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off on on is used on jcb telehandlers, let me know if i can help.
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jcb telehandler axle drain plugs are magnetic, sure i can find you one.
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thank you all for your input. i will be using a 4 bolt defender steering box.
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5 minutes ago, SteveG said:
You have to drill a couple of holes in the chassis and weld in crush bars, then cut out a section of the spring mount to fit, plus source the end knuckle of the p38 steering column.
thank you.
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2 hours ago, RedLineMike said:
i cant say if its better or worse longterm, it certainly gives more space in the engine bay going to the P38 box, with my conversion with the electric turbo actuator, it is really close to the steering box but still has clearance
is there any chance you could post pictures of your steering set up please.
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11 hours ago, RedLineMike said:
However unless your using a twin turbo engine, an m57 with a low mount air con pump does fit without needing to swap to the p38 box
thanks mike, i wondered if it was a better steering box longterm?
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i am currently building a 110 king cab on a galv chassis, i am hear of p38 steering boxes being used, what is the gain and what is envolved please.
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clearly no point trying to reason with you.
isuzu have had their share of carp engines over the years, as have toyota with cylender head issues and chassis and body rot.
i have worked as a heavy plant fitter for 40 plus years, japenese pick ups are not the be all and end all.
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finish my 110 build on new galv chassis, bmw m57 diesel and 6 speed bmw manual gearbox , king cab and shortened hcpu body.
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On 12/31/2023 at 11:54 AM, Shep The Disco said:
No it's 3 years here because the vehicles are end of life at over 200k miles...
Some go back at 18 months due to high mileage and worn out.
Can a grenadier cope with that and at what cost?
the sum of the parts make the product, as an example do you have any experience to speak of with the bmw engine and zf transmission? my son recently had a bmw 535d with just shy of 300000 miles on the clock, original engine and transmission, was still capable of anything asked of it.
i guess you know better than the people putting up the money to build the grenadier.
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20 hours ago, Shep The Disco said:
Yeah I get your point.
Thing is for the grenadier to become comercaly viable it needs to have a history where I work.
Unfortunately the time is now and food production is a fast paced business that runs on disposable things such as vehicles.
On my days off I work pulling trailers for another company that also produces food.
Yes my choice is to work a stupid amount of hours but by the time I get to your current age I will not have a need to work or any debts so perhaps then I might buy a grenadier...
unless you are dead of course.
i have seen many men worj 80 hour weeks on the docks earning a **** ton of money, plenty of them didnt make retirement.......
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On 4/24/2023 at 8:44 PM, steve b said:
You are not wrong in that statement, very well versed in Ex-Mil LR's ...and other stuff too
Steve
hard to find somebody i would trust but si is that person,
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if you travel up the a12 essex suffolk border i can recomend si james, hanger 53 motor works, raydon airfield. he knows the wolfe inside out.
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On 3/20/2023 at 10:03 PM, FridgeFreezer said:
Good job these Grenadiers are nothing like the awful new Defender with all its software and ECU's and such nonsense
just plain simple vehicles, easily repaired with minimal electronics, yes sir...
think i will carry on with my king cab 110 build, with galv chassis and bmw 3ltr diesel engine and six speed gearbox.
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3 hours ago, jeremy996 said:
My patience is being sorely tried. I spoke to my dealer this afternoon; they are on notice my truck should be with them on the 02/04/2023. They still don't know if all the softwear updates will be available, how long registration, PDI and adding dealer fit extras will take.
I'm especially sore about it as I have been caught in the rain driving the Morgan. It's OK when actually going forwards, you just get soggy when stopped at traffic lights! Still, client thought it was funny.
i spoke to busseys in attleborough today, alledgedly they have 4 customer vehicles but cannot release them due to softwear update issues, still no date on their demonstrator,
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On 12/19/2022 at 3:25 PM, Happyoldgit said:
Yep, coincidentally enough I have actually looked under a Japanese pickup lately, in fact as late as this morning as I was trying to get one of our cats out from under the 2021 Isuzu D-Max V Cross [Auto] that I bought new last year. This truck replaced the 3.2 Ford Ranger Auto I bought new in 2016 that in turn replaced the Defender 110 XS USW that I bought new in 2014 ...and got shot of two years later due to persistent faults and petty and incompetent dealers. Just like the Ranger it replaced the Isuzu has had a lockable canopy on the buck and has proved to be a good, comfortable, reliable and practical truck which does everything that is expected of it, including tow 3.5 ton, without fuss. Unfortunately the same could not be said of the last Defenders I bought new which all had to go back and forth to various dealerships for both major and minor warranty fixes. Pooh pooh pickups as much as you like but they do the job, in comfort, for a reasonable outlay. Picking up on old school 'cart horse' leaf springs and drum brakes but moaning about all their 'modern doodads' - hmmm.
If I again have the need for vehicles that outwardly appear as stuff did 50 years ago that include mechanical switching and controls and thus, in theory at least, able to conquer far off and remote places, or do the George & Joy Adamson thing with the lions, while being fixable with a stone axe and hammer again at some point in the future I may well look at what's on the market but I doubt I will find much without buying into past models that have potentially been through the mill in the hands of multiple owners.
I had banked on buying a Grenadier after the concept was announced early on. But not now, not after the interminable marketing faff and considering the various things that have already been discussed in this lengthy thread. 60k+ for something that has ended up looking remarkably akin to a Santana lovechild - hmmm. I expect to be able to have a test drive, and actually drive the thing, without travelling miles to some laid on event to look at and try a preproduction, repeatedly and teasingly almost, almost, but not quite finished product. I'm too old, too cynical, and after the cancer scare too aware of my own mortality, to put my money into something that has been a lesson in marketing tease-ology which in itself is something guaranteed to brass me off.
If I want to feel a basic go anywhere basic mechanical vehicle with 0 'doodads' I'll fire up my '43 Jeep [that just cost x thousand for a transmission rebuild] and do the biz in that. I will certainly relish the basic simplicity and direct control that reminds me so much of the Series Land Rovers I owned, fettled and drove daily, until my old bones, sore backside and the need to let my innards settle into their usual place after being tossed around by 80+ year old technology tell me it's time to stop 😉
...and breathe. I had a carp weekend, can you tell?😁if you want a giggle go in to busseys in attleborough, incompatence doesn,t come close, they have not bothered keeping me updated, they have a pre production model in the showroom, almost had to fight to even sit in it.
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On 10/1/2022 at 6:13 PM, Arjan said:
I have just fitted one of the MAer Bulkheads to an original LR chassis.
Fitted without problems.
have you fitted it up yet? ie wiper boxes, dash, steering column and pedal box? trying to compare maer with ultra, a friend has just do a bulkhead swap with an ultra, the maer is about £300 cheaper.
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i am at the point of buying a new galv bulkead for my 110 build, does anyone have any experience of the maer bulkheads please.
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1 hour ago, L19MUD said:
Red on the road is not a grey area for anything except for tractors. It is illegal from 1 April (once tanks are run out....)
What is going to be hard to enforce is the use of red outside of agriculture. Easy enough to turn up to a construction site and check but how do you effectively police people using forklifts in yards, lighting towers for events, generators (assuming not used for heating as that is another grey area)
The use of red diesel is much more widespread than you would think
i work as a heavy plant fitter for a big hire company, we send machines out full, we have had our last delivery of read, the tank in our yard will be filled with white, no flushing out. no plans to change all fuel filters unless blocked or on planned service.
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if you are interested i have a pair of early 110 front calipers in felixstowe, no idea on condition.
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11 hours ago, Anderzander said:
On Suppliers - I used to use Britcar, but they’ve sadly ceased trading. I’ve used LRDirect a little in the past - and They seem to be emerging as a popular choice.
That said I’ve also been buying direct from Bearmach and that’s been decent service. It seems that even if the parts may be coming from the same factory as the BritPart ones … in general they have a better QC.
Despite all of the above though I think the whole thing has become a minefield.
I know someone who bought genuine cappings for a 90 from Land Rover, they were a fortune and the quality was shocking - they were twisted from welding in manufacture and a really poor fit.
On the flip side I bought a swivel kit from Brit Part that came with Timken Bearings and Corteco seals and was just brilliant.
🤷🏻♂️
Anyhow - back to your marvellous welding 🤩
duncan mansfield who owned britcar has sh*t on quite a few people in the last month, he is planning to resurface as wolfdale, i knew in may britcar was in trouble when they wanted me to pay upfront on a £300 order, i have known duncan for 28 years so i knew the writing was on the wall.
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i have the 18v grease gun, i use it every day on excavators and tele handlers, way better than the snap on 18v
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On 3/23/2021 at 9:26 PM, oneandtwo said:
When I had a 300tdi 110 the diff had a knocking and felt rough. I had a spare disc Salisbury which was no better, I ended upI replacing it with a good drum braked diff and axle casing, and converted it to disc, intending to use the best bits off the disc axles for the conversion, however everything was so worn I ended up fitting new stub axles, new half shafts, new drive members, new disc shields and new calipers. It was not all that expensive, and everything fitted. I think the only thing I had to do was drill a hole in damper mount bracket for the disco shield, All that was any good off my disc axles were the caliper mounting brackets and hubs which were standard disco 300tdi ones which are ten a penny.
when you say standard disco 300tdi ones, is that front or rear hubs please.
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10 hours ago, L19MUD said:
That is what I have found too. Couple of decent ones near Manchester but I have not got keen enough yet to go and look!
yeah, felixstowe is a long way from everywhere.
just plain simple vehicles, easily repaired with minimal electronics, yes sir...
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if you want another 6bolt i have a leak free one in felixstowe.