Nigelw
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Be interested to see your opinion of one of them cheap ally welded rads, half tempted myself along with double depth intercooler
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Oooo like that installation, tidy tooA couple of the fusible links in my RRC blew before my ownership as a result of the heater motor shorting, I replaced them with some in line fuses rather than a complete fuse box.
The blue wires are for towing electrics, the red ones are the replacement links.
Pretty much as I was trying to explain, Don't have fuzzy linx on pre 93MY D1s lol
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Knew I'd seen that thread before somewhere, cheers mike, now bookmarkedExactly what I did on my Defender 12 years ago. This any help ?
http://landytown.myfastforum.org/about7578.html
Basically what I've been doing to my cars since 1965
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I did a DIY relay upgrade, 4 fuses in mineDoes the Boomslang loom use a single feed from the battery - if so, I assume that is a single point of failure for all lamps - one broken fuse and no headlights at all ? ( as opposed to the 4 individual circuits on the existing loom )
Not necessarily an issue, but just about to do thos, and deciding whether to DIY
Richard
If I get round to it there needs to be two new looms made up for the left and right lights to incorporate DRLs, front fog lamps and A bar spots.
The idea is to fit a new fuse and relay board on to the header tank bracket and run everything from there, not certain yet as my spiders web on paper confuses me more each time I look at it
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Here's a pic of it sitting on the bonnet, just for a proportional demo of how big it really is, big enough but not as unwieldy as some of the brutes I have seen.
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Make a friend at a tool hire shop, I can get one on 50% discount for the weekend or as I do now, just arrange my work around a day at the garage with Erik
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Also keep a 1kg small spool tucked away for that time your big one runs out by surpriseIt's a really nice little welder, once you get round buying shrouds (Tweco type from mig uk) - the Eastwood ones are extortion with violence! Takes 5kg spools as well
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Not done it myself but can see it being easy enough to do.
Get your multi meter out and set for continuity to test and find out which wires are which, or a battery and a test lamp will do, work out which wires you need to power which circuit.
I wouldn't have bothered personally, it's far simpler to use better links and wire them accordingly.
Something like this http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Strip-Link-Midi-Fuse-Holder-for-Striplink-Midi-fuses-Fuseholder-fits-all-/121209019230?nav=SEARCH
Mount on a piece of plate and once fitted and connected fill with vaseline to ensure they stay corrosion free.
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You can sell the front shock chassis brackets to me if you do
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If you could spare the time James, ask if you can watch them recore your original, the place in Houthalen said a half day to do and were willing to let me drop coolant in car park.
Worth an ask
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http://forum.lro.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=92631
There, that should entertain.
If I were local then it'd be a fun little thing to weld up
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Mmmmmmm yummy welding job!
3mm plate an 8x4 sheet and a mate with a welder
I will post a link I did for kicks with a 300Tdi D1
Post up asking for help in the international forum, maybe you can make a new spannering friend?
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It was in our little 2 horse Renault master, great little van!oh man, that's really pants, theft grinds my gears to the max, it makes me very angry indeed, was it your landy or another vehicle?
If I had just parked randomly in the dark I might have expected it but I chose my spot carefully, that's the bit that guts me the most, they were just so blatant about it.
Punishment for crime like this isn't anywhere near as severe as it needs be, chopping off hands is much more of a deterrent, that and public stoning in city square, but we are far too civilized for that aren't we :-(
Arjan, it is far too common, and unless we highlight the pitfalls of rest stops then unfortunate others will also fall victim!
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Gaffer tape and plastic bag lasted 10minsBad luck old chap. Had the same thing in Spain a few years back - fly window on a T2 camper, happened in a tiny window of time that a pal was away from the bus - like they were watching, and they went only for hard cash.
It's such good luck though that you looked back and prevented them from getting anything. Nothing worse than that feeling of violation.
Surprised you didn't have a roll of gaffer with you, isn't that LR MO
Carglass in Gandia fitted a piece of perspex but it flew out within 50kms @ 90kmh
the noise from the plastic was worse than just the turbulence from the open window! -
No, not gone off my rocker again(yet anyway
), but I am just home from a 3,800+km round trip from Weert NL to Oliva Espania and 3,000 of those kilometers with a frozen left arm and knee.Why?
I stopped in some services in France between Lyon and Montpellier, parked opposite a camper van full of people, under a light and just before I walked into the shops I turned to look back thinking about the horse I was transporting down and as I glanced I saw a guy standing beside my van, then heard the small front quarter window smash, ran straight for him but he jumped in his waiting car with driver and got away before I could grab him, called the very helpful Gendamerier who took a full statement along with the partial registration that I saw.
I have now come to the conclusion that the dog comes with as much as possible and the windows will get a clear tint film in order to keep the glass whole and slow them down and to save me freezing the next time!
This happened at 8:30pm on a Sunday evening, not even small hours of the morning
This is a bit of a word of warning thing for travellers as Gendamerie said it's the same MO where they have been seen to target foreign vehicles as they know there will be "stuff" to steal, whether it's the satnav, passports, cash or a mobile phone.
Safe driving folks
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But, it looks to only attach to the bulkhead and tub? Thought it had to attach to the chassis to be MSA spec?
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That said, it's not often you look for something unless you need it, although buying a bad one and rebuilding it is a sound investment if you suspect your original to be nearing it's demise.One needs to have patience....
Something I considered but found a 200Tdi engine alone to be only slightly cheaper than a complete but rotten 200Tdi Discovery!
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Well with train and ferry rules and regs changing almost weekly it kind of seemed logical
David, when you get to spend any length of time in my company you will begin to realize that almost anything is possible with me
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She is going to do a return on the Eurostar and leave the little one at home now, thank god!!
Thanks for looking but think we solved this now?
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In need here fellas, sorry if inappropriate mods?
Need to get the girlfriend and her dwarf pincher back to the UK ahead of me as going to finish up here at the end of the month but she needs to be back by the 10th as she wants to see her mum in hospital in London.
Tried ferries but they won't take pets with foot passengers, she won't fly and I am looking for alternative options.
Anyone here got space for a passenger and a small dog in a crate for the way back or know of another option?
Will happily pay for services!!!
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Right, tomorrow I will be with family Hompes to enjoy the privileges of a lift to play on, this is to remedy the non functioning handbrake.
I picked up a set of shoes "just in case" but the more I read up, the more this points to a seized expander, bit more googling later and searching out some pics of one in bits, it struck me as a rather poor thing to start with, no rubber "O" rings on pistons or actuator and no grease point to enable some sort of maintenance, or do they so rarely fail that the design was never updated?
Interested to hear other opinions on this.
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Although potential automotive history, it's just plain ridiculous to ask so much for a vehicle that doesn't look so original or complete, rule with head not hart, chances are to make it original it will be many years correct part hunting.
Find it quite sad really!
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I was looking for a roof bar early Jan and couldn't find even a basic gutter clamped bar for less than 90 euro :-( the twit in the auto parts told me it was down to the width, needing min 1500mm wide bar wtf
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I dropped tyre pressure to 1.6bar to give best winter footprint, steering wobble ensued, back up to 2.2bar and all is now well.
What TPs are you running?
the noise from the plastic was worse than just the turbulence from the open window!
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