Chris Sheppard

And the ones off the front of my 130 were huge - bigger again than off the equivalent 110 as it took several attempts to get pads for the front. Might be different now though. I've never tried Old Man Emu myself but have only ever heard good about them. Have fitted several sets of Terrafirma springs and shocks to other vehicles (not my own) and wasn't hugely impressed with them, but they were still loads better than britpart EDIT: the Bearmach blue springs seem to be holding up well so far on my 90, but it's never really carrying an awful lot.

On the whole, I'd agree, but not always. I've maybe just been lucky, but I had one I bought as a non runner that I took out of the box, put fresh fuel in and it runs great, and another that just wanted a fresh diaphram in the carb. If you only bid what it's worth to you as spares then anything better has got to be a bonus surely?

Are you still running the standard twin spring set up Pete? If so, I reckon a fresh set of Genuine ones are the best for carrying the weight - most aftermarket stuff isn't worth a crap for proper work. They should easily outlast any aftermarket ones too. Also, to be able to keep the inner spring, you need something that's near enough the same length as the standard ones too. My 130 was an ex electric board single cab and still had the anti roll bars on - was like a go kart empty and even with the quadtech body fiilled to the brim with logs it still handled OK (ish). Sensibly loaded (so 3 cube or so of logs) nd it was fine.

Can't remember exact quantities of ingredients but pretty much it's a case of boiling up the sap, dissolving sugar into it, letting it cool, add some generic wine yeast and then sit it in a demijohn for a while. bottle it up once finished fermenting, wait a few weeks and enjoy I did 2 batches of 5 litres and made one with more sugar - ended up with one niceely sweet and the other medium(ish). There's a thread I started on here somewhere. EDIT: Here - http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/lounge/41427-birch-sap-wine.html

Pretty sure there's someone on here done it successfully - have a feeling it could be 18stoner. Physically, from what I've seen the only differences are bigger front brakes and the helper springs inside the rear springs. FWIW, I took the original springs off my old 130 and fitted some aftermarket HD ones on and they were crap in comparison to the standard double spring set up. Every 110 HD I've seen so far though has also come through LRSV and has had an extra plate welded along most of the length of the top and bottom of the chassis rails too - a bit like on the 130's, though whether or not it's on every single 3.5T one I'm not sure.

Have done a few beer kits and a couple of cider kits with varying results - so far the best beer was a Mild made with a very cheap kit, but it could come down to method (read lack of attention) as much as ingredients. If I could get even close to that again I'd be really happy. Everything's been drinkable but it does seem on the whole to get better the longer it's left. Not had any disasters yet, but nearly did when I used a little too much sugar when bottling and started to find the caps bulging after a couple of weeks Not tried wine from a kit but have made both birch and elderberry so far - the birch worked out really quite well.

Pretty sure it's not quite as simple as that, though I may be wrong.

Never had the problem with restarting but can completely agree with where you're coming from - not that the 346 was a bad saw particularly, just badly in need of updating properly well before it was replaced IMO.

Thought you might say that Bellamy, if it's running fine at the mo, I'd keep running it and if you have the funds/need for a new saw then get that as and when. The 254 would make a good back up saw or if not should be quite easy to move on, especially being a late model and even more so if it's in nice condition. FWIW, I've had no problems with my 550 so far and have had it about 18 months now.

Can't disagree with that - I was going to put 242 down as number 1 the only thing that comes close to it now is the 550 and it's still not quite the same, though the extra power makes up for it. But, if I could only have one saw to do everything then it would be a 372.

I fitted on of the ARB 357/359 kits to a 357 a couple of years ago and it didn't seem bad considering that it's a third/quarter of the cost of genuine. Lik the others have said, the 359's a little down on power compared to the 357, but it's really not that noticalble on the whole. I run a 2159 jonsered as well as another 357 and I'll still happily take the 2159 out felling. I think it's more of a mellower power delivery than being loads less powerful - bit like comparing the older 353's and 346's. The 357 I put the cylinder kit on ran fine and happily pulled an 18" bar in some hairy Pines.

Not read thrrough the whole thread but I wouldn'd hesitate to swap a 346 for a 550. Mine's been fine and is a revelation compared to a 346 in finer branched stuff but with enough grunt for heavier limbed stuff that might ordinarily have meant swaying more towards a 357. I can't really comment on problems as so far mine's been problem free. Used to flood it quite often to start with but that was operator error more than anything else.

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Ta, checked breather today and if it was blocked, it's not now. Topped the diff up and shoved a new cap on so will see how it goes tomorrow. Didn't check wheel bearing but will give it a wiggle

That's some going, but wonder how long he can run it for at a time bfore it goes pop

My Wife is the head of her department at a well known Agricultural college, with more staff and students under her than the rest of the college departments put together. Whilst some of the staff might aspire to it, most won't ever get to that job position in their whole carrer, so for her to have done it in less than 5 years from first entering teaching and before reaching 30 too, I'd say is something to be proud of. Somehow, she's put up with me and my ways for nearly 12 years now (married for 7).

So, driving along today and get's a worryingly strong whiff of warm EP90. Pulls over and has a look underneath, expecting a nasty surprise but nothing That's when I realised the rubber cap had come off the drive flange on the driver's front wheel and had been oozing/spraying over the wheel (enough to mostly cover the whole rim). Not 100% sure but it seems too thick to be just EP90 but too runny to be one shot so thinking it's maybe a bit of both. It's done this twice now, the first time was a few months ago and I just put a new cap on and thought no more about it, but twice on the same wheel seems to suggest there may be something amiss. Not had this happen with any of the previous ones so bit unsure. Anyone any suggstions before I start taking stuff to bits?

On the whole, I'd agree, but not this time. I'm only the second owner and as far as I can tell all of the running gear/engine/transmission is the same it left the factory with - I'm pretty sure it's still running its original head too. The guy I bought it from was retired and had used it purely as a car with some very occaisional towing of a tiny single axle caravan so it had never been stressed. I've a huge file full of reciepts and invoices relating to it to back up it's history. I replaced the chassis a couple of years ago and even that would have been repairable if I'd wanted to. I've had had a few LR with over 200K on but they always felt tired and had on the whole been messed around with and tadged up with poor quality parts - this one is pretty much original and unmolested and still returns between 27 and 32mpg, and drives like a truck with a lot less miles than it has. I know it's not going to be trouble free forever but even if I was to send it to the crusher tomorrow, it would still have been a very cheap truck to run while I've had it, even taking into account the new chassis.

I've not seen a shortage round here as such - we can always sell more than we can cut and have as much in front of us as we had time time to cut so all good. Main difference for this year is that we have only been dealing with one customer this year which has meant less headaches.

300 Tdi, Jon

The old 90 hit a bit of a milestone today Befre anyone says it, yes I know how sad it was to stop and take a photo Did have to chuckle at how typically landrover wonky it was though

Ta That is a thing of beauty (and I want it!)

My old 90's currently on 299,800(ish) miles and only has one small oil leak so far - not even enough to leave a patch on the drive

I managed a couple of hours this aft. Caught up with a few faces I'd not seen for a while and nicely surprised how much was there too

Wondered if some of the stuff of the list might have been yours Do you know if Dan's there with his horse? Haven't seen him in ages.