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Posts posted by Mr Noisy
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Gotta be a way of getting xcess4x4 stickers into the showrooms
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Just looked at the exhibitor list and was surprised to see that Foundry 4x4 aren't on there?
Was hoping to have a look at the X-eng pedal lock thingy .
Oh well, it'l still be a good day!
Neil
This surprised me also
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I'll have been and gone by then, 9.30-11.00am for me, gotta make a flying visit this year!
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Very good
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yep the exhibitor list is something to behold
ive been trying to work out a route round the place so we can see every stand without having to pass the megasquirt stand
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And yeah regards the splicing I read the method the other day, now I'm splicing everything in sight!
Made a couple of extension lines from old ropes, well happy
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Andy at ruftraks makes the retainers and calls them plasma locks
He sent me one for Xmas and I just fitted it the other day
Bit of a faff seeing as I never used a retainer before, but if it's useful I'm happy
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I'll be there, getting there early and leaving by about 11, going offroading later in the day
My disci will be parked outside the front door, I'll be around the show, I'll wear a red carnation
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Awesome!
I watch it on YouTube every year, good luck!
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Hey most towbar fitters use scotch locks with great success
In fact to be honest ive never experienced a bad result from them
I'm not saying they're a good idea, but to give them they're due, they do work...
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Don't be cruel!
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Assume you got there in the end?
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change the gearing, keep the tyres
many defender boys will straight swap with you!
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various megasquirt retailers now sell looms
i had to do mine the hard way
the only thing i would say with computer cables etc is they werent designed for the amperages you are asking the DB37s to deal with in an MS application
on that basis, i'd carry on making your own, its not that bad!
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Fair play to him!
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Thanks for that anderzander!
Worth a call to David then!
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Gordon,
Bowrope is more expensive than plasma!
I'm going to see if I can get my hands on this brand new second hand rope that someone is selling, otherwise I think it'll have to be a 100ft plasma!
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Thankyou daan
Another option has just come into the mix, 100ft 11mm budget, but price isn't yet confirmed
As the price does have a bearing on it for me at the moment
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It's a champion 9.5HS so it's nothing special nor sizeable.
And yes I was going to say I'm sure my 11mm is like a sausage now, especially when not under load!
And yes I get it now, your extensions are just shorter than multiples of your winch rope and/or shorter extensions
Very clever
It basically boils down to
150+vat for 100ft plasma 9.5
180+vat for 125ft plasma 9.5
130+vat for 100ft budget 11mm
100+vat for 100ft budget 10mm
Cannot decide
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Don't forget, if you load more rope on there, you have to unload more in order to get the full pulling strength. Don't know the exact details, but a half-full winch isn't going to pull the same as one with just a few coils round.
this is a major consideration, but going thinner somewhat cancels out going longer!
Sam, we've got bigger ends on our winches which helps but you can fit 125 on something like a tds - however you do need to spool it on carefully.
thanks gordon, i think on that basis i will only consider 125ft @ 9.5mm
I did the entire RFC on 1 9.5 mm plasma rope, with a PTO winch. 10 days of hard off road and stupid hard winching more times than I care to remember, We cleaned and re spooled the winch rope every evening to make it last; The life of your rope is very much depending on this, and things like abrasion on rocks, past trees, double lining over a shackle are all going to reduce the life of your rope to hours.
We now run 11mm, as the speed of our winch has increased by a factor 4 and we went from a roller fairlead to a hawse style fairlead. This has reduced life of the cable unfortunately. But I would happily use 100 ft of 9.5 mm on a 9.5k low line. In fact, I still run it on our rear ep9. Plasma rope rules in my opinion.
I always buy 2 ropes, one as an extension with a loop spliced in the end, which also is a spare. For Russia we used winch webbing as extension, this is very compact to store. We had 3 x 190 foot and 2x 95 foot of extension. The lengths are based on 100 ft (as is on the winch) -5 ft, so you can pick over to the next extension with a few wraps round the winch drum.
Daan
thanks for that great reply daan
good to hear that you rate 9.5mm, and particularly plasma at that
i think if i do choose a 125ft option i will see how it fares on the drum, if it gets too tight i'll just have to shorten it and learn the hard way
i treat my rope with respect, it gets a good wash out after every day of use, and do try to avoid abrasion where possible, but of course its not always that easy
im trying to figure out your -5ft theory, sounds very clever but i cant quite grasp the thinking, would love to hear more on that
190ft extension btw?!?!?! awesome
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it came from a Rover car from the 40s(!).
Marvellous!
No wonder they are so resilient!
Sam's 3.5 Disco MEGASQUIRT START/FINISH INSTALL THREAD! :)
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BUMP!
so I've been happily squirting for a few years now
the wideband sensor I bought from euro car parts did not work, equivalent part number sure, but no good.
i bought one in an innovate bag and it works good, just hooked up my wideband again so I can check out my tuning and see how things are
wouldnt pass mot last year on emissions so we had to use another vehicle, but the point is I'm interested to see what my current CO is and at what AFR, I am tuned to 13.5:1 at idle, im going to play around with dropping the ego control to 500rpm rather than the original 1100 to see if it will tighten up the emissions for the sake of a slightly more lopey idle
anyway the real reason for posting was I was picking up lambda earth on the spare socket on my relay board which would normally be used for fast idle valve, and during installing my wideband last night and Calibrating the heater I noticed I lost or perhaps even had no earth from the get go
after some head scratching I found a burnt link on the relay board
super easy to get around the problem, but just thought I would mention it so that folks don't make the same mistake in future!