Mr Noisy

URM you are NOT SUPPOSED TO LOCK THE CENTRE DIFF ON HARD SURFACES! the noise you are hearing is you damaging your transfer case oh my god i hope this is a wind up! :O (no pun intended...!)

haha iain, well as it happens yes i do wash the disco, but no 'Corwen Car Wash' is the biggest legal river crossing in our region, it is in Corwen, Wales but the size of the river crossing has given it the 'car wash' name!

Put simply, Dominic is a **** (insert 4 letter expletive here as swear word blocker surely will amend C word for me) and that is that! He basically took the tiddle out of an innocent customer who didn't fully understand what he was hoping to buy. He had two options: Be a **** (insert 4 letter expletive) provide a no doubt mind numbing and repetitive email explaining to the customer what he was buying and make the customer happy AND after all that effort, make a profit! After choosing option 1, our novice retailer ended up here.

Well ive recently made friends with the boys at Barry4x4, they're always happy to help and have very good policies by which the stuff they recommend is what they use tried and tested in their workshop Recommended

Yeah something like that Or move the pawl back round with a screwdriver and then press the button and lower the lever Etc

X-Brake FTW Wouldnt have it any other way

Springs relate to the lock pin itself, whereas the door being awkward to open is a different issue. I have to kick mine to get it open. Provides banter so it's ok.

The major problem when swapping in a Diesel engine in replacement of a v8 is that you become a homosexual in the process. Not sure if y'all ok with that? :/

Discos, even rusty/badly sealed ones float really rather well in anything more than about 3 foot of water, often this hinders progress! Corwen car wash gives me a challenge when it is at higher levels, with floating and sideways driving/scrambling being the order of the day. Even still water bodies can be impassible if the balance of floatation/grip/water resistance isn't in your favour...

Lt77 loves to go noisy when it is failing bearings. Without funny noises or particularly baulky shifts the box is probably just fine, nice easy going old chap is the 77, some say will withstand more brutality than the finer tuned r380

For Ashcroft to say 'we've never heard of the problem' it must be quite a new thing! Or, just me and my pals!

You're onto the right lines Jeff, we'll all be buggered when the 200 and 300 discos have run out People are used to waltzing to a scrap yard and having million of discos to choose from This will be a thing of the past before too long

It's more a case of getting them to agree it was a faulty part and reimburse his large financial loss because of it, then he can get back to square one at least.

I'm under the impression posting metal to Australia can be an expensive occupation I will get hold of some sample on 16th Feb and we shall proceed with basic workshop tests and then if anyone thinks they need to/can take it further they can do. We would need the samples returned though and a brief report as mark is trying to build his case against Bearmach.

So who wants to be the testing candidate? Or are we saying it is something mark can do himself?

Haha yeah I know but I think my balls are FUBAR!

Wildcats use D2 axles and I think that's when the vehicles went more mainstream, the Tomcat was a D1 basis though and plenty of those are still racing today.

Just spoke to my friend, he does indeed have some broken material, couldn't find much of it in the desert!

Hello everyone. My situation is I have broken 2 balls, one on each side, both fitted at the same time. One broke after around 6 months but the other perhaps 2 years down the line. Both happened at a pay and play site where I was wheeling hard, but also I do have excessively offset wheels. I do however not think that any kind of offroading which does not involve the wheels becoming airborne could realistically be hard enough to warrant this kind of breakage. Lots of competition land rovers must see much harder work than I give mine. Both actually broke by surprise, no particular impact, but there had been frantic offroading going on throughout the day both times for sure. All sub 10mph and no flying land rovers though! I will contact my friend Mark who hopefully has the remains of his ball, bearmach supplied late 2012, mine were Britpart, early 2010 I think. In both my breakages I had to send the remains back to Britpart in other to get a replacement part. I have to say I was hoping for more response than I got. The second time when I was well out of guarantee took some serious persuading to obtain a replacement.

^^^ you talk sense. I was also surprised who google brings up no results. I'm mainly trying to raise awareness! Talking to the right people may help, but having them analysed and starting our own crusade is probably not worth it!

There is indeed. More waffle than Belgium

Interesting how my lt77 3.5 has a bogbrush box cooler but no engine oil cooler and later v8 manual had engine oil cooler but no transmission cooler Land rover just couldn't decide where the warm bits were

Is it Allmakes that supply certain components TUV which are same part as a nonTUV version they sell but much more expensive, presumed leg due to testing or improved manufacture. Sure it's Allmakes, it's for the German market I think, adjustable panhard rod comes to mind.

I really don't think an AC condensor is a good idea for oil cooling, it will be far too small bore, and bloody awkward to connect up AND pretty flimsy, they always get pierced by stones etc!

Yep, maybe it is is that needs to change the way the market works by not putting price before quality. Having said that, this is true for every single marketplace so that's never going to happen. I've learnt my lesson anyway. The overriding point is however, should we or did I expect those Britpart supplied swivel balls to shatter catastrophically or did I expect them to last until they needed replacing through corrosion like the original items? The problem I'm having is that neither did I expect them to shatter nor was there any indication or suggestion that the cheaper part was of lower quality. Which left me somewhat in the **** when the worst happened!