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Thanks buddy. I was editing my last when you wrote - to note that mine DOESN'T seem to have PPS, and the donor unit DOES have PPS - unlike how I wrote it the first time. Encouraging news from you - thank you for that. Sure we'll find out how it all goes together as we get along with the job...

Right - really in the weeds now. Here are some pictures I was sent of the two steering boxes. The clean one is the damaged article from my vehicle. The dirty one is a possible transplant from a dead HDJ81. They appear to be very similar, though the HDJ81 item has some kind of electrical...

Thanks, gentlemen. Good to know. Problem will be getting it from UK to Zimbabwe, given that I can't just jump on a plane and go home these days. We have a good steering box from a knackered HDJ81, but I don't know if that will fit yet. Or if the shaft can be switched from one to the other...

Yaaaaaa... I feared so. Somehow didn't look at all right. But - good news perhaps - is it possible to get just the shaft? Without having to buy the whole steering box assembly? I presume one needs a packet of seals and so on, but that a good fundi could take it apart and put it back again? I was...

Looks like there's also a hairline crack here:

Afternoon, all, I've been away awhile. Lots of other stuff going on. But back now with a big issue with my 1996, Sahara-spec, HDJ80R-GNMEX/1 HD-T in Zimbabwe. My lad bounced the front wheel of a rock at some speed over Christmas. He had to change a load of parts from the wheel back through the...

Hi James - I need your email address to share the file with you on dropbox. Send it to me at robcsadams [at] gmail [dot] com and I'll connect

Jambo, Patrick, from down the road in Nairobi. I can't help with the why, but I can tell you that mine (1999 105 HZ manual) does exactly the same. My fundi changed the gearbox oil recently to precisely the grade Toyota specify, and that's made it a lot better, but it still slips out from time to...

Hey Stephane - are you in Kenya now? I'm on 0735 895 515 - give me a call if you're here. Best regards Rob

Scott - I've put my 105 FSMs on dropbox - email me at robcsadams [at] gmail [dot] com and I'll send you a link so you can download.

Ok - I'm not in Nairobi (or Harare) at the moment, but I am confident of the following: 1: Both my 80 series and my 105 are 12 volt NOT 24 volt. Both originally only had one battery when I bought them. 2: Both have two 75Ah (I think) batteries installed - and fitted by competent mechanics. 3...

As a matter of interest - what damage would you expect this to have done? It doesn't, as yet, appear to have done any damage, which is interesting and slightly surprising.

Um, yes. So it does. Interesting. This is exactly how my 12v 80 series has been wired, for 150,000 kms and over 8 years. So when I got the 105, I just did the same thing. Of course it's still 12v electrics all the way through. I'm away from Kenya at the moment. Looks like I better get the...

Fantastic. Thank you. You're a star. :) R

I've been away for work for a while, and Pam (my 1998 105 Standard spec LC) was a bit sluggish to start when I got home. So I've connected my Optimate 3+ conditioner/charger which I will leave connected for 24 hours or so (I don't have a fast charger). I have two 70Ah batteries, in series...

There's still a BA Concorde parked near the main BA maintenance hangar on the south side of Heathrow. Still beautiful as ever. There's an early prototype at Yeovilton in Somerset that you can walk through; another at Duxford, one more at Filton, near Bristol. I've seen AF models at Orly, Charles...

I know that mosque! That's Faisal masjid in Islamabad - I lived just round the corner from there, 25 years ago. Very cool picture.

It all depends on how it's been looked after, Mike. If she's been regularly serviced (most would say oil change every 5,000km, filters every 10,000kms is good practice) and it's not been abused, at 255k it's not even half way through its life. The in-line 6 is an awesome lump. I've never had a...

Welcome, Josh - good to have you on board the board... I might ping you some questions about driving across Asia (since from your profile pic I see you managed to get your car into Burma) in the next couple of weeks. I saw you get barked at by Richard over there on the other page about central...

And here's the answer to the question. Brilliant little app. http://powerdog.com/tiresize.cgi

Hey, Shane - over the past 15 years my Cruisers have got through lots of BFGs, a couple of rotations of Bridgestone Desert Duellers, and some Pirelli Scorpions. A mix of fast tar, round town (with epic African pot-holes), and probably more than average off road ranging from desert to volcanic...

Indeed, Clive. But somewhere, deep down in my soul, I wish (and I suspect you wish, too) that the 'traversing stone' theory was what had actually happened...

I have Comforser MT (?!) 285/75/16 on my Standard spec 1HZ 105. Definitely less guts than is ideal, though, going slowly she will go anywhere. The tyres are half the price of BFGs, and have held up well both on and off road. I keep them at 3.2 Bar. They're a bit noisy on tar, but I can live with...

Or possibly, in this case, both 1 and 2. Caliper forced up to the rim, where it rest and abraded until there was no point of contact (end of noise); then brake applied, caliper forced against the rim, a bit more abrasion...

Well... it's not a competition, Ritchie... But if it was, you'd win, I think! What a beast. What a lucky beast to have such a committed owner. Bring her over to Africa one day. Rob

Frank, Shayne, thanks a lot for this. I now have a new (second hand but good) replacement caliper fitted. I'm away on business in South Africa for a couple of weeks, but will give it all a good check when I get home to Kenya. Here's a picture I took after limping back home a couple of weeks...

And I'm thinking Frank and Shayne are right. Thanks for that. It's a weight off my mind to know that there isn't a bloody great diamond in a ditch somewhere up beyond Embu. But I'm kicking myself for not actually doing the work myself - too many phone calls to make to change plans because of...

That, Clive, is the most plausible explanation yet. So the stone (which was therefore very small, and very hard... my diamond theory again!) initially was trapped vertically between the point where the rim goes from nearly vertical to nearly horizontal, and the protrusion on the inner edge of...

And to add to the strangeness - I reversed several times during the process. You'd have thought that would have dislodged what it was in the rim, when it hit the other end of the caliper going the other way. My guess is, an enormous diamond... :-)

Not sure where to post this - 'Brakes', 'Trip reports', 'pub chat'... but it happened to my 105 so I'll put it here, though I guess it could have happened to any vehicle. I was up in Meru National Park a couple of weeks ago. I crossed a river, and soon after there was a scraping sound from the...

S and I are just back from a wonderful few days in Meru National Park, one of the most remote and unexplored parks in Kenya, the place where George and Joy Adamson ('Born Free' etc) ran their research programmes in the 60's and 70's. We caught the end of the dry season, and the beginning of the...