. basically we've been toying with using a rear a-frame on the front axle and using radius arms instead of hockey sticks. (this is on a 100" disco chassis, pure off roader with rads re-located, full hydro steering etc etc. now my limited understanding is you would normaly mount the two a-frames like this <> my thinking is mount the front one with the ball on the top of the axle like normal but.... you mount the other end to the chassis where the front crossmember is , now we'll have to remove the front crossmember, but as theres no rad or steering box there thats not a problem, we could also lose the panhard rod and front steering bar as we will be using the steering ram behind the axle. now is this a stoopid idea born from too much reading and not understanding what i'm reading or am i onto something? let the tiddle taking begin!!!!!!
  9. we have a std ep9 winch on the front of our trayback and we are actively looking for more grunt for it, this inevitably leads us to david bowyer as much as i like the bowmotor2 upgrade i'm baulking at the €300 cost inc shipping to us. this brings me to my question.....there are alternator and electrical motor rewind/refurb over here is it possible for them rebuild/rewind a std ep9 motor to give us more grunt and possibly even over-volt it?(which we would do if we bought a bow2) i figure it could cost less to do this than purchasing a new bow2 is what i'm thunking even possible??
  10. on the 1.8 petrol there are two temp sensors one for the guage and one for the ecu. i need to change the one for the ecu as i'm having cold start problems and misfiring when running. which one is the ecu one? ta!!
  11. you must have been reading my mind the last few weeks.... me and my driver were talking about croatia next year and we were wondering why and weather there would be anything closer to home that we could do as a warm up to see if we were up for it. keep me posted! landyman@eircom.net
  12. having an eire registration is not what its cracked up to be, my 2.5l diesel range rover costs me just under €1000 per year to tax for starters! the only problem i can see is that the authorities over here talk to yours.......dual would be a problem however if you want an irish one send me a pm with all your details and erm a small fee and you can register it here at my address in my name of course!!!!!
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