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  1. no real problems with ebay, also not from the states. The only one was the bloke who sold 3 genuine LR steering joints: I won them at 1.99 pounds. A bargain, but it took 6 weeks, 4 emails and 5 phonecalls for him to send them. He was obviously hacked of about selling for nearly nothing.

    I did get them in the end after threatening him into telling ebay.

    In general, the concept is great.

    Daan

  2. Jim,

    With a detroit locker, 1 psi difference in tyre pressure left to right does indeed send you off to one side of the road and gives nasty twangy noises from the diff. This is practical experience from my car.

    The radius does get smaller with a lower tyrepressure, and although the circumference is the same, there is more slip when the tyre thread arives and leaves the road while the wheels turn. Hope my wording makes any sense to you?

  3. it is all true!

    but:

    on the picture from white 90, you can see the castor corrected radius arms, and these are the cause of the smaller angle at the diff end and bigger angle on the gearbox end.

    If you want to achieve the bigger castor, the corrected swivels from tomcat are a much better solution, but I believe these are discontinued.

    you can improve things with the double cardan joint, but I believe that it is better to use standard ujs, especially if you go to remote places.

    in my case, I have lifted the car by about 1.5 inch and no problems at the front. At the back, I run radius arms, and the diff nose points up like it does at the front. No problems with uj s binding or vibrations. And, more important: Simple, cheap and reliable.

  4. Martin

    Last year my father and I managed to do Halfway, Margam and a service trip in one day. :wacko:

    My suggestion for seeing the best action: TV!

    Ok, You cannot beat the atmosphere of being in wales, but I never managed to see more than 2 stages per day. If you go: at least it is in september, so non of this -10 degrees eskimo stuff.

    And for my future employment: I hope colin will drive well!

    Daan

  5. I have done the same: use an lt 77 box with PTO winch, Koenig PTO.

    I rotated the PTO out of the way for more ground clearance-it ended up higher than the bottom of the chassis rail. I removed the front crossmember and replaced it by my own version for a better aproach angle.

    I saw the same being done by a chap called les I believe, who contributes to this forum a lot. His website explains the full story. well worth reading.

  6. My advice: Fit detroit lockers! most people say they are no good, but I think they are the best thing I have done to my car for exactly the reasons you have described. Off road, you have full control over the vehicle while both lockers work and the CVs are spared-none broken yet, touch wood.

  7. I swear by genuine rubber.

    In the radius arms, use narrow bushes, even when the radius arm is the later, wider version. More flexible. I also use these in the gearbox mounts. In the rear, I have rodends on the chassis end and rubber on the axle end. Rod ends are OK, but make sure that one end of the link is still in rubber mount, otherwise the rodends will wear out much quicker, as you mentioned.

  8. Thanks,

    Tyres 35 x 10,5 x 16 Simex. On the picture they are 1 day old, just fitted at the simex factory in Kuala Lumpur.

    The snorkel is a piece of alu tube with a Safarisnorkel plastic top. It feeds straight in a Turbodiesel arfilter housing under the wing, were normally the heater lives. It sits within the roll cage line (when snorkel top rotated 90 degrees). The snorkel tube is 3 inch, most off the shelf ones are 2,5 inch, which is a bit restrictive.

    Did you galvanize your bulkhead? I was told not to, because of warping, and had it zinc sprayed instead. Is your standard s3 or made from thicker material?

  9. Thanks todd,

    what did you change?

    It seems we have a similar taste in Land Rovers!

    My landy is my very first car, bought when I was 17 (now 15 years ago), i Rebuilt it first and 9 years later I rebuilt it again, now on coil springs and with TDI power.

    Currently, the body is being refurbished for obvious reasons....

  10. lre forum: I would like to express my ideas here about the lre forum going down. I think this was allways a matter of time. The problem is that the forum did expres different ideas than the mag. The forum was slagging off advertisers, billing and the mag itself.

    So there were 2 schools of thought under 1 banner. This is not acceptable in public, so one had to go. As the mag is making money and the forum is not, the forum went down.

    We can call LRE what we like, but does anyone out there think the other LR mags are any better? I dont think so, and If I were in charge of LRE, I would have done the same thing. The only thing you could say is that they could have tried harder to end it on good terms with everybody.

    I am subscribed to LRO, but only to stay informed about news, and because they are the biggest mag, the news will always appear first there. I am not impressed with their stories though.

    I am glad there is an independent forum now, because if someone gets ripped of or has bad experience with a product, I still want to know. So I think well done to the moderators of this forum, and I suggest from now on to look forward and not back.

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