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The thread's about greenlaning and Top Gear - two major topic areas of this forum - so could justify a move to "Getting out there" if Les is having a draconian moderation day. I thought JC et al gave a good entertaining show, even though the impression they gave was to play into the hands of the antis with a poor public perception of laning. A lot of the show's stunts are set up to give an impression that isn't the case, eg the Panda limo which 'fell in half' and made it to the celebrity gig, but just happened to be only filmed on Olympia's private car park after it started scraping the tarmac.

On a similar note <threadjack - sorry Bish> does anyone know of a flexi hose which will fit to my standard 300Tdi Ninety front calipers from the rigid pipe on the chassis, so negating the rigid pipe on the swivel? Every time I want to take the hub off without disconnecting the brakes I have to distort the rigid pipe far enough that the caliper clears the disc, and it's surely just a matter of time before I wake up without any brakes because I've fatigued the pipe...

Get your passport out and head north to the lands of my birth. It is many days' travel and you will meet many strange creatures and find weather conditions that only travelled men may speak of, but if your steed is fleet of foot you may return some 'snow' to your kin.

At work we have a blanket 'reverse park' policy. At first it seemed pretty stupid but now I even do it at home. When you get to the space, the car's demisted and you know it's empty. When you get into the car (at home, work, supermarket etc), the car's misty (or covered in snow!) and you don't know what's behind you - make a lot of sense to me.

Was he sleeping with anyone else's wife?

Absolutely, and I'm one of (very!) few who would support higher fuel prices for private users. I don't do that many miles a year, maybe 20k, but I justified my MG's tax and insurance costs on fuel grounds alone. Now I do most of my miles at 40mpg, and a few at 25mpg in the LR for recreation. If the MG costs me towards £400 to tax, that looks less attractive and starts to sway the economics towards flogging it again and putting 20k miles a year back on the LR, which makes me richer overall but kills more penguins. Scrap road tax, give me £2 a litre and use it to fund better public transport. John (who works in sad poor underfunded public transport )

... and it's wrong about my MG - it's 184g/km, not 189, which used to put it in a lower bracket. Now they've moved the threshold to 180 though, so I could have bought the more polluting one really...

Chris, I'm definately joining a Peak District laning run. And Troddenmasses will be pig-sick that he just sold his LR too. I'll stay with my parents near Ashbourne - for the not-too-rowdy who are too poor for TravelInn luxury, I daresay my parents would accommodate a few campers for a bottle of wine or so too. As you know, I cut my teeth offroading up there and I'm happy to lead a group - give me a shout if you want some (5-year old ) lane info.

To be fair to him, he seems to have accepted the consequences. It's a humble moment when you realise how much effect you can have with a small action. As was posted above, mud terrains and 'home modifications' possibly put some of us closer to this than we realise, before we consider an accidental moment. If Ralph's orange beacons dazzled another road user or he didn't see a motorcyclist because he's fitted extra gauges to obscure the swept area of the wipers, for example, he could go to jail. (I do admire your blind faith in the judiciary though Ralph - I wish I had that). Homebrew 3-link setups could fail, and the point here is that if it did, it could put the driver in jail. I'm not saying anyone here has a car which is unsafe but how do you know the third link is strong enough to be safe? While I'm not a fan of the SVA process, I do welcome some regulation to stop banjo players strapping undersize axles under leaf springs with long bits of threaded bar bent over, for example.

There's a wealth of good info on here for PTO Milemarkers - but don't underestimate the benefits of a very slow winch. When your mate has a "braking moment" on the motorway and the car behind decides to rearrange the back of his car, you wouldn't want an 8274 if you were realigning his boot striker plate with millimeter precision:

Cable clamp and then enclose it in potting compound or epoxy? Or just weld the studs up? In fact, you've got a welder so you could splice / wrap the wire around itself and weld the whole shebang to the inside of a piece of angle iron?

I don't think I'm clever enough to get into Billing then

PM me your number and exactly what it is you want to do - my brother works for an international shipping co so I'll see what he can do.

Actually, I've looked a little further and I suspect my local council will take it off me (presumably to prevent their joint-funded police force from handling disputes between neighbours with dead lawns...): South Gloucestershire recycling and yoghurt-weaving facility So I'll slop and slosh my way down there (by which point I'll have a wet Ninety and only a residue to recycle...) and see if they want it. MMGemini- I was quite lucky - I didn't want to flood the garage so I put a bucket under the bottom hose and popped it off. Once I'd realised the coolant runs onto the axle and drips off from the diff, I moved the bucket and caught "most" of it.

I changed the rad in my Ninety and replaced the coolant since it had a mix of blue glycol and the pink organic one. I'm aware they don't mix well but it's what I had at the time. Anyway, I flushed the engine but now I've got two buckets of unneeded coolant mix (and it's a REALLY weird colour) - what do I do with them? I guess the drain's not a good plan and I don't want answers which involve the phrase "when no-one's looking". Can I recycle such liquids?

I bought some and had a play with a blowtorch and some offcuts at home. From what I saw it was a true weld, with a change to the metal structure through the HAZ, much deeper than a surface braze. I was surprised that it works at such low temperatures but from my tests, I was pleased. For a sunroof, it's not structural so I'd be as happy to try it as to Sikaflex a panel over the hole and honestly, the results would probably be similar.

Search and thou shalt find: Botching different fuses into my Ninety Any questions, give me a shout. It's a leap of faith to chop the heart out of your loom but there's nothing particularly difficult in the job.

There's already a source of large volumes of hot gas on the car, but their hair will smell a bit afterwards... Actually, this started as a flippant answer but you could try sleeving the exhaust downpipe and blowing air up through the sleeve? You'd certainly need less 'pumping' watts than heating watts. The problem with extracting (or sinking) any large quantity of heat is that you usually want your shower in the morning, when the car's cold and you're reliant on stored (eg battery) energy. If you can alter your lifestyle slightly you can use less energy in many many ways.

I think it's a common problem, and even if there is something misaligned it'll be rather hard to correct. Check all the bolts are done up, but if the wheels, chassis and body arrive at your destinations at roughly the same time then look for somewhere that won't show oil drips, climb out through the panel gaps and appreciate your slightly squiggly British car

I'm not doubting the science here, I just don't understand it. If the wheel is off-round, how come the beads don't get thrown to the pointest part of the egg and make the whole situation worse? If it's perfectly round but has an extra weight at one point, how do the beads "know"? At best I can see there'd be a wheel wobble and the beads would lag the hub rotation by 90 degrees, but as soon as they cured the problem they'd settle back to .. well, somewhere else. ??

I've got some small cheapo lamps mounted on ears under the cage, with a short offcut of domestic downtube drainpipe as a cowl to stop them lighting up the bonnet. I wasn't convinced it'd work but I'm very pleased with the final result. It's no Picasso... I thought they'd get knocked off (and I'd have to make some more at £0 each) but so far, so good, 2 years later.

Four inlet, two exhaust - I wouldn't like to guess which cylinders though - maybe I only get half the prize. If the prize is some bent K-series valves then save the postage - the cam belt's due on my MG so I may have some of my own soon. :S

I've got a V8 box behind a 300Tdi, with a conversion plate and some homemade bits to make it all work. It fits and drives, changes gear as you might expect. I don't feel the shift points are particularly unsuited to the Tdi, except the willingness to kick down to third at 75mph, when the rev counter goes into orbit. I suspect a 300 box wouldn't have this 'feature'. The torque converter locks up at 35mph on mine, but I think this is because it has the wrong t-box on the back (although I can't work out if it's a 1.4 or a 1.6, there's no labels on it ) The V8 box works, but it's probably not as good as a pukka 300-valved unit.

I'm with SteveRK - I think the batteries will self balance. Although I can't work out how if they don't share a common ground - if they did, you'd certainly have a fire... Me, I'd give it a go - wire it up and look at the voltage across each battery.

Yes you do - mine!