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Mar 14, 2024 11:12:58 GMT
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I appreciate that davey 👍 thanks very much. Maybe you could find the time to give me a quote via pm for either 4off 145/80R10 Nankangs, or five decent 4.00-10 crossplies. One of the biggest worries is not ending up with radials that are marked “trailer use only”, or crossplies that are better suited for a wheelbarrow. 🤣
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you might even want the lower grip of crossplies, it's generally better to understeer rather than grip enough to tip over. That is actually a good point. I will endeavour to get the cable off if it ever stops raining.
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Like a can of tartan paint and a long weight from the stores… 🤣
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Mar 13, 2024 23:41:44 GMT
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I shall continue to waver on the tyre issue until it’s clearer how much I am going to have to shell out for a gear cable and wiper arm. A kind Dutch RetroRider has volunteered to try and source/forward the bits for me from Marktplaats, which may well work out significantly cheaper than the €320 that they’ll cost from Waaijenberg. We’ll see.
Another friend, who I was moaning to about the issue earlier, has suggested that it’s likely to be a golf buggy gearbox, and to look in that direction for a cable. First investigations seem favourable, and I think I need to get the old one off to get a proper measurement of length and end fittings.
I have also been pointed in the direction of a Durite pantograph wiper arm that might do the job too…
Onwards and upwards.
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Mar 13, 2024 23:32:43 GMT
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Anti-crack-pipes… 😉
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Mar 13, 2024 22:41:46 GMT
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They certainly made a mess of that. ☹️
Hope nobody got hurt.
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Mar 13, 2024 21:48:42 GMT
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That’s a great result. 👍
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Mar 13, 2024 21:23:07 GMT
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The whole “EP additives/GL5 will eat my gearbox” issue has been done to death on various Land-Rover forums over the years.
Broadly, it seems that the problem was only really an issue with the first generation of those products, and only from certain brands. Information is hazy, but the broad consensus from industry sources suggests that the problem simply doesn’t exist, and hasn’t for years.
Armchair/internet experts will assure you that it will actually cause your vehicle to melt in front of your eyes. Nuns and goldfish will perish. Plagues of locusts. Armageddon.
Personally, I had access to a free supply of extremely high quality Shell GL5 80W90 for a while, and used it for the best part of a decade in my Land-Rover without any issues whatsoever.
Now that I have finally run through the last of it, and have to actually pay for some with my own money, I buy GL4 from Rye Oils, because I’m a cheapskate, not because I think I really need to. 🤣
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Mar 13, 2024 21:13:02 GMT
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You’re welcome to come over and use my lathe if you want.
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Mar 13, 2024 18:07:20 GMT
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These arrived today: The original front one was missing, and the back one was pretty battered and faded. It cost little more for the pair than it would have done for just the front, so it makes sense to replace them both. I have been trying to get a new forward/reverse selector cable and wiper arm. These don’t seem to be readily available “universal” items, although I’m certain that they must at one point have been common. Anyway, there’s a bloke on the Dutch “Marktplaats” website who breaks Cantas, but it appears that I can’t register as a buyer on there without Dutch credentials. I did try getting a Dutch mobile number via an internet phone service, but that didn’t work. I managed to get a contact email for him via the Canta Facebook group, but he hasn’t responded. I tried another specialist who has also not responded… So, today, I bit the bullet and emailed Waaijenberg directly. I got a friendly response back within an hour, with price and availability of the parts, and once I have been paid I will just order them from there. They are pretty expensive, and €26 for postage doesn’t help (and no doubt customs charges too), but I am now at the point where I can’t progress much without the gear cable at the very least, as that’s stopping me from putting the front end back together. I’m still havering over tyres. My heart says that the 145 radials are the way to go, but my head is saying that I should just buy a set of the much cheaper 4.00-10 crossplies. Four more 145s is another £200, and will need the extra work to make them fit. I can have four crossplies for half that, leave one of the knackered old ones as a spare, and just throw them straight on. If we were keeping it then I could justify the extra, but I don’t want to get too deep into the spend on it as the cable and wiper parts are going to take us north of a grand now… What do we all think this is going to be worth come sale time? I would think that by the time I have an MoT I’m going to have something between £1200 and £1400 sunk in it. I’m not interested in whether or not I make a fortune out of it, as the journey is the point, but do we think that the extra cost and aggro of the radial tyres is going to make or break a sale?
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Mar 12, 2024 18:41:34 GMT
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I am considering building a semi-permanent carport type structure over my lorry, to both shelter it (and me, when I am working on it), and to give me somewhere to work on other vehicles once the thing is mobile again. At the moment I am thinking about just felt over a structure made of treated timber and pallets, but that metal profile roofing is tempting too.
I suppose it would really come down to budget and whether or not you want to buy new, or salvage secondhand.
Insulation would be really worthwhile at this stage if you ultimately intend to fully enclose the space, but is pretty pointless if you always intend to leave it open sided.
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Mar 11, 2024 11:59:52 GMT
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We have a wild bee colony in our garden, which are quite welcome as they are very good neighbours. We had some wasps last year that I left alone too because they do a good job of pest control. Also, because they stung my father in law, so they’re obviously on my side. 😃👍
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Liked for the progress, not the wasp stings.
Pretty much every time I see how kind your climate is to elderly tin, it’s soon followed by a reminder that the price you pay is an excess of stingy, bity, critters hell bent on ruining your day.
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Why I like what I like. glenanderson
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Mar 10, 2024 15:34:01 GMT
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New thread just for the Maxi then? 😃👍
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If you do end up going the diesel route, that’s something I do know a bit about. I’m not a million miles away from you if you want to come over and have a look around my Land-Rover. I think Andy moved to wales...... Ah, yes, I think you’re right. Scratch that idea then. 🤣
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If you do end up going the diesel route, that’s something I do know a bit about. I’m not a million miles away from you if you want to come over and have a look around my Land-Rover.
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Can you not set up the fuel return to mimic that of the original setup in the BMW?
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1932 Ford 5W Coupe.glenanderson
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What's a useable offcut vs scrap is up there with what's for tea in terms of hard life choices as an adult. I’m quite a squirrel when it comes to keeping stuff that might be suitable for repurposing. Generally speaking, by the time I get to weighing stuff in, even metalshapes couldn’t make anything useful from it. I suspect most of his stuff would have had even less potential than mine. 🤣🤣
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I was going to suggest you just pick a RAL colour that you like and throw it about with gay abandon. 😃👍
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Hopefully there’s gussets too.
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