If your a decent driver who isn't stuck in the 70's you can drive an auto. MOST manual big men can't handle an auto for **** therefore think they are crap, No quite the contrary its the ****ty drivers that can;'t drive :) manual VS auto is purely preference there is 0% advantage to a manual...

If no interest in the roof today it will be chopped up aswell.

Too much work. The most chassis work I'm considering is fitting a galv one lol. That's the other option I's sitting with. Get a rotten 300TDI Disco replace the chassis with a galv one and make a 40" wheeled toy. Yeah thought of Defender's. A series I would keep to look like a series so...

Sorry forgot to say must be an oil burner! Thinking a series and rebuild it myself so I can learn all about it and then KNOW 100% it will be a decent little thing for a while. Maybe buy a bit of a rotter and get a galv chassis and build it up.

Front and Rear Axle's gone. Transfer box gone. EFI system gone. Roof no sunroofs. £40 ONO Interior. Needs a good clean £50 (front 2 rear bench and door cards) Dash. £30 engine parts availabe won't list them all. Also have 300TDI headlights indicators and slam panel. Will also provide all the...

See it's still the same. If you can drive get a manual. Why? I can drive brilliantly. Worked with cars. both on farms(as a child driving my granddads series or a tractor). Or Castle Combe where I drove scoobys, single seater formula Fords and mainly 1.8 ford focus'. All manual and I did...

I can assure you I know how to handle a manual. I still say an auto is better offroad, Simply a manual is more work nothing more nothing less. I could make either handle and do exactly what I want. But for more than just the driving side. I have so much more time to judge the path ahead in my...

Just a game really. But with a total of 6k to buy and build a weekend warrior. What would you guys make? Bored of looking at soulless meat transportation and wish to think again of the unrealiable noisey cold wet missery bank killing pride and joy's we all love. Don't worry fanny it's...

I'm keep the chassis and V5 till I buy another project. Can't decide between a series(rebuild an old ambulance/or pickup). Or just make a Derv off roader, Leaving to see what is about at the time.

Jason Plato. Met him at Castle Combe really nice guy, He's good for another season or 2

Yes they can. Also an automatic is better than 80% of all drivers on the road as it will shift a lot better than a human. Ever been taught race? I mean a proper shift in a car? No? Then an auto is better at changing gear than you. I was always 1 step ahead when I went offroad in my auto seeing 2...

I heard (and this is about a high tuned R34 skyline) that the drag and "weight" the engine has to turn is a fair slap more in AWD as 2WD. I was just a junior instructor so he may have been chatting out his arse!

Yeah cut it all the best I could so started gently pulling the glass out. Felt mostly cut so sat in her and it was gently peeling away getting more and more loose then BANG.

ah ha. Yeah london - kenya if he isn't paying no holes barred money no object on his kit he can't afford the fuel to kenya lol

Doesn't look to hard to do although I am sure some-one who has done will be beter to ask. Say £30? I've cut the pillars so you can peal apart as needed to refit :) Haha yeah. I was trying to get the windscreen out and that Ba****d popped and covered me and a mate in glass, And the bonnet...

Yes. I would in a heart beat(Then spend all my money and time fixing the fecking thing) but hey ho the last 3.9 V8 is on its way out now :P

Just as a stroke of luck I happen to have a 5 door roof. no sunroofs. :D

Hmm I can remember using it in low range but I don't think I ever locked it in high range other than when I drove her a bit quicker so wouldn't know 100%

Mine didn't it would start off in the gear you chose.

If you use those they lock in that gear only in a D1. I use the term, "lock it in gear"