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Ralph is right ...as usual... 0 to 2mm toe out

Si, Just looking through the Feb 06 issue of LRE ( ) and the Scrap Iron advert shows an awfully familiar looking disc handbrake kit - somebody been nicking your ideas?

After much faffing around with mine over the last few months I eventually settled on using the standard 90 springs with the following extras Front: Discovery isolator rings fitted to both top and bottom of the spring, giving 0.6" lift Rear: Discovery isolator rings fitted to the top of the spring, and 1.5" Mill Services lifters under the spring plate at the bottom, giving about 1.8" lift Monroe Adventurer gas shocks all round. It sits quite tail-high when empty but when fully loaded sits about level which is what I need, enough room for articulation even with wide tyres fitted. No prop vibrations from either end, I did have problems with the front when I had it a lot higher than that. I have a set of 1" Mill Services lifters which might go on the front at some point in place of one of the pairs of isolators, to give it a little bit more and see what happens, but rather oddly most of the noise from tyres rubbing seems to come from the back despite the extra inch of lift

You can buy a 300Tdi 110SW here for £17k Not that I am trying to make anybody jealous or anything

I got one from Halfords last year that did both 32mm Tdi and 36mm V8, for about a tenner IIRC

Can't open that ORRP link (page not found) but the bit of string from front to rear wheels method is plenty accurate enough for a Defender.

Happy birthday I vote for about 45 candles careful, you'll burn the cake

Colour coded grease - now that is attention to detail B)

Ring, and then sue them because the claim in their letter is incorrect

Sorry, but how does something that has no idea what the airflow is into the engine, nor any clue about whether the driver has his foot off the pedal or the pedal welded to the floor, make any even remotely accurate assessment of how much fuel to stuff in...?

Full size mock up eh? "Hello, is that the Helpline. I'd like to make a warranty claim. I broke mine off on a tree stump..." In deep mud they might work quite well - as a sort of extra "paddle" on the outside of the wheel

I had a few dents in the old one but to be honest, apart from on top of the odd mountains where space for manoeuvring is quite restricted, rocks aren't really the main problem here - and if you belly it out in swampy ground it is far too soft to do any real damage and it just drags through the peat. Also I don't know if you did what I did but have you looked underneath...? I was thinking maybe a straight through middle pipe for my new one, and was just about to look into prices and ordering one when I looked underneath mine for something else and noticed that the new 300Tdi 90s don't have a rear silencer, only the middle one... Doh.... Not sure about the Td5 90s, have you checked? My old Tdi 90 had a rear box but the new one doesn't because of the fuel tank! John_T I have blanked off several EGR systems and to the best of my knowledge the only fault normally stored is with the EGR system on the ones I have done, no running problems. Td5s create airflow faults, injector faults, wiring faults, sensor fault, kitchen sink faults, and anything else you can think of but it doesn't mean there is anything wrong. I was looking at one today which had 13 different fault codes stored and there was actually nothing wrong with it.... I think they suffer a little from hypochondria However a genuine airflow meter fault can produce a massive power loss, I have seen two with this fault in the last six months or so, dodgy readings from the airflow meter produced a big loss of power but no fault code, it was only picked up with a voltmeter and swapping in another AFM. To give some idea of the reliability of Td5 fault codes the early ones all stored a fault code saying the tacho (rev counter) drive was faulty. Td5 Defenders ain't ever had a tacho....

You could also resize your avatar a bit once you finished that

Mine is a Station Wagon and I just bought a set of County stripes to go on it for about £40 from Simmonites, much cheaper than buying a County and not many people can tell the difference

Welcome Can I borrow your helicopter...?

James yours will not be one covered by the service action, it was only on the v early ones perhaps 99/00 models, can't remember exactly but not an 02 anyway if yours has the new dash (can't remember?)

Mostly spared it - but as an Overseas Territory (not allowed to use the word colony these days!) where we don't have our own legislation then generally UK law applies, but not EU directives AFAIK.

Put some extra long studs in, drill the ends and fit a small padlock I agree, they are a waste of time, anybody wanting to nick a wheel will have some way of easily getting them off and the only real function of them is to cause a complete loss of temper in the rightful owner when trying to change a puncture in the dark and the P...ing rain!

FWIW if I had an early Td5 I'd keep the original ECU. I have driven a wide range of Td5s from one in the first 200 of production, to 2005 model ones, and the oldest ones are the best, and the ones that have never had the ECU's swapped are the best of the lot. The two best ones I have ever driven were the one which was right at the start of the Td5 vin range, and one built very shortly after that. They go like **** off a shovel, a bit jerky yes, but far more get up and go than later ones. Any of the post 2002 ones feel completely dead in comparison IMHO, yes they are smoother to drive but they are nowhere near as zippy, no idea what LR did to them but it had some side-effects! The later engines just seem lazy on acceleration in the lower gears.

As already advised more info on the Discovery forum, I use 600x400 which is a good size for most pics and dialup friendly at about 50K per picture

Nice title James

I was looking into this recently for something.... In most of the EU the limit on manufacturers liability is 2 years but in the UK for some reason it's 6 years. After 6 years, they can wash their hands of any defect whether it is inherent in the design (i.e. "fit for purpose") or not.

We've got a very early 1999 Td5 110 at work, and I have seen it do a similar thing on odd occasions and thinking about it I think it's always been when the vehicle is cold first thing in the morning, but it's never been a big problem so I've never really taken much notice of it - I don't drive that vehicle very often and nobody else has complained about it so it is currently filed in the "I have far more important things to worry about" category The ability to do hill starts without touching the accelerator is quite normal, they should be able to do that as the "electronic governor" seems to add fuel to maintain idle speed under any load as far as it can, so once the engine is warm you can actually do quite steep hill starts in a Td5 without touching the pedal, as long as you let the clutch out very slowly so as not to overcome the inertia of the engine and stall it. But it should go when you press the accelerator I don't know - maybe it's just a "Td5 thing" - they seem to have some odd habits! Might be worth getting things like the airflow meter checked out to make sure that is OK, it can cause some odd problems if that is playing up though there usually seems to be power loss associated with AFM problems.

I get them trade from Southam Tyres, if I were you I should ask them for some dealers names or see if they will supply direct, they are UK importers for General so ought to be cheapest Can't remember how much we sell them for here but it ain't that much and that includes freight and my beer tokens... I spent ages looking for AT 18s, at the moment I am 99.9% sure that the Grabber is the only AT in an 18. I should keep an eye on Coopers and the new STT pattern, about half way between AT and MT, they are producing that in lots of odd sizes including a 17 to suit the Disco 3. I think BFG do a 37x12.50R18

Never too late - the cans of Waxoyl are still sitting on the shelf "Pending" It has turned into a Round Tuit job....