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It sounds like roll steer to me – like you ask for an amount of steering, the vehicle rolls slightly and this puts a little bit more steering input in as the vehicle rolls – this makes the vehicle roll more… My Ninety does the same - it's something you get used to, although you could look at the panhard bushes etc too?

I haven't got any photos but it looks like a Disco setup but with Defender bodywork above it... I used the same solid drag link as the Defender setup used and I have a lot of thread showing. I've balanced it end to end and there's twice the thread diameter length inside the thread (not counting the locknut) so I'm confident that it's safe. One day(!) I'll buy a Disco arm.

I seem to remember buying the bulbs I have from Chris Watts one year at Billing... I did some mockups on Paintshop but I didn't like the way round lights looked up there. It's a tough call, I can see why Ford employ stylists

How far back is your radiator? If you’ve got an 86” with the rad flat against the engine and a winch in front of it, it might be easy to pull the air through the grille (around the winch though) but you might be fighting a losing battle to push the air away afterwards down either side of the engine. Does it cool any better without the bonnet on? I’d suggest the rad and fans you have might be quite suitable, and moving it to the back will give space on both sides for air to enter and exit.

I'm running stubby valves (on alloys!) and no problems yet. I've previously torn a long valve while laning in Sussex but I've never had any rim protection

I'm ahead of you Ralph - won't an LED bulb have the same effect?

Steve - you have a PM. If your maps are marked up I'd be very pleased to borrow them, thanks. Chris - I liked the map room at Llanerchindda and the attitude they had to 4x4ers. If you've got any other suggestions, post up. I don't know where we're going yet, more surveying of where the lanes are is required first.

My brother's Paddocks 300 head was new as new, came with valve guides and seats but not core plugs.

I have a weekend pass for 3-4th November so TroddenMasses and I are going to head out to Wales. Our outline plan is to stay one or two nights at Llanerchindda but if the new ownership has seen them slide downhill (not literally) or NERC has blocked all of the local lanes then we could head somewhere else, possibly even camping I think the Gap Road will be shut by then? but I remember driving some really nice lanes around there with the first LRE.co.uk weekend up there, with Mr Henson leading our group (including Scotty’s RR which snapped a timing belt) – the same weekend that Tony C’s group found a Ninety on its side on Strata Florida. Does anyone have any suggestions for pretty, gentle lanes for two caged Ninety’s? Would anyone like to join us?

I thought the headlight switch was positioned above the key so that you knocked the lights off as you pulled the key out? Clever piece of design, or a complete accident?

I have one on my Defender, two normal trackrod ends with a clamp-on damper bracket.

Problem is, my karmic level was skewed and that's as good as I could get it while the overlap still covered the mess I'd made. Mark - I've already got stop and tail covered My intention is for a fifth brake-only light nestled in the spare wheel carrier too. The battered, chipped, incomplete and rusty lamp units are yours if they resist the power of sillo in one piece when I remove them. The parking mirror might look like a standard Defender mirror but it's actually lightened and toughened in Extreme polycarbonate over a composite frame. The paint is heavier to compensate and they're only available through me for £45.62 each. It doesn't work as well as you'd hope, needs to be more convex for a bit more warning(!) but I got twitchy living in Kensington and parking in the street between Bentleys and Porsches every day, and I didn't hit any so it probably paid for itself.

Cheers Mark – I’ll put an order into VWP to get the bits I want then – and the inevitable extras I’ll have to tack onto my order “to make the postage worthwhile”… The lights don’t look too bad. Square lights are a bit jarring when the rest on the car are round but eventually I’ll get a pair of the ‘clear conversion’ aftermarket Disco lights and use LED bulbs in them so they're the same colour as the roof to reduce ‘visual impact’. At the end of the day it's a LR - crucially they’ll keep me safer on dark misty nights when reps are approaching me with a closing speed of 50mph on the motorway!

It sounds undergeared to me, I know they don't rev high and need a stiff challenge from the t-box to give their best. Is it gutless on hills or will it hold its speed well?

Someone on here said that the reversing light switch will unscrew from an LT77/R380 and perform this function? I did mine by eye, making sure the mark was central in the bellhousing aperture.

I got a puncture on the Chippenham bypass on my way to Sodbury one year, wheelbrace and wheel but no jack. Within 5 mins a P38 RR had pulled up, lent me a jack and given me his number to meet up at Sod so he could get it back.

I've often thought that Defender rear lights are a little poor, and 1940s level lighting on a German autobahn in the rain was enough to nudge me towards a better option. After plenty of vapour thought and some spending at Sodbury I was the proud owner of a pair of Discovery rear bumper lights. I produced this plan (but with more symmetry, less gaffer tape and some bulbs. This became a Paintshop version to check it didn't look extremely stupid. Turns out they're both right-hand side and more than a little battered, but for a fiver I'll live with it for now. Build tech : Draw a template into cardboard and cut it out, getting it as tight as possible. Transfer the design onto the car - measure thrice, measure again, cut once. I stitch-drilled this far ... before boredom struck and Mr DeWalt produced a faster 4.5" solution It's not exactly House of Flying Spanners but I've just cut a big square hole in my daily drive. If structural adhesive bonding is the new 'nut and bolt', that means I can silicone the new lights in. Looks ok, so repeat for the other side. For anyone copying me, a true 'imitation as the greatest form of flattery' approach will require you make your offside one all tilty like mine is. Now some tiny crimps and wires will allow me to make it light up when VWP make a delivery.

My little bro bought a 300Tdi one last week, £250 + VAT new off the shelf from Paddocks although I appreciate they're not that local to you Turners have upgrade options too.

I had a very lightweight laptop on a Discovery dashboard held in with industrial velcro. It's vicious stuff, there's no way it'd come loose but the laptop curved horribly each time I peeled it off the dash...

I believe a bloke told me once that he had a mate who, although this is hearsay which he hadn't even seen never mind experienced so it should be considered in this context, that they can crack around the middle of the tread, right around the circumference. So they probably won't.

I’ve had my car seven years and this list just scared me. It all seems reasonable when you’re looking at one more job to do: Driveline: PAS pump swap 2.5NAD rebuild 300Tdi/R380 conversion 1.2 LT230 swap Swap the R380 for one with a mainshaft in it 2x 24spline axles and discs etc Props plus innumerable UJs. Then popped a diff so went for a TruTrac. Then go 4HP22 auto with 1.4 t-box The 300Tdi has had 2 water pumps and at least 3 alternators. The NAD used a rad and a couple of alternators too. The rear chassis has been replaced The rear tub has been replaced It’s had three fuel tanks. Four springs and at least eight shocks with four more planned Bushes galore Now I’m planning a 1.2 t-box behind the auto once I’ve rebuilt it. Both front doors are shot The bulkhead needs doing Let’s not forget servicing too… Mine’s now on 230k miles, seems I’m not quite there yet. The speedo is the only rotating part that’s reached that mileage though….

Fuel pump Engine start Central locking(?) DO NOT PRESS

China uses lots of oil and produces lots of CO2. Should we : throw our hands up, accept we're all buggered and get a good tan OR reduce our own output through development of technologies that will feed down to their 'volume market' in time, reducing global demand for energy and make us (the West) money in the long term?

The through-life energy use of a new car isn’t as great in comparison to the fuel used in driving. You’ll never see a hard figure because it’ll be an estimate but papers I’ve read suggest that production energy is around 10% of the whole-life CO2 ‘footprint’ of a vehicle. To extend that lifetime through replacing parts, newer engines etc is good news as a cottage industry but the flexibility and scale of the same issue for large-scale vehicle remanufacturing will never become mainstream. At best, it’s an offset for 4x4 drivers (although it’s a strong one too) and it’ll never make your impact on the environment smaller than someone in a Ford Ka. We’re now starting to see manufacturers ‘investing’ carbon and that confuses politicians. For example, it takes more energy to build a vehicle which can be more easily disassembled at end-of-life for recycling. It would be cheaper, and use less energy, to just glue it all together but there’s a strong argument that the carbon output should be moved forward to give a whole life cycle reduction. I like my LandRover, I just don’t drive it so much any more and tend to use public transport where I can. For those on here who don’t know, I work in public transport and my new job is looking at reducing our environmental impact.

I've a feeling the conversation with Mr Ashcroft will also involve the three magic initials "ARB"...