Are you sure the repair hasn't been done before with SS rivets? I'm sure my local garage only charged me about £47 +Vat for the complete arm and joint. Yea found the bill 'off side lower arm captive bolt spinning in chassis, cut off lower arm cut hole in chassis refixed bolt, plated...

Oh Yea and the central locking don't work on the drivers door suddenly.

180K miles an dthe first propshaft problems the UJ onfront of the VCU is worn out. Will take the prop off and get round to it eventually.

Yea mine pops side lights and panel lights pretty often. But hey! its done 179K and I should expect problems!

Tony Just cut four squares of thick rubber cut out a hole in the centre of each to make a washer. Loosen all the bolts off then put it up on ramps (not sure axle stands will do.) Remove each bolt in turn and insert rubber washer between chassis and subframe. It is pretty impressive, the...

Never heard of pregapped plugs been runnin deisels for a while now. But I would always check them even if you couldn't alter them. I dropped a plug once and closed the gap down slightly, took a while to work out what was wrong.

Looks OK Electric water pump with theromstatic control would be my choice of improving the cooling system. Would only run when you needed it should warm up in a steadier fashion than a mechanical thermostat and waterpump so the shock would be less on the engine components which might help...

Sorry 'flump I've been sat in front of this thing all day and me eyes are goin' and then you post just above me with a near identical title and to top it all I've just got back from Notts! Hence the posting of replys in the wrong post

Hi 'flump I'm an NVQ assessor for 'elf 'n' safety' and we've got a new starter down there and I do all the inductions. Plus I've got to drop my lads bike off in Brum for him to cycle to Uni

Next Tuesday

Next Thursday

Nice one Chas 9 posts and you've caught the mood brilliantly. I'd go with the timing first as it has been disturbed

Veg oil is fine without all this bio diesel lark just adjust the diesel content to suit the weather. If you want to you can spend a lot on oversized fuel lines and pre heaters and switched systems but just blending it for earlier engines is fine , in my experience (2.0l Hippo 170K miles).

going monday 6th return wednesday 8th. Going via stoke if you want to try again Yella?

Sorry but t'internet broke. Typical , first time I can help and the bloody thing breaks.

Not noticed any to speak of but It's 100% on road except for my road (unadopted) use the defender if I'm going off road. The Hippo is fast approaching the point were there's more in the shed than on the road.

Just left mine off. Enabled me to locate the lower engine mount bolt just before it fell out. Wondered what the big noise was, the engine trying to rotate everytime I started it or pulled away! Should really investigate sooner , but I'm busy!

If you want anything picking up or delivering. Going about 11.00

A) Wheres Kilmarnock? b) How big is the ladder? c) Where is Si? geographically speaking. Re confused . I'm an NVQ assessor in H&S and there are loads of candidates doing NVQ in and around Aberdeen and now Edinburgh and Paisley. I've been looking after them while we try to find a new...

A load of NVQ candidates. Who won't have done any work, will reschedule when I get there, or just ignore my phone calls. Oh yea and Liza Carthy is playing in Edinburgh on Wednesday.