Daan
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I have one question/observation with regards to greasing a u/j: We have one nipple to grease 4 bearings. In reality, this means that you usualy grease only one or maybe two bearing, as the grease find the way of the least resistance. I have been using g-clamps to try and close te paths of grease into one set of bearings, but the whole thing seems a bad design to me. Ideas anyone?
Daan
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feel ashamed about my country.
It is the modern thinking over there, which means everyone has the right to have their say.
I just realised again one of the reasons why I left.
Daan
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I think the problem is that there is a point load on the rim, on five points, rather than the load spreaded around the entire rim, like a modular for example.
on the other hand, I have seen people seriously hammering these wheels without problems.
the 750 load rating on a 3050kg vehicle doesnt tell the full story: what was the axle load on te rear and front axle?
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this thread is worthless without pics.
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well, i remember I had one hour left to do a snorkel. It looked like this:
What do you reckon?
Ok, I'll run away now.
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just what I was thinking yesterday. Idealy the max and min length of each propshaft would be handy. Also additional detail such as special models, double cardan, high angle etc. would be very usefull. Also which uj size it is.
I ended up using a 88" rear prop at the back and a 90" rearprop at the front of my coil sprung 88". I found these by walking on the old sodbury sortout with a tape measure.
I cant be very helpfull with creating this list at te moment, cause my landy is about 100 miles away from me!
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Perfect for the outback challenge!
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I went the blasting route and then had it zinc plated. It looked good to begin with, but the after one winter, the zinc plating had gone very crappy and rusty. From everything I have done on my landy, the only thing which worked long time was galvanize. So I think that would be the way to go. Anyone here has experience with galvanizing axle cases?
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Nice. I have a damaged Safari snorkel top , you could probs modify this to fit to your 90 mm tube.
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Ps: Anyone else thought of going???
I think mr lloyd is going.
What about going to the jungle? I can see the extreme being interesting but not dissimilar from what we are doing. No plans myself to go to oz at the minute.
Martin Lewis did love every minute of it, so there must be something there.
Daan
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Nice UPVC door you've bought there.
Picture of it is a bit spoilt by that old bit of scrap iron in the foreground though........
The UPVC door (and house) are hired.
But the scrapiron bit belongs to me: £35 for the iron + £40 for the lock. True dutch fashion of transportation.
Daan
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Since we are showing of our latest purchases, look what I bought last week:
It does a great job of getting me to work.
Daan
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Is that not what most of the people who have them above, have?
Si
I am saying that I can see problems when using it offroad. I do like the idea, have considered it myself.
I think more people have done similar things, especially in the truck world. So lets see what the possibilitys are and what is available for how much.
Daan
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Usefull, however, I hate to say this but I dont think its any good in the mud. what about bonnet deep water?What about putting the rear one behind the glass? I saw the winch camara once on the bertelsen truck (danish team). I was mounted above the winch, behind the grill, pointing downwards. This was for reasons of it getting clogged in mud.
The idea is certainly worth persuing. My biggest nightmare is always reversing int a child who is to small to be seen behind a landy. So i suggest post some more ideas from people which actually made the system work
Daan
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thats a b*****d! I mean, the dutch government had exactly this going on some 20 years ago, I thought I managed to run away from it by emigrating to the uk and now.....here we go again!
So which country shall I emigrate to now?
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I dont do anything about castor correction, put up with the fact that it doesnt self centre as much. With 1.5" lift I can live with it. What you have to remember is that with rotating the axle, the steering rod will get lower, and is more prone to bending.
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whenever I look at the QT stuff, it makes me feel better: Finally someone out there who can weld just as good as I can!
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Patent: I dont think a Disk handbrake is something you could patent: It is an application of an existing item. Therefore you cant stop people use a disk brake on a handbrake. More importantly, you werent the first: I was running this since 2001 and I have seen more home grown devices.
The other thing that has to be remembered is that whenever we go shopping for say, a steering joint, we ask the dealer for the price of a Genuine joint, we hear the price, get a landy mag out for a local landyparts place and are pleased to see the item going for £7.50 rather than the previously qouted £35. About 90% of us (i think) is going for the cheaper version. The pattern parts are straight copys of the genuine item and therefore cheaper. This is exactly what is happening with the handbrake.
Still, I do think that SR could have tried harder to keep relationships going. He isnt doing himself any favours at the moment.
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Currently, the grey licensed (van type with no rear seats and windows) versions are reasonably affordable, due to the roadtax being now even with personal cars. The road tax in holland for a diesel landy can get as high as £1000 per year, so be warned about this. Germany is similar in this respect. You Uk guys are spoiled with cheap road tax believe it or not. So keep this in mind as well when buying one over there. I have seen some left hookers in the uk for sale, I would go for that if you really wanted one. You wont have the big tax problem that way.
By the way, being dutch, my landy is a left hooker and it makes vey little difference to me driving in the uk. Also, driving my UK Peugeot on the continent is no bother at all. To be fair I wouldnt go to the trouble of changing cars just to have the steering wheel on the other side.
Daan
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They are the reason I haven't bought a set of Second Air bead locks as they are the UK distributor.
Just what I was thinking. Anyone an idea how to get these, while avoiding our scrap suplier?
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A shame it happens that way. You cant do a lot legally I dont think, but I would make sure your adverts highlight the fact that you are the original seller of these devices. On the forums, we now know the story, but the buying public of SR doesn't. Try to get the word round and let the public decide for themselves if they buy from SR or from yourself.
This might not help the AWDC club for its moral either.
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Still, what matters is that wheels have to be DOT approved. I havent found a dot approved beadlock wheel yet. On the other hand, if the engineering of the wheel is proper, who cares?
Daan
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So if you use that argument 3-piece split rims are illegal too. I'm sure I've seen loads of them on factory fast cars.
Still haven't seen any proof......
Split rims are not illegal. I do know that beadlocks are forbidden for that reason but a splitrim with an insert (like a hummer wheel for example) is not illegal.
Bad beadlocks, with a boltring which doesnt bottom out on the rim do indeed come undone.
I agree that the argument doesnt hold on a good bead lock wheel, but these are the rules.
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beadlocks are illegal, because the bolts that hold on the rings have a habbit to gradually get undone. You have to spanner check the bolts occasionally to be sure. The possible scenario is that jo blok drives the car with beadlocks untill something goes wrong, in this case the tyre coming of the wheel.
The staun beadlock or secondair is indeed street legal.
I am back in the UK by the way!
Daan
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I found it to be a problem on any uj, genuine or chocolate ones. It is not so bad if you do them every week, but who does that? if you leave them for 3 months or so, You will have this problem, I found.
Daan