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Have you checked the steering alignment to make sure the wheels aren't toe out? You're geometry has probably changed after interchanging the axle/hubs.

oops, soz, so it was! I can't keep up with all the drama.

Funny you should say that - just received this email from LRO: LRO has been contacted recently by a number of people regarding the Billing Show in July. They had been given information stating there would be no show at Billing this year and so had purchased tickets, in good faith, for the Land Rover Max event at Newark on the same weekend.As there will be a show at Billing this year, on the 17-19th July, which LRO will be supporting, we thought it would be an appropriate gesture to offer a significant reduction on the ticket costs at Billing for those people who bought tickets for Land Rover Max under the wrong impression that Billing was not happening. Therefore, anyone who has purchased adult tickets for Land Rover Max, who would rather go to the LRO Billing Show can send in their Land Rover Max tickets to Live Promotions (the organisers of Billing) and those tickets will be substituted for LRO Billing Show tickets at a cost of only £5 each. LRO Billing Show tickets are normally £12 in advance. This offer will only be open to Land Rover Max ticketholders who send in their tickets to Live Promotions at the address below by 5pm on Monday March 9th. Post tickets to: LRO Billing Show, Live Promotions Events Ltd, Riverside Quay, Double Street, Spalding, Lincolnshire, PE11 2AB, cheques payable to Live Promotions Events Ltd or put your telephone number and covering letter with the tickets in the post and Live Promotions will call you back for credit card payments.

No doubt it will do a good job of stopping sound transmitted through the bulkhead, but personally I wouldn't spend that kind of dough on it as there's so much noise coming from everywhere else! Wish I'd done a bit more to mine while it was out though - have a look at some of the ICE forums to see what they use to stop noise, there are cheaper things out there. I've had great success with lead flashing tape - I wouldn't put it somewhere visible like in the engine bay, but no reason it couldn't line the cab side of the bulkhead? Cheap as chips too.

or just use one of these http://www.agriemach.com/default.php?cPath...ngq4ladfpd0ccv6 or just stick a magnet on the side of the filter.

Ahlen wa sahlen Ali - al sayara jidan jamil!

Sounds like the LRW show at Eastnor would be up your street then - the best camping spot out of all the shows, sensible numbers attending, the weather always seems to be good and isn't full of thieving pikeys. I'm really miffed I won't be back from our trip in time this year to make it. Never been to Newark, went to Billing once on a day ticket and you couldn't pay me enough to stay the night there, that place is naaarsty. The Peterborough show was very good last year as well, so looking forward to that one. lets hope the 'Sodbury' autojumble they held is a bit more subscribed this time round..

Think of how good you'd feel putting all that much needed cash back into British industry though I'm sure if you get britpart ones from paddocks etc they will be a more realistic price - I bought a set and I'm a hardened tightwad, so it can't have been that much And even britpart cant get a piece of foam wrong - can they...

I have some genuine fluid from an ex MOD Wolf I can sell you, only £79 a bottle. B)

Sometimes the easiest jobs are the most frustrating there isn't much movement in the expander, it only moves the shoes a few mm. I think the way I finaly cracked it was to back the shoe adjuster right off, then adjust the handbrake cable till it was just about bringing the brake on when fully applied. Apply it a few times to try and centre the shoes up, then adjust a tiny bit further, then bring in the shoe adjuster till it bites correctly. on mine the shoe adjuster needed quite a few turns to back it off and apply it back as well - not like on brake drums where just a quarter turn on the adjuster locks the drum up. That threw me for a while.. at least it aint snowing

Anyone?? only me then?? films was it?

I had a similar problem - handbrake not working too good, took a couple of bits apart to clean, lost the adjuster mechanism all over the drive, got carp in my eyes, couldn't get the thing back together and swore to buy an X-brake. Calmed meself down a bit and after many unsuccesful attempts I found it was very important to get the right balance between the handbrake cable - adjusting the slack so it's not too tight and not too loose, and balancing this with adjustment of the shoe adjuster - again not too tight and not too loose. You need to work with both adjustments till you find a happy medium.

its easy enough to use a standard LR exhaust - I found that the late 300TDi exhausts fit well. They are pretty wide bore - about 2.5" I think, so breathe nicely. I used an esr2297 front pipe, then chopped of the manifold/turbo end to mate up to the Steve Parker downpipe - means you don't have to muck about making a connector up and getting flanges etc. Costs about £21. Then a centre silencer ESR4526 - £75 (or you could use a straight through conversion pipe for about 40 quid) and a tailpipe ESR4527 (about £35) Only bit I had to modify was the centre exhaust hanger as the silencer sat further back than on my n/a exhaust - just made up an extension with some 1" angle iron and job done.

Had a bit of a problem with the ignition switch on the missus' car today (Skoda ) and had to remove it along with all the gubbins that holds it to the column. I had a quick squizz on one of the Skoda forums to see if I could pick up any time saving tricks beforehand and found a neat way to get the sheer bolts out I hadn't heard of before - probably common knowledge in the trade but thought it was one of those things worth sharing - All I had to do was drill a hole about 5mm deep in the end of the sheer bolt, then hammer in a slightly larger torx bit, and then unscrew it! genious Had it all dismantled in about four minutes!

No, the Britpart bushes are not very good. Spend a bit more money and you won't be doing the job again next year. like wot I am

What do you get for £18?? Undo the EGR valve, remove and place it in the wheely bin. Get a thick piece of steel and drill two bolt holes in, then bolt over the 'ole where the valve was. (needs to be a decent thickness as thin plate will warp, and use exhaust paste to seal) Then either blank off the top intercooler pipe, or just replace it with a bit of straight pipe (a piece of 2.5" exhaust pipe is perfect) Open a can of lager, stand back and admire

It's possible to rotate the ally bit to make it easier to connect the I/C pipe on when you have a disco engine in a defender - looks like it's been rotated.

What with the missus coming along, it's prune faced sand arabs I'm afraid. need to keep planning that boys trip to France...

Why not do a trip through Europe via Croatia/Hungary to Greece or Turkey? Plenty to see, good off-roading, plenty of cold beers in the sun, and plenty of hot euro-chicks. You may find this has more to offer than a rank cup of mint tea with a prune faced sand arab When you're skint/diseased/injured/broken down you can just turn round and come home without having to worry about shipping/borders/visas/kidnappers.

I fitted some britpart 'polybushes' to my panhard rod about 6000 miles ago. Apparantly maufactured from cheddar. off they come again then and I think I'll just go back to standard rubber - I'm certain superpro will be hands down better than the chocolate block britpart ones, but I reckon the standard bushes I took off were the original ones fitted in 1986!

The proper gasket is only a couple of quid, can't remember how much my last one was but it was cheap enough to stop me using window sealant! Try paddocks or somewhere.

I've always found them quite helpful to be fair - never ordered on-line or over the phone though. A couple of the guys, don't know thier names, are much more knowledgable than the other two so when I go in the store I always wait for them. After I did my TDi coversion and was trying to cobble an exhaust together, they let me go in thier stores room and have a look through the stock till I found the right looking part, which I thought was pretty decent. My only complaint is that they use too much Britpart and rarely have a genuine or good OEM option, so I tend to use APB nearby who don't buy carp.

I went through a bin of pipes at a land rover breakers and found one of a range rover with the correct fitting on it for the steering box end.

....and a chainsaw

Also worth getting a copy of Chris Scotts book Sahara Overland - some very good information on the kit you need, how to do it without shelling out vast sums of cash on pointless bolt on goodies, routes, visas, borders etc and also good advice on driving on sand/pistes etc if you've not done it before. About 20 quid on Amazon.