Nigelw
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A right old shed...
Thought it looked more like a lean too
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Went googling and am still amazed at how google is better than our own search engine for finding useful threads
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After the first 500Kms I am still grinning from ear to ear in my Rusty, but niggly problemo.
Window wipers seem to have a mind of their own as to where they are going to park in the normal speed setting and can park either at the top or the bottom when in intermittent wipe mode.
What has happened?
They were working as they should when it went for the safety test.
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You would not believe the amount of hassle I had getting plates on my Rusty!!!
When you buy a car you don't get plates here, those have to be issued by the DIV, but in order to get them you have to insure it and then the broker registers it in your name and has plates issued, you cannot get it registered in your name until it has been and passed a safety test, in order to get it insured you have to provide your driving licence to the broker, the tax is paid annually and the insurance as you wish, monthly, quarterly, annually what ever, I had about a 3 week wait to actually get my papers and stuff sorted before my plates were issued, a totally different system to what I was used to in the UK!!!
Will it make things safer? No, will it prevent crime? No, Will insurance premiums actually go down when it's in place? No.
They want to bring around a harmonization of member states, safety testing etc, so that where ever you are in Europe you can have a valid safety test for the whole of Europe, nice idea, but it does mean the loss of privileges that some states have now, if it goes anything like here and Deutschland then you lot are in trouble in the UK, they allow F'kall mods and are getting hotter on them all time, one guy locally got a red card at the safety test for not having anti-roll bars on his 200Tdi Disco, they were never fitted as standard, but that bit of info never stopped them from getting red card happy, everything has to be factory spec as they want, even converting a car to commercial is a ball ache and expensive here!!!
You will get what they are proposing and sooner or later our little culture of modding will be resigned to the history books.
Just remember this, the wheels of big business and need greasing and it needs money, they need your money so get creative in dreaming up ways of taking it off you in taxes.
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After fitting relays in my headlight wiring I have pretty much dismissed the idea of needing more powerful lamps than standard, and that is on a 200Tdi Disco!
Tons of people say up the wattage of the lamps but neglect the issue of power to the lamps.
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Really not sure I can face another one but it seems to be a steal at this price
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Looking for anyone with experience of the flexible LED strips that you can cut to size with a pair of scissors.
Looking to add greater illumination behind the center dash console so I can see the symbols and to add some form of courtesy lighting in the bottom of the doors and warning lights for when the doors are open on the sides.
Anyone used them and what purpose and results have you had?
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Granted Barry, but the thing is that who else other than a custom shop would be able to make it? But they would end up costing you a bundle more in developing it first to be built, this is an easy way to get said USB stick with all necessary on it to be built as and when you want to, and it would be an exact copy of the original.
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Depends how you value your time really. Would take a long time to whittle one from scratch!
Might be worth buying and copying with any additions you might feel necessary then selling on as an original piece? I suppose if it was taken to a place where they could wave magic wand and have it turned into a usb flash drive that a CNC milling machine could understand it would be a good investment, the piece could then be reproduced?
Sorry, will go back to work now as brain is seizing up.
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I like it that full harmonization is desired but would involve greater regulation on those that are already good and safe but allow developing countries time to catch up, it is no longer about safety but greasing the wheels of the money making machine AKA big business.
Is there an OBD port on a D1? I believe the guy who owns the silver one on my parking lot has OCD about his but have to ask about the OBD to see what occurs
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I have come up with a cunning plan and maybe a tidyish solution to the potential drag caused by less than aerodynamic lumps bolted on randomly on the roof as well as eliminating the glare.
We'll see.
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Always thought a 1.6 OHISE engine was the right way to go with a series one
Just depends on what you do with it? Pootling around not doing much wouldn't warrant the spendometer getting too high but there are some easy options available like the 200/300Tdi an of course there is always the V8 option.
You looking for something exotic?
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Nigel is in Belgiumland just like me, and I had no problem passing the local MOT like this:
Now I have seen your plate I also now know I have followed you down the Diestersteenweg also!!!
I have plans to have the mahoosive hoop on the bumper kitted out with a couple of smaller LED light bars to come on with the full beam but wanted to have a half cage originally with external front hoop and had this nice vision of it being kitted out with some nice light bars to give me extra visibility when night driving off road.
It was more something I wanted to have than something I really needed, in reality I "NEED" nothing more than just my headlights but would like some greater visibility when it gets dark.
A guy on xrover who goes by the handle Defke is also the owner of DefParts and they do some swish little light bars and I built this vision around them, but like I say the idea of bonnet glare came up from a past experience and I wondered how best to overcome it?
In a car with no roof flights ?!
I'm lost !
You are as easily confused as me then
Still wondering why there was an opmerking voor stuurwiel staat op mijn keuringbewijs
When I get round to it you guys can all have a chuckle at my expense
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Dare I say it ...?
They always look a bit tacky to me ....
Did you really just say that
It is not so much a huge round 100W spot X4 but more 3 of the 18" LED light bars I have seen, smaller in size but for my needs should pump out enough light, will review further when lights arrive, maybe a matt black bonnet would look cool on my aspen silver Disco?
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Been mulling this over whilst I work on another truck but in a few weeks time I hope to have a set of roof bars to mount some roof lights, but this has spawned a new question in my head.
What about the glare off the bonnet when they are switched on?
I drove a truck a while back that had lights on the roof rack and the glare off the bonnet was a bit much for me, just wondered if there was a way round it with the Disco?
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Been there, done that....
Still doing it! Sills on Jordan will need done this year, not looking forward to welding that pig again
Get back in your basket you
You love welding almost as much as me lol, follow a link in my project rusty thread in members vehicles and you'll see how masochistic I have been to help out a fellow Discovery enthusiast
Actually, here you go
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The bearings alone are Timken parts they are the ones you want!!! I know they are being bought as precautionary parts but do not skimp on these parts!!!
The other "kit" is cheaper and contains other parts, so most likely the bearings will not be of the same quality, = avoid like the plague!!!
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I did a bushworkshop on changing brake discs elsewhere and also covered fitting a new seal in the back of the hub.
see here.
http://forum.lro.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=92122&p=784058&hilit=dieseldogs+bushworkshop#p784058
Unless the bearings show signs of excessive wear then they can be left alone, oil lubed bearings are less prone to wear as the oil circulated to keep them cool and lubricated with fresh oil.
Just a case of prising out the old seal with a suitable tool and knocking a new one in place and seating to correct depth.
Unless you know the last time the oil was replaced then go for new oil, drain it out first and then do the seal, once all buttoned up again refill with EP90, nothing special required for these axles at all.
Best of all is to get "ALL" potential spare parts in the stores as is always the way, you don't have it and you'll end up needing it!!! Wheel bearings, Timken only!! OEM corteco or better still genuine hub seals, and please buy a dozen or so hub nut locking washers "DO NOT RE-USE THE OLD ONES", bottle of locktite for the caliper bolts and gaskets for the drive flanges, be sure to run the bolts over a wire wheel or through a die to remove old thread lock.
Just be very clean about your tools and work space and it is an easy enough job. If you are not replacing the wheel bearings it is even easier as you do not have to worry for setting the bearing races, just tighten the hub nut then lock it down with a new tab.
Warning!!! Dff lock, hand brake and chock the front wheels before lifting the back wheels off the ground.
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I spent over €6,000 on my 1992 Discovery 1, never get a penny back on it but I will enjoy driving it every day and after all, it's just my hobby.
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They all look so familiar
Been doing another one for a mate, sills and door post bottoms, forgot how slow going it can be when you are seam welding in plates and cutting out the rot.
Good work, do your doors still fit? Didn't notice any bracing and just wondering how they are for fitting now?
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I think it our Les Brock that described a D4 as "tomorrows white goods", whilst it is and will be a lovelly vehicle to drive it is enormously complicated and expensive to repair when it does go wrong.
I lost faith in new cars a long time ago, I am only mid 30s and am relatively tech savvy, not scared of electronics at all, not scared of spending money on genuine parts to keep them running either, but todays design is no longer about safety, it is no longer about comfort inside a vehicle, it is about selling gimmicks and gadgets as the next must have, efficiency is better I grant you but not by much in real world tests not the stupid brochures figures.
Anyone know how much it would cost for the led plasma screen thing in a 2014 RRS? I don't but if it went blank then it would be a little bit more than interesting not knowing how fast you were going or how much fuel was in the tank or the next track on the miley cirus album, just not interested in it at all.
Most likely I will modernize my daily driver to be ultra efficient when times change but as for my hobby car, it will be mechanical and do as I tell it not as it thinks.
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I measure boost at the manifold and have the wastegate plumbed into the manifold. I then have the turbo fed to the injection pump diaphragm.
Jad
That is something along the lines that I was thinking, real time boost post intercooler losses and frictional losses through bends and pipes, I saw a TD5 recently that has two boost gauges, pre and post intercooler, good couple psi drop through the cooler and pipes!!!
My thinking is to look at manifold pressure and EGTs to determine running parameters? Could be wrong?
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I thought it was a Gwagen that had been done over by that guy from London Chopshop
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Thanks for that Jad, want to get a banjo bolt for it myself to plumb in the boost gauge so I can see whats going on, seems to have a lot more power than my mates now it has had a bit of a run in after standing idle for a year and a half and I'm running bigger tyres!!! Think it may have had a tweek but won't know until I can measure it.
Lighting on a timer?
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Want to add some courtesy lighting on the Discovery, but want them to activate on the opening of the doors but extinguish on a timer.
This is additional lighting to the original ceiling lights and could be wired separately as it goes to different locations.
Is this possible?
Sorry, leccy stuff is not my specialty