Stu - This is the first I'd heard of the show. It's a bit far from me but it might make a nice weekend away. If I do go I'll come and have a look! I tend to use Apec brake parts on customer's cars - I'm impressed with them, well made and durable.

Stu - what are your impressions of the def 130 brakes vs standard ones?

Yes, sadly it's not such an easy fix as that :(

Hi Stu, thanks for that! That's the kind of info I was after :) I don't suppose you know how much bigger the diameter of the defender discs is vs the D1 discs?

There is that, however the brakes have never been very good and it's had a few different make pads in...

@ snowman so how fast do you go when you're winching? I haven't mentioned fade or high speed braking... What part of " I want to increase the clamping force" isn't clear? If I want to go fast I'll use my daily driver. I'm after help based on experience, nota keyboard warrior. Ta. PS...

I hadn't mentioned defender discs? I mentioned RRC discs as they're essentially the same car and I'm told that it's a fairly common modification. I actually think Ultimax are a better pad than the greenstuff. I guess another question I should have asked is "how bad are D1 brakes?" as compared...

I'm not getting brake fade.... Pads will do very little to increase the clamping ability when stationary...

I wouldn't touch greenstuff if my life depended on it. I have never experienced such an inconsistent, poorly made, fade prone, limited life pad in all the hundreds of pads I've tried. Generally all better pads do is more efficiently convert kinetic energy into heat energy. If anyone can...

I'm thinking how to upgrade the braking on my early 300 V8 (single hose per caliper, solid disc) The brakes are borderline at best. I've heard of the RRC having vented disc and I'm sure that IF they could be fitted then they would give better braking at speed due to the increased cooling...

Check the voltage at the pump. Mine had dropped to 8v at the pump. Gave all the symptoms of a pump on the way out but when I checked the resistance between the relayy and the pump it was at 7kohms! Ran a new wire from the inertia switch to the pump and it's good as new. Oh, also check your...

It should idle at about 500 rpm with that pipe blocked. Is it auto or manual?

Eh? Why? What about satnavs?

hmm, it was attached to a V8. How do the diesels generate the tacho signal?

I swapped my alternator ( it was attached to the engine I was swapping) a while back on my serpentine 3.9. The new alternator has a significantly smaller pulley. I'm convinced this is giving an artificially high rpm readout on the rev counter... Why are there 2 sizes of alternator pulley? Am I...

It's whatever the 3.9 300 shape came with... obviously it was originally an auto...

did your old exhaust foul the bolt? mine does...

The new gearbox is leaking. Bugger. It appears to be leaking from the really big vertical bolt at the back of the box -it looks like it has a rubber gasket. What does this bolt hold in place? Is this a common place for the LT-77 to leak from?

I've bled clutches on everything from Ferraris to Fiats, I regularly bleed MX-5 clutches which have a similar arrangement (with a longer routing, and they can be an arse) but I've never come across anything as difficult as a Disco to bleed. I found a mityvac on the bleed nipple and about an hour...

Where can I get calipers that cheap? I'll replace all 4 for that price!