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hello,just got back from the pub where i had a conversation with a villager that went like this.
what were you doing to your terrano this afternoon?
putting manual locking hubs on
why bother?
because i found that my snap rings had gone in the auto hubs
was it difficult?
no not really
why did you not just get rid and get a landrover?
because i like my creature comforts
my defender will go places you can only dream of

upon hearing that i just laughed and walked away...what is it with these people?,do they think that the only 4x4 on the planet is a landy,just wait till i get my grizzly claws fitted and meet him out on the rough stuff and he asks me for a tow...he can get stuffed.
this sort of mentality really makes my blood boil.

rant over.
thanks,
paul.
 
Hi devs :smile: So you've just got your 1st taste of what I call the LR virus as it kills the owners sence of reason :lol: :lol: When I got mmy T2 last year my m8 went out & got a surf & shouted jap 4x4's were the best but his was better than mine :roll: but he well his other1/2 said they had to get a 7 seater he got a disco V8 on a N plate & know is shouting off that his LR is the best 4x4 you can get & realy turning his nose up at my truck because it's not a LR :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: At the end of the day my truck has done what i've asked it to do on/off road & am pleased with it.
 
i have the same with a fellow at work with a std 1.8 LWB freelander lol
 
hi sweety,i suppose we should just let these clowns get on with it safe in the knowledge that we have as good a 4x4 as they have but it`s just a well kept secret. :lol:
 
Yes I know exactly what you mean and I just can't understand it. They are both good at different things but you don't need two days in traction after driving a T2 :lol:

Jim T
 
his traction control and hill desent is better then my locking diffs aswell :lol:
 
jims-terrano said:
Yes I know exactly what you mean and I just can't understand it. They are both good at different things but you don't need two days in traction after driving a T2 :lol:

Jim T
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hehehe well said :lol:
 
Baxter said:
his traction control and hill desent is better then my locking diffs aswell :lol:
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until his headgaset blows.......again and again and again :wink:
 
Well devs the lad i'm on about had his surf for a year & did'ny service it once 8O 8O 8O So I will be laughing my bits off if he thinks he'll be able to do that with the disco :lol: :lol: He says he's into the more extream off roading & not the easy/borring greenlaning :roll: yip he's turning into a bit of a prat :wink:I've never see his motor with any mud on it & I think the last time he hit some mud was when he past my house & drove through what had fell off my truck :lol: :lol:
 
i bought my caravan off fella with gaylander 1.8 thing when i looked under bonnet there was room to get another engine in there!,end day there bolted together by either load brummies or scousers an pretty soon some fella in a clearing in the jungle! soon have a land rover version of the city rover!.
mates disco had new head and gasket,on its third front axl windows work when feel like it rotting of its wheels bigest pile of poo hes had so far,he sold 3 door t2 and has regretted it eversince!
 
Donnington

Well my troll has bin accepted to appear on the modified vehicle display on 17th Feb at Donnington. But. Im not sure its good enough. She could do with new wheels an tyres and a new set of springs really. Also I could do with fixing the winch but I doubt any of this will get done in time (other commitments and work). Might just put all the gear on, give her clean and go for it. :roll: What dya think :?:
 
leave the mud on,it is a nissan off road not a pampered land rover school run vehicle!
 
I have to say i love landies, but the series kind not the car derived junk that landrover now build for townies to take their kids to school in... Series landies are basic but cheap and easy to fix, and are guaranteed to go places where most jap 4x4's wont go...

Freelanders are an insult to the landrover name, discovery int much better, once you buy one of these you discover why that it wont go on mud very well. at the end of the day the first landrovers were basiclly tractors, they even had a pto shaft out the back to drive implements, we ran a saw bench and pulled a cockpheasant with a sIIa.

Can't slate jap 4x4's never really put mine to the test, But while working on farms in kent the boss of a farm i worked on had a swb landy to pull a cattle trailer, they loaded 3 cows in to the trailer and the landy got stuck in field. the bosses son had little Suzuki jeep, he got a chain hooked jeEp on front and pulled the landy and trailer out. much to our amazement...

I know of another farmer who had a Dihatsu four track, he pulled a 3 furrow run around plough with it, never would have believed it if i had not seen it for myself...

So anybody can knock any 4x4 but the best ones to knock are Chelsea tractors, they dont get muddy, and if they want to impress their neighbours they go and buy a tin of spray on mud...
 
At least T2's aren't blessed with the TD5 engine, really nice oil pump drive Land Rover........... not


Jim T


PS I have to say this, the TD5 does sound nice, when it's running before it Seizes up -rotfl-
 
tend to melt there pistons too! best one was 300tdi timming belt pullys out of alignement had to isue revised belt kit!
 
One of my bosses had a 200 tdi... Need i say more... oh alright then... while going up m6 at 80 mph the engine suddenly gained some revs was told upto the stopper pin on the dial.. he pulled onto the hard shoulder where the engine revved itself to death, and a strange looking object rather like a piston bounced out from under the engine bay.. on stripping the engine down it was found that the head gasket failed between the pot and the oil way thus running on heavier oil than normal.... engine oil... so like i said series landies fantastic.... forget the rest......

I was told the 300tdi had a crap gearbox..

Freelander and 4x4 .. please no not in same sentence or breath.. please remember ....

Freelander, Jaguar, Volvo and Mondeo all share a little component... the CHASSIS... yep
 
all part ford soon to be tata india! as someone said eleswhere build quality will go up if nowt else lol!
 
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