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Surely you could get something large, shiney and obnoxious off a Jeepney to fit. Or maybe from one of your rail plants that don't seem to be going anywhere. I could just see you driving around town with that massive steel bumper. Especially if it has the nudge points, still.   Sorry for the large pic, it's not mine. *edit* Ohhh fancy! |
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P38 bumper, $235 US: linkUS, so you'd have to arrange pickup and importation. He's breaking his 02 and has lots of other P38 items available. Found online..., also US. This guy buiilds P38 offroad accessories, including bumpers. RockRover |
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Surely you could get something large, shiney and obnoxious off a Jeepney to fit. The most obnoxious thing on a Jeepney is the driver! |
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Surely you could get something large, shiney and obnoxious off a Jeepney to fit. The most obnoxious thing on a Jeepney is the driver! Quality |
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Caravans are cool
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I've had a few p38's a few land rovers and a few discos I've decided I only like disco 1 300 tdi autos lol
Anyway there's a scrappy local to me who's owner hoards landys of all kinds dozens and dozens of em there must be 200 (apart from them gaylander things) if it's any use to you I will get the bumpers you need for peanuts and wrap them for shipping
I think tho it's shipping that will be the killer
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Caravans are cool
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P38 bumper, $235 US: linkUS, so you'd have to arrange pickup and importation. He's breaking his 02 and has lots of other P38 items available. Found online..., also US. This guy buiilds P38 offroad accessories, including bumpers. RockRoverThanks for the suggestions, unfortunately there's no way I'm getting involved in shipping anything from the States. Every time I've tried it's been a nightmare. It seems that Donald Trump wants to stop things coming in, but they've been stopping things getting out for years!  As I've said before, Customs here work on the phases of the moon, but the big killer is if your total including shipping comes in at over US$500, then they really go to town. Fortunately, I'd shipped all the big stuff, wheels, exhaust, prop shafts, etc., prior to the 500 ruling coming into force, but bumpers would definitely fall into that trap along with a world of pain.My preference is to find someone here who can make steel ones. That will be the most cost effective as labour is very cheap. I also want them to follow the original lines as much as possible, especially the front, so I can refit the skirt with its spotlights and keep it looking fairly stock. The skinny ones that RockRover builds just don't do it for me. Having all the front gubbins on show reminds me of a fat lass who's walked out of the loo with the back of her frock tucked in her knickers! So I may just get my front one repaired whilst I track down a good fabricator. |
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I've had a few p38's a few land rovers and a few discos I've decided I only like disco 1 300 tdi autos lol Anyway there's a scrappy local to me who's owner hoards landys of all kinds dozens and dozens of em there must be 200 (apart from them gaylander things) if it's any use to you I will get the bumpers you need for peanuts and wrap them for shipping I think tho it's shipping that will be the killer That's a very kind offer, thank you. You are right though, with something like that, you get hit two ways, weight and volume, which conspires to jack the cost up astronomically. Stick duties on that and it really ceases to be viable to ship. I know this of old! I think it's easier all round to stick with a temporary repair of some sort and get steel ones made, but thanks again for the offer. I may just ask about a few small interior plastic bits, if the ones I've been waiting for from the States for the last 14 months don't show! |
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Last Edit: Jun 2, 2016 22:49:10 GMT by georgeb
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If only you were nearer
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Caravans are cool
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Get someone to fly over with some industrial strength 'skis'  |
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Sorry for the large pic, it's not mine. A little tip here I discovered. Put your pic in and when you have finished, go to Preview, then back to BBCode. You will note that when you go back to BBCode part of the img code will now be "style="max-width:100%", or similar. Just change the 100 to 60 or 50, whatever lights your candle, have another look in Preview, make any further adjustments in BBCode and you're done. I changed yours to 50%. Clever huh? |
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Jul 12, 2016 23:37:51 GMT
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Sooo, not much happening on the RR front at the moment, except... I've had a guy mithering me to sell it to him for a while and now I'm thinking seriously about his offer, and why? Well, I can't deny an influx of cash would be handy just about now, but it's also looking like my next job will take me to Indonesia for three months or so starting in August. It's a two year project altogether but after the initial bit, I'd do much of the work from here with the odd fly-in fly-out visit. So rather than having it sit around, I'm very tempted to take the offer and then, when I know I've a steady income stream again, scratch my Jaguar itch when I get back.  Just having a nose on the ever popular olx.com and there's an older Vanden Plas that looks nice, an XJR and a rather sweet XK8. Hmmm. Decisions, decisions. |
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Jul 12, 2016 23:42:21 GMT
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Don't sell!!!!! Please? Love the old girl and she has to class as one of the family by now surely? Cheers Matt |
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Besides, what will you tow the Jag home with when it breaks down? |
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Jul 20, 2016 10:37:54 GMT
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Is there any Lording/Pimping feel to a Jaaaag! parked outside Adriatico?
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Jul 20, 2016 17:10:02 GMT
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Besides, what will you tow the Jag home with when it breaks down? why, the 'hateful' fortuna of course!! |
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Besides, what will you tow the Jag home with when it breaks down? why, the 'hateful' fortuna of course!! Wash your mouth out! Anyway, the '38 is here to stay so what's next? Okay, so when I first got this thing, it had slightly wandery steering, reminiscent of my old Series 2. However, with a little bit of judicial adjustment at the box, we eliminated that and it's been spot on ever since. Well, nearly... The other day I was on a dead straight road doing around 40kph (a massive achievement here) when it felt like the road wheels had become disconnected from the one in front of me. Cranking the wheel to the left caught up with things, but it had a distinctly, and I mean distinctly vague feel about it in the straight ahead position. The wheel has to be at around 45 degrees left to maintain level flight, whereas before, it was dead straight. If I'd hit a bloody great pothole, my first stop would have been tracking, but I was on one of the roads that was re-done for the Pope's visit, so it's like a billiard table - for now anyway. It also doesn't account for the suddenness of the occurrence. Yesterday I whizzed it around the corner to the little place that does my oil changes (they won't let me do them in the "Pit of Hell") and whilst it was up in the air, I swung around on all sorts of things, got big leavers and heaved. The only thing with a tiny amount of play was the ARB bushes and, as I had some in stock, I threw them on when I got home. The old ones were a mite soft, but not what you'd call excessive. There was also no evidence that the bar had been shifting around in the bush. I also checked the tightness of the drop links I replaced a couple of months ago. The result? No difference whatsoever! So back to square one. I still think the suddenness with which it happened is the clue. One minute all fine and dandy on a dead flat and straight road, the next trying to tramline its way across four lanes. Just frustrating when there's nothing obvious to see. Investigations continued this morning and, GOTCHA! By the power of technology and balancing my phone on top of a torch, I filmed every joint whilst moving the wheel back and forth and there, on video 4 is the lower panhard rod bush doing absolutely nothing! You could only see it when the road wheels had weight on them, hence why it'd been missed. So let's go up the up the road to a little "bush" place, in the hopes it's a fairly standard size and we can do a quick swop.  You've got to love the make do and mend mentality you get in this part of the world. So I pulls in my chosen establishment, tell them I need new panhard rod bushes and straight away he say's, "Yes sir, Peso 350 each and 600 labour" without even looking. On enquiring if he's sure they've got the right size, he looks at me gone out and says, "We make them." Oh, okay then. A guy dives underneath, rips the rod off and passes it to a young lad who disappears around the back. Twenty minutes later he reappears with a perfectly bushed rod. And what do they use? Truck tyre carcasses. All clever stuff.  A tenner for two bushes plus a tenner for the job and so for twenty quid, I've got perfect steering again. Nice! They inject new material into failed ball joints and remake engine/gearbox mounts as well. I'll remember them. |
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Last Edit: Oct 10, 2016 6:33:49 GMT by georgeb
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Time for George's bushings emporium to start exporting them to Rimmers et al perhaps?! Edited - only a Smartphone could want to change 'Rimmers et al' to 'Rimmed etc all' !!! |
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Last Edit: Oct 10, 2016 12:54:37 GMT by fer4l
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Oct 10, 2016 10:05:14 GMT
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Do recycled truck tyre bushes have a decent life expectancy? Not questioning their suitability, I'm genuinely curious.
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www.Auto-tat.co.uk'96 Range Rover P38 DSE (daily driver) '71 Reliant Scimitar SE5 GTE 3.0ltr Jag V6 Conversion '79 Reliant Scimitar SE6A 3.0ltr 24valve Omega Conversion '85 Escort Cabrio 2.0 Zetec - Sold '91 BMW 525i - Sold '82 Cortina 2.9i Ghia Cosworth - Sold '72 VW Campervan - Sold '65 LandRover 88" - Sold
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Oct 10, 2016 20:25:36 GMT
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Time for George's bushings emporium to start exporting them to Rimmers et al perhaps?! Edited - only a Smartphone could want to change 'Rimmers et al' to 'Rimmed etc all' !!! That would depend if they can outlast a Britpart! Do recycled truck tyre bushes have a decent life expectancy? Not questioning their suitability, I'm genuinely curious. I really don't know and I'm as interested as anyone to find out. The owner of the place talked me through the various things they did with obvious pride and enthusiasm, but whether this equates to longevity...who knows? They put a three month warranty on them, which is about as long as you get for anything here, and given that I was back on the road in less than an hour, it's worth a punt. He told me to drop in for a brew whenever I was passing, but said he didn't expect to see me for replacement anytime soon. I shall report back. |
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Oct 23, 2016 14:10:20 GMT
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So today I did a semi-oil change. "Whoopee bloody doo" I hear you say and yes, you'd be right, except it's only two weeks since the last one. Last time I came to do this, my usual place was full of dead cars and they couldn't get me in, so I went around the corner to my local Caltex station where they offer the same service. Remember, I'm a messy curse word when it comes to oil. Always have been. I normally do changes around every 2,000km at most as I do a fair bit of short runs coupled with hours sitting in traffic in +30 degrees, both hard on oil. My normal place sells Mobil 1 20W-50 so that's what goes in and for three years she's been happy. The new place uses Halvoline 20W-50, which is actually one of the brands recommended in the handbook. As an aside, 20W-50 is about the only grade you'll see here, we don't need cold weather oils. So the first couple of days, all is fine and dandy, then I just catch the sound of a small rattle as an echo going up a parking ramp. "Strange" thinks I. the next couple of runs were only short and with no problems. Then, on Saturday, I take her for a fair trip and the noise is back, only louder. It definitely sounds valve train-ish and, of course, you start to imagine the worst. Then I get to thinking, "Wonder if she doesn't like Halvoline?" And lets face it, always start at the cheap end, eh? To be honest as well, the idea of doing lifters and cam at this very moment does NOT appeal, either financially or location-wise. This morning I'm awake at 3am and decided to test my theory. I've got 4 litres of Castrol GTX in stock, plus an unopened litre of Mobil 1 in the car so it's time for a Mess-less TM oil change. Step 1:  Coke bottle Step 2:  Ghetto Funnel, along with Daddy's Little Helper Step 3:  Oil pan. It's bloody good job Madam and the Girls are in Tondo. I'd be dead meat now! Step 4:  Oil. The plan is to drop out 5 or so litres and replace. The filter would just make too much mess and, now 5.30am, I've only got that much new oil. I figure that replacing 76.923% of the oil should prove, or otherwise, my clutching-at-straws theory. Down we go and under the motor. Carefully place pan and undo sump plug. Oil obligingly goes into pan rather than over the floor. I guess at quantities and stick the plug back in with only minimal arm drippage. So far, so good. Using Ghetto Funnel, throw in the Castrol then, whilst that runs through, place now empty Castrol bottle into pre-thought of carrier bag (to act as bund), gaffer tape the funnel to top and pour oil from pan. Success! Although the bund was a damn fine idea. Top up with the litre of Mobil to level, tidy up, test drive. The result? Now been out twice today and so far, not a peep out of it. Let's see how we get on, but I think I'll be dropping the whole lot out, filter and all on Tuesday. And what conclusions can we draw? Well, it's a tad early to say, but either my ageing V8 really, really doesn't like Halvoline, or the Caltex station is using repackaged chip fat. Who knows? I think the longest part of this project will be cleaning the pan. It's still got a slight sheen on the water in it. |
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