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From my trips to the US and working with US people, as said it is a big cultural thing, there is a historical element of the citizens being able to over throw a corrupt or controlling government, US civil war wasn't that long a go, there have also been several workers risings where armed workers have stood up to exploitation which amounted to almost slave labour by employers, often the same employers were the government of the time in that area and used military forces to support personal gain. This type of thing hasn't happened in the UK for a very long time, as a separate point the original firearms legislation in the UK was not done to prevent crime but was bought in towards the end of WW1 to prevent a possible revolution by returning WW1 soldiers by disarming the population, with the revolutions in Russia and Germany the aristocracy which made up most of the Lords and parliament at the time were scared.
As for what they are allowed to own this varies state by state but there is a general feeling that if they allow restrictions in one element there are powers with there own goals (conspiracy theory in part but not entirely unreasonable) which will use it as a step to push there own goals and move progressively towards a complete ban. History in the UK says this is basically what is happening here, individual horrific events are used to push through laws on a backlash, which mostly wouldn't have actually prevent the incident anyway, which would have been prevented if the laws that stood previous to the incidents had actually been used, (Micheal Ryan and Thomas Hamilton both held licences that shouldn't have been issued if the laws previous to the shootings had been upheld, why they were broken to issue the licences has never been investigated officially).
This is getting seriously off topic and away from anything LR related also a bit political so if mod's want to delete this feel free.
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3 hours ago, smallfry said:
To me though, if Coronavirus has hastened a death, even by a few months, then it has killed them. So should be counted as such.
I have to wonder if other countries which have a lot of cases, but not many deaths (yet) are measuring using different parameters.
If you are going to SORN your vehicle, best to fill with diesel while its cheap, it also helps stop condensation in the tank.
You always have to be careful looking at any statistics, if they are come from other countries you need to be even more careful.
A higher rate of testing will result in more positive cases being diagnosed for people who only have mild symptoms, if you only test those admitted to hospital (as per UK until recently) then you are only testing those who are already in a bad way so the apparent death rate per positive test is significantly higher. Even death numbers can be affected by the way results are recorded, are you counting those who die WITH the virus or OF the virus, in the extreme someone involved in a road accident and dies but is found to have the virus has die with it but died of being run over by a HGV, this is obviously the extreme but there is always a grey zone. I will openly admit I don't have enough medical knowledge to say where the line is or should be drawn, others judging by there posts are obviously involved in the medical profession so I will leave that to them.
As most people will remember a few years back there was a big thing in the UK about banning bull bars (frontal protection systems) on vehicles, statistics were produced that people were more likely to die if hit by a vehicle with a bull bar than a vehicle without, it was very hard to pin down how the statistics were produced. In the simplest form all accidents involving PLG registered vehicles were looked at, in that case its not difficult to see why you are more likely to die in accident involving a vehicle with a bull bar, most vehicles with bull bars will be 4x4's and weight about 2 tonnes or more, the average PLG vehicle will be a hatchback or saloon car weight about 1 to 1 1/2 tonne with a much lower front end, the results for an accident involving a Ranger Rover or a Citreon C1 are not comparable regardless of whether a bull bar was involved. This is nothing to do with the current situation but just an indication of how statistic which are correct in the numbers and can be verified as accurate can be manipulated by the way the results are collected and the data pool used to give the results someone wants them to show.
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I am sat at home at the moment waiting on a decision on whether I will be needed for work, a lot of others will be doing the same I know, except I live in Devon but for work I need to fly to Aberdeen (not allowed to drive at all by company rules, got to be public transport so taxi then train, bus, flight another taxi, hotel over night, taxi, then helicopter) and then fly in a very cramped helicopter for several hours with a bunch of other guys who will have also come from all over the country, not the best of situations. My more major concern if it happens will be coming home and potentially bringing the virus with me or getting whilst travelling home and infecting people locally. Whole process sounds like a good way of spreading infection around the country.
Still waiting for official information from the company, but if asked I will have to go or face a disciplinary warning, at a time when the price is low and redundancies quite likely refusing anything is something I need to think about and only do for very good reasons.
Oil industry is considered essential so by the rules we are allowed to travel but not sure if its a good time to be starting new projects (I work drilling new holes not with production), I expect there will be a lot of meetings going on but it would probable take official intervention to stop new projects and just man installations with a minimum operating and maintenance crew.
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If you have more time to look around then the table off an industrial milling machine is great if a bit heavy. T slots for bolting things down, flatter than most other surfaces even when old and you would need to work hard to break it!.
The one I got was 50” by 12” and free as a friends work was scrapping the machine, not sure what it weighs but I had to use the engine crane to move it😁.
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Oh well that was the only part I could see that even might have been series 2.
Guess the new owner has been a bit "imaginative" with the registration then since you sold it.
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1 hour ago, Lewis said:
Some of this was partly my fault for hacking so much of it...
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F222896962194
Interestingly it’s lost it’s genuine E registration and become a series 2. It’s also gained 2foot of chassis which I had chopped off
I know people don't always like questions asked on legality but.
How exactly does it qualify as a series 2 and tax exempt ?. Possible the door tops.....
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I think some early steering wheels had a 1/4 BSF thread not sure if this would be the same as a UNF for tpi or not with no reference tables handy, to the best of my knowledge this was only early vehicles and quite rare.
The spacing on the pullers works for some Massey Ferguson tractors as well, guess they got part from the same place!.
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What should happen is they will contact there insurer and get quotes etc, there insurer will contact your insurer and they will sort it out between them with each company representing there respective client, then let you know the amount they have agreed on and your insurer will tell you about how much no claims etc you have lost and how much your renewal will be.
As has been said any thing that gets sent to you direct forward it straight to your insurance company, they represent you in any negotiations, the other party should not contact you directly and you definitely should not reply direct, if they have any questions direct them to your insurance company.
I have had a case personally where the other driver kept ringing me at home and work to demand payment and demand I sort it out (it was a narrow lane collision which was always going to go 50/50 with no other witnesses, even though I stopped and he hit my car hard enough to push it 3ft backwards he still insisted it was my fault, it did go 50/50 in the end). Reported it to my insurance and still kept getting calls, 5 or 6 a day, in the end had to report it to the police to stop the calls.
If for any reason you don't have valid insurance then it get more complex and they can come after you direct for the money, in which case get proper legal advice not some ones opinion on the internet!.
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I am with the rest here, why not use the 300tdi, the 2.5N/A is pretty slow and underpowered.
As for the rest I guess use the chassis that is in the best condition but grafting bulkhead outrigger on to a disco chassis is not that much work concidering the rest of the cage work that would be needed for a tray back, all the running gear would swap over if needed, keeping the disco brake system complete would probable be best as the 90 would have drums on the back.
If this is a pure off road vehicle it is simple if it is planned to go on the road in the UK have a look at the assorted legal issues BEFORE you start, covered in various other threads and places, lots of people ignore them and get away with it but best to go in with knowledge and then make your own decision.
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1 hour ago, honitonhobbit said:
it was the 1860's Chris - I know I don't look that old, but that's what a life of working outside does to your skin
Not sure you look quite that old Dave, it would make you about 170 years old!.
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They need to add a line to the "Bad Points"
"This is a totally illegal vehicle which will be confiscated the first time anyone in authority look at it."
Couldn't see a single series part on it, or even anything that looked close except the number plate!.
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I have in the past used a board designed to lay on to be able to roll under a vehicle to work on it (not sure of the correct name) to move gearboxes and other heavy things about, not sure they would be to good for moving an engine as it would be at serious risk of falling over but it might be possible to strap it down. They generally have quite small wheels so not great for bumpy floors.
You can get cheap ones quite easily and they are designed to carry the weight of a person so should be up to the job.
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From memory I think a 50mm tow hitch will have a flat top with 50mm stamped in it and a earlier 2" ? tow ball will be round.
Does this sound right with others?
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Don't get me wrong IF this new class is interpreted as you describe then it has promise, but as with politics and laws, the devil is in the details.
The reference to production vehicles was an assumption there needs to be some sort of reference as to what a land rover actually looks like and how similar it needs to be.
When I tried RTV a couple of times in the mid 90's I was initially turned away in the S1 due to no door tops and no seat belts, seat belts does make sense so no complaint there. I did a couple with traditional leaf springs driving to the site with the door tops and seat belt in the back, fitting them to compete then removing them for the drive home. After fitting the parabolics I wasn't allowed to take part (they were spotted by someone who complained halfway though an event). The events were highly competetive so rules were pushed by a lot and enforced in a patchy way, at least a third of the field were CCV motors which had been road registered and were trailered to and from events. I tried again in the 90 but the bumper was a tubular one so I was not allowed, it was full width (I checked!) but sat a couple of inches above the dumb irons so was declared not allowed. I did point out that a lot of the other vehicles had "standard" bumpers that were bent to a degree they where higher than mine and some had tacked on ends that were quite obviously designed to bend out of the way or fall off as soon as the event started but this was allowed as "damaged". By this time the events had also go to the point they were laid out for the CCV motors so sometimes if you weren't willing to take damage (dents and scratches) it was difficult to even get to the start gates sometimes, and there was a serious risk of a roll over on some parts (it wasn't unusual for someone going out to win to roll at some point). All I wanted was a fun day out and to play off road in a place with others to help if it didn't go well, I stopped going and now just drive green lanes of which there is fortunately plenty round here.
With the new class if the rules aren't clear people WILL push them and when things get competative people will start quoting rules and arguing about was is and isn't allowed and at times things can get nasty, been there, seen it, walked away. If tray backs are allowed then someone will push to full space frame and so on, until you get something that doesn't look anything like a standard land rover but does bear a passing resembalance to a comp safari motor if you squint through foggy glasses, there has to be a line somewhere and its where that is that needs to be defined, the clearer theses line are the better for all. Laying out a course that works for a full space frame with 35" tyres, rapid hydro steer, no front or rear over hangs etc but still even possible for a near standard series which fails standard class due to a tubular winch bumper will be a challenge!, particularly after several vehicles with bigger tyres have dug it out a bit first.
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On 19 November 2016 at 5:49 PM, Chicken Drumstick said:
ALRC has never stopped S1 coilers FFS. Do wish people wouldn't make up such bollox out of thin air. And CCV motors have never needed door tops either.
There is also a brand new Q Class in the ALRC which allows pretty much anything, all it needs is Land Rover engine/gearbox/axles and to look like a Land Rover. So even things like tray back Disco's and the like can now enter.
Section LL.1.1 Trials
Class Q. A vehicle manufactured from Land Rover parts in accordance with MSA Regulations. Vehicles must retain Land Rover axles, engines and drivetrain. Vehicles must retain the appearance of a Land Rover.L.1.3 Competitive Safari
Class Q. A vehicle manufactured from Land Rover parts in accordance with MSA Regulations. Vehicles must retain Land Rover axles, engines and drivetrain. Vehicles must retain the appearance of a Land Rover.I can see what Dave W is talking about with vague regulation, from above,
Land Rover drivechain: so no diff locks or ashcoft drive shafts etc, as they are not land rover parts, to me drive chain would mean entire drive chain from engine to tyres.
Must retain the appearance of a land rover: so no Disco or Range Rover tray backs, no 100" with series body, no bob tailed vehicles as none of them look like a production land rover. Just what does "appearance of a land rover" mean?, depending on the interpretion almost anything you want, so you might be allowed something one week but not the next with a different official or club, would a tubular bumper be allowed?, they don't look like any production vehicle.
On the other hand you would be allowed: long travel air or hydraulic suspension adjustable on the move, full hydro steer, rear steer, any tyre type or size..... or would you??. Going to be difficult for the scruteneers to decide if a modification is safe or not and as Dave W said what happens after a bad accident, hydro steer leaks on a vehicle, steering is lost and spectators injured, courts will have fun with that.
At the moment it is so vague as to be effectively useless as a classification since it is totally open to interpretation, this WILL create arguments with different things allowed depending on who is looking at the vehicle and in many cases if you are in favour in the club or not. The more grey areas there are the bigger the problems.
Hopefully more detail will be released and things will be clarified as to what is and is not allowed.
I have been turned away in the past from RTV's due to parrabolic springs on my S1 and also turned away in my 90 for having a winch bumper fitted so these things DO happen.
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We had a warning about checking wheel nuts circulated at work a while back.
If you suddenly discover all the nuts are loose it might not be your fault.
Apparently when people are looking to steal wheels it is not unknown for them to go round a car park and slack off all the nuts, if they are seen all they need to do is dump the wheel brace and leg it. They will then come back later with a van and can remove all the wheels quickly with less chance of being spotted. Obviously if they get disturbed or you come back first they might not get the wheels off and you end up driving a car with loose wheel nuts.
I guess it depends where you park but long stay car parks where what we were particularly warned about.
Otherwise been there and done it, had a rear wheel come off when the studs pulled out of the hub (some series studs are screwed in), left quite a grove down the road, drove past a while ago and 20 years later it is still just visable if you know where to look for it!
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A couple of trays of salt is a cheap although not particularly fast fix, stick them as close to the moisture as possible, ideally under the carpet.
Once they have absorbed water just stick the tray in the oven after it has been used and the heat as the oven cools will be enough to dry the salt out ready to go again, obviously this assumes you have used an oven proof tray!.
Should work if cheap is more important than speed.
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Never been to Sweden but in Norway don't offer to buy a round in a bar without taking out a mortgage first!. Compared to UK very expensive, last time I was in Stavanger airport it was £10 a pint.
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Now might be a good time to buy from the UK, with the vote to leave the EU the value of the pound has dropped so be cheaper for you.
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I think you are both reading the reply and question in different ways.
The maximum vehicle weight is the MAM as stated but I don't think that was meant in the original reply.
The wheel rating of a maximum of 1000kg, is the maximum load on an individual wheel, the choice of tyre might result in a tyre with a lower load rating, in which case the lower number would apply. This could in theory mean they could be used up to a maximum vehicle weigh of 4000kg subject to correct tyres and a vehicle with the correct MAM and load distributed evenly across the axles.
If the maximum axle load is under 2000kg and suitable tyres were used then these wheels will be OK (off road use might be a different question though depending on just how hard and off road use it is, people can break anything if they try hard enough!).
When looking at wheels and tyres it is important to look at the axle loadings not just the vehicle MAM to check if they are suitable it is normally different for each axle, there is not often many problems with road cars with regard loads but once vehicles get heavier it becomes more of an issue to make sure it is correct and is a critical issue on selecting wheel and tyre combinations on HGV's.
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Got to agree with Dave if you don't want to here people opinions don't ask the question!.
If you don't agree quote regulations back that prove otherwise.
I left my local ALRC club when it got to much being run for certain people with rules interpreted there way and events run for them.
Like a previous person I always drove my series 1 with no door tops but had to fit them to do a RTV, I was ordered to stop in the end when someone noticed I had parabolic springs fitted which were apparently against the rules (still kept the entrance fee though), wouldn't have minded to much but there were people competing in the same RTV with coil sprung 80" space frames which is more original?. I also found the RTV events were getting set up for coiled sprung caged vehicles, sometimes you had to lean on trees to get through gates and seeing people roll vehicles wasn't uncommon, that sort of thing is fine for a CCV event but I always though RTV you should be able to compete as a novice in a car and be able to drive it to work the next day. Maybe make the last couple of gates hard for those out to win but a stock vehicle should be able to drive the first half and then pull out if they don't want to risk dents and as such have a fun day.
The comp safari got so competitive it wasn't possible for a new driver to go out, I know one person who bought a second hand comp racer a went to his first event with the idea of having fun, organisers new he was on his first event but rather than give a bigger gap to the next person let one of the fast drivers out straight after him who end up catching him and getting Mildly miffed off, they then did the same every other lap, he ended up getting rammed off the course into a tree in the end by someone after they caught him up, when he complained he was told it was his fault he should have pulled over for them, not easy on a 6ft wide track with trees each side!. Needless to say he never went again.
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What's red and white and comes out of Cowes?
Red funnel ferry??
Guess there is Freshwater you can't drink as well.
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That slight slope is a good thing - I would make it that way deliberately as it'll minimise problems if you ever get a leak or some minor flooding.
I have a similar sized garage in the UK. The floor was poorly levelled and has a few big cracks from drying too fast. The main problem is the doors - it has two up and over doors which just let the lightweight squeeze under and are just wide enough for the RRC, but with the shelving down one side and workbenches along the other, it makes getting the vehicles in impossible on one side and tight on the other - I have to use wheel trucks (the steel trucks with four castors for each car wheel) to move the car into a workable position. A door like yours would be much better, and I'd like to move the front lintels up to one big lintel level with front ends of the roof trusses to create a tall enough door to get the 109 or a Defender in. So, you have a lot of the things I'd like to do already.
When I had my garage built since I was starting from new I specified a door high enough to get the 90 in. The architect said he now always advices increased height doors now if the building allows as its not just 4x4's that don't fit under a standard door, many people carriers won't fit either and vehicles have generally got bigger over the years.
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Where is the Isle of White?.
Think you are talking about the Isle of Wight, in which case lived there growing up but never been the in a 4 wheel drive so can really help.
Wheels rattling
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Wheels wear out after a time and lots of use, for normal cars the loads are low enough its rarely a problem, in your case as others have said it is likely to be because at some point they have been fitted badly and driven on, the wheel is now scrap, I think I would scrap the nuts as well.
On HGV's with higher loads and higher mileages than normal cars it is fairly common for fitters to check the size of the bolt holes in the wheel each time a wheel is removed for any reason, the have "go / no go" gauges to do this (I made a batch for a local workshop a few years ago), a fail and the wheel is scrap. This was bought in after cases of wheel coming off vehicles in use with serious consequences.