Rowan Clearwater
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- Aberdeen
Hi folks,
I'm an Engineer in Aberdeen.
My first experience of LR's was in the scouts when my scout leader used to ferry us around in one. He was nuts about them but I never saw the interest then. When I moved up here 10 years ago I needed something that could cope. I bought my SWB ser3 from a farmer, and it pulled a huge horsebox full of stuff from Lincoln to Aberdeen. From then I was smitten. (and slightly deaf)
I liked the ideas of running a vehicle on vegetable oil from a purely environmental grounds, but although it was a Diesel, it only did around 20MPG, and with a lucas pump, was not an ideal candidate. Also , my marriage was not going great, and only being "allowed" to work on it after midnight, something had to go.
Two years on, and my gymnastic ex poledancing nurse
allows me time to work on two landrovers, a peugeot 206 (which has cost me more money to fix than buying my first landy) and a peugeot 205 "disposable" diesel.
I am currently making the conversion parts for a montego 2.0L to go uinto the tax excempt series 3, and putting in a two tank system for SVO, the idea being to use a separate filler on the LHS, to match the standard on the RHS - just got to label them and fill from the outside
I'm also preping the peugeot 205 diesel for an MOT, but as I bought it for £80 as an MOT fail, i'm just doing it on the cheap using parts from Ebay.
This has the lucas pump, which I'm going to blow up, but I want to record viscosity/ temperatures/ pressures when I do , so others can use the info.
I am also developing various heaters for SVO, so let me know what you want .
Cheers.
I'm an Engineer in Aberdeen.
My first experience of LR's was in the scouts when my scout leader used to ferry us around in one. He was nuts about them but I never saw the interest then. When I moved up here 10 years ago I needed something that could cope. I bought my SWB ser3 from a farmer, and it pulled a huge horsebox full of stuff from Lincoln to Aberdeen. From then I was smitten. (and slightly deaf)
I liked the ideas of running a vehicle on vegetable oil from a purely environmental grounds, but although it was a Diesel, it only did around 20MPG, and with a lucas pump, was not an ideal candidate. Also , my marriage was not going great, and only being "allowed" to work on it after midnight, something had to go.
Two years on, and my gymnastic ex poledancing nurse
allows me time to work on two landrovers, a peugeot 206 (which has cost me more money to fix than buying my first landy) and a peugeot 205 "disposable" diesel.I am currently making the conversion parts for a montego 2.0L to go uinto the tax excempt series 3, and putting in a two tank system for SVO, the idea being to use a separate filler on the LHS, to match the standard on the RHS - just got to label them and fill from the outside
I'm also preping the peugeot 205 diesel for an MOT, but as I bought it for £80 as an MOT fail, i'm just doing it on the cheap using parts from Ebay.
This has the lucas pump, which I'm going to blow up, but I want to record viscosity/ temperatures/ pressures when I do , so others can use the info.
I am also developing various heaters for SVO, so let me know what you want .
Cheers.
