1. Rowan Clearwater

    Ideas Please

    Don't mean to offend - This is definately an engine fault is it? not Handbrake shoes binding. Next time it does it, lift the mid flap between the seats and feel the brake drum. I had a problem with the expander ( the springs which hold it there actually). After a while, it seemed to sink...
  2. Rowan Clearwater

    running your car on vegtable oil

    If only 4% of US vehicles are Diesel, Are you guys thinking about Bio-Butanol? or Combined Hydrogen ? ( Bio-Butanol Butanol made from organic sources very much like Ethanol from sugars but fermented differently and separated using a permeable membrane. Is a direct substitute for...
  3. Rowan Clearwater

    Snow Watch !!!!!

    Make sure you have enough kit with you if you end up stuck. i.e. standard metal shovel, ropes, shackels. hand winch if you can. For some strange reason, just because you roll up to someone who has got stuck, they naturally think "Ah - Landrover = Rescue" - so help if you can. Also, be...
  4. Rowan Clearwater

    running your car on vegtable oil

    I'm just about to put a Montego 2L TD into my SWB because it has a known track history for SVO. I'm running a 2 tank system with a standard tank under the passenger seat, and an extra filler on the outside. This will then go to a heat exchanger from a gas boiler, then to a filter, then a six...
  5. Rowan Clearwater

    Hello from Scotland

    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...