You don't have to go onto the Plain there is plenty around the edge that is at least as interesting. Navigation is also easier off the Plain because there are more land marks and the MOD haven't added their own routes and tracks to confuse you at junctions :)
As said above all the byways are...
Very well thank you. Been too busy making SCOR trials brilliant to hang around with the web wheelers ;) :D
This weekend is my last one in charge; will be doing a little light marshalling at some trials next year, so maybe we will bump into each other.
Check the Total Off Road website/facebook page. They have a number of roadbook 'back issues' for sale. There is a few covering the Wiltshire area; these would be a good place to start as a guide. Also buy an OS Landranger map, number 184 and plot the TOR road book onto that. You will find that...
90 are expensive for just weekend warrior off roading unless you are proper keen. Disco will be rusty and cheap. SJ will be rusty and expensive....all the good ones are being kept now as they are not as common as they were 10 years ago.
There is an SJ that trials with us that has 3 drivers. It...
Just a few big bits that I am trying to get rid off...
Bare RR chassis, was an F-reg V8. No paperwork (and that illegal anyway :) ) Never been welded and has been stored inside for the past 7 years. Before that it was a Range Rover. £50 buyer collects or it goes for scrap.
Disco/RR 10 spline...
I'm going to back up James here.
My (now ex) boss had a Snap-on battery impact gun. Also cost in the order of £400 but was the absolutle business. First tool into the kit when doing a call out for a puncture etc.
They are expensive and I happen to think that unless you really need one I...
Not sure how you knew it was a Defender engine from the original post.
I appreciate that the Disco and Def engine have a different bolt pattern, I had assumed that the TD/petrol engines where different again, apparently not :)
Not in my experience doing TD to Tdi conversions.
See here also http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f7/how-land-rover-90-td-discovery-200tdi-engine-conversion-90679.html
I was just asking as I had imagined that this would be the same on the 2.5 petrol engine.