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During my last outing I ended up in a very deep muddy crappy mud hole/puddle which was about 3 foot deep......! My carling switches are on a centre console and were all underwater, and since which they aren't working too great (/not at all!)...... so can anyone give me some direction on stripping and cleaning them please?

Mine does this also, so would be very interested in finding out why and how to cure it.

Just some local laning today near Castle Howard, York.....

My garage would be: HOFS Mouse Alisport Tomcat Bowler Nemesis Dakar Kamaz race truck Ferrari 275 gtb 4

The frightening thing is.... it sold at auction just after the film for peanuts!!!!! About $5K IIRC

Its finished early on ebay, did you buy it Nige.....!?

The world would be a boring place if we all had the same vehicles!!!

Nige, I've just bid on it, on your behalf

Thanks for the advice guys! In the end I went for the Memory Map Adventurer 2800, as got a very good deal on a new unit with the full UK maps included. The main selling point was that I could also use it on my mountain bike Now gotta get out there and drive!

The House of Flying Spanners built Petal - a series 2 88" on C303 portals Here's a thread link - clicky 'ere

What are you wanting to use the end result for? Challenges? Drive around days? Laning? How many seats do you need? Look at what you want and work backwards from there. It sounds like it needs to be road legal, without the need for an SVA test so the 200tdi disco may be a good place to start at 100 inch wheelbase with your winch, hydro assist and arms installed on it, then with something like a gwyn lewis kit, would be rather capable! C303 axles are still fetching good money and are not everyone cup of tea for UK sites/events, so if sold would fund the rest of the build....... just a thought! Good luck, don't let it rust in peace!

Are you gonna make it for KORC next weekend? Hoping to bring the yellow peril out as well

Thanks for the advice guys! So it looks like its either a handheld GPS or a receiver plugged into my laptop running map software to verify where my location. The Memory Map Adventurer 2800 GPS looks a nice bit of kit, any one else used them? Is there any software or program out there which can take the information on the trailwise maps and overlay it on OS? Or is it always going to be a case of sitting down and plotting out each lane? Are there no transferable gps co-ordinates?

Over this last year I've found myself doing more and more green laning on lanes local to me in North Yorkshire. So far I've found the lanes through GLASS / Trailwise and then transferred them onto OS maps for when out navigating in the car. I'd like to however would like to run them through a laptop with map software, but presumably I'd need a GPS receiver for this? So therefore, before buying anything, I'm interested in how other people get on with navigating (particularly in forest complexes!) and what they use while out an about, just maps? or software as well? Anyway, here's some pics from this weekend, the weather was excellent, views were amazing and the scenery spectacular! Come to Yorkshire, its proper Bo I tell thee! This one shows the rock steps on the rigg, taken back in July 2011

The last time he put it on fleabay he was after about £8K for it....!

I think its part: ETC8560 here: http://www.numcat.ru/landrover/p/31/53198/ Time will tell!!!

Yeah I got no.3 on that drawing, part number ERR9493, but that didn't fit, and it now seams that is a 300tdi pulley i'm looking for. I'll find it one day! (the one that fell off I mean! )

Would that be part no: ETC8560, listed as a 200tdi idler belt pulley?

After buying changing direction with my buggy project and buying another Landrover a couple of weeks back I've got a few things to sort out on it...... One of them is the engine idler pulley, which had just been replaced by the previous owner, but after a short drive decided to part company with the rest of the engine! So now i'm tasked with finding out what the pulley was in the first place? Its a 4 litre John Eales V8 engine, the pulley bolt thread is M12 and its about a 30mm internal diameter, any one have any ideas what it might be off? I was told that it was a TD5 Idler pulley, but they are M10 and about a 24mm internal diameter, unless they differ!?!

North off Road are only up in Middlesbrough and Sean's always helpful! Plus Protection and Performance are over Skipton way, so fairly close as well!

Alas, some muppet will buy it as a cheap Range Rover Sport!!!

Give me a holler if you'd like, I know of a lot round driffield/wetwang, castle howard, langdale and wykeham, should also be free for a day or so.

Not a fan of the contour gauge, as this works a lot lot better and its free.....!!!!! Online tube coping calculator - link here

This is for a friends car, that has left us baffled........ He's just replaced his drivers side door window after it smashed, there doesnt appear to be any impact or chips prior to it breaking, and it smashed all on its own, not even when closing the window! Seams a little odd.....especially when he told me that the passenger one did the exact same thing last year as well!!!! The only thought we had is that it was some scrote trying to break in and baring the window at the middle top (as that seems to be where it shatters from), and that its this weakness that has caused it.......!? So.... Any ideas......?

Superwinch Husky winch..... £10!!!!