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For 24 valve 80 ('96) It's different to a 12 valve and I need the full assembly. Have messaged Karl already but if anyone has one please drop me a PM

So Sae, you trawled through my posts to find something which you could use to have a pop at me, and that's the best you can do? (That's rhetorical by the way). I stand by what I said and the manner in which I said it. You people (on that trip) have no business being out using lanes if you're...

There are a number of images which show vehicles not on the main track - nothing to do with the rolled vehicle, the shots are both earlier and later. Possible charges come from the criminal damage of the trees, and I see that you have now blanked out your numberplates, so at least that's one...

Where do I start with this? First, good that no one was hurt in the roll, very lucky. Next, lets just have a look at the utter stupidity involved in this little trip. 1), not keeping to the main track 2) pulling trees out of the ground 3) driving lanes in the dark 4) cutting down trees 5)...

Iron Man all the way. Available from West Coast 4x4.

And this is why libel lawyers make so much money :lol: . Semantics.

you dont need to remove the swivel housing. you let the oil run out, say overnight, then blast the threads with brake cleaner and air. i dont think many people are daft enough to try to put loctite on oiled threads. and you explicitly suggested that west coast were at fault. a dangerous and...

Rob, you're on pretty dodgy ground with a suggestion that a garage fitted sub standard parts or fitted something incorrectly and you've diagnosed this...... on the internet. Not clever. Studs coming out is a known issue with 80s used extensively offroad or subject to a lot of vibration, mine...

Pmsl I said to gav two days ago to stop moaning, he has another hand after all If you leave it til July breast high road should be open

No you're right, the bit in the pic above is rock . It's the bit below which is washed out where it was loose so it's harder to get onto the rock

It's loads worse than last year Karlos. Really washed out now at the base

Try it by all means, but my advice is not to unless you have front and rear lockers on a SWB. It's actually a better lane from the other direction to be honest. Andy, just used the front because my rear locker is knackered and Karl hasn't found me a used one yet :lol: I had to give it some...

I went up it last week, had to use front locker and some gas. You can actually winch about a foot forward off that boulder on the left (looks small in the pic but is actually pretty big) if you are VERY gentle but an 80 should get up it. The "right" line is on the left, even though it looks...

Mine has 2" Iron Man, no CC and will basically go pretty much anywhere (and has). Handles like a DREAM on the road too. But you can alter the handling pretty radically with varying the tyre pressures for whatever you're doing so I don't agree that its not "full offroad kit". If Moab was just...

With respect to all the posters, there hasn't yet been a single post which actually compares the two from anyone who has had both. I initially had OME on my Defender and it was great until I started carrying weight in the back. Couldn't get the set up right at all after that, it was too stiff...

Unless you've put the drivers side spring on the passenger side and vice versa Also why the remote reservoir shocks? Is the plan to race or rally it?

No not neccessarily, Bob. Since your battery is more efficient with a double line, your line speed may only suffer a little as opposed to halving. There's an interesting demo of that on one of david bowyers videos where he winches a defender up a 45 degree slope. The difference between single...

no probs :thumbup:

Hey I can't do much more than upload it and make it public, the rest is with you :lol: Link works fine on my macbook pro (when not signed in to mobile me)

Not knowing the circumstances or the specifics it's impossible to answer. When you get near a computer have a read of the docs I posted.

btw, see page 76 of the document "rigging.pdf" which details mechanical advantage (or rather lack of when double lining if you take the example of a vehicle in a typical double line scenario)

Here's what I can immediately lay my hands on. The rest is on the desktop in my office. Have fun :lol: 8-) https://public.me.com/studiomw

I can send anyone pretty much anything they like with regard to load calculation, rigging, diagrams etc. In fact leave it with me and I'll see if I can upload them to a server so anyone here can download them.

http://vimeo.com/36416843 crank up your volume :lol:

No just the strain on the battery. It's a popular misconception that a double line halves the carry load on the winch - it doesn't.

If you have 3,4,5 plus advantage then sure, but one snatch block is giving you almost nothing due to the friction.

Double lining is not going to give you more pulling power unless you're in a situation when if it was a single line your drum has loads of wraps. Generally speaking, with a single snatch block you can't really get a mechanical advantage due to the friction involved and the acute angles of the...

Satmap Active 10 Plus. Comes with all of UK in 1:50,000 OS, far easier to use than memory map with all its messing about. You can also get 1:25,000 if you wish but I don't find it required for lanes. Good value on Amazon but look at www.satmap.co.uk for the full spec first. S7000 very...

no, its placebo.

As far as I'm concerned the issue is the weight behind the ramblers and their "environmental" argument, which we all know is not a valid one. GLASS seems to do little in terms of challenging council decisions and the legal angle - for example the debacle of The Walna Scar Road is a case in...

Yes, agreed

The one element that the ramblers always hit on is the issue of erosion. You only have to look at the "fix the fells" campaign in the lakes to see that actually, any track used by any user group is susceptible to water erosion because the track/path/lane becomes a natural water path. It really...