Nigelw
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Did you replace any of the fuel pipes yet as suggested earlier in the thread?
As OF says, if it runs off a bottle of fuel then it is suspect pipe work!!!
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Ok so I was reading this topic a few days ago http://forums.lr4x4.com/index.php?showtopic=81398&hl=failure#entry698365
And have just swapped back axles on my Disco to give 24 spline drive gear and allow me to fit my alloys, but I got all concerned half way through trying to drop the axle off thinking "I have forgotten to undo something I am sure?". Well in short the 1998 axles did indeed have ARBs fitted but the 1992 Disco does not have brackets on either the chassis or the axle, no signs of them being cut off either!! they seem to just have never been fitted!!!
Is this possible? I was lead to believe it was developed and designed to have them fitted?
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Also depends on what age they are too... I have a Disco 1 from 1992 but the Disco alloys from my old 1998 Disco would not fit due to the older 10 spline drive members being too thick to allow the rim to fit properly.....
If rim looks like this.....
(Can't find pic of inside the wheel but it is tapered toward the outside from the hub center.)
But drive members look like this...
Then maybe not?
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I think the worst day for my Discovery was when a careless welder set his insulation and sound proofing alight when badly bodging the inner wings!!!
Ruined most of the wiring under the dash and interior too, dash door card, carpets and headlining also got smoke damaged too!!
Looked something like this.....
Much better when I started doing this though...
So he has had a few bad days and now he is getting some good thrown back at him.
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Love the idea but would be happier if the comments could be approved by OP before being seen, kind of rules out the legal eagle rubbish and allows a build thread to be a build thread not just a turn up read a little and post rubbish on someone elses work.
Lets see it happen!!!
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Forum police full stop.
I did not put on my new hydrosteer project last year because i would start by stating it is an off roader and only off roader but it would be followed by countless post telling us again of why it can never be driven on the road,
My Supercharged 5 litre V8 build will not be on for the same reason, nor will my Toyota 80 axle on to Land-rover chassis project which is just about to start, purely because I'll get fed up of "bolt on babies" telling me whats wrong or why it wont work and eventually it becomes a chore to try and share ideas, then its far easier for some prick to show us his new wiper blades and whats wrong on ebay, its what YOUR creating and why it will strangle you I'm afraid.
If we try and have some fun on the competition forum to keep an post lively on the forum then the police and admin's are in again telling us to stick to the topic or else DELETE or your thread will be removed, fair play, play elsewhere, its seems that what you want.
Go back 2 or 3 years and have a look, and there are a lot of superb builds coming along that have not posted for the reasons above, but stick to fitting mudflaps and LED lights if thats what you want.
Sorry but I just got a little annoyed by that!!!
Do you know I would and I am sure others would love to read threads on those vehicles, I am especially interested in the hydrosteer!!! But if it is what the rest have to say and those that just pick holes then you don't have to read them posts and just continue with your build, the only things to note are posts offering advice(and I mean if it looks like yr stuck or have hit a prob type advice) and as for the nay sayers ignore them, I hardly ever get a comment on any of my build threads but it's no bother to me whether they are good or bad, good is better but the bad just gets glanced at glossed over as that person has a view that does not relate to me nor my project or the aims being achieved by the project.
Boothy I think you should actually look at the V8 porn thread and see for yourself how Nige has often skipped over comments and posted what he has done rather than used his thread as a discussion point, maybe you should do the same? Don't let criticism become the death of the forum just because you don't like it, take the attitude of " LIKE I GIVE A F**k" and carry on, this is a techy forum but without the threads and builds on the more outlandish and untrodden paths there will only be old tech and nothing new will come forward for fear of scrutiny.
Sorry to all for the ramble, just wish I had the funds and the ingenuity to pull something like that off, but will carry on refurbing the Disco in stead.
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It only took 26 yrs to notice that my series 3 never had a fog lamp even so that came into force a year befor my vehicle was even built!!!
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Where was that?
Alken, just outside Hasselt in Belgium.
Best thing is there is another place I have found too so gonna arrange me a visit there, will take my camera this time so you can see what is there!!!
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I agree with most of the sentiments on here, though I don't see much negativity or hostility except in certain threads like the "pass the bucket", as already mentioned. One big factor that I think has been missed and may be the biggest is personal blogs. I have my own blog, and I have seen an increase in other, similar websites. They have the advantage to the vehicle owner of being under their control, so the discussion can be kept on topic, criticisms (not seen any yet, and I assume other blog runners don't get many either as followers are interested and enthusiastic about the project at hand) can be dealt with discretely, personal comments avoided and it minimises rambling discussion. Once you get a blog going, you tend not to duplicate it on a forum. I started my blog because I was always expecting to get booted off another forum where I just couldn't get on with the politics of the admins and most of the moderators, even though I got on fine with most of the members. I left that forum in the end because it was such an unpleasant atmosphere, but that had no effect on my rebuild posts as they were all separate. All the work I have done on my vehicles goes on the blog, and I just come on here to ask and to answer questions.
Cost is still a big issue, though. Just like the rest of life, disposable income has gone down while the prices have gone up, and that is especially true in the extreme off-road scene. Club magazines are discussing the nature of trialling and how it's stagnating - the old hands have old vehicles which have gradually been modified over years or decades, so new members simply can't be competitive and don't bother. I think the proliferation of heavily modified triallers and the rapid increase in the price of their specialised parts has killed off the new entry into the sport. I don't think it's a matter of PC, though the shrinking number of play sites doesn't help. Personally, I'm more interested in those builds because it fits more closely with my use, and I suspect there are plenty of others who feel the same way.
You touched right on the money there with those two points, I did a little looking around for blogs on vehicles and you are very correct there, and I think the blogging has become more popular for the reasons you mention, criticism with no structure for a solution, or just out and out dribble,(I have a rebuild thread on another forum that gets a lot more updates and TBH there have only ever been 3 other people who have made any comments in the whole 4 pages and 20+ postings of updates) The harsh criticism can be off putting but here it is not really the case from what I have seen so far, may be so on other forums but not here.
Also the shrinking numbers of P&P sites is having an effect too as is the even more rapid shrinking size of the legal by ways and green lanes that we love to trek over, that is really putting the numbers down as there is decline in both sectors which means fewer places to drive a truck so for some whats the point in building one?
I looked at competitive trialing and off road motor sports and yes cost is a big issue but only puts you off if you are looking to win every weekend outing IMHO!!! There needs to be more participation for a more novice driver who can't compete with the big guys with a truck that costs the same as a small apartment!! I did post this thinking on another forum when a similar topic of where is the new blood in trialing or what ever, but shot down for that so don't venture to that board anymore, but it is true, as I recall there was a woman Disco owner who asked why there are no women only events or at least incentives to get women into the sport, the most common answer was start something yourself!!! But no body actually thought "she might be on to something here"?
I suppose some attitudes must change but on the whole I personally find this forum is very good and as a source of technical information it is my first port of call and the search facility is my best friend when I need to find solutions.
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Oh dear........
I nearly had a trouser accident this afternoon whilst visiting the warehouse, you should have seen the kit in there!!!
I want one of everything not just the TIG
They had everything, I got really excited when I saw a full 200T press sitting there in the corner of the yard, OMG they had plate benders, pillar drills, metal turning lathes, wood turning lathes, fork lift trucks, and some other stuff I have no idea what it was for but seriously cool!!! -
Funny I noticed this too, the seeming old faces of forums disappearing, projects have become overland specs and the doomsday preppers and such, but I also noted something else, where for as wonderful as it is to feel part of a small community within a forum, mostly of folk you don't know but you can swap ideas and have a bit of fun, but for nearly every problem likely to be encountered on any of the Solihul fold there is a thread at least and more likely half a dozen.
For most things I post to ask technical assistance I am almost 100% certain I could google search it and get the answer from 1 of a hundred search topics, and for a lot of newbies that are not happy to be a junior member and to find their way in a forum it is easier to just pick their way through the google returns and follow the advice given.
Yet I know for sure the economic climate will not have helped project builders as often used to be the case that a special vehicle could be sold on after being seen on the circuit a few times and yield a profit above the cost of the parts but that is not happening much either, where I have seen vehicles with thousands of pounds/euro's worth of equipment invested in them and being advertised complete for only half it's cost simply because people will not pay more for them than just above the bog standard vehicle.
Also I did note a few times how the newer legislation is strangling the amateur builders, I have been looking into the building of kit type cars here in Belgium and it really is not easy to get it on the road!!! I don't fully understand the documents I am having translated but the stuff so far almost makes it impossible to do anything other than run a standard vehicle, but I am told there are ways and this is what I am looking to exploit in a year or two's time, but for England you are having a lot of trouble from the builders of vehicles that blatantly need an SVA and yet all these years on they still don't and some folks are still building them with disregard but I only need take the thread from bishbosh for instance, a simple bobtail, achievable for a half tidy enthusiast in a weekend and they threw him in to an SVA and then he lost all hope after that,and this could be the type of thread that is putting people of building anything too special,just in case they can never drive it legally on the road!!!
Heavy reading but just how I see things......
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£4.60/Kg for bright copper!!!!!
Guessing the pikeys are busy of late then.......
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For oddball nuts and bolts, see if there's a Fabory near you. You'll need a VAT number though, as they only sell to businesses.
If it's LR related, Joachim at British Car Parts can get it for you.
I use BCP for almost everything part wise but he didn't have the bolts in stock and De Pinte is a good drive from here LOL
I have heard of Fabory but only after a chat this morning with Guido my friendly Defender wrecker when he came calling to ask me to repair his rear cross member, tree stumps don't bend!!!
I have a BTW No. so no problem there, and will now be searching for them on the www. Thanks for that.
Failing that, find a 'proper' engineering supplier, not a Belgie-screwfixie type place!Not so easy for me to find an engineering stockist as my pigeon Dutch is only just worse than my English, I did try a couple of motor factors but they didn't have fine thread and certainly not as big as I wanted(not so big compared to what I am used to but too big for them to have in stock). And as usual LR part numbers yielded blanks as far as getting them in for me.
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So it would seem these bolts are called a "double Hex head" and I think I will replace them with a 10.9 normal bolt when they come out, I had figured they would end up stripping as every thread concerning removing the calipers has at least one bolt that has to be ground off and removed with mole grips.
Oh well, such is life, never gets any easier, no idea why they can't just use one sensible type of fastener and make life easy, but they keep telling me progress is inevitable, that maybe so but it all comes at a price!!!
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Can someone tell me what size star bolt spanner/socket I will need for removing the bolts from a Discovery brake caliper.
Please do not give a million suggestions for other optional solutions as I plan to reuse the bolts when refitting and want it to be as though it was never touched by my ham fisted paws.
Also What are the common sizes used on LR these days as I noticed they moved that way a while ago on TD5s?
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reckon you need to dig a drainage ditch to divert that water,
my day has been pretty good, did a battery removal from my nieghbours car for her & put it on charge, otherwise a fairly lazy day.
When we get rain like that!!!! the ditches couldn't cope with it either, hence why it spewed into my farm up the drainage pipe like a geezer then blocked solid with silt, was pumping water for well over 2 weeks to get rid and bowser is coming to blow the silt through when it thaws so we don't flood again when the snow melts.
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I normally have a big well lit and I say normally dry barn to work in but this was what I have suffered a couple of times this year!!!
And then dry for all of about a week and it then freezes, and I am not sitting out there welding in minus 4 after working out in it all day!!!
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Steve
I like, shame it is in the UK, but looking in to the shipping costs as I type, you never know, might end up here after all.....
Question is, would I ever use the MIG again after buying it?
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most likely 8,8, the bolt head will or should be marked http://www.hi-tensilebolt.com.au/Head%20Markings.html
Western that was not helpful!!! LOL Now I am even more confused, ok will do the lot in 10.9 tensile and then I will be happy knowing it is safe.
When I had cut them off I looked for a marking on them but by the time I had chipped off the scaly rust they just looked pitted!
Mike, I know what you mean about the nuts and bolts from screw fix and I was not happy with the fit and that was some 6yrs ago!!! Would recommend a local independant merchant over them, my life is worth more than a few pennies saved on the hard ware!!
Gwyn lewis has them in stock , I got new ones from him in NovemberI live in Belgium and it really is becoming a pain in the posterior to have to keep paying shipping from the UK, for some things I must unless I want to remortgage but for nuts and bolts, carriage would cost more than the hardware
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provided the tensile strength as as good or better -- 8.8 changed to the same or 10.9, it should not create a problem.
So do I take it the bolts I have listed are 8.8 or are they 10.9, the heads are so rusty they could be chro moly for all I know?
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Well it has been a right palarva trying to get simple nuts and bolts!!!!
I need new nuts and bolts for the "A" frame arms at the bushes and new nuts for the bolts on the fulcrum and new nuts and bolts for trailing arms to the axle.
Well I managed to get all the metric nuts and bolts easily but the fine threaded ones for the trailing arms, the fulcrum and the tops of the "A" frame arms cannot be had anywhere unless I want to wait 10 days for them from Land Rover!!!
Question is this, can I replace the fine threaded nuts and bolts with standard metric ones of same shank depths and nylocs as specified?
I kind of need to get my skates on here as I want/need to get the back axle on asap so the new wheels and tyres can go on it Thursday.
Many thanks in advance.
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I am pleased that it went well and that there was a seeming altering of positioning towards the 4x4 fraternity, I also hoped the Ellbarto videos raised the point that permissible green lanes accounted for less than 1% of paths and bridle tracks in that area.
Top marks for your efforts, Shame I am more than 800kms away or it would have been a good day out.
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Just thought I might add that there are body mounting points either side of the transfer case to the inside of the chassis rails and the seat belt anchors through the boot floor, it might be necessary to slacken or remove these to get enough leverage on the bushes, I have got to do mine as they are approx 5mm thick and should be about half inch or so!!!
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For the wiring coachman it is probably as little as 30 mins with a soldering iron and some 2core cable and some heat shrink for the lights, I know that nearly all the 300 series Disco's had a one size fits all wiring loom and fitment of ECUs and anything not used still had a plug and allowed for easy up grading to things like electric windows and mirrors, I gutted out my 1998 V8 3 door to find all relevant plugs for all optional extras even though my car was below poverty spec the loom covered everything, it was easier and cheaper to produce it that way.
As for the light at the rear, legislation said that the rear lights needed to be visible even with the rear door open, and with the spare hanging on the rear door that really was not possible so relocation to the bumper was the easiest option.
Bleeding jack!
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A how to tech post me thinks!!!
Top work, been thinking about getting mine filled up again to lift past an inch of the second piston maybe I will now....