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Aug 15, 2024 14:38:49 GMT
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Hi again James.
I could almost certainly find a home for those. The snag would be getting them from you, particularly if you want them moved anytime soon.
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Aug 15, 2024 10:17:10 GMT
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I could well be interested James. Stick a picture up and I’ll let you know. 👍
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Aug 14, 2024 20:16:15 GMT
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Only one thumbs up isn’t enough. 👍👍👍👍
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Fun On The Farm.glenanderson
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Aug 14, 2024 10:50:01 GMT
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Another cat called Spot:
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The sixes are a lovely, smooth, torquey engine. They sound glorious. They’re thirsty though, the best I ever managed to get out of one was 18mpg, driving like a nun. It was normally low teens and I would say the way I was driving mine I would have been lucky to get into double figures. The 4-cylinder petrol was nowhere near as refined as the six, but less stressed and a bit more economical. 20/21 on a run driving gently, and overall around 16/17. They would both be easy to get under 10 though; I once managed 94 miles from 10 gallons when my 109” was 2.25 petrol powered.
I have always liked the sixes, but I do too many miles still to want to feed one. An old mate of mine had the 3-litre engine out of a Rover saloon in his, complete with the Weslake head. That went really well and sounded like a sports car.
The 2.25 diesel did 22-26 mpg regardless of how you drove it.
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Aug 13, 2024 20:17:52 GMT
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Yeah, I’m pretty chuffed about the economy. Although I was deliberately holding it as close to 60 as possible on the motorway, in an attempt to get a reasonable mileage (and because faster than that is pointless in my experience), I was also holding it at 60 for the entirety of some pretty stiff climbs; Brough on the A66 and Beattock on the A74 both meant foot to the floor in 4th to hold 60 all the way. The A-Road driving meant lots and lots of up-and-down the gearbox too, and I wasn’t babying it at all; I had a great time throwing it around the twisties, so to get nearly 36 to the gallon over the entire trip was awesome. 😃👍
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Aug 13, 2024 16:16:03 GMT
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Overnight stop at a campsite just past Matlock. As we were passing through Bakewell we decided to do an impromptu detour to call by an old friend's place as I had not been able to contact him for a while. Sadly, my suspicions were confirmed and I learned that he had passed away. There is an outside possibility that this may lead to a new project, but I am not broadcasting or getting my hopes up about it as it's as "outside" a chance as it's possible to get right now, both financially and physically. Anyway. Got home yesterday with no bother from the Land-Rover (shame the same couldn't be said of the traffic on the M25). All in all we did 1,393 miles in the seven days we were away, over the course of five days of driving. Cruising speed of 60 mph on the motorways. Overall avarage fuel consumption for the trip was 35.8mpg; very pleased with that. I will definitely need to get my act in gear with the steering box swap and, while I'm at it, investigate the steering relay situation properly. There's a definite stiffness again to the steering, which at speed on the motorway makes things uncomfortably twitchy. When I went through the steering recently all the other components were fine, and the relay was really stiff. It appears that the freeing off I managed has been short lived. It's a pattern relay and I have a genuine one in the shed that's in need of new seals, so I will go through that and have it ready to fit when I swap the steering boxes.
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We ran down from Loch Ness to Arran on Friday. Only about 150 miles, but a seven hour journey with traffic on the A82, then simply the roads meaning 45-50 mph being a maximum not a cruise, plus the wait for a ferry. Once on the island the last 30 odd miles took an hour and a quarter. A two nights and a day on the island catching up with very old friends, and a lucky bit of timing to catch the Highland Games and marching bands. On the ferry now for the start of the long run south. Planned overnight at Matlock, and home tomorrow.
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I doubt that any of us on here are what non car people would term normal Glen. I suspect you’re quite right. 🤪
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Yes, they’re a fail. Although they need to be split or visibly deteriorated to fail; they’re not tested on their performance.
I’m one of those people who can’t tolerate juddery wipers though, so I tend to change them well before the point where “normal”* people would consider doing it.
* normal people are weird.
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Thanks @snowglobe.
The Halfords one is 11”, they don’t do a 10” anymore.
I haven’t been able to get 10” Bosch ones for years, and although that link is for a 12” they do list a 10”. I will see if my local Euro has stock. Might be worth a go, even though they’re three times the price of the cheapies I’m using. Bosch were always my preference back when I could get them.
The Amazon ones would fit, but I suspect they are the same product that I am buying from the Land-Rover specialist for under £3 a blade, so if I don’t have any luck with the Bosch ones I think I will stick with what I have and replace them whenever I get fed up with the smearing.
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A82 area somewhere near Drumnadrochit ? Yep. 👍
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All the family stuff went off without drama yesterday, so an evening chilling with the lad, followed by an early ish start this morning and another couple of hundred miles northwards to Loch Ness. Twisty roads and tourist traffic mean low average speeds, so those miles took us a good chunk of time. Still, parked up, tent up, walk to the lochside and back before the rain set in. It’s Scotland after all. 🤣 Have a moody shot of the loch, and a blurry one of the Land-Rover through the tent window. 😃👍
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Have you had a look at rear wipers for modern cars? I have a Skoda Karoq and I think that rear wiper is around 10" Most rear wipers are the kind of clunky streamlined plastic affairs that either won’t fit or will look awful.
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They’re not brilliant, but there is next to no alternative in 10” blades anymore. I find they last around a year, but they’re so cheap that I don’t mind that.
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So. What’s next? I have decided to do away with the two ex-minibus seat setup in the back. It’s too awkward for a grown adult to get into, and having to sit it high enough to clear the wheel box means that it’s too upright and uncomfortable for a rapidly growing 15-year-old too. Not to mention the fact that it’s too heavy for a 55-year old to manhandle in and out alone either. So the idea now is to have a single one fitted over towards the driver’s side, held a couple of inches lower and tilted backwards slightly. I should be able to modify the current base to that effect without too much trouble. In the meantime I have refitted the sideways bench towards the front of the passenger’s side thus: That should keep the jobsworths at the tip at bay while I do the necessary with the minibus seat. Then I had a look in my rear locker. Fox picture! That’s water. I have no idea how it could get there. We have had a bit of rain, but there’s no indication of any leaks elsewhere in that vicinity. I mopped it up and will monitor. Then, in preparation for our little road trip I went around and checked every bolt and fixing I have disturbed recently and then stuck a fresh pair of wiper blades on it. Six o’ clock this morning we left Dover. Half past five this evening we rolled into the hotel car park in Ayr, Scotland. 490 odd miles without drama. 😃👍
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The last one I rebuilt leaked from the seals where the oil cooler bolts to the block. Still not sure whether it was my mistake or pattern seals. Replacing them sorted it though.
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Cool. I do like a Trabbie. I had to do the same kind of significant repairs in the boot of my last one. Good luck with it. 😃👍
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1990 Bedford Rascalglenanderson
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I have always had a soft spot for these little vans. I’m in for the ride. 😃👍
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If I’m honest, the likelihood of a snapped halfshaft is pretty slim since I fitted the later Salisbury rear axle, but it’s still possible to strip the splines in a rear drive member, and once bitten, twice shy. 😉
I also really like the engineering in the automatic hubs. They’re very simple. The downside to them is that they don’t allow any engine braking, which makes them a bit “interesting” if you’re in a proper hardcore off-road situation.*
* this is not a situation that I am ever likely to be finding myself. 🤣
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