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No bugs in mine (did the same) but will do the work one later as I was on that early yesterday....

I would have been using Firefox when there was that odd problem this morning (just getting a white screen) so hopefully OK

Same as wot Mark90 said ^^^ You shouldn't really put a tube in a tubeless rim but on no account should tube type tyres be fitted tubeless as the beads aren't designed to seal properly. They will deflate slowly (been there tried that and know others that have too) and this could be somewhat dangerous to say the least.... you might get around it with a tonne of bead sealer but it is still a bad idea and an insurance company would walk away, damn sure about that The other thing that is bluddy dangerous (and some people do it here) is fitting tubeless type tyres, with no tube in, on the old tube type 5.5 Defender steel rims! No double hump inside the wheel to retain the bead, so nothing to stop it popping off. I've never seen one come off, but it could happen if the tyre deflated a bit and then you bashed it on a kerb or something, very easily. I've seen rolled vehicles where the tyres have been popped off a proper tubeless rim with a hard sideways impact. Really though, tube tyres want to be on tube rims with a tube in, and tubeless tyres on tubeless rims, and never the twain shall meet... mixing and matching is not a good idea.

I had a simple solution. I just built a garage about the same size as my house (which isn't all that big). So I have space for everything and cannot be accused of discriminating between automotive and domestic requirements Except I hadn't planned on buying a boat so now I need another, bigger, shed to work on that in

Nooooo I mustn't I am supposed to be a mod

Thanks Steve. I'll try Challenger first, but given my recent experiences with trying to persuade UK based suppliers to post stuff to me here (nothing to do with LR's, trying to get bits and pieces for my RIB, so far of about eight suppliers I have tried only one has even bothered to respond to my email, amazing how hard it is to persuade people to give them your money these days ) I may have to take you up on that, ta 5 min later... Well, the online ordering system had the right country in (many don't) and it even deducted the VAT as it should for an export order, so we will wait and see what happens

Fr&ggn eck What is the exchange rate these days $9.95 for 2 in the States £12.00 for 2 in the UK Still worth having though - I wonder if they post overseas Edited to add: I see the X Brake is a featured product so the company must be OK

The title also got my attention Let me know how much they are when you get them Steve? I could do with some too but the only place I have seen them advertised is Scrap Iron which is obviously not a suitable recipient for my £££

To, or about?

an I remember when all we 'ad to play with was a stick, we made our own entertainment in them days, and if we were good we got an extra helping of soil for tea.... of course in my day you 'ad to eat it before it got dark, none of this new fangled electrickety back then, and this new money is too small and you can't hear the words any more

I remember when it used to be called "Rocket" WD40, they don't make it like that any more, mutter mutter. Hope they didn't make too many bits of NASA out of plastic then Mind you I suppose in the space race if it lasted a couple of weeks then that was fine, and Saturn 5 probably never had any towing electrics, or if they did I should think they were nice and warm and dry at the back there

I was thinking about it while I was away today, and I wondered about getting a block of polystyrene and boring holes through it, if I could find a hole saw big enough! But I think the coolers would be more robust, and anyway they are made of neoprene, and something made of rubber with beer in has absolutely got to be a good combination Just ordered a six pack from www.englandcoolers.co.uk (can't register on Ebay) and I also asked them to send the two assistants in order to show me how to use the coolers in case I couldn't figure it out Thanks Andy

I need to get hold of about a dozen or so of the foam things that you can get to put a 330ml can of (ahem) non alcoholic beverage (officer) into, to keep it cool. Google mostly seems to be trying to sell me loft insulation on this one, but what I really want to know is if it is something you can buy in shops in the UK, and if so which shops? (then I can add them to my shopping list for coming over in July) Possibilities might be camping shops I suppose, but can't remember ever seeing them, rather than spend ages looking when I get there, I wondered if anybody knows for sure where you can find these things? I have a couple, but I nicked them off stands at various trade shows and you can only go back so many times before they get suspicious Land Rover content? Beer makes such a bluddy mess on the floor of the vehicle if the bottles bang together too much inside a cool bag when you are going over rough ground (or hit a buffalo ditch), so I figured it would be a good way of keeping the bottles apart and the carpets dry Ta very much

750bhp and 1105 lb ft Oh my giddy aunt

While Googling for wheel weight ratings (which I didn't find, does anybody have actual figures on these??) I found this The Wheel & Tyre Bible Gotta go & read it now

....diffs, transfer boxes, gear boxes, drive members.... ....and cleaning stains out of your underwear

I don't know the specific weight figure for the alloys but I understand that the only alloys even rated for a 110 (3050kg GVW) are the Boost and Deep Dish type, apparently none of the others are, and I don't even know if the above two types will be any good for a 127/130, the GVW of a 130 is 3500kg so I assume a 127 will be the same, since it is the same vehicle with a different badge The big problem on 130s is that wheels and tyres need to be rated to the max rear axle weight, so the choice of tyres is fairly restricted too, most normal road tyres (and a great many MT's) are only rated to 1000-1050kg maximum load, and the rear axle limit on a 130 is 2200kg, so you need a tyre that is 1100kg minimum, and a wheel rim to match that. That is why 130s come with different tyres on (usually Michelin XZL's here) instead of Rangemasters or the Michelin XPC's found on new 110s now. One that does meet the spec is the 7.50x16 General Super All Grip, though they are noisy buggers being knobbly crossplys! In practice of course, since you rarely if ever run a 130 with ton of stuff in the back box, most wheel rims and tyres will be perfectly OK, but you can bet an insurer would use it as an excuse to wash their hands of a claim if it came to the crunch....

OK, ta. Just curious that was all - for once I was being observant

onions/muddyplugger do you fellas live in the same house, or use the same ISP or something? Just that I see you both have the same IP address

Old age does that, so I hear

A 7.50R16 tube would work fine in that I am sure. Don't know how picky insurance co's are though...

There is another bit but I can't remember it either

Not usually any problems with Discovery wipers, in stark contrast to Defender ones which don't really work even when new! There isn't a lot to go wrong, IIRC it is a motor and a simple sort of scissors mechanism to convert the motor's rotation into a back and forth motion. Perhaps the linkage has seized up, I think it is under the trim in front of the windscreen (on the outside), that is where it is on a Discovery 2 anyway. Otherwise I guess the motor is just tired but you will probably have to take the same bits off to get to it anyway

I suppose one way of doing it would be to have 2 smaller 12 volt batteries on the leisure circuit, with a setup that connects them to the load in parallel (i.e. 12 volts) but the charging side in series (so 24V would charge them up) It would mean you couldn't charge and use them at the same time, whether that would be a PITA depends on your requirement I suppose.

I didn't know you thuffered from a lithp Rogue