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- Thu Mar 12, 2009 8:31 am
- Forum: Technical Info
- Topic: dum diff question
- Replies: 7
- Views: 18170
dum diff question
as my front diff has gone to landrover heaven and its rotting carcass is about to be ripped from the axle - i have sourced a replacement (cheers nick!). its a 24 spline axle from the back of a disco with that stupid rubber doughnut end instead of the usual 4 bolt flange and UJ, Just a very quick sil...
- Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:09 pm
- Forum: Technical Info
- Topic: Reversing rims
- Replies: 14
- Views: 34117
i'm with lancaster and do the same modification form. luckily they dont give a monkeys about the springs cos they are genuine LR part numbers and they dont care about what shocks i use - but the rest of the stuff is all declared and they have never asked for an engineers report. Lancasters reasoning...
- Tue Jan 27, 2009 1:35 pm
- Forum: Technical Info
- Topic: Reversing rims
- Replies: 14
- Views: 34117
Very few steel wheels, if any, sit flush with the hub. If you look closely at their design there is normally a raised ring that holds most of the knave plate slightly clear of the hub. This means that when you tighten the wheel nuts you are actually flexing the knave plate inwards and that slight &...
- Tue Jan 27, 2009 10:59 am
- Forum: Technical Info
- Topic: Reversing rims
- Replies: 14
- Views: 34117
Reversing rims
So as to not clog up the wheel spacer thread with slightly off topic stuff - a new thread seems in order. i am seriously thinking about having a go at turning the disco rims i have on my 90. The usual method is to grind out the welds, hammer the centre out with a 20 million pound lump hammer or hydr...
- Fri Jan 16, 2009 7:24 pm
- Forum: Technical Info
- Topic: WHEEL SPACERS AND WHEELS
- Replies: 15
- Views: 44007
i do understand why poeple want to use them though - if you have a set of alloys on your motor and want to keep them and not have a second set of gay-spokes for trialling and all the hassle of swapping wheels for every event, then using spacers gives you the offset of gayspokes but the good looks of...
- Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:46 pm
- Forum: Member's Vehicles
- Topic: Hell's Earth Strap
- Replies: 3
- Views: 15240
- Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:14 am
- Forum: Member's Vehicles
- Topic: Australia 2008
- Replies: 75
- Views: 216307
- Mon Oct 06, 2008 3:28 pm
- Forum: Member's Vehicles
- Topic: Australia 2008
- Replies: 75
- Views: 216307
- Sun Sep 21, 2008 6:14 pm
- Forum: Technical Info
- Topic: Discovery sunroof leak
- Replies: 10
- Views: 42242
- Fri Sep 19, 2008 3:46 pm
- Forum: Technical Info
- Topic: Discovery sunroof leak
- Replies: 10
- Views: 42242
done a write up of how to remove the interior and fix a leaky sunroof - it can be found here:-
http://www.muddy-tyres.net/standard.aspx?page_id=30
http://www.muddy-tyres.net/standard.aspx?page_id=30
- Sun Sep 14, 2008 7:24 pm
- Forum: Technical Info
- Topic: Discovery sunroof leak
- Replies: 10
- Views: 42242
well it is fixed!
me and hadyn cracked on and got it all sorted,
one of the drain tubes had snapped where it joins the plastic cup.
anyway - took loads of pictures and notes and will bung it up on the new and improved www.muddy-tyres.net website in the next day or so.
me and hadyn cracked on and got it all sorted,
one of the drain tubes had snapped where it joins the plastic cup.
anyway - took loads of pictures and notes and will bung it up on the new and improved www.muddy-tyres.net website in the next day or so.
- Fri Sep 12, 2008 2:28 pm
- Forum: Member's Vehicles
- Topic: Rod's bobtail project
- Replies: 32
- Views: 153473
- Fri Sep 12, 2008 2:24 pm
- Forum: Member's Vehicles
- Topic: Roger's RRC: An update
- Replies: 252
- Views: 935246
Re: tyres
and discovered that the wheel centres of the steel wheels don't appear to be flat... At least they took a fair bit of pulling down on the nuts... Hmm - I just thought, maybe I should take them off and look at the hubs... I checked the tyre clearances on full lock and both sides clear, but only by a...
- Thu Sep 11, 2008 4:23 pm
- Forum: Technical Info
- Topic: Discovery sunroof leak
- Replies: 10
- Views: 42242
- Thu Sep 11, 2008 11:01 am
- Forum: Technical Info
- Topic: Discovery sunroof leak
- Replies: 10
- Views: 42242
Discovery sunroof leak
the disco 2 has leaky sunroofs..
so does anybody have any tips about dropping the headlining down and fixing the leaky drain holes and seals before i spend sunday swearing at it and setting fire the thing in frustration?
any help would be appreciated.
so does anybody have any tips about dropping the headlining down and fixing the leaky drain holes and seals before i spend sunday swearing at it and setting fire the thing in frustration?
any help would be appreciated.