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  1. Available from Listed on Amazon.co.uk from £11.99 EDIT: but see posts below before being tempted to order!
  2. Fantastic progress and the DT with the Rogers looks stunning, I'll wager it is better than new! I am also absurdly jealous of the Foden, a thing of beauty. Thank you for producing this thread and and giving us our regular Diamond T fix, it makes great reading.
  3. That's a fantastic vehicle, I just wish I had the space!
  4. They're only an MOT failure if fitted in headlamp units designed and type approved for halogen bulbs and on vehicles which have been type approved with such. It is not an MOT test item in any other light unit (at least not yet as far as I know) although it is technically illegal in a type approved light unit designed for an incandescent bulb on a type approved vehicle. I don't think even now trailers need type approval (do they? Happy to be corrected) in which case suitable LED bulbs would be fine.
  5. It certainly saves time if you're single to begin with, because it probably won't be long!
  6. I was sure I had read that the ban DID include hybrids, and I remember wondering why anyone would buy a hybrid in this case. Perhaps either I have mis-remembered or the policy has changed.
  7. There's nothing clever at all, the two parts just have a slight taper (no thread, no bayonet, nothing at all). It will either be corrosion holding yours together or possibly someone has driven them together really hard, e.g., with a sledgehammer.
  8. There's no need to apologise for instilling new life in an old thread! One of my Wallabys has an identical two-piece handle, and it is interesting to see another as previously I had though perhaps this was a backyard modification. Mine took some effort to separate too, penetration fluid and I seem to remember the application of heat, but once apart I polished the outside of the lower handle with a flap disc and the inside of the upper handle with a suitably sized flap wheel and applied a smear of grease to stop them rusting, since when I have had no trouble. The first Wallaby I bought was missing its handle and I bought what was probably the last ever handle sold by Trewhella Bros in Birmingham. At that time they could supply spares for both Monkey and Wallaby winches, and had I know then that they would disappear without trace a few years later I would have bought a quantity of sets of spare springs for both types - the Monkey in particular always seems to need new springs. I have now resorted to making my own springs. The wallaby is an outstanding winch, lighter and more portable that its bigger older brother, the Monkey Winch, and yours looks to be in excellent condition.
  9. That doesn't appear to be the same as the late Sankey one I binned when the damper failed not long ago. At that time I found that a replacement damper firstly extremely difficult to find and secondly was going to be more expensive than a complete new trailer! Judging by the apparent bend in the shaft of your lunette, when you say "damper" do you actually mean the complete coupling assembly, rather than the damper within it?
  10. When parking up my Land-Rovers for any substantial time I block between bump-stops and axles to relieve the springs and put blocks or stands under the axles to relieve the tyres. This also means that it is easy once in a while to rotate the transmission to keep it all oily. If rodents are likely put one or more ultrasonic repellent devices in and under the vehicle (available from the likes of Amazon in battery or mains versions), they really do seem to work. The biggest problem now seems to be what to do about the fuel. With diesel I'd put biocide in and leave it fuelled up, but petrol is the kicker now it has ethanol. The best advice seems to be to drain the fuel, run the engine till the carb is dry, then put a quantity of Aspen (or similar) chainsaw fuel (not two-stroke though), prime the system and run for a few minutes. This way there should be no ethanol left in the system to dissolve it.
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    It is bizarre that I no longer seem to have problems with the advertisements. I have now insttalled an adblocker on my PC but even on my Android phone the forum seems to have reverted to its pre-advertisement behaviour. It is extremely bizarre that this started spontaneously, for me has equally spontaneously gone away again, and now is affecting some people and not others, and all without any action or change to the forum by the moderators. Very odd.
  12. The only consistent thing is the total inconsistency!
  13. Very weird, I've just connected to the forum from my Android phone and it is still delightfully ad-free. It's rare that someone with a scabby old Android phone can gloat over an iPhone user, so I will make the most of it while it lasts! Does anyone actually know what is going on and what has caused all this malarky?
  14. Adblocker seemed to resolve the issue to a tolerable level when browsing from my "real" PC, but there are (apparently) no similar advertisement blockers for Android phones browsing with Chrome, so access from my phone remained unbearable - at least until yesterday, when just as mysteriously and suddenly as the advertisements appeared, they seem to have disappeared and the forum is back to how it used to be. I have no idea why this is or what is happening (nor how long it will last), but if this is down to Moderator intervention, then my sincere thanks to the Moderators!
  15. Inspirational work, thank you for posting!
  16. You're welcome, a pleasure to be able to help.
  17. The halfshaft in your photo is the final LR design as used on the run-out Defenders (introduced circa 2014 as I recall) and is a one-piece design, with the halfshaft and drive flange being a single part. The earlier (and traditional) two piece halfshaft and flange assembly proved to be a weakness on the TDCi (and to a slightly lesser extent the TD5) engined Defenders with the result that LR switched to an improved (but obscenely expensive) one piece design. As far as I know, since the new design is fully backwards-compatible, LR subsequently also stopped supplying the two-piece shafts. My feeling therefore is that the vehicles you have seen with one-piece shafts have either had broken/worn shafts replaced or have been upgraded to the later design. As the owner of a high-mileage TDCi Defender 110 I can say from fist-hand experience that replacing the drive flanges and halfshafts every 50k miles or so became tedious, and despite their absurd price the one-piece shafts are a vast improvement. Many people retro-fit Disco1 halfshafts (also one-piece) or now fit aftermarket one-piece shafts, which are a fraction of the cost of the genuine item from Landrover.
  18. Adding Adblock Plus to my Chrome browser has abated the nuisance for browsing from my PC, however the site remains utterly intolerable when browsing from my Android phone using Chrome. There is - apparently - no adblocker available for android chrome. I still fail to understand why this has suddenly and seemingly spontaneously just started happening when previously it didn't. Has anyone raised this with the web-host, whoever tha may be? Given that the admins seem to be unaware of any change, it disturbs me that that someone, somehow, has cause this just to commence. From a business perspective being in a situation where a third party can apparently unilaterally effect a change which alienates a significant proportion of your customers seems rather unsatisfactory!
  19. Just for info since I mentioned earlier in the thread that I was looking for a damper for one of these, in the end I found that the cost of a replacement damper far exceeded the cost of a complete NOS coupling assembly, so the old coupling ended up in the scrap bin. It grieves me to throw out expensive parts which should be repairable, but the dampers are clearly made of unobtainium and priced accordingly. I also needed a new rubber gaiter and found that these were similarly hard to obtain. Dismantling the coupling is very straightforward and really needs no instructions other than the video above. On my coupling however I found that the threaded end cap, which the video-maker unscrews with ease on his, was a total pain to remove and the only way I could shift it was to weld a two-foot long bar to it to use as a lever (I have good peg spanners but the thing was done up so stupid-tight that that a peg spanner simply wouldn't shift it). I don't know who had last assembled my coupling, but there clearly had more muscle than brain.
  20. In the light of Richard's comment above I can only suggest that the webhosting company has changed something unilaterally. Whatever the reason it has, to me at least, rendered the forum completely unusable, and for that reason I am now out. I will check back in a while to see if the issue is fixed, and it does strike me as odd that out of the half-dozen or so forums I participate in (including one I run) this is the only one affected. I offer my sincere thanks to all those who have made this such an interesting place for so long and wish you well for the future.
  21. Something has happened in the last 48 hours or so which has made the forum unusable due to the intrusive advertisements in my view. I've changed nothing in my browsing environment so presume that it is the site that has changed. Perhaps a moderator could comment?
  22. I believe this to be the one featured here http://anarchadia.blogspot.com/2008/10/vintage-thing-no27-leyland-martian.html?m=1 and in the last few photos here https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/gallery/33-pictures-cornwalls-abandoned-cars-4676845.amp I suspect the front end simply rotted away before being excised.
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