Daan

Almost certain your king pin bearings. No slack or play does not mean a lot; you need to check how much resistance there is. If volvo has a spec, try to achieve it, otherwise use land rover specs or similar. A steering damper can help but it is merely masking the problem. All the other things- toe out, caster, big wheels, permanent four wheel drive all have an influence, but it just comes back to sort the basic problem out, I reckon, which is kingpin pre load. Daan

Inverted Russian is the new double Dutch.

No, it is not. However, I can flip it for people with limited imagination: Daan

Cheers. The steering wheel is on the right side. Daan

The bulkhead on an 88" is different as mentioned, and to my knowledge, a bulkhead removal bar is not available. I am not keen on them anyway, as the bulkhead is there to stop heavy goods going forward when you brake. But if you have rear seats it could be useful. Anyway, I moved my bulkhead backwards 3", like this: Seats are volvo. Daan

I am surprised they did not start with a rover type diff replacement, as that is what the off roading scene needs. Daan

I don't understand he starts with a series axle, as that does not get him many sales I reckon. The second reduction is a single gear which looks a bit cumbersome to me: This way, the width of the gear had to go up, giving you the 5 inch width increase. Also, only 18" rims due to the size of the portal:

I saw this on Facebook: Apologies if this is old news. Daan

Blackbird industries sells you a kit to do this:

Nuclear would be ideal, if only we did not have to deal with nuclear waste...

I think the price of electricity will increase exponentially when the EV becomes more mainstream. No different from the price of fuel, and indeed gas; supply and demand drive the price. The government can steer it a bit with taxes, but they cannot change market forces.

A road car has much higher G-forces to contend with, especially a corvette, compared to off roaders. Going through a bend and pull one G, is about the same for the oil as tilting the engine at 45 degree. The same with acceleration and braking. Anyway, the engines have been used succesfully in off roading for many years, so it is not something new. The main enemy is cooling though; if you double the power, you need to double the cooling capacity, which is critical, especially when the speeds are lower compared to a road car. So that would be my main worry, together with drivetrain components grenading down stream. Daan

You are allowed to use 2500 litres, so the short answer is yes, you can legally use it, as shown in point 2.4: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/excise-notice-179e-biofuels-and-other-fuel-substitutes/excise-notice-179e-biofuels-and-other-fuel-substitutes However, when I bought biodiesel for my peugeot, I had to pay duty on it. The way he explained it to me was that he could sell it duty free until he put it in the tank of a car. There was no financial incentive to do it this way, but It is of interest, as both my hobby cars could run on it in, say 20 years time when fuel may be less easy to obtain, while also reducing your CO2 footprint. Also, it is not recommended in common rail diesels unfortunately, but no experience myself. I am not buying the statement that CO2 reduction is not real, as refining crude oil and then transporting around the globe is having the same result, if not worse. There was also talk some time ago about red diesel being phased out, and bio diesel being the replacement for it as it can be sold without duty. Daan

I must admit, it is a familiar truck, if you put it next to the Llama. It is a really good way to create a forward control with very little work. The SVA bit will put people off, had he started with a 110, it would just have been a body swap and therefore exempt from an SVA. I certainly choose it over this:

I thought this was a Llama: Unfinished project LHD 4x4 truck | eBay Not badly executed. One for Mike's vapour camper project?

Check this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334197140192?hash=item4dcfb3aae0:g:oroAAOSwZBRheavP It is the grown up version of this:

Main question is whether you run a permanent 4wd transfer box? If you do you will notice a difference, if you run only rear wheel drive, there should not be any affect from the front for normal use.

Could you post a few pictures? Daan

This type I tend to use. as an aside, is it just me but is anyone else having to spend ages in the garage trying to find a pair of gloves and only seem to find LH ones? I found 8 on the last count but not a single RH. Daan

I was under the impression that current MOT regulations are already like that. So if you remove a catalyst you fail the MOT basically, among with more stringent regs like reading out the ECU to see if all is as it should. It is not unreasonable I think, as manufacturers go to great lengths to get a car legit for Euro 6 for example, only for a chip tuner to mess it all up again. It runs better like this, yes but the particle emission is no longer compliant with Euro 6 and does nasty things to peoples lungs. So in effect your car is no longer legal and may be in the wrong tax class because of higher CO2 levels. I suppose the VW emission scandal has made politicians wiser to this problem as well. Of course, as with all these things, it is only illegal once proven guilty, which may be where the good intensions stop. As for non registered vehicles, nice to mention it, but does anyone police it?

Dana 70 is like a dana 60 but even bigger. it always amazes me when people do stick a portal to the strongest possible diff; where with the portal reduction, A Dana 30 diff would be plenty-similar size to a volvo portal diff. Daan

Remove both shafts and it is obvious; they are going to need to come off anyway to remove the diff.

Interesting write up- most people wait till their car goes wrong, but you are ahead of the curve! Daan

Looks really good Adrian. This really needs a build thread! Daan

If you own a TDCI, you can do this: https://www.cybrand.co.uk/defender