Interesting, how did you do that without a degree? Forgive my ignorance, is it a modern-day re-labeling of something else (Like plumbers are now sometimes called heating engineers, etc)

Pretty sure I made you an offer similar to that, I said you could have the auto for free if you fixed the manual one.

Out of interest, which career did that work for you in? Thats one benefit op open uni, its much much cheaper, its "only" £2610 a year. I helped many of my friends with their study, I also worked as a teachin assistant. Sure I suck at fixing unfixable broken land rovers, that doesnt mean I'm...

Sorry, I forgot the part where Im somehow supposed to be worth less than anyone else? Sure, Im no better than anyone else, but its called minimum wage for a reason, and its been a thing for about a decade before I was born, and its there for a reason. More than half the people who leave school...

Pretty sure theycan find out anyway, since its all done through my NI number? Also I do need to be able to do the lectures etc, even though its unlikely to clash with normal working hours, I cant do late night shifts reliably.

National minimum wage is £11.44/hr Ahh yes, starting a new job, continuing with my degree, and going to the gym more days a week than there are days in a week is exactly what quitters do. Thats tough, hope youre doing okay, may they rest in peace. Thats not what the people at the jobcenter...

Im not too keen on over-sharing on a public forum, but Ive finally managed to get a part time, dead end job, after months of searching. Im living with my parents, so my living expenses are minimal, but any chance of moving out is a pipe-dream for when my mates finnish uni, because house sharing...

Thats probably exactly the sort of reason nobody has been able to fix it...

Thanks - but thats the problem, Im not too sure what I want. I know what I like doing, I like spending time with my mates, I like offroading and driving quickly, I like sparring, and all the other things the lower cortex desires. But none of those things are things I can do for a living, theyre...

Well, its getting on for 2 years since it last drove, and its a year since its MoT ran out. It didnt have any advisories for rust, so if it does need any welding, itll only be minor, but then I cant weld, so thats more money Id have to pour down it. Compression is actually not that relevant, the...

Okay - lets not be unreasonable, the disco needs more than "basic checks" - its had "basic checks" at 2 garages, and its had my mate and I at uni try and fix it, and now its time to do compression tests. Fiddling with a fuel pump involves turning a few bolts/screws to adjust the fuelling, idle...

Alright, Ive come to terms that if I dont have a look at them this weekend, Im not going to fix them, Im just too busy with other stuff. Ive been offered £500 each from a breaker, which Ill probably take. I know this is a land rover forum, but what do you lot make of the Daihatsu Fourtrak? Ive...

Yes, that might be helpful... North Wales, but willing to move if a very good opportunity were to be offered. Yes, exactly. And Im almost certainly worse at it than you! I used to blame it on a lack of tools (i.e. not having the snazy electric impact guns etc etc) but really the only tool...

You can have a Rover V8 rebuilt to any specification you like. They were installed in TVRs with displacements of 5.0L and well over 300hp (I dont remember the numbers exactly). The standard carby 3.5 came as mild as 135hp, and 155 with EFI, or 190hp in TVR 350i flavour. The 3.9 made 275hp in the...

So - a few of me may have seen my previous threads/posts - Ill be the first to admit that Im not a great at fixing cars, particularly when things go wrong (e.g. rusty nuts, other peoples questionable electrical repairs, etc). Im not too bad when it comes to the theory, but then almost anyone can...

Yes yes, Ive been dealing with another project, which I hope to finnish soon (and then sell) so then I'll be back to faffing around with the disco.

Its a 3.9, I dont think they ever came with a flapper, did they? Its got what I assumed was a maf sensor, looks like a black plastic rectangle on a metal cylinder; like this -...

Might be a stupid question - his mine a "hotwire" ecu? I think I know what the problem might be, and I think someone might have suggested it already, and one of the garages it went to may have ballsed it up since then. I bet its the wire from the ignition coil to the ECU.

It was on sand.... And I had All Terrain tyres, and a locked center diff. He had road tyres and a Haldex AWD system. Its amazing what you learn when you decide you can be arsed to read. Yeah, Im thinking more of doing a longer trip to somewhere sandy, thats where the extra power of the V8 will...

Another thing has just sprung to mind, Ive only ever driven, and heard reports from people who drive in the UK. How does the fuel consumption of the V8 and the 300tdi compare when driving offroad? Either low-range, technical driving, when I guess its more appropriate to measure fuel use in...