Daan
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is the 5 mm measured at the wheel diameter? That's a lot. I would measure the wheelbase left and right to see if the axle is bend badly. You could machine the faces, but if it is bend much it will not solve your difference in wheelbase.
Daan
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the drive member on the left belongs to a wide, early hub. Option 1 and 2 will work, option 3 won't I think. My suggestion is option 2, as in my opinion, the wider hubs work better for running big wheels with big offset. I run this with genuine land rover drive members as the weak link in the drive train.
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sounds like panhard rod bushes to me.
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Nice, inspired by F1 tethers, so the suspension corner doesn't depart from the car. I'l have a go and check my front axle tonight, just to make me feel better.
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Nice mog. Do you have a particular goal in mind for it or is it a 'because I can' thing?
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Has the viscous fan enough resistance? it could be the viscous unit gone bad. I think you can lock it by unscrewing 1 m8 bolt from the pouley and one from the fan and put a tyrap in between them.
Daan
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Nice job. did you try series wheels? I think the shape would actually clear the caliper. maybe the welded td5 wheels are better, if the rivet heads are a problem.
Daan
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your idea of a remote actuation to avoid smoking a hole in your floor is a bit, well round the houses and is a great way to 'reduce simplicity'.
Almost vapour in a way, but feel free to prove me wrong!
Daan
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Vapour builds are generally dreamers; most of us dream about great projects, some of them post their dreams in a build thread. The ones that post their dreams are generally known on here 'vapour builders'. A few actually start building it, but then go quiet. They have given up, got even better dreams or ended up on ebay for a song. The problem of starting a dream build and think of even better dreams later on, tends to make build times infinitely long and is also bound to end up in a vapour build.
o'teunico calls himself a vapour build specialist, but has moved on to greater things, he is actually building something that will get mot'd shortly!
Vapour builders can be annoying, but also fantastically entertaining for general abuse and 'I told you so' remarks.
Daan
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I am pretty sure those 'g' bushes are the ones that I fitted last time and are toast, after not a lot of use ( but plenty of max articulation).
Genuine from the dealer it is, I am afraid.
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I am just buying radius arm bushings, as they failed on an mot:
part number wide bushing:
NTC6781 genuine price from dealer: £9.17+ vat, best price on ebay: £2.99 vat included
part number narrow bushing:
NTC7307 genuine price from dealer: £18.75+vat, best price on ebay: £2.99 vat included
Obviously, I need the narrow bush, and I need 8 off. £180 genuine or £23.92 cheapo.
From experience, I will go genuine, but what a difference!
My rant....
Daan
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Your alternator is capable of supplying 100 amps at flat out rpm. On tick over, which you usually do while winching, you'd be happy to get 20 amps. Also, getting a bigger alternator is not a particularly good solution, because this will produce even less amps at tickover. but will charge quicker afterwards.
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Very nice! I am amazed by the speed of your projects.
Daan
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The way I read the rules, its not a big problem at all; the only parts that are linked to your V5 are the engine and chassis; everything else you can change for the same component without problems or legality issues. If you couldn't swap bits any more, all garages go down the pan and we all have to buy new cars!
Its only when you start butchering existing bits to fit parts not intended for it; axle swaps, different engine and gearbox etc.
The rules are only there for the modding brigade and the dodgy stealing geezers.
The rest has nothing to worry about.
Daan
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Nice fab work, I can't fault you for having a go.
Could you raise the panhard rod for a higher roll centre?
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Daan, what do you think Disco auto boost pressure is - I haven't found any indication it's anything other than 1 bar?
It got discussed here, second to last post:
http://forums.lr4x4.com/index.php?showtopic=90347&page=5
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This may all be true, but I believe that the centrifugal regulator does most of the delivery compensation, and the turbo compensation only momentarily while there is turbo lag. This itself creates more lag as you floor it. The problem is mainly when the engine needs to pull very hard off road (like bonnet deep water). you put your foot down, and nothing happens, because there is no turbo pressure. There won't be any more turbo pressure until there is more fuel being delivered and this is a circle you don't get out of.
So standard max fuel delivery, standard turbo boost (standard as in equal to disco auto), no EGR and removed turbo compensation has been the perfect setup for me.
When I had it open a while ago, the pistons looked brand new, not a bit of soot to be seen inside the engine.
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I was expecting you were welding the link directly to the axle? From the ones I have seen that used the original pickups, the link ended up massive to take the bending loads.
I presume you could make 3 links, 2 converging to the left and right rearward pickups and one to the top of the diff. All coming together at the same point, so still a one link, but with plenty of separation?
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It looks like they made a new glass fibre roof though, so its not quite the same as extending it with some sheet and a few pop rivets.
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AA Euro Recovery.
May work, they start asking funny questions about the age of your car. They did help me in the end, it did take 4 weeks to deliver my car back home from finland though, by a delivery company called 'on time'.
Still, France is a pretty good place to break down in a landy, as they are very common.
In any case you go there because you believe everything will be well, so none of the above carp is needed or require worry about until they happen!
Have fun, Daan
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Nice winch! do you know the ratio?
Daan
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The boost pin only reduces fuel delivery at low boost. On full boost, you wont improve fuel delivery or power.
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I have deactivated the entire boost compensation thing; remove the star screw and fit a long m8 fine screw instead. Wind the screw in all the way in so the pin gets jammed in 'max fuel mode'. This means that now the fuel delivery only depends on throttle position and RPM, and turbo boost does not have any influence. This has improved the pickup enormously. Bear in mind that I have not touched the top end fuel delivery so max power is still as per standard. This way, there is virtually no smoke, just a puff when you floor it in 5th gear at 30 mph.
I ran it for 10 years this way.
Daan
Any where in the UK able to supply Interco tires these days?
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I think it is illegal to sell them, but you can import them yourself.
Daan