Jon White
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Yes - you cannot remove the dizzy!!! The oil pump is driven from it as you say!! It maybe possible to cut down a dizzy somehow, but to be honest I just siliconed an old cap on to keep the cr@p out and I carry a cap and leads should I ever need to use em as a "limp home" mode!
jon
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Maybe?????????
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Jon paid almost next to nothin for his cebora and i paid 150 for my lincoln
Cheers mate!
I did have to mend it.......
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I'd second what people say. Get a 2nd hand profesional type machine froma reputable manufacturer. The hobby type ones are rubbish.
I used to have a SIP 150 turbo hobby type machine but now have a 180amp cebora profesional machine. The difference in weld quality and ease of use is unbeleivable!
The other nice thing with the professional type machines is they have a higher duty cycle. The old 150 would weld about 6" of 6mm steel on full power and then overheat and have to be left to cool for half an hour. Veyr frustrating when you want to get a job done!
Finally on the gas point of view get a BOC account and get argosheild.
Jon
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Wot he said!
On road - yeah - good idea.
Off road, forget em, same goes with propshaft gaiters and the naff gaiters that come with procomp shocks. They all fill up with mud and water and rot what they're trying to protect twice as quick as if they werent fitted!
Jon
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Thats why everyone on this forum told you to buy the Jake Wright once cause its the only one that actually fits!!!!
Sorry......
Jon
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Sod that!!! The EBC green stuffs for my front calipers are only just over £20 a set!
As to half shafts - wot Tonk said! I was gonna point you to that old thread anyway as I think its all there!
Jon
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EH????
How can you own a landrover and not be able to weld??????
Especially with your background!!!!!!!!
Come on man - take evening classes like HFH is doing if it comes to it! Its not that hard........
IIRC with the V8 front pipe fitted a standard series rear half will bolt up to it. Admittedly its small bore but it works - I ran mine like that for a few weeks till I got round to sorting the exhaust! Ok so mines a SWB but it cant be that different!
Jon
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Neither of them are particularly nice kits. The TI one uses sliding calipers! I mean would you really want sliding calipers on a landy??
The Zeus one uses custom calipers but will only fit with 16" rims and requires you to also use their extended wheel studs which are expensive!
I believe rocky mountain are now doing a conversion kit which looked quite nice when I saw it at a show last year.
You can make your own (Tonk and I did) but it requires either a custom disk, or one off of something else modifying to suit. All in all alot of machining.
The rear end is easy however and almost bolt on using landrover parts so dont get suckered in to buying a rear end kit! Its the fronts thats hard.....
Jon
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I used the front section and then made the rest up from scratch. Easy enough if you can weld.......
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I've always just spray painted em then you can choose whatever shade of pink you desire!
Jon
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You've gotta catch me first! I've moved house remember!!
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Er.......yeah but you aint a brain surgeon..........and no matter how hard you try, I'm sorry, but you just cant do brain surgery with your selection of tools!
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Nige - that burgundy one is on portals. There is a write up somewhere about the build of it. Have a look through the archives over on Pirate4x4.
And how many more times do I have to tell you - 2 leaf fronts 3 leaf rears!!!!!!!!
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Well I can confidently say that that engine mount looks nothing like the engine mounts I've got!
Get hold of Andy Kiff at Boscombe cause I know he made his own V8 mounts, and I think he has a drawing of them. IIRC they're very similar to my ones.
My engine sits level and I didnt have to mod the trans tunnel to fit the V8. However I did have to mod it to fit the LT77.
Jon
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Me either!
Sort it out woman!!
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Hhahahahahahaha you cant hear the V8.......all you can hear is the horrendous sounds of howling simex!!!!!
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Im confused, what defines a cheque off-roader?
Will Warne!
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Si,
I posted on here all about this a while back - including wiring diagrams, and everything. I'll see if I can find the post.
Cheers
Jon
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I fitted one to the back door on my series recently. Didnt bother with any measuring up as such i just held the wiper arm up against the window until it looked in about the right position and drilla hole. It goes through the box secton that runs horizontally under the back window. Then i just scured it with two self drilling screws intot he tread plate rear door cover I have. Worked a treat and was easy peasy to do!
Cheers
Jon
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That's interesting - is this Zeus as in the purveyors of noisy cogs of (allegedly) questionable integrity for fitting on the front of one's engine?
Seems like a good idea - I have had a problem getting one of mine resealed in the past because of the state of the shaft.
Yep..........the same lot. I'm also running their extended wheels studs - no probs with them except for the sizeable dent in my wallet.
The zeus seals are about £20 ish and the fitting instructions are non existant. Basically what it consists of is a turned steel collar that has an O ring on the inside and another on the outside. Hower the inner most one is machined so it bears on a different part of the shaft to the standard seal. Basically it relaces the inner seal and spacer thats standard fit. I found there was room to fit a standard outer seal after fitting it, which i did more to keep the carp out than anything else. I found mine (6 bolt box) was a standard metric oil seal so just ordered one up from RS for about £1.50.
Been performing faultlessly (and leak free) for 6 months now! Nice thing with it is that when the box finally dies I can pull it out of the box, and with a few pence invested in a couple of new O rings re-use it in another box!
They do them for both the input and output shafts, available separately.
HTH
Jon
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Hmmmmmm some "interesting" decoration on that volvo.......
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Check yer email.......
Chevy v8
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You can buy a brand spanking new, genuine GM small block for £1000!!!
OK so you dont get the adaptor plate but even so.........thats what a mate of mine was quoted recently by the american car place in farnborough for one to drop into his old Zodiac!
Jon