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I happen to know a bloke that does this....

Send it to a machine shop while they have something very easy to position to and they will put a drilll right down the center of it, the treads sghould just peal out then.

If it stops raining I'll pull one out my Case and mesure it up.

Friend of mine bought a cheapish plasma cutter to save some time in his workshop, reckons it doesn't and wouldn't bother again and just stick to the 4½ grinder.

The subject of files came up in the tools section fairly recently, have a look in there

You would need to know the material spec and the process(s) it would go through. It could be case hard, nitrided etc ..

Yes it can be done, it'll be very hard on the outside so it's going to cost a few quid in tooling to do it.

With the best will in the world, I still can't understand where you get £50 from for these spacers.

I had a 1.2 transfer box on my 200TDi for 5 days, it was bloody awful. With the 1.4 box on it will tow 3.5 ton trailers over the speed limit relativly easily but the power delivery isnt there for a 1.2... 5th became almost obsolite when unladen. The transferbox is a fairly simple thing to change, if you and a mate can hold a spanner between you then you'll be able to change it yourself.

Carbide have a very narrow band where they work properly, surface speed, feed per rev and depth of cut. And that's assuming your using an appropriate grade. Get any of them wrong and it won't look good.

I've got a Demand Engineering exhaust on my 200tdi, granted it's a defender one, not sure if they do one for conversions but there a great company to deal with so don't hesitate to get in contact with them.

Personally I don't see the point In a VFD on a manual lathe. RPM isn't that critical within the couple of hundred RPM.

T27 you want, same as the low fueling screw on top of the boost diaphragm.

Your correct. It allows more advance not alters the advance curve, that's what the shims do....

Can you not make your own? I plan to do this on my 110 one day

Should of sent it up Ralph, I'm pretty good at getting broken bolts out.

There getting the name boost ring because there sold with them silly boost pins that I personally would avoid like the plague.

If people want them from me, then send me a PM.

The injection pump has a cam plate in it that rotates as the rpm increases. This advances the injection timing. The spacer allows the piston that controls the cam plate further rotation, giving more timing advance further up the rev range. The engine becomes more responsive on the motorways and it reduces EGTs so you can lob more fuel in. Doesn't matter what state of tune the engines in, it will benefit from it.

Just to be cheeky, I make and supply these for a lot less than anyone else... Brilliant little mod and on my 200tdi it reduced the EGTs by getting on for 100 degrees C.

That's about as precise as my lathing.

The quill of the tailstock will have a slot in for a drift.... A well positioned ball bearing in the slot will remove stuff in the conventional manor without a Tang.

I've got Gwyn Lewis Sumo Bars, a friend wants to know if they would be ok?

You won't use a live center every time you use the lathe, but the tool post you will... The multifix tool post is very versatile with the angles you can present the tools to the work so you need to purchase less tooling. Also, learn to grind tools from HSS in a home workshop you don't need to be purchasing every tool for every eventuality and only ever using it once...

Multifix or a copy of for tool posts. 👍