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A test match special eh? The way we're going at the moment there will be no mention of test matches here! I had to look up how Pioneer manage a three way in one driver ... neat! Good point about clearance. I'm not sure yet. I did have a preliminary look when I had the panels off the doors to...

Interesting. I've got an Alpine head unit in mine and I'm going for a pair of 6.5" Alpine mid range speakers in the door with their tweeters dash mounted in pods designed for gauges. If you go for mids with inbuilt tweeters [co-axials as an example] at knee level or below you lose much of the...

Wow, don't try googling leading/trailing shoes, there's a lot of complete misunderstanding out there! This is pretty good to illustrate both types, though it's not a twin leading as illustrated in the diags above. The "expander" cylinder in the diag below has two pistons: leading v trailing...

Looking at diag 10.9 it appears that it's a standard twin leading shoe with the piston [part 11 in diag 1, bottom right of page 174] only acting on one end of the shoe with the other end being a conventional adjuster. I reckon the cylinders only have one piston each, though anyone who's pulled...

Still retrospective with this one but nearly up to date ... Fitted cruise control unit Proserve Ecruise: Cruise control I can't improve on this Youtube clip for fitting instructions: Fitting guide If I'd had to install this without the Youtube guide I would have failed. Half a day's work [for...

... but if both of the cylinders have two pistons it would seem to do away with the need for an adjuster, so what are the adjuster rings for? Jules

Next up, and this is still retrospective, I attacked the wheels and suspension. The narrow rear track troubled me for various reasons, so I fitted 50mm spacers to each rear wheel. High quality steel items and I used loctite to attach the spacer to the hub. It proved a point and the highway...

Not sure if you're talking about John Deere but I was pleased to see that in the US they've backed off a little from their policy of not allowing farmers to fix their own machinery. I understand it was in anticipation of EU law changes in favour of giving the owners of many different types of...

This is retrospective but the first mod I've done was to buy and install a stage 4 Carbuilders 4X4 dual cab sound proofing pack: Carbuilders soundproofing At nearly $1,000 it seems costly but it's been worth every cent. The link above has an excellent Youtube instructional clip on how to go...

There are a hell of a lot of LCs of all types still running around here. I admit I hadn't really noticed until I bought one, just how many and how varied they are and yes, there's a great choice of aftermarket parts as a result. Jules

Thanks. Intriguing way to do it. Wonder if it has any advantages over twin leading? Jules

Hi everyone! I bought this car late last year and I've been meaning to start documenting the various changes starting from here: As you can see it was on standard wheels, with the narrow rear wheel-base. There's 3" of lift with parabolic springs on the rear and Formula 4X4 dampers all...