in the mire again

[solarman216]

yep well and truly in it again, the motor has not turned a wheel since my last outing, think it was around August, and standing does not do a motor a lot of good, guess I must have ruptured a CV boot off side as it was not long before nasty noises emanated OSF was not driving any more, then a little later a clunk and NSF the same, so it seems I am blighted by front shaft failure, and I was being very sedate today, oh well it was still a good day, hope to do at least one more before Xmas, Rick

[exosteve]

glad you had a good day mate

[stinka]

Cv boots are doing my nut in. Really considering a move to a disco or Cherokee myself.

Jap ifs really ain't all that when u start hammering a lifted jap truck offroad a lot

[Sweety]

Glad you had a good day

Originally Posted by stinka

Cv boots are doing my nut in. Really considering a move to a disco or Cherokee myself.

Jap ifs really ain't all that when u start hammering a lifted jap truck offroad a lot

With a disco you'll just snap half shafts instead

[stinka]

Nah mate, not unless you drive like a nob with 35" tyres. I offroad with mainly landies, they are easy to fix and cheap.

I've broke 2 cvs now on 31" tyres ...

[Barrbeast]

Originally Posted by stinka

Nah mate, not unless you drive like a nob with 35" tyres. I offroad with mainly landies, they are easy to fix and cheap.

I've broke 2 cvs now on 31" tyres ...

They have to be,with a rust magnet chassis and the bad rep for reliability Don't get me wrong, I thought about getting a Disco as a replacement for the Shogun but after reading up on them and checking out opinions etc I decided against it as I wanted to spend my weekends adding mods not doing running repairs as well.

If you want live axles go for a Trol bud (I may be a little biased...)

[Sweety]

Originally Posted by stinka

Nah mate, not unless you drive like a nob with 35" tyres. I offroad with mainly landies, they are easy to fix and cheap.

I've broke 2 cvs now on 31" tyres ...

I know quite a few who have done it running smaller than 35" tyres. I sold my last Terrano for a V8 Disco 2 & what a huge mistake that was I spent more money & time fixing the disco in 2 months than I did on the Terrano in 3 years & I drove the Terrano hard on/off road plus the Terrano was far better off road. Would I have another Disco 2 ? no chance you couldn't pay me enough hence why I spent 18 months looking for another T2 TBH the only good thing was the sound of the V8 when you opened it up but 4mpg hurt the pocket alot

[solarman216]

Originally Posted by Sweety

Glad you had a good day



With a disco you'll just snap half shafts instead

have to say I have had better, new winch bitch was not a patch on my old regular girl, bit droll to say the least, and my own fault on the motor as been far to busy to carry out proper maintenance, but build project nearing completion, so will have more time soon, says me ho ho, some hope, Rick