Turbocharger

JSG - details, where, when etc? I ought to be fitting the useless shi quality previously enjoyed parts I'll pick up at Sodbury but I'm tempted, a good warmup to Seven Sisters perhaps? JB PS I've just realised what time I've got to get up to get to Othery on Sunday - that's not funny. Edit: Found the details - where's Torrington?

I'll be there: Come and say hello

It's a pretty standard Ninety hardtop with a Tdi and a cage (but I don't want to use it!). I've got a winch (sod all use for RTVs!) and no lockers or fancy stuff.

Nobody's mentioned the huge (static) load that appears when you turn a sharp corner on tarmac (or rock etc) with a locker engaged - could this break a shaft? (Still ROFL @ Ali telling Tony how to drive sensibly)

S'funny - when I drove it, yours smoked more at idle than mine smokes at peak too

No help at all re carburetted engines and probably off-topic but ... are you sure it's an EGR adapter?

Croytech did me a good deal at the Donington 4x4 show

Fridge- I think we're now safely off topic but do you have such diagrams for a 300Tdi, bench tested flywheel numbers or rolling road?

I'll be there and trialling - any directions to the site?

ATF = PAS = anything thin, red and runny (but not Ribena). As LR90 suggested, might also be worth a look to see if you've bent the trackrod yet

I did, and when I find my camera's cable I'll post them

I lay underneath while Keir waved the steering repeatedly. All 4 TREs and the panhard rod bushes have no movement and the column UJs are fine. I suggest tightening the steering box but other than that I can't see why it wanders SO horribly. It really is undriveable at the moment.

Just spotted your profile, you're a month older than me! Greetings - throw a few more details into your profile so we can start taking the p welcoming you to the fold.

Nigel - not a criticism but a genuine question - have you considered the damping rate of your new shocks, or are you just going for max articulation? If you fit springs such that the vehicle will sit on the bump stops statically there's no 'reserve' if you hit a cross axle at any speed at all offroad - the same's true of the dampers.

You obviously misunderstood, Les. The gap is to allow for deformation of the tool, which has been carefully designed using the latest finite-elephant techniques and has endured hundreds of hours of fatigue testing and field experience. You ran your finger along one man's life's work and sniffed.

Most weekends are good for a little laning around Bath, someone suggest a date! We went and found one that really needs a morning to get three cars down it, I reckon. It's rocky but has suffered neglect so there'd be little impact on the lane's surface but perhaps considerable impact on the vehicle's surface unless we put quite a lot of work into rebuilding walls and moving the larger rocks. Bath's normally a proper pain to get across, the traffic's quite light on a Sunday afternoon...

Couldn't you go to Sodbury next weekend and pay pence for a Series axle casing with a filler plug in it?

Les, late NA 2.5 diesel heads are the same as the turbo lumps but the early ones were different - in the late 80s AVL in Austria did a lot of work with Ricardo on the induction system and the later engines breathe much more easily as a result. Alternatively, fit the early head and throw a couple of menthol Tunes in the air filter.* JB *Not scientifically proven.

Well, a cracking day out with plenty of scenery, views and good weather. A ludicrous "packed lunch" (feast) from Lucy with homebaked bread, pizza and even a birthday cake from my girlfriend Rachel. The lanes got harder as the day pressed on and we refused the final lane as impossible(!) but saw some good offroading in the meantime. Fi managed to embarrass herself by 'losing' reverse gear as she tried to 3-point turn out of the way of an oncoming car, and Nigel worked very hard playing 'tail end Charlie' to my legendary navigation. Overall, 9/10 and plans for more again soon JB

Siggy - what do you want to do with your GPS? I was using some of this for my final year project at Uni (but as a tool rather than the project itself - I'm not an electronics bod!) and there's not much you can really do to them. They're only as good as the number of satellites the unit can see and there's plenty of utilities available to rip the NMEA code as it streams in - then the sky's the limit for what you do with the information... JB

Haaaang on a minute - those 'self balancing beads'. How does that work? (Picture stolen randomly from Google) Imagine the wheel (large circle) is badly out of balance, so the hub is where the smaller purple circle is. Now put beads in the tyre and spin it - surely all the beads will end up at the bottom left, making the balance worse??

I've not actually checked that the station has a car park but... 10am, Kemble Railway Station car park. CB channel 22. Map Mr Trodden is bringing a packed lunch so I'll be doing likewise. Fi's wavering over whether her steering is broken or not (although the Fosse is a roman road so she shouldn't need it... )

Did you hear about the wooden car with wooden wheels, wooden engine and a wooden roofrack? It wooden go... (ROFL @ Neil Marshall)

Will - for a cage mountable rack I took a genuine 'basket' type rack and chopped about the front legs so they cleared the cage, then drilled 2 holes to fit an exhaust clamp around the front horizontal fore-aft bars of the cage (above the driver's door). The rear 4 legs are standard.

IIRC Lara has a 'belt and braces' PTO pump and ZF74 pump on his truck. Dollythelw also had two MMs on Pig. I can supply photos of my MM/ZF74 setup but I doubt it'll be substantially different to SCLs.