Re: Gone to Billing!

Erm...

I thought you were at billing?

Alex

Knowing Martyn I would hazard a guess he is at Biling, sipping a Pims with the laptop doing it's stuff. A case of Gone but still here.

Lee D

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I wish I could live up to these expectations...

Sadly, 30 miles down the M1 things changed for the worse...

Making an unexpected appearance on the hard shoulder...

by 23.00 we were back in Sheffield.

Yesterday was spent stripping the transfer box, I'm just off to get some thrust washers before rebuilding it (again), then maybe, just maybe, we'll be orft agin by early afternoon...

One way or another we'll be at Billing - even if I have to go out and buy a caravan to tow behind the Disco!

At present, the 'fan' bit of alt.fan.landrover is something of a sore point

Kevin (6x6 chap) is here, Warren coming soon...

We've stripped (like you'd not believe) everything, cleaned it all - sooo much fur and ex-thrust washers, new (totally different) intermediate gear kit going in - without any thrust washers (Nick, I'll let you know in an hour or so if this works!). Just need to finish cleaning centre diff, then put front and back housings on, double check everything, fill with oil and...

...test!

However, before then (now actually), a well deserved coffee break! (WEll, summat gotta wash the Gunk off mi throat)...

:-(

Ah well...look on the bright side... saving a fortune in Pimms! And if all else fails you can go for mass consumption.

Weather looks a bit pants here anyway.... rain .. rain and more rain.. At least it should be dry under Grumble.

Good luck with it.

Were still waiting on Mrs D's new toy so the Jury is out on if we will attend or not more influenced by the weather at the mo.

Lee D

Keep an eye on Kevin... if left alone with grumble you may go back out to find that caravan you were considering riveted to the back along with an extra axle or two. Whats he tinkering with these days?

Lee D

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Oh, bad luck. I must admit the weather is keeping me guessing here, It's been horrid the last few days. However, I have a pressing need for several parts for a rebuild project, so l'll probably go sunday.

Ale

Setting off now...

Hopefully see you Sunday on the rubber-rope stand :-)

Now that would never happen to me

(or would it ?)

In message , Mother writes

Go on then. I am new'ish to this group, what and where is this Billing then? Thanks.

What:

David

In message , David French writes

Thanks.

in article 6Gtw+tQ8eV+ snipped-for-privacy@graham.jones, Graham Jones at snipped-for-privacy@ntlworld.com wrote on 17/7/04 6:46 pm:

If you go make sure you wear really comfy shoes. Its a long way round.

Just got back with most of the bits we wanted. Saw the purple 101 and owner on way down one isle with plans to stop and say hello on way back up the other side, but by the time we got there he'd disappeared. Will have to visit at the Peterborough Show in September.

He'd be chasing up a lead on some cheap swafega at a guess.. ;-)

Sugar and fairy liquid works a treat in an emergency too...

... I should add... on the hands not in the tea.

Lee D

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Got there, spent most of the day.

Didn't see any of the "famous" motors from this group. I got told on the Plasma stand to avoid Martyn if I ran into him as he was "In a stinker of a mood when he arrived". I hope he gets home without having to rebuild Grumble again.

I went looking for a few things (winching chains, access ladder for a disco, Tirfor). Came back with none of the above but with an uprated intercooler.

Now I just have to figure out if Twisted Performance were doing boost increases/fuelling changes or just intercooler replacements - couldn't say I noticed too much difference in performance on the way home and I'd expect a 25% power increase to be noticable, especially in a gutless wonder like my Disco.

I also came away with a Disco Owners Club membership. Hadn't planned on that one either.

Still need to get myself a ladder and some headlamp guards. Everybody at the show kept sending me to Simmonites who couldn't help due to not knowing what they were selling and tried to sell me a set of rear lamp protectors for a Defender which would be useful if a) I didn't already have a set of rear lamp protectors and b) I had a Defender.

Thankfully the weather wasn't nearly as hot as last year, although I got stuffed by arriving just at opening time when it was still quite cool and then walking around the site in a jacket when the temperature went up.

P.

Passed a light blue fronted one on the M25? On Thursday

He made it ...

... and managed to meet me.

Paul

And made it back - just (more to follow, I'm sure!)

At last - nice too.

Dave came over today - so a few more of those names have faces.

Sincere applegize if anyone thought I wasn't my usual happy cheery self - a few transfer box issues were getting in the way of being chilled. Still, there's next year to look forward to :-)