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Is that SIII seating in a pair of portal axles?

Oh yes, I love tool porn too!

Mickey, Galicia is known as the rain and fog land. Dont expect here sun and beach like Marbella! L19MUD, certainly what you have is what I need! Cwazy, roof rack was home made with "heavy duty" in mind

Now I´m feeling fortunate about having a workbench in a weather-proof building! Here some pics posted years ago in various spanish speaking forums. These are the years when I was single and my parents home was my workshop. First, the semi-detached warm garage, with trolley jack frienly painted floor Ramps come very handy for RTI testing. In this case setup was a 109" front + 88" rear Santana parabolics + 1 Ton shacles + standard shocks. My brother at the wheel. Fully detached one. Not very good insulation and uneven concrete floor, but 4 by 9 metre size. Picture was taken the day after rolling Seferino, our beloved 88". That day my brother found that high road speeds + Series Landy don´t mix well. He fortunately escaped unhurt.

Leave your pants on! I was just thinking about our home workshops and garages where we service and repair our beloved machines. In my case I´m using a barn in the farm house belonging to my parents-in-law, surrounded by hundreds of home brewed wine and licour . I have a 6 metre long and half metre wide working table with various vinces and hand tools. I have a budget 24ltr air compressor, pillar drill, belt+disc sander, MMA welder and belt driven disc saw. Various wood ramps, axle stands and jacks coplete the setup. In a few moths I hope to move to a bigger building, where hens and ducks are sleeping now. That will enable me to work covered, because barn´s door is to small for the 1977 Roller caravan I´m restoring now.

Yes, that is! Thanks!

Hi Luke, Here in Spain "free hire" exists for home and caravan cooking gas but have never seen it for welding gas. I even thought about MAG using pub CO^2 bottle. Secondhand full bottle could be sourced for about 50 but gas MIG machines are no cheaper than 250 and beeing unemployed since may 2012 every penny counts. Very usefull link

Hi all! I have at home a big non inverter industrial type MMA welder, but always have dreamed about having MIG and TIG welders. Both the price of such machines + expense of ARGON, ARGON+CO^2 or CO^2 bottles were a problem. Some weeks ago I heard about FCAW, No Gas MIG, FluxoMIG, Fluxed MIG or whatever way you want to call it. This kind of welder doesn´t need any bottle and the machine itself can be cheaply sourced from Ebay. Has anyone experienced this kind of welding? Pros and Cons? Tis is the one I´m looking to, just 87€ + 10€ p&p Fluxed wire is 5 to 10 times more expensive than normal one, but I will use it very little and maybe 1kg of it will last a year.

Duncmc, that´s from a two door. Don´t kwow if that will fit, but certainly is what I was looking for. I´ve found quite easily the part No. for Discovery II, but not for Disco I BTW, Disco II uses ASR1286 for right hand.

Hi all! My brothers disco has a lot of rot in boot´s floos and inner wheel arches/boxes, where mid row seat´s safety belts attach (both left and right). Are this inner boxes sold individually? Part No.?

Having 3ph chages it all! Industrial/Pro equippment will certainly be heavy duty and will withstand years of abuse, even if they are second hand.

As far a I know AEU2522 can be used in Discovery 200Tdi after machining stub axles but there is not enough room for them in 300Tdi´s stub axles.

This one comes from Berlin and has good shipping costs. 120Amp TIG and up to 12mm cutting in plasma mode. http://www.ebay.es/itm/PROFI-WIG-TIG-MMA-KOMBI-SCHWEIsGERAT-PLASMASCHNEIDER-INVERTER-3in1-230V-4M-KABEL-/170867160148?pt=Schwei%C3%9F_L%C3%B6ttechnik&hash=item27c879f454

My friend is running 285/75R16 (actual size about 33,5"). They are remoulds with Simex pattern. As it´s a 300Tdi it has the 24 spline ones as standar, but CVs are weak 32 spline ones (one already gone and changed for cheapo Paddock one). Do you think that standard halfshafts and CVs will cope with the ATB? A pic of my friends Disco with me at the wheel

I will go for a 3 in 1 or 4 in 1 (that is, MMA, TIG, pulsed TIG for alloys and plasma cutter). You can find some cheap ones at e-bay, but beware of shipping cost, as the rise overall price quite a lot. Here just an example http://www.ebay.com/itm/CT-312-TIG120-ARC-120-CUT-30-3-in-1-Welding-machine-PT-31-Torch-220V-240V-/260903971101?pt=BI_Welders&hash=item3cbf16a91d Problem with TIG is the expense the Argon bottle. My brother bought some years ago a Selco Inverter MMA welder, suitable also for TIG. Last year he converted it to TIG, but TIG torch + bottle (no pedal, hand operated) were not cheap, about 500€ (and it was a sale!). Price of original inverter was half of that.

That is what I call an Epic Journey! Good luck and enjoy!

I´ve recognised your Landy! ATB front and rear? ATB/Truetrac combination? Why changing from Truetrack to Ashcroft´s ATB?

Thanks Todd, that was just what we wanted to listen! What do you have in the rear diff?

Just for info: the car is now running with a secondhand 150£ standar front diff

Hi all! A friend of mine has a 300 Tdi and fitted some 33" some time ago. Afeter breaking rear diff´s cross shaft he mounted a ARB locker + Ashcroft halfshafts. Then rear CWP exploded. Now is pegged (Ashcroft diff pegg kit). Now front diff is dead and the original idea was a Ashcroft 4 Pin, but is out of stock. Beeing in Spain we discarded megasquitV8 (hybrid from hell?) because we just want a carrier to mount ouerselves at home. Machining here a P38A diff is not worthwile (haven´t found a cheap scrapyard unit). Looking at Ashcroft´s online shop we are thinking that by some € more we could take a ATB, but, here is the question: How good (or bad!) will handle a vehicle fitted wit a torque biassing diff at front and a "open" ARB at rear on tarmac?

Maybe I will need some shallow racing style seats, but thin there is room enough under seats for a wheel box http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/203/p4060417.jpg/

That´s true about wheel boxes. In my original mix-axle layout the wheel box (wich will act as seat box too) will be the same as that on rear axle (about 20-23cm tall) because my intention of using a rear std Discovery axle will make the up-travel of mid axle the same as the rear std one (limited by distance between axle casing and chassis-bumo stop). A CappiTruck Jeep style layout was discussed here http://forums.lr4x4.com/index.php?showtopic=31845&page=2 Certainly this will require the extra tall wheel boxes you mentioned. An idea taken from Bill van Snorkel´s design: some device that enables me from elevating rearmost or middle axle to my desire. Maybe an hidraulic ram with "dead position" for inter linked bogie-style performance, fully extended for elevated rear axle and fully collapsed for elevated mid-axle. A lockable rear axle steering could make 100" two axle "normal" Discovery by just the flick of a switch (or lever)

Mmmmmmmmmmmm...like it! It seems that two wheel stubs axles have been mounted in a rocker and then the rocker has been bolted to a single axle casing. Simple and effective. Independent susp. front axle used at middle of chassis will certainly ease thing: no trailing arms, no A frame, no up-down moving diff that exceeds short propshafts angles...but wheel articulation will be far less than that of a beam axle, and I should find a same ratio as others diff.

Sorry for posting forum matters here. Never again

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