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Sell the QT ones on ebay for money, and fit standard front arms in place of them, on the rear the double cranked ones will be fine as they are with the spacers removed.

Nige, the inlet port of the pump (mine is identical) rotates around 180 degrees with gentle taps from a mallet -this makes it much easier to fit the PAS in what I think is the factory position, on the NS inner wing on a 90. I have this setup in my RRC and was able to man handle the high pressure hose into place, and yes there is a rubber section in it, there has to be other wise the vibration would end up cracking the pipe. The rubber section is BEFORE if is mounted rigidly to the chassis/body. The high pressure hose from an RRC fits straight into the outlet from the pump, and it is NOT a banjo, rather just am oversized brake union (whatever they are called!) so if you have a scrap RRC with a mate somewhere it could be a cheap fix I would take a pic, but the Range isn't with me at the moment...

Stone in the brakes?

Right, so go find out how to do a PAS conversion by trying it, but ring your insurance company before, as it will be a modification.

Or what if you go and try it yourself? No-one here seems to have the answers to your specific questions, Fridge put it well when he said about going round old sodbury or trawling ebay for cheap parts and just giving it a go -that's where real knowledge comes from. And yes, posting back if you succeed is a great idea, otherwise forums would be full useless questions and no answers!

Ah... my mate got diddled by these people.... He bought a pair of Toyota Land Cruiser LJ70 axles and a set of wheels to fit onto them. When home I checked them over and one was an RRC front axle! Ring them up "Don't know how that happened, will get it swapped over for you." Months passed, dozens of phone calls, still no swapped axle. Ring them a final time "Gonna bring the axles back to you, they aren't what I wanted." "Well you can, but you'll only get £30 for it, that's one axle, and the other one was supplied correctly, so we aren't refunding that." "£30? WTF?" "Yeah, check your receipt." Sure enough on the receipt the axles were listed at £30 each and the wheels for £240. As the wheels were supplied correctly they refused a refund, cue my mate being seriously out of pocket -fuel to drop one axle off would have cost more than the £30 he was going to collect

Ford EDIS coil pack, 99p inc postage!

Nothing really except make sure the lambda is warmed up and producing a sensible voltage before you start auto tune

Fridge, When designing my own cage for my RRC I took a look at the Safety Devices site for inspiration.... what I found was PDFs of their designs available for download, which REALLY helped in making decisions. For your truck the 110 catalogue seems to give the best options: http://www.safetydevices.com/images/products/4x4/2008%20catalogue%20-%20defender110.pdf You can probably tell just by looking the NAS spec ones are next to useless, but the other MSA ones are of course very good.... A full external version of RBL183 7SSS or a mix of internal and external should give what you want HTH!

Sorry this may not be 100% helpful, but have you tried TunerStudio MS? It'll do all the tuning on the fly rather than having to log, open in MLV, then save, then burn all the time. Megatune and MLV are becoming somewhat outdated now, TunerStudio MS is written by the same guy that wrote MLV too, so you know it's gonna be good

Check the lobes on the dizzy cam, and look for play in the dizzy shaft, reset the points gap at the same time -if they are at all pitted, change them for quality items (not from local motor factor!) as well as the condenser.

The only reason they didn't get finished is because of the owner, not the kit....

Reminds me a bit of Richard Hammond's creation on Top Gear, but the difference is this one works, and I am very impressed with it, well done! If you ever decided to sell (unlikely I reckon) then I'd be first in line.

Don't think it ever got completed, shame, it would have been a nice little project.

No typo..... £1000/ton is the correct price........ Ten kilo alloy wheel = £10.

Yep, one of these Accords: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Honda_Accord_rear_20080205.jpg You can see the similarities I am sure!

Someone tried to get the shell off piste so tehy could weigh it in, and the ali bits (yes its an LT230 coverplate) came off when they failed first method, as it's very valuable (£1000/ton or thereabouts).

AWP, try loosening your kickdown cable a touch, could be that it's not locking up due to this.

It would eliminate any air getting into the system via drainback to the tank overnight, by all means stick an inline filter on the pipe if you are worried about debris

Will, The 1991ish plastic tanked RRCs used quite a large fuel pump arrangment with integral swirl pot type thing, as shown on the RH side of the of Task's picture, the fuel return also feeds into this pot meaning you'll almost always have fuel supplied to the pump no matter what angle/G you are pulling. I have one on the bench here with the fuel pump removed, and by extending the fuel pump hose to the bottom it would make a good system. As you say though, the tank mountings may well be different.... which kinda scuppers the plans a little-the plastic tanked Rangies were high-filler, yours is of course low, and I am unsure if you could connect it all up....? The earlier EFI pumps were much smaller, with no swirl pot, and no integral sender. If you want a plastic tank just drop me a line, I have one sitting in the garden with a new (EFI) fuel pump in it.... and the associated OE tank guard. What size hole do you have in the top of your tank at the moment?

It may be easy-ish, but it is by far not the easiest route. The easiest route is to Lexus Soarer V8, Lexus Soarer ECU, surf autobox tail housing fitted to the Lexus autobox (getting this to fit up takes about 2 hours, tops), Surf transfer box. The V8 with the autobox attached is pretty long, in fact in the Rocsta we are having to stretch the wheelbase to ~93" just to get it all in, if you made the transfer box a remote LT230 it wouldn't fit in a 90 for sure. The other problem with making it longer is the sump position, the LS400 has a front sump, the Soarer a rear sump, so unless you like fabricating your own sumps you will do well to keep the engine back in the chassis as far as possible -this won't happen if you use a remote transfer box. Sump + axle pumpkin = dead engine! Nicks90, you are probably completely correct, TBH, I ahve probably forgotten as much as I know about gearbox options for the Lex, though I do remember the Cruiser boxes being prohibitively expensive, and this is supposed to be costing less than £3K to put together Is this an offset rear transfer case then, rather than centre? *EDIT* Done a bit of looking, the Cruiser box is full time 4x4, with a centre diff, this makes the transfer case even longer, and less suitable for our purpose. The other thing is the 4.5l engine is a straight 6, the V8 is much revvier than this, so the change points may well be completely wrong for it..... besides, the Toyota ECU is in one box, for both the engine and transmission, so you'd be Megashifting it to get it to run at all. The 4.7V8 box may be an option, but the above length issue negates it in our opinion. That and the fact they were only available in the US.... The 4.5l is different again, and has a centre rear output: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2004-Toyota-Land-Cruiser-Gearbox-4-5LTR-Petrol-AUTO-/320642559181?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item4aa7c92ccd

Good news The other trick is a match or a lighter and watch where the flame gets drawn to, clearly when there are no fuel leaks

Yes, I believe they will fit to, they are the A343 boxes IIRC, you can swap the bellhousing over from the lexus box to the Cruiser box.... I am pretty sure anyways -be worth your while researching Of course the change points may be completely off as with the surf box, being a diesel. lextreme.com is a great place to start, but google is really good at pulling stuff out on this, also check the Aus forums as they do loads of these conversions to things like hiluxes and Cruisers of various series.

Have you run it from a jerry can with new hose straight to the injection pump?

Yes, you can, Devon 4x4 can sell you a modified centre to do it for £130 ish IIRC, in fact there's a thread on their forum about it right now.