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A friend of my mum is an amateur painter and uses a caravan parked in the garden as her studio. Well insulated, with cooking facilities for tea/coffee, bathroom, bench for siesta and decent space in the dinningroom area for working. This could also work for jewel workshop. Non road-legal caravans can be sourced cheapily.

It looks that there is some kind of "moral" corrector here. That "exercise" is WAN * ING :-P

Here is a Esarco 8x8 layout I modiffied with photsop As you see, mid axle will be located with diff on LH and rearmost LT230 PTO will be used as Power Take IN. Independent suspension will solve "A" frame location problem, but I don´t know if halfshafts will clear from chassis rail. BTW, what you know as "SHOGUN" were marketed in Spain as "MONTERO" (MONTE=MOUNT, MOUNTAIN). In rest of continental europe it was sold as "PAJERO", but in spanis "PAJA" means "dry grass" and also "exercise". So, grey market and secondhand imports are "MITSHUBISHI exerciser"

Here http://www.rakeway.co.uk/page12.html are manufacturing short rear ends for LT230 (70mm shorter). That will help with angles. Spanish regulations treat 40" or less wheelbase pair of axles as "one axle", but I don´t know if load sharing device is compulsory over 40" like in Oz

Yesterday I took some measurements on the Disco so I could confirm that there is enough space in the body for a mid axle. White masking tape indicates a 50" wheelbase And yes, there is enough space betwen seat base and door for a inner wheel arch. Thats great because moving the seat was not an option because spanish regulations ask for a strenght test (not cheap) if you modify seat locating points and want to maintain it road legal. Moving engine forward will not be as easy as I thought...there are 4" betwen engine and radiator (this could be moved forward about 8" if desired, up to the bumper) but I´m not sure if the turbo and/or engine mount will foul the PAS box. If I want to chop it at the ends I have nearly 16" at back and 4" at front. Redesigned front bumper will shorten the car by another 4" and rear one about 8". In total I could make the Disco 32" shorter. Unfortunately I don´t see how I could use walking beam or similar arrangement without altering mid seat row´s door/access.

Mmmmmm...interesting

Nice Pinzgauers! In Spain ANY modifications MUST be approved by MoT. Some time ago I contacted an engineering company and a pack of: snorkel, coils, shocks, wheels and oversized 32" tyres for the disco was a 500 Eur. bill, just for paperwork. And these were moddifications that needed no calculations or extra trength tests... My budget? Errr...I´m unemployed now, so it´s not going to be a short term project. For about 1000 Eur I can grab my hands in a non road legal Disco for sourcing the axle+hardware, the extra LT230 and propshafts I will need and the rest of the car will be canibalished for parts and thus help to maintain road-going the Disco I have.

Bishbosh, I have experienced fiddle brakes in farm tractors and aren´t as effective as they were suposed to be. I was quite dissapointed.

Chopping chassis at middle will involve lot´s of calculations by an engineer and tests at mechanical lab for making it approved by spanish MoT and make it road legal. Nice VOLVO, but have never seen one of those in Spain. Bill, I think this is the 101 video you mentioned Here is another one where we can see the see saw fulcrum problem in a ENASA/Pegaso BMR from spanish army I was thinking that maybe some soft springs + x-prings will make it to behave like a walking beam. Just think in a situation like hte 101 in the dune: -Front axle goes up to the dune -Mid axle tends to be airborne BUT x-prigs push it to touch ground -As part of the waight from mid axle has been tranfered to rear one, it´s soft spring will collapse AND thus lower the wehicles tail. At the top of the dune, just the oposite: mid axle is compressed and rearmost one pushed to ground by x-prings. Certainly rear CVs should be heavy duty ones and 4.75 cwp + lockers a must. I will have a look at Kruppe´s suspension design. BTW, how is a 275:1 ratio achieved?

It´s a complete set with FCAW machine, wire spool, wire brush and mask. Build quality is certainly better than expected (remember, just 87€ for the whole pack). I has ten wire speeds and just four fixed power settings. The box Front panel After a good meal... ...we are ready for testing it in some chassis front legs If you are not carefull you can make holes in chassis even at lowest 50 Amp setting (wire speed was at MAX) Here a video of me testing the TURBO MIG 100 for first time. Note that it will close the circuit and create arc even if torch´s button is not pressed.

I should then see if my torch is also already valved... Just 100 pound for 195Amp are certainly a bargain!

About making it road legal...if I weld radius arms and A frame mounts for mid axle, along with spring seats/buckets, I could use it temporaly as a normal 4x4 Disco from monday to friday. On saturday morning I will swap rear axle (unbraked while testing) to welded mounts in middle of chassis , install a rearmost steering axle, with a slave cylinder moved by a master one located in the standard steering shock absorber mounts at front axle, and test it off-road at private land. In sunday afternoon everithing will be reverted for road-legal monday run. After some months testing this way, if approved, it will be made road-legal 6x6, if not, will be maintained in 4x4 form. One car, two configurations.

I have also been thinking on linked second and third axle. Is it really a must? Maybe some looooooooooooong shocks + x-prings will be enough to maintain contact between wheels and terrain.

I have been thinking about those 100" wheelbase between first and third axle beeing not enough... I could move front axle+engine+gearbox (if I relocate batteries and change viscous coupling fan for electric front ones) for about 4"/100mm. Front wings and wheel arches will need slight modifications. Rear axle could be relocated 7 inch further back with the kit used by http://www.4x4-xsoffroad.fr/ for making Defender 90 a 100" one. This will see a 111" Disco.

My new baby arrived today! Tomorrow I will go to my brother´s place for it´s first test (testing it today in the flat doesn´t seem very good idea).

Hi Bill, Your point of view will allways be well apreciated. Your experience on 6x6 is priceless! Dieseldog, Mercedes´aproach to GammaGoat design looks good. It will be great to make such thing with a Landy and make it road-legal. In my off-roading experience (limited to 88" Santana and Disco) I have found turning circle one of the most limiting factor in Galician woods. Mid-axled 6x6 with front and rear steering will give me an excellent turning circle, but I don´t know if i could be able to make it road-leagal and how will it behave at highway speeds. Maybe a lockable rear steering+elevated mid axle will give best of both worlds: excellent off-road capabilities and standard-like road behaviour.

Unfortunately this no gas machine was the only one I could buy, just in my budget´s limit.

Hi all, I have just ordered a gasless MIG http://www.ebay.es/itm/SOLDADOR-TURBO-MIG-100-A-HILO-GAS-ACCESORIOS-SOLDADORA-VENTILADA-SOLDAR-/221161636276?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_186&hash=item337e42c1b4 Does anyone know how easy/difficult will be to convert it to MAG using a pub CO^2 bottle? I can source a pub CO^2 cylinder for 50 Eur. (seconhand).

Well, I have finally ordered this cheapo welder from eBay. I should recive it on Tuesday or Wensday. As said before, just 97 Eur p&p included. It comes with 1/2 kg of fluxed wire for mild steel welding. I can buy 1kg of this for about 25 Eur. I will post some pics and info on this machine as soon as I recive it. http://www.ebay.es/itm/SOLDADOR-TURBO-MIG-100-A-HILO-GAS-ACCESORIOS-SOLDADORA-VENTILADA-SOLDAR-/221161636276?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_186&hash=item337e42c1b4

Very nice tools and links! I´m amazed with that MiniHagglund.

Some more pics I have been able to rescue over the net. Only thumbnail size, as big-sized ones that were uploaded to imageshack years ago seem to have dissapeared And last one showing the "flying objects", chainsaw included

Sorry for poor quality scanned/mobile phone pics

Here is mine´s... First a pic of the good old days, playing in the Monegros desert in a club´s gathering And now the disaster day...back in may 2005 Seferino, our beloved 88" got stuck for several hours with both axles under water. And you know that drum brakes and water don´t mix well... High speed in a corner with poor brakes saw Seferino touching tarmac (that white marks in first picture) with roof rack and flying over a tree. Fortunately my brother escaped unhurt. I was traveling in front of him with a friend in his Vitara.

Hi all, I was wondering if any of you has ever made your own pillar drill, lathe, press...out of junk/scrap. It will be cool to see your inventions...and maybe copy them! Here just some examples I´ve found on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgLx2dsnM48