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dreadnought110

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  1. Any body know who sells the window deflectors??
  2. i know which article your on about they tested it in a forest and it black smoked a little!!! i'll go hunting later for it...
  3. Does anyone do one thats about the same depth as the original most of what i've looked at seems to bring the boss up to your nose!!!!
  4. Ahh now regarding this and a load of wheeling and dealing i bought me Bedford rascal the insurance is only £130 road tax £120 cost of buying £0 running do all my own maintanence £0 ish mpg in comparison to the 110 21mpg rascal 40+mpg 22mile round trip to work every day saving 1 gallon of diesel unleaded is cheaper do the maths it adds up somewhat!!
  5. Has anyone done this on a 300tdi is the fuel consumption's figure's really better does it melt cylinder's etc..
  6. A lot of manufacturers of vans etc.. are using smaller diesel engine's and twin turboing now, has anyone ever tinkered with a land rover engine and twin turbo's??
  7. We had norton on this laptop and it started crashing so took it in the computer shop said the poor thing was screaming with the amount of trojans etc.. that had got past the norton me brothers computer completly crashed due to norton and also me mates we are all running avast now and seems stunning!!
  8. I spoke to a local dealer who just stopped dealing in them they also ran some as company hacks they where rubbish always breaking down i drove one with 11,000 miles on the clock it felt more like it had done a million!! That said they had some good idea's just manily poorley executed oh and old transit door handles and that blooming key that looked like a comb!!!
  9. I did have a vortex silencer it made heck of a difference lowered the torque band helped on fuel and reduced smoke, But my gripes where 4 of them started rattling (internals came un welded!!) and the back up was complete Pants i would have stuck with it but got sick of trying to get hold of them!! so now running a twisted performance complete system!! Sounds stunning
  10. Just fitted a vdo speedo using a land rover sender so now have a vdo temp/rev counter and speedo in my dash now and also had my 278,000 miles put on my brand new speedo well chuffed..
  11. Hey don't i have photo evidence of you driving it!!!
  12. I used to have a mercedes truck one till i realised it wouldn't fit under the axle when i had a flat tyre!!! and it wouldn't lift high enough to let the axle hang!!
  13. Whats anyone doing to save money?? I've took the depressing step of buying a small motor to run work in My Land rover's doing 22mpg ish going into town and at 11 mile's either way it's getting dear as it's a gallon a day??
  14. Got a mate who's got a miss fire on a 200tdi tappets are set correct injectors ok head gasket new and head skimmed recently doene a compression test and got these results 1 - 543.9psi 2 - 529.2psi 3 - 470.4psi 4 - 543.9psi Any suggestions oh also checke for bent push rods all ok
  15. After talking to the brother in law the axels are standard sherpa the front is a back with extended and reduced axle tubes the swivels are land rover related same bearings etc.... the conversion was done by newton abbot motors??
  16. One on ebay at the moment http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1984-SHERPA-4X4-FREI...1QQcmdZViewItem
  17. Only temporary till i can order some Vdo gauges and a new digital speedo through work
  18. Fitted my Mud dash after having it for about 12 months (plucked up courage at last!!) And changed lights etc.... on modified top bar above windscreen..
  19. I know this is a Very old post but my Sister has A301WOF Which is a 4x4 sherpa minibus with the princess 2.0litre engine. Ex Balmoral Castle i went up there and there was a picture of it in the museum bit... i'll try to get some piccie's it's in serious need of love and affection...
  20. Siemans vdo does a cruise control and variable speed limiter for the TD5 not sure on price but has to be fitted by an agent
  21. Brown as long as it's standard land rover wire is an unfused battery feed hope this helps??
  22. it seems to pull a lot better at the top end then after having the tweak by JE it reaaaallllyyy fly's though to be honest on a dual carrrageway i sit at 60 in 5th overdrive set the cruise control and she pulls uphill and down dale the torque is stunning!!!
  23. Hang on a minute has anyone really looked at the first piccie it's NOT an intercooler it's a radiator!!! and it's a dam sight bigger than the original yes it is tweaked full width intercooler as well,turner performance head,je stage 2 performance tweak and perfromance exhaust..She goes... B)
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