Nigelw
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Holy smokes, think jaws might come a knocking to re-claim his dentures Les
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You know, I did notice the fuel pricing at the weekend when we tramped over to walloon Brabant for a day off road, I live virtually on the border with Belgium, 15kms from my door step and it was the same price here as the first 50kms int Belgium, but in the French speaking part at Waterloo it was even cheaper still! €1.07/ltr!!!
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That's the most sarcastic comment I have heard from you ever! I got pulled by customs on the motorway once with my car on english plates, saying he pulled me because I drive with english plates and I dont look english...
Thought about this and know exactly why, LHD series on UK plates, unless you know the background as to why they would be suspicious then it comes from RHD serries and fenders being imported for parts and unscrupulous idiots putting the UK plates on their cars to avoid paying any of the tax, insurance and getting round the safety tests, it's a bigger problem here than you might think! I do feel for you having gone to the lengths that you have to make your truck legal in every respect but I do see both sides of the coin too.
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Not a good enough pic but is it a scoop that forces air down over the back window thereby eliminating spray?
M old Isuzu Trooper had such a thing and the back window was never covered in spray from the road, just wish the Disco had similar.
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I would take a snap of it but that horse truck is in Spain now on the sunshine tour!
3 months fitted, it drags the 550kg tack trunk up and down the ramp no probs, and thats 3 times up and down every weekend since fitting in November!
Cant see your boat being a prob, especially with keel on a roller
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My bad
but I did experience similar over the border!Worst thing is Daan, I can get a machine shop locally to make my custom pulley out of 2 old ones for less than one of the second hand ones. Current quote is 65 euro to machine, weld and balance the pulley being made, not bad at all!
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Seen it before, off to hunt goggle as it's bugging me now
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I hummed and haaarred about it and have decided to get a cheap std cast one second hand along with a 300Tdi serp pulley also second hand and go with the flat multi-V belt as I have a ac pump that is serp drive, located a 24 volt alternator that is serp for reasonable money so, may aswell go thar way as power transmission is supposedly better through the multi-V belt?Due to the price of the case items, I took a chance on a BP pressed pulley and i hate to say it but its fine. Its about the only thing from BP that I've ever been able to say that about.
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Been busy with gathering my parts for the up coming OBA install, just needed a crank pulley, thought it worth a shot and rang a couple of breakers looking for one and hoping for the cast one not pressed tin type too.
2 of 5 got back to me and both wanted a few euro more than ordering a brand new one out of the uk, one for a pressed tine type and the other was infact a cast one, and yes both were second hand!
Altered my plan slightly but needless to say I won't ring them in future for second hand parts thats for sure!
Why oh why price parts to rip off the unwitting who may not know better
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That's the video, the plasma came in 30mtr lengths but only needed 15mtrs on the winch, did 2 out of a pack, got one left to do but it only had a new winch 3 months ago. The splicing went easier than I first thought it would.
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I only knew what they were from a Frogs Island video on splicing plasma rope when I refitted the winches on the horse trucks with plasma and got rid of the old wire ropes.
Great idea and much safer than a grub screw!
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How do you think your gearing is gonna cope with 35s? Thought you were running the Disco running gear?
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Known as a, winch rope retainer, winch rope security strap, found one for you
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Looks hideous by the way!
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3860 V8 from 1977?
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I think the leds must have been too bright Ed?I've discovered we have problems with The 109 and it's raptor dash. I had some blue LED's to go in the bottom holes and I wired them to the sideight feed, but driving home from work after the streetlights have gone out I'm getting a lot of blue light reflecting in the windscreen. I'll have to change them to be on the interior light switch.
The way I am fitting the strips behind the actual door card and filling the holes in with transparent glue from the hot glue gun, the idea being that the brightness will be diffused by the glue.
well that's the idea?
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These I have already, picked em up cheap in Lidl, they can be cut into portions of 3 leds and I used the white lights to do my centre fascia to give better light than the 1.2w capsules. Plan to use the same ribbon again and Could do the full 4 wire install with the IR box and control it with the remote to vary colour and brightness?How about colour change LEDs? Gibbs and Dandy sell rolls of LED ribbons with a remote control unit. They need 28V, IIRC, but I'll be you'll find something similar for cars.
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I always wanted bigger tyres on the Disco, easily rationalized by the "ability to tackle Defender sized ruts".
I bought what I thought were going to be the right tyres in the right size, Cooper STT in 235/85 16, right tyres, but wrong size, they stand in at 32 1/2" tall and in short, they ruined the driveability, only 10% increase in gearing but 10% too much! Driving in town is carp, country roads are carp, only good bit is on the highway except for slow stop start traffic.
Going back down a few sizes now, although you have options, changing the CW&Ps for the diffs or a 1.4 transfer box from a Defender, all these other options cost you more money, cheaper to choose the right size first.
If you want to fit bigger tyres, just becareful what you wish for, you might not like it once you got it!
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Well, no not sarcasm at all, my best friend has been hit twice now by Polish plated cars and it turned out neither had safety test or insurance! How do you claim on that? You can try personal claims but they just go back and you get shafted!
I got pulled into the services once along with a couple of other vans and 4x4s and promptly sent back out on the motorway by the CaE boys dipping diesel, local copper said they were really not interested due to the paper work and the fact that once you went back over the water, nothing they can do, that was in the Irish plated Isuzu Trooper!
Admittedly they can be a ball ache but I have invested heavily in this in both time and money, why be happy with a lack of police control to get unlicenced, uninsured and unroadworthy cars and drivers away from you?
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It's all dutch to me.
Not much different to how much it costs to tax a FFRR in the UK, £500 a year
Eh? Erm 582X4=2,328/yr even with the current exchange rate I gotta pay 4X that of a FFRR
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I hate to say it, but I told you so....
You must like holland a lot!
Daan
well, actually its alright'ish, best thing around here is the cops! They have their little control stops and anything with white colour plates or known gets a tug, none of that unlicenced untaxed and uninsured drivers to give you a whack and run off, you have nice road surfaces and green lanes, and can modify the older vehicles without problems.
Thing is, I'm in too deep to stop with it and run a Smart car
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This is for the extra lighting in the door cards, need to be able to see the ashtray but also put some unobtrusive light in the footwells.
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What is the best colour for the interior lights?
seen blue, red and green, but whats the best?
but I did experience similar over the border!
The "Pass the Bucket" 4x4 For Sale on Ebay Thread
in International Forum
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Is this possibly worth the money?
struggling to think it worth half that with the amount of work needed done!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Landrover-110-1987-sw-4c-export-double-cab-project/251836449782?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D29318%26meid%3D93c94d2e4e4c44449782a025a96dc889%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D6%26mehot%3Dpp%26sd%3D191502870120&rt=nc
any ideas on where you'd export it to?
apart from a scrap yard.