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Cheers Stu :thumbup: now if it'd just stop pissisting down I could get on with it :lol:

Cheers Stu :thumbup: does the window have to come out to get the mech out? same price on Milners but they want +£6.50 for delivery, free delivery on the bay :dance:

Hey chaps, how's everyone doing? Went for MOT, flew thru, but the chap had wound the window down fully and now it's not responding :icon-rolleyes: I suspect the comutator has a bad spot on the motor, it went thru a period of 'iffyness' last year but self corrected. (I never wound it fully...

Failed the MOT today, 3 ARB bushes and the horn wasn't loud enough. 2 front bushes had perished, the rear was another washer issue where it pushed over the flange/rebate again (3rd time) What's wrong with the horn I say, press it he says.... remember those toy teddy bears in the 1960's that...

just thinking about it makes me feel physically sick mate :puke-front: I don't need to sell it tomorrow kinda thing, maybe I'm over-thinking stuff cos the Ins/MOT is due... but if I SORN it'll be sat here for ages since a massive brand new bare house will take some budget to...

House build has gone £25k over budget, debating selling the 80 since it'd just be sat here waiting for a time we can afford another overland trip. It owes me £22k, is £15k with all the extras a fair price?

Cheers Clive, I can't really justify dropping the best part of 400 quid on Angel Eyes, so it looks like £25 for LED's is the way to go! Walley that looks a great site, but they don't do headlights. I keep seeing their adverts on 4WD TV on youtube, those guys get to do some epic trips, Fraser...

Cheers lads, I do like the look of those angle eye doofahs, I found clives thread so I'll need a coffee or two to get through 9 pages of it :lol: I'll also have a mooch for some LED replacements to see what's what :thumbup: heres a link to clives angle eye thread incase anyone else needs it...

Hello chaps, I have HID conversion bulbs in mine, so good 20% of other road users insist on telling me I have high beam on all the time, even when they're dipped :lol: anyway, noting the proposed new MOT rules banning non-standard HID bulbs (or somesuch) I was wondering what the options are...

Ford 3000 says Hi, damn innertube perished on me :icon-cry:

Looking forward to your pics, we're contemplating next years trip and Serbia is high on the list!

Have we got any sources for the info? I can see how a group of 15 came unstuck with plod, but a blanket ban over the whole of France seems far fetched. There are multiple regulations in France and Spain in the Alps and Pyrenees for protection of the national parks, we saw some signs in a...

Blimey that must be 6-8 ton, someone is going to get their collar felt for towing that with an 80

Just renewed with Footman James 12 months Classic car cover for £61.20 (Axa policy by the looks of it) if it can't be fixed within 1 hour they take it to a local garage, if it can't be fixed before planned return date cover includes transport costs to get you, your passengers, and your vehicle...

Ash is a much harder wood, never seen one go like these. They're Salix Fragilis, common name 'crack willow' planted as a cricket bat crop on a 16 year rotation, they get top heavy because the side growth is stripped off annually so grain stays straight for the bats, they were planted far too...

I quite like it tbh, and since someone else will be paying for the new one, I'll definately find one even if it has to come from Aus :icon-wink: good excuse to swap those LED roof spots for a lightbar too :) 90 roof suffered a bit, dunno weather the bodyshop can knock it out... listed under...

I heard the crunch, looked out the window to see this SDC10110 by Pumpy posted Jul 20, 2017 at 1:22 PM SDC10109 by Pumpy posted Jul 20, 2017 at 1:22 PM SDC10108 by Pumpy posted Jul 20, 2017 at 1:22 PM with only a week to go before we set off for the Pyrenees trip I feared the worst...

Brilliant :lol: I'm still waiting for the DVD to come out, got an email from Jonny today - he's writing a book about the adventure, maybe we'll see the DVD after that :icon-biggrin:

Hi Chaps, The truck has been sat for a few weeks, just ran her up for the MOT (passed no ads) but discovered the Air Con not working. Clutch not engaging so checked power, only 0.02v when I switch it on (0.0 when off) Is there a safety doofah stops power to the compressor if the gas is low? I...

Thanks for the campsite Andy, considering there's no camping allowed in the National park there ain't many campsites to choose from around there! Regarding the route, I wasn't going to put so much in originally but some of the group really want to get to Andorra, I have plenty of "loops" we...

Great pics! Sounds like a few of us will be crossing paths this year, we land in Santander July 30th, coming back on the 14th Aug, here's our planned route... Along the Pyrenees to Andorra/smugglers, then back West, couple of days around Bardenas Reales, and further West to vist the film sets...

You have indeed matey, 4 trucks off to the Pyrenees in... less than 4 weeks now :o Had the CV done before Trev shut up shop, think it was Feb/March, the difflock light is down to a corroded connector on the indicator switch (which I've still not done, need to find a source for those plugs?)...

forgot I had some video took in 2016, the route has chnged a bit since then, but the best lanes are still on it :icon-wink: mite be a bit boring since it's just a record of the lanes so click thru what you fancy, check out the other stuff (Alps) on my channel for better vids I did later :thumbup:

We did the route again this April, done it 4 times now and never get tired of it :) I've imporved the route each year so it's even better now. Went a bit further North through Yorkshire this time for a bigger campsite since there were two groups of us, also get to chuck goats lane in for a...

It's a nice conversion, would have been so much better with an allucab on top instead of just a roof extension.

Welcome Servan, nice truck! We're in Fueteventura next week, sadly not with the 80 tho, flying in - are they ever going to run that ferry from Canarys to Morocco again? Keep hearing rhumors but nothing ever seems to come of it :( One of my original overlanding goals was to drive down through...

I wasn't specifically refering to your post Chas! I'm on about any post that looks far to serious for a jokey thread started with a cartoon, comments that belong in the political section, which was created so we know where political bollox goes, so those of us who arn't interested in anyones...

I fort if wuz a joke thread so everything is taken with a pinch of salt. If people want to talk seriously about politics please take it to the Politics and Religion section so we can ignore it :lol:

flux pissed me off so much last year (auto renewed my LR and breakdown cover on the LR which dint cover the LC so I had to pay £400 6 months after the fact when the LC got recovered) I rang round lots of companies that came up on google for "modified car ins" only one was competative with flux...

Welcome Silviu I think this is a German website but seems to cover EU, anyway, few 80's on there... https://www.autoscout24.com/offers/toyota-land-cruiser-hdj-80-diesel-silver-fb07422e-ce6e-e25b-e053-e350040a5a83

6 pint plastic milk bottle for him, additional 'shewee' for her! He can pee lying down on his side, she has to kneel up. Sod that climbing out in the freezing rain malarkey ;)

This looks like a great film More on the films website here think the DVD is out next month, mite have to get myself an early xmas prezzy!

If it was mine I'd have to have it chogged down, no way would I trust that to go right after last time, one gust of wind it'd end in tears... just ask my portacabin :violin: :lol:

Great pics "The good the Bad and the Ugly tour" that's what I've called our Pyrenees trip next year :lol: Inspired because we're going to visit the film sets North of Madrid ;) My mrs would be moaning all day if there was that much rattling in the truck, we'd be repacking at the first brew stop...

don't recall seeing a relief hole on my LR90 (dunt mean there ain't one!) grease comes out the end of splines easy enough tho

You'll need a roofrack for the RTT, mount the awning to that. I've not seen one on a 120, but my mate has a 270 on a D4 which has a similar sized roof iirc, his clamshell is on roofbars on the D4, there's some attachments fix into the end of the roofbars to fit the awning.

Replaced Transfer box due to seazed Difflock Actuator, not sure the box suffered catastophic damage but the noise it made when the new actuator was fitted gave me the heebie jeebies so felt it was prudent, new input seal, new gearbox output seal 17/10/16 Engine oil & Filter 17/10/16 Greased...

As others have said, it's really horses for courses. If your trips are mostly A to B to C etc. clamshell/hardshell with a 270 awning and tapered sides is hard to beat IMO. If you base at A and daytrip, or spend longer in one spot, a ground tent wins slightly over RTTs. With a clamshell there is...