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I had a look but can't find it. Sorry for the delay, I'm recovering from Covid and everything's an effort.

I had the first copy they published, it was distributed free to Land Rover dealers. I think it was meant to be a "lifestyle" magazine for the country set, instead it became popular with the enthusiast market and changed direction. It was very good in the early years, many of our Welsh greenlaning trips were planned trying to follow the late Tim Webster's routes. Ironically I've just cleared a load of old LROs from the attic, probably every issue from 1991 to around 2012 when I gave up buying it, on the basis you can only read the same thing so many times. Does anyone remember... 4X4 and off road action (with pic's of scantily clad girls Four Wheel Drive. 4X4 and sport truck (I think). I'm sure there were others.

Thinking about this, as we used to do so many and had one set of special tools, that never got put back or were used for other purposes, I made my own from a scrap LT77 mainshaft (we had lots of them). It's probably 30 years ago but I "may" still have it. I remember welding something on the end for the cord to go, I'd have chosen something the right size I'm sure. I say "may" as we just got used to setting them by feel in the end, although being a hoarder I doubt I'd have chucked it. I'll have look in the w/shop here tomorrow, I know it's not at work.

You wrap a cord around the end and then pull it with a spring balance to check the bearing preload. The diameter will make a difference to the result. It's many years since I worked for a main dealers and we rebuilt these regularly, but we just did them by feel in the end, although that's probably not helpful to the op.

https://www.mdengineering.co.uk/lr-v8-adaptions You're welcome.

I love the look of the forward control. If only Land Rover had gone in the direction of commercial vehicles rather than the luxury market.

My mate's 300tdi auto 130 is definitely smoother than my 200tdi auto 110. But how much of that is down to the different engine mounts and sound proofing I don't know. For what it's worth, we MOT a 110 with the sweetest 200tdi ever. The owner says when he bought it he was told the engine had been rebuilt and knows no more than that. This thing just purrs. So as to actual engine "smoothness", it's certainly possible to get a civilised 200.

Good man. Did you receive a reply? I didn't.

As "Richard Birch & Co are valuers and auctioneers specializing in asset realizations We are agents for administrators, liquidators and many major banks and finance houses. The company itself has been running for 25 years" You'd like to think they'd have some idea of what they're selling, in this case probably a poorly disguised stolen vehicle. The true identity of it could easily be found by looking at the vin no' stamped into the chassis, assuming it's not been welded over... And anyone was interested.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284940309331?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D1110010%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.DISCCARDS%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20211102120225%26meid%3D12e78dcbc1e24cdf886d936c8fd7b283%26pid%3D101110%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26sd%3D284948271895%26itm%3D284940309331%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2563228%26algv%3DDiscOrganicBase&_trksid=p2563228.c101110.m1982 Spotted this on ebay. Has the vin plate (with the top edge cut off) from a 75 ex military S3 109, stuck on a 300tdi 90 on a Q plate. Anyone think of a legitimate reason to do that? No, me neither.

Who do you think is going to check them?

Any responsible horse owner will have insurance, report it to the police. Did you get any photo's of her and the damage? The attitude stinks, but having been married to a horsey woman I can say it's not uncommon amongst some owners/riders. If you think a Land Rover can be a money pit, try owning a horse!

Sounds good to me. I'd try and put in an appearance if I could get away from work. When are we thinking of? My take is that pubs, cafe's and green laning (as much as I like all of those) are likely to fragment the group and distract people from the whole point of it being a social gathering, all of us in one place. Very basic campsite in a good location with the ability to have a fire would be what I'd look for. It's better if just a few turn up and have a good time, than 30 say they'll come and it never happens.

If you have a friendly local motor factors, pop in and ask them for a 300tdi filter and one for a Kia Sportage or Hyundai Santa Fe and compare. I'm fairly sure they're the same but the Kia/Hyundai one is slightly shorter. The Mann filter ref' is WK842 for the tdi and WK824/1 that supersedes to WK8205 for the Kia/Hyundai. They should be able to cross reference those to any other filter manufacturer.

I'm not seeing the cause of that sort of noise in those pictures. I can't help thinking you're barking up the wrong tree, particularly as you say the noise only started after you'd carried out work on the other end. Have you tried running it with the front cover off? Just a thought, might you have a loose or incorrectly positioned bolt touching the back of the flywheel? That would give you the change in pitch when depressing the clutch. I'm guessing here as I can't hear the noise.

I've just skimmed through, and this... and this... Jumped out. The noise wasn't there until you carried out a repair that didn't involve touching the timing belt, removing the crank damper stops the noise. So unless I've missed something, why do you think the noise is coming from the belt?

The subject of cyclists will always be divisive and I think this thread demonstrates why there is no place for "Chat" on here. Before a row develops. Or worse still... I'm tempted to share my views on bicycles.

Oooh, just realised I never put how wide it is! 40mm

Glad to help.

Hope this is understandable. I measured along the top face. Let me know if you need me to be more accurate, I'll have more time later.

I've always regretted selling my Range Rover. However the reality was that it needed work and I had two other Land Rovers, a car and a motorbike and they all needed work too. There's only so many hours in the day so I had a purge. If I'd kept it, it'd be sat gathering dust in barn right now. Sell it, put all your effort into one project and finish it.

I couldn't agree with you more, however I believe the rot set in long before TW2. Magazines articles, forums/social media, the fashion for "extreme, challenge, action" vehicles, along with the business's that have made a tidy sum off the back of it, these have all played their part. Laning may well have taken a good beating, but it's not dead yet. I used to feel like that about GPS, "modern fangled nonsense for people that can't read a map", when actually it's just another tool to use that makes life easier. And as for research, I'd got to the point where I'd questioned myself as to what my hobby was, greenlaning or historical research, because I spent infinitely more time on the latter than I did driving.

I think you'd probably need one of these to get old Mrs Miggins to her hospital appointment after an inch or two of snow .

You forgot the absolute must have... A HiVis jacket!

2l is about right.