scraggs
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We found it wasn't worth the saving for road derv, quite often it worked out slightly dearer but was more convenient, you need to buy in huge volume to save on it.
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They are very well liked by people but the biggest they do is quite a bit under the extreme 4x4 ones, and when I spoke to extreme they were happy for me to try them and if I don't like them so long as I haven't bashed them they will happily take them back, that said they are about the same price.
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Well everything arrived today, and it's all got to go back The springs don't fit, measuring them it appears they have been wound too loose, and the air suspension has the wrong bottom plates and doesn't appear to fit very well with even the new but lower rated springs I am taking off, as there is a very large gap and the top and bottom plates won't stay in. I didn't realise but extreme 4x4 are only down the road from me, and they have a set of standard height HD springs but they aren't cheap.
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I had a heck of a job finding a set of bearmach HD springs (ba2100), they have none available until at least the end of the month possibly longer, managed to get the last set on ebay
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I looked at the terrafirma 2" lift HD springs as I was struggling to get a set of bearmach HD springs, terrafirmas are rated at 420lbft/in & the bearmachs are rated at 510lbft/in. The standard rears for a 3500kg are rated at 330lbft/in
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Mine is just a flat bed not a tipper, it has all new genuine landy springs with assisters and boge shocks and we are finding it's way too soft, so have a set of bearmach heavy duty springs and air assistors coming tomorrow, can let you know how much better it is when we try it next week.
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I wear these pit boots from william lennon once worn in they are really comfortable, take a hell of a battering and a lot of concrete, and best of all they are made in britain
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just realised i've done something very stupid!
scraggs replied to Matthew Storrs's topic in General chat
We use 15/40 in our 300tdi's Personally I would dump it out as soon as you can and change the filter, you aren't looking at a great expense. Lesson to be learnt "never mess with the oil drums" I once put chain oil in a brake fluid container when I was young and stupid, yep you guessed it -
Haha that has to be a Gardner engine I looked at a mickey mouse foden last year with a 150 Gardner when it was started we had to get out of the barn until all the smoke cleared about 10 mins later Lovely lumps once warmed up
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Or a replacement head at any point ?
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A standard contract with BOC is an excellent way to waste a fair bit of money every year imo unless you do a lot of welding or use other gases, there are now buy-able bottles with argoshield equivalent, but I like BOC gases so As an alternative there is this from BOC Volkzone offer probably best to go straight to the last page. Although the deal is for argoshield light (unless they finally changed it) you can get away with using it on heavy without problems.
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cheers for that, I will get it all ordered tomorrow. I'm not worried about it being too hard, if the truck isn't loaded it will always have the crane trailer on it which is a bit nose heavy so should be ok.
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Do you have the britpart kit britpart
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Anyone running bearmach hd 130 rear springs ?, when I rebuilt the 130 I put all new genuine springs and assisters on but took it out loaded today and it's pretty saggy on the back end. Am thinking of fitting bearmach hd springs and air assisters
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get the mag sheets covered in a vinyl similar to the colour they are going on and then the signage on that, doesn't look too bad done that way
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That opens a whole can of worms imo So customer has both me and subby price job, as far as the customer knows we are 2 completely different firms, I come over as more professional than the subby so the customer is happy to pay a little extra, then customer ends up with job being done by the cheaper subby but at the more expensive price, I see problems with that. It's pretty simple for me, if subby wants permanent signage and roll up in signed vehicle to my jobs, then I will find myself another subby.
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Everything came from service metals in Braintree, they were really helpful, all the alloy raves and sides were cut to size by them.
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personally I wouldn't deal with you if you turned up with your name on my job, looks unprofessional on my companies part imo, sort of as if I aren't professional enough to to the job.
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dragging this thread back up, here is what I built. Just mudguards, rope eyes and possibly gantry (depends how much weight I have left to spare) to sort and then get some paint on all of it.
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From the album: bike
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From the album: bike
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similar thing, I put down something dry, kneel down on it then clamp the saw between my legs and sharpen, have done it that way since I started. Guess I'm in better shape than I thought then
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But that does and doesn't help, another problem with rangers is that when you put them in low range it automatically puts the front diff lock in which is fine if you are going in a straight line. I would happily swap my 09 plate for an earlier immaculate one as I find towing and delivering all day with it is hard work, hence I now use the landies instead for most of the towing work.
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Earlier rangers (pre 06 I think) are real workhorses, but after that the gear ratio's are insane, once rolling at full towing capacity they are ok but it's the getting it rolling that's the problem, and as for reverse fully loaded towing forget it in high range and even in low range it's a joke. It's easy to tell if it's the high ratio box stick it in reverse and if it pins you to the windscreen leave it well alone Goes to prove ford do bugger all serious testing of their trucks anymore.
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Isn't that the saw that apparently has a problem with blades cracking ? i'm sure someone on here has used one and had problems with the blades.
