henk

I am looking to build a kind of overland trailer. First criteria is that it should have same tyres and rims as the car (= Def 90) What kind of axle could I use for such project ? Henk

@white90: I bought a second hand rod with clamp-on bracket for the damper but it is far too long so I want to shorten it @Carl: nice to see you back and thanks for the info. I will see if my local blacksmith has such a tap

I found in Billing the disco droparm to fit on my 90 but now I have to shorten a steering rod and put new thread in but what size I have to use?

With pleasure ! Was nice to tot alk to all of you

OK, I'll wait

Is there an off-the-shelf bracket available for a td5 to add a 2nd alternator or do I have to make it myself?

Would the airco fan of a Disco TD5 be enough to cool a Series III with a 2.5NAD?

@LandyManLuke: I have the same cubbybox but raised it about 10cm with a wooden frame. Then made a hole inside the box where I have put the Travla casing otherwise the C134 is too long to fit inside the cubbybox

Search Ebay on 'via artigo', this is a very neat small pc to fit into a car. I now have a Travla housing in my cubbybox but probably will switch over to an artigo and try to build it into a roofconsole or so

I have this one: http://cartft.com/catalog/il/815 Works excellent for an 8'' screen

Here a link with poor translation http://www.clublandrovertt.org/modules.php...9dcd451bb70cc03 Raw machine translated from ES to EN: It swims then, the first thing is to choose a good male copy of frog, hihii. The subject it I have obtained thanks to the info that has supplied Ricardo to me of JCF and as well the Italian ones of nanocom, that seem very elegant. As very well me it has warned Ricardo, the first thing that it is necessary to take into account is that the subject is serious. We can leave so frita an Ecu as not to extract and to have to open it to return to record the flash from outside with a recorder and returning to weld. It is not very complicated, but a desoldadora SMA station and a modern memory recorder miss. We can also load itself the motor in the case of putting a map of bad, not tested or incorrect fuel. The one that it is difficult it is that we put a map of good fuel, grafted evil and that works the Ecu and the motor is loaded, since the cheksum would not square. The problem that has the nanocom with the maps of Ecu is that between variant of vehicle, the first 99k and map of fuel do not distinguish the following 17k. If it it makes rovacom and the curves of fuel are passed in this format. To be able to put a curve of fuel in format rovacon in a map of nanocom, the first thing is to clean the map file of the rovacom of the bites that the rovacom includes at the beginning of the latter for its own management. These bites the rovacom them eliminates when they are moved on to the ECU. This part is between the segment 0x0 0x80 of the file of fuel. Therefore, we select this segment and us the cepillamos thing without fear. In this part I imagine that of the rovacom and the whole info of the file will be the checksum. We read now the map of ours Ecu with the nancom. We have already a file of 117 k It we publish with the winhex and place the column of the right in ascii. We see that it begins with TD5, this part has put the nanocom to it for her account, as well as leaves than follows, but us she does not import, since we are going to leave the file in nanocom format. The map of fuel of the ECU begins in the position 00019010 of the complete file of nancom and finishes in the 0001CFE7. The size of this segment has to coincide with the size of the file to which before it we have eliminated the piece of the Rovacom, that are 16.344 bites. In the winhex we select the segment that goes from 00019010 up to 0001CFE7 and us the cepillamos thing again. We copy now to the clipboard the complete file of the curve of fuel to which him we had cleared the part of rovacom, and it we insert in the file of map of ECU using the edit menu clipboard it dates and grazes, in the position 00019010. In this way the file has to have the same size as before, since we have inserted a block of the same size that we have erased. This is the one that it had already made before, but the nanocom did not swallow in this way, and it it did not eat by fault in its own cheksum. You it I commented already on Pepe, to be able to find out the cheksum of a file it is necessary to know that size has and where it is, to eliminate it and return to calculate it. And it is it has been the information fundamental that us they have passed. The cheksum of the nancom, that the not ones of the ECU that them has but them we do not touch, is in the two last bytes, and it means a simple cheksum of 16bits. PAra to return to calculate the new cheksum, eliminate the current one, for that select both bytes last of the file of map of ECU, that as we see is preceded of characters in FF white and them we erase. In the menu of tools of the hex win we go away to "compute hash" and it we calculate a cheksum of 16 bits. The result have to be a two bites, word. It we select and with the right button of the mouse it we copy. We go now away to the last position of the file, the 0001D00B, and in the edit menu of winhex, we go away clipboard data and let us graze. In this way we stick the new calculated cheksum. It we stick as ascii hex and already are, I list. In the positions 0001D00C and 0001D00D in HEX what has to appear gave the calculation to us of the cheksum of 16bits. The file has to finish in the 0001D00D and has to have a length of 118798 bytes. If it is not so, it is not valuable. In position 00019010 it has to appear in Hex 3F and Ascii "", if it is not so, bad bad, it is not valuable. It is recorded, it is moved to the nanocom and from the nanocom to the ECU. Eye, I have still not passed the map to the ECU because I do not have the car here, but am very probable that she works. If that it I have tested in the nancom and it works. With this we have obtained a map of ECU keeping the variant intact and amending only the map of Fuel. That me correct the ones that they understand of Rovacom, but I believe that is this what is made, not. The variant of the manufacturer to the Ecu is put and soon the new map of fuel. For a disk td5, which misses of fuel good it, I can pass have a map to defend do not only have am a map, it after 2002 that to whom it wanted, since me it they have given. Much taken care, and the one that has the nanocom that she hopes that I it test, see that I happen. Until soon.

Hello, As regular overseas visitor, could one of you tell me what is the current situation with the sortout and if there is a good alternative offered? thanks, Henk

I downloaded the 50K maps for whole UK but now I am also looking for the 25K maps, preferably for Ozi. Could swap against France in 25K (= 6 or 7 DVD's) Henk

carpc's based on Via Epia motherboards work fine with the intelligent M1-ATX or M2-ATX powersupplies see above link or also http://www.cartft.com/catalog/il/459

@sootysport: more than enough power to run Ozi or Autoroute

I built a carpc based on Travla 134 housing (size of radio) and Via Epia M10000 Motherboard. It has USB and DVD reader and Hitachi ultra HD of 30 Gb. Screen is an 8 inch touchscreen but has only 640 on 480 physical resolution so screen is not very clear. If you take a TFT screen go for at least 800 x 600 physical resolution. GPS is a usb Holux GR213 Sirf-III that works fine. Software is Ozi and Autoroute 2003. For Ozi I have Holland, France and Portugal in 1:25.000 and Belgium in 1:50.000. Still looking for UK etc Still could not figure out where to put it: under the cubby box, in the cubbybox or against the roof Last week I bought a tabletpc type Fujitsu Stylistic LT P-600 running XP. It works perfect except the screen is very difficult to read so pretty useless in the car. Now looking for another screen to put in. Tablet pc is a lot easier to install and to take out the car, has build in battery so you also avoid problems of not enough current when starting engine etc

I just got confirmed this evening that the later td5 ecu's (NNN50020 etc) have basically the same software as the Disco-II and as such the cruise control is there also and can be addressed with some switches

Sirf3 is indeed the way to go, I have a holux 213, very pleased with that one

I have a DD4 bumper so the TRE is pretty good protected I hope. Anyone out there who has a drop arm of a D1 for sale and eventually goes to Old Sod? Henk

Who has fitted the droparm of a D1 on a recent Def (2004)? Idea is to have steering ball joints on both sides of steering rod so easily changeable (involves welding a bracket for the steering damper)

Had same problem but belt showed also some wear at outside part so changed it yesterday: reason for wear was the belt tensioner bearing that was gone completely

The largest ones go around 190 pounds on ebay.de (search: "brockhaus heuer") I think they have a lifetime guarantee and although not cheap, in my opinion the best vice you can get Henk

The best vices: http://www.brockhaus-heuer.de/1/web/index.php?lang=engl_

Yes, that's the picture I was loking for Is it stable enough to hold the portable/tft?

I saw an article somewhere here about mounting a TFT screen in a Def using a Ram mount but I can not find it anymore... Anyone who can help?