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  1. For tank guards you might try this gent. He does good work. Pangolin. Shipping a big chunk of armour might be a bit of a killer though.
  2. I've got a friend here in Switzerland who fitted one to a 4.0L Merc diesel in a van. No computers or anything, just a simple mechanical injection pump. It has had sweet DA effect on fuel consumption. He thinks the engine runs smoother buts that's it. The supplier snake oil merchant now says he needs to fit a reostat to control the rate of hydrogen production as it varies relative to engine rpm and the solution strength in the generator. He is suposed to twiddle the knob to optimize the hydrogen generation as he drives. Oh, that didn't work either so now it needs to go in for 'tuning' as his engine has no computer to sense the changes and optimize the timing etc. That's a hell of a lot of tuning to go from no effect to the claimed 30% fuel saving. Oh but he's sold it to LOTS of truckers who are raving about it - apparently quietly to thmeselves and not in a public forum - and not providing any recorded fuel consumption data. No one ever has the data just a 'Oh it gives a 30% improvement.' every time. Its fun to listen to but utter BS.
  3. LW Vass has military take off ones ata good price although they vary from the cabbage and crusty to the brand new. A quick sand blast and a coat of paint and they are good as new.
  4. Can someone post up the dimensions of the twin fan Mondeo set up? I have a 109 with an engine conversion and have been looking for a low profile, offset farn set up like this for a while. Length width and depth are most important but location of the two fans relative to the endge woudl be nice too as I'm very limited in space between the water pump pulley and the radiator. I can't put one in front as I have the aircon condensor occupying that space already.
  5. Set the units to UK mpg. You are looking at the US mpg.
  6. Am I the only one getting decent mileage out of a TD5? I have a bog standard 2001 110 which admittedly has those Michelin Lattitude cross tyres on it which I would say are road bias. Here's my fuelly page. Normal running I am getting around 30-31mpg with the major excursions into fuel consumption occuring due to thrashing it across Europe at 130km/h, fully loaded with a rocket box on top. My link
  7. Thanks gents, the piccies help a lot. I'm about 1/2 away from saddling up my family and starting the long slog up to Amsterdam to get the ferry. W're heading home to Scotland for a holiday so I'm taking my wire snips with me just in case I'm lucky enough to find a truck in the scrappy. More likely I'll just order the connector now I know what it is and have it meet me at my parents house. Cheers Gregor
  8. Gents, I have a 2001 110 Station Wagon. The PO removed the electric harness for the brake light, demister and wiper motor in the rear door so I am putting it all back. Making the connections for the brake light and the demister are easy but the wiper motor has a molded three pin connector on it. Does anyone know where to get the mating piece or the part number for the harness with this connector on it? Its all that is stopping me seeing out the back of the truck again.
  9. "Regrettably though there still appears to be a growing breed of ambulance chasers... and it is this that probably makes up the volume of claims." Bumping almost your entire customer base by what seems to be from 50-100% premium increase is a lot of money which would mean dealing with a LOT of court cases. Even with out of court settlement that is still amount to a lot of Personal Injury lawyer claims being made. The ambulance chasers are not that prevalent yet. How many people do you know that have actually employed them? I lived in the US for more than a decade. In the sue happy land that invented the PIL, where someone's insurance HAS to pay for medical treatment and insurance comapanies maintain a legal department the size of the UK governement to counter the ambulance chasers they still manage to keep insurance premiums low. Again, if the insurance companies met their basic obligations their would be very little market for ambulance chasers. I think someone's inventing excuses to gouge.
  10. 'It is the personal injury claims that have been a key factor in the premium increases, pushed by greedy lawyers.' I have a family member that has just had to use the 'greedy lawyers' to take an insurance company to court. I don't like the lawyers but after several years the insurance company still hadn't paid out any money for an accident that was 100% the fault of their client resulting in permanent spinal injury, loss of mobility, heavy medication and inability to work. They have shown no inclination to provide any payout. They also pulled the usual trick of removing his damaged vehicle without his consent, scrapping it before settlement and then low balling him on its value. It is one of the large well known companies who, if they had met their commitments as insurers as they are obligated to do, would have had a hefty bill but otherwise no problem. Instead they are on the wrong end of a Mildly miffed off judge who has had them in his court too many times playing this game. His situation is apparently far from unique. If you are an individual and hurting then it seems that the only way to get the insurers to take small man seriously is to employ one of these lawyers. It is that or just give up, roll over and accept your loss. Greedy lawyers, maybe, but they are only able to exist because of greedy, crooked insurance companies - it is we the motorists who suffer. Ahhh, that feels better.
  11. " How many people give a second thought before stepping onto a modern airliner with more electronics than you can shake a stick at. It comes down to the manufacturer and cost, if the components are specified correctly and built properly there's no reason that they won't give their expected life's service. If they are built on a slashed budget to the minimum of costs then you can't expect a great deal." Ummm, you think that aerospace manufacturers are not ruthless in slashing budgets and building to minimum cost? The customer usually just places penalties on poor reliability that forces a lot of very expensive testing and even then they occasionally have spectacularly poor service. That is why they have so much redundancy built in. I happen to know of aircraft that use pieces of common garden irrigation system in their cabin pressure systems for cost reasons yet have some of the best reliability numbers of their class. "Who the hell thought of putting the injector connectors inside the rocker cover?!" Electric connectors and sensors placed inside oil filled cavities are common on aircraft and a lot of ground vehicles. Its how you seal the point where the electric harness pierces the casing that counts. Its not rocket science or that expensive but the right connectors must be used. The concept is fine but the execution is flawed in some areas of a TD5. It is, however, hardly the most complex beast out there and for all its oddities it seems to do well enough. Its hardly fatally flawed. I don't understand the fear of these engines.
  12. I'd look at an auxiliary fan first. You can find them where they simply move air about the cabin forcing cooler air to the back so creating a better mix or even ones that duct from one part of the car to another. Then have a good AC tech go over the original system to make sure everything is up to snuff. Red Dot are nice but also fiendishly expensive.
  13. Indeed the P38 is the more available box in the UK so that is just common sense unless you want to chase down a Toyota one for some reason. I was merely showing that a box can be mounted to the outside of the chassis without impacting steering or suspension travel.
  14. Putting the steering box on the outside of the chassis works well. This is a Saginaw off a Scout II grafted onto a NADA 109 LHD of course. As you can see most of the bulk sits on top of the chassis rail and the pitman arm sits in front of the axle enough so that it wouldn't be an issue with the diff on a RHD. I have 1 tonne rims with 235/85R16s on stock axles and I pushed them up down and all around through the normal range of motion and there has been no interference issues. I've since changed to a flatter priman arm off a disco 1 but it has not afected clearance. Putting the steerign box on the outside of the chassis rail usually requires custom steering bars - these are Series Trek made out of DOM tubing and very, very strong. Sorry about the big piccies
  15. Dealing with the ambulance chasers may be driving up the cost. Then again, the fact more and more people are having to resort to ambulance chasers because of the apathetic to down right dodgy practices of the insurance companies trying to avoid settling claims is the real cause. The ambulance chasers only have a growing marketbecause of the UK insurance comapnies. I've dealt with US insurance companies, Swiss insurance and by far the most dodgy of the lot were the UK insurance. Everything from scrapping cars before low balling the owner on the price to procrastinating on payouts for injuries in the hope that the average person will just give up.
  16. POR15 works well if, and only if, you do the complete prep process. They would like you to believe it can go on to rusted metal and if you watch their promotion they even think it can be used to repair holes in your floor pan but in reality you want to wire wheel the metal clean as much as possible, degrease it and then etch it. You then really need two coats of POR15 as it is thin enough that it tends to flow away from edges. Finally, you need to top coat it as POR15 is UV sensitive and will turn grey, losing its properties if left exposed to sunlight. When you add the cost of their cleaner and etcher and top coat it makes the paint coating even more expensive and really a bit of a skiddle. If you slop it on like a conventional paint it will come off. As I was building my 109 and modifying parts of my chassis progressively I didn't go the galvy route. I ended up spending some quality time with some wire wheels on the grinder, prep and paint, top coat followed by Tectyl 3M inside and their hardwax stuff outside and its been fine so far. In doing all that I can't say it turns out any cheaper than having a good existing chassis cleaned and galvied.
  17. At the risk of being pedantic, what is the wording of that guarantee? Good quality is entirely dependent on perception of the individual unless it is defined in a spec.
  18. Are you sure its not a Series III 125" Hotspur? The rear body is definitely a home made mod but the underpinnings may not be. http://www.lr-mad.co.uk/en/6x4-and-6x6
  19. No problem. I had mine off for a week and drove everything from the mountain twisties to pretty much flat out on the motorway without any issues. Now you have removed power to the front end so it will handle a little differently in the bends but a little common sense and it isn't anything to worry about or maybe even noticeable. You will get a bit smoother on engaging the clutch as the front prop flange bangs a bit if you are rough as any backlash in the transfer case is no longer damped by the front drive train. In the long term you are putting all the power through the rear axle so the flanges/ujs etc will wear out faster but that is a matter of months/years so not an issue with a temporary removal.
  20. Yes. I just bought a set from Lrseries for the reason you state. The frame fits my TD5 110 and the cushions fit the frame. I did have to add a couple of zip ties to hold the seat base cushions in place but assuming they are producing a pattern part I expect this is an issue for all this design of seat. About all I can say is that the black finish isn't wildy high quality but a rattle can is cheap if you care that much. Nobody died and the truck didn't explode so I'm happy enough.
  21. I'm interested to here the explanation for this.
  22. 1 tonne/130 rims weigh 27lbs each if that helps.
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