NegevLandRover

Job done. Took the winch off and replaced both of the large O rings on the ends of the drum and it seems to have gone OK (apart from the fact that the winch would not work when I started the job but I soon found the problem which was the +tive wire from the battery to the microswitches). re. the PTO pump for hydraulic winches - I contacted an Australian company when I thought about adding one but found the price abit high to swallow so stuck with the standard PAS pump which is slow but fine for what I need. Adam

About 18 months ago I purchased a second hand MM hydraulic winch that had seen some action on some other 4X4. A few months back I discovered that one of the O rings was missing and as a result water had ingressed the gearing and messed it up - rust and gunk etc. An afternoon with a pressure washer and paraffin soon had it all nice and clean but as we have no MM agent here in Israel I had trouble locating a new O ring. A couple of weeks back I sent an e-mail to the MM guys in the US asking them where I might purchase the much needed part on line. A few hours later I recieved a reply asking me to confirm my postal address as the manufacturer would post me the O ring free of charge. Today a complete set of MM O rings turned up in the mail - sent by air mail from the US to here - the stamps alone cost 4 $US. I do not know any other company that will provide free after sales service, including parts, to a person (not an original and registered customer) that purchased a secondhand 8 year old winch. I AM IMPRESSED !! Mile Marker is a great product and so to are their customer relations. Adam

Well talk about a plan back firing - looks like SR have cut their own nose to spite their face and done X-Eng a massive favour in the process. I mean that SR have got such bad publicity at the same time as promoting X-Eng so it now looks like X-Eng is going to win rather than lose as a result of this episode which makes me smile and I hope keeps Simon laughing all the way to the bank. No SR products here - but plenty of companies with the same ethics, or should I say lack of ethics. I will certainly be buying the X-Eng disc brake upgrade for my two Defenders as soon as I get the funds together and I am sure some of my M8s will be interested too. Adam

Not 100% sure I am still upto speed re. who is doing what over there now but a good place to start would be Vic Preston's service station (Shell petrol station) which is on the road between the Nbi Uni' and the National Theater turn off (can't remember the name of it to save my life). You can see the place from the big roundabout next to the Uni' on the road from Nbi to Westlands. There is also meant to be a place called Rhino _ _ _ out near Karen that does mods. Adam

We use ciggarete tabaco to field repair leaking radiators. Get the coolant nice and hot and radiator full to just above the leak. Turn engine off and put tabaco of two ciggarets into the radiator and wait for the exiting coolant to take the floating tobaco to the leak. Once the leak is bunged up start the engine up again and slowly refill via the expansion tank and get the system upto pressure this will complete the process of "sealing" the leak. This only works on leaks that are in the upper half of the radiator. Adam

Les - beat them at their own game. If you set up "policing" teams to help look after what are in the end your interests too then you will have a common denominator with the "greenies" and will show them that off roaders can also be responsible "users" of green lanes. See my last post on "Make a real difference". You guys have to change your strategy before public opinion becomes ireversable. Adam

I do not get paid for my time spent "patroling". Most of the time I just do it as I go along doing my other things so the only "cost" is the actual time I spend dealing with offenders so no problems there. There are times when I am specificaly asked to be at a given place at a given time in order to change a ranger who is sick or to beef up the force and that too is totaly voluntary including diesel and wear and tear. Volunteering to promote causes you believe in is the only real way to put your money where your mouth is and make a true difference. Even if you guys organize to photograph and then complain you will make a difference especially if you publicize because then joe blogs will think twice before comitting offences. Over here the nature preservation laws are draconian - driving beside a marked trail (the slightest of offences) will get you a criminal record for life + a minimum 100 pound fine. If the powers involved decide to really go after you then you may find yourself paying thousands of pounds to repair the damages you caused. Just the hassle of answering a complaint is big because it will cost the offender at least two interviews with the investigators at the investigator's convenience both in terms of time and venue. Failure to identify yourself before a ranger will get you arrested and then all the above, fleeing a ranger gets you in REAL trouble let alone spraying him with mud etc. You guys have to do something before the minority spoils it for ever. Think what good publicity it would make if the off roading clubs/forums in the UK baned together to set up a voluntary force to patrol green lanes and help prevent the kind of reckless use that ramblers and greenies complain about. It would take the wind right out of their sails - IF YOU CAN'T BEAT THEM THEN JOIN THEM. You guys have neighbourhood watches so the foundations in terms of law etc are probably already there - now set up "neighbourhood" watches for the wilds. Adam

This post refers to the recent Frontera related posts..... I know very little about how the law enforcement regarding green lanes and byeways in the UK works so excuse my ignorance. However I will tell you a little about how we make a difference over here. Firstly I will place my cards on the table - I own and run an outdoor experience company that among other things leads "urban cowboys" on out door trips - but responsibly, and I see this not only as a way of making a living but also educating the masses. Contrary to some of the posts on the other two threads I belive that people making money by leading such trips can do lots of good. A few years ago I and several other outdoor pros asked the law enforcement authourities in Israel if we might be allowed to help protect the outdoors that is the very essence of our business. After much discussion the aforesaid authourities decided that any of us who had a clean record (and I mean spotless) would be trained and allowed to join on a voluntary basis but that if we were found to be taking advantage of our status we would be droped and then charged. Having completed a course in law enforcement and nature preservation I, and 5 others, joined the Nature Reserves Authourity and have all the clout afforded to a ranger including stop and search rights and the power to arrest offenders. We prefer to warn and educate but have in the past been driven to arrest and cuff offenders and bring them to trial. Although the authourities were at first worried by the proverbial "cat gaurding the cream" the project has proved to be a huge success as we are in effect undercover and also provide a much needed boost to the manpower available to the authourities. So why don't some of you try and get the authourities to deputise you so that you can help protect what you guys care about ???? Adam

You want to be very carefull with angle grinders. A couple of years ago I had to treat an unfortunate individual who was unlucky enough to have his 9" grinder bounce off a surface and hit him in the face - he had a severly cut jaw bone not to mention deep flesh cuts and shattered teeth. Very sobering it was I can tell you. I managed to stop the bleeding and strap him together untill the mobile intensive care unit (MICU) arrived to take the poor guy to the nearest ER - 40 mins away at break neck speed. Luckily for him the MICU was able to sedate and intubate the chap so he was soon asleep and oblivious to the pain. Adam

I was born and raised there - left in 1982. Was bback there 18 months ago on holiday. My Mum still lives just outside Nairobi but will not be on line untill Sunday so I will have to wait till then for an answer. LR was for years assembled in Kenya at the British Leylands plant. You will be suprised just how many OLD LRs can still be found on the roads there. There are a couple of local places that manufacture after market add ons. How laong are going to be there, where are you going ? I still have contacts there so give me a shout if you need anything specific or a pointer etc. Adam

Up date. The problem was/is a worm or trojan that entered masqurading as an MSN Messenger update - WATCH OUT !! All the off the shelf anti viruses and spy docs etc failed to recognize and or deal with the problem even after I found what it was and where it is. All the pros said to format the HD. In the end I solved the problem, in the mean time anyway, by turning the computer settings back to a date preceeeding the down load. Now I have time to figure out how to take the polluted file out. Adam

Up date. The problem was/is a worm or trojan that entered masqurading as an MSN Messenger update - WATCH OUT !! All the off the shelf anti viruses and spy docs etc failed to recognize and or deal with the problem even after I found what it was and where it is. All the pros said to format the HD. In the end I solved the problem, in the mean time anyway, by turning the computer settings back to a date preceeeding the down load. Now I have time to figure out how to take the polluted file out. Adam

Chris, if only you knew how dusty my computer gets. I live in a desert and dust is more plentiful than oxygen so you may well have pointed me in the right direction. Now all I have to do is figure out how to get the keyboard off and clean the system but first I will try an figure out what the warranty says re it's length. Thanks Adam

OK guys, sorry for the delay but getting this thing up and running again is proving a royal PIA. So some 8 hours later I am 59 USD poorer and no closer to solving my problem. I seem to have a virus hiding in my csrss.exe process but cannot find any program capable of identifying let alone removing the problem. Windows tells me that the file should be one size but in fact it is half as big again so it obviously harbours a trojan or worm but how do I get at it. Formating the HD is just to much of a pain and I cannot afford to loose all my info. This is so annoying as I spend a small fortune every year on legal anti virus programs. Any one know how I can remove this ???? Adam

My Dell lap top has gone AWAL. I keep loosing contact with my tool bar at the bottom of the screen - when I mark a specific button nothing happens. When I use ctrl+alt+del and try and see what is happening I cannot see anything open or processes that can be closed. When I check what the CPU is upto it is running on 97-100% and all of that is in the process labled CSRSS.EXE, when I try and close the specific process the computer tells me that the process is essential and cannot be closed. The only to free the system is to restart using the on/off button. I am running a AVG 7 antivirus, SpyDoctor, and Adware 6.0. None of these detect any problems. Does any one know what the CSRSS.EXE process is and what is causing it to use all my CPU and most impotantly how I can fix this problem ? TIA Adam

As Mark90 says this tends to happen when the upper bearing in the engine compartment is loose. It also happens when people use the steering wheel to pull themselves up on to the drivers seat - are you one of those people that does this ??!! Adam.

Born and raised in Kenya, now living in the south of Israel. Adam

Dave, don't mess around - the sooner you start the better. A couple of years ago my oldest son had to do a family tree project for school. My wife got very interested in the tree and two years on she has managed to trace 8 and 9 generations back. Unfortunately both her and my grandparents died when we were relatively young and they were also Holocaust survivors and talk about their past was painfull and more often than not avoided so not only did we lose many relatives but we also lost most of the information. Fortunately her Grandfather's younger brother survived and my wife was brave enought to start asking him alot of questions - as it turned out he was very happy to talk to her and excited that memories of his family would not go to the grave with him but instead be recorded for future generations. On 22/11/05, this week, after living for 87 years and surviving the Holocaust and several wars here in Israel he finally sucumbed to the ravages of cancer and passed away at home. Although my wife manged to glean from him much information she still feels that she started to late and did not get all that she could have. Adam

Best revenge is to have a nice chat with the guys down at the IRS office - they LOVE it when they get a guy on tax fraud for working without reciepts. If the guy is smart he will record a conversation thus proving that the job was "done" and paid for in cash - once he has that he can "force" the garage to refund or face the music. Adam

My steering failures were caused by the bearings along the link between the steering wheel and the steering box ceasing up and another time by the PAS pump failing. Can you give us some more symptoms ?? Adam

If you go tubeless, and I do, then the secret is to put in an oversized tube as that fills the space between the tyre and the rim better and avoids the tube getting chaffed by the tyre. Only go tubeless if you have the right rims - not all rims are suited to running tubeless. Adam

One I am proud of but talk about a bodge... We were ferrying a load of American tourists to a desert feast in the middle of a dry wash, in the dark one of my M8s reversed onto a huge boulder bending the rear trailing arm, breaking the rear drive shaft and A arm and completly dislodging the rear axel. The tow company coverage he carried did not include off road recovery so we had to get him back to the main road. We detatched the trailing arm and then using ratchet straps positioned the rear axel roughly where it should be and then towed him to the main road. The 2 km trip went by with no misshaps and the Defender was towed to the garage where the guys drove it off the flat bed and into the service area with no problem !! On the old tractor we used to use for forestation we often drove home with a front wheel puncture just by taking off the flat and then jamming a log between the chasis and the front wishbone on the good side so raising the now wheel-less side enough to be able to drive on three wheels. Adam

IIRC the reverse is a permanent +VE with switch by -VE. I'm sure Western will be along in a mo to advise - Oi Western !!! Over here M8............... Adam

Just done mine on the new engine, along with my trusty garage owner who lets me work with him - I do not have the facilities time or know how to do it all alone. The main thing was getting the two surfaces clean, de-greased and dry before starting with the new sealer. We did a simple one line with a circle around each hole. The trick is getting it on in one clean sweep so as not to smudge the bead. We did it with two people - while I held the pan about 5 mm below the engine my M8 put in 4 bolts one at each corner and the we left the sump hanging on those and placed all the other bolts and then did up the opposite ones leaving the final tightening till last and then doing that bit by bit so as to get a nice even seal. Name of the game is patience patience. Mine, 2K later is nice and dry !!! Adam

"POSERS"??????????? good job you are out of reach of my broomstick!!!!!!! Don't worry guys...the last time I saw Mandy and a broom stick they were wraped around a tree hope she drives better than she flies !!! Adam