LROS forum ... where did it go?

[Simon Perks]

I know this might sound odd being posted here & as a new guy here i'm enjoying reading the threads n all but I wanted to thank the guys on the LRO forum who helped me out last year with my SIII .. the link now takes me to a face book page ...
Anyone know why this has happend, as in where did the other forum go.

Cheers
Simon (rattling clutch plate and clonkin UJ's on me prop shaft) in Switzerland

PS spell checker put LROS in the title ... sorry

 

[flat]

yeah the LRO forum was closed as it wasnt used much.

 

[Ratae]

It was to do with new legislation - The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - coming into force in May this year & the site owners Bauer Media decided the easiest route to comply was to close all their magazine forums which included LRO. Brexit makes no difference to this piece of legislation.
They have reappeared here http://thelandroverowner.proboards.com/ and I believe much of the stuff from the old forums is available.

 

[dieseldog69]

It was to do with new legislation - The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - coming into force in May this year & the site owners Bauer Media decided the easiest route to comply was to close all their magazine forums which included LRO. Brexit makes no difference to this piece of legislation.
They have reappeared here http://thelandroverowner.proboards.com/ and I believe much of the stuff from the old forums is available.

Are you sure it was legislation driven? I heard it was more to do with the fact that their old site was 3rd party image hosting only and that they lost 95% of their image content due to PhotoBucket business plan change and people not wanting a subscription to show their pictures.

I used to do a lot on LROi but got rather hacked off by their add policy as pages were taken over by adds and the banner doan the side(which took up 1/3rd of my bloody screen) squashed my pictures and no matter how much I protested they ignored me, I was a major contributor to the technical write up boards for the D1s too.

I won't bother to join, no point, 50 members in almost a month running and still same admin and mods, nothing changed & no doubt Bauer will have even less interest in making an effort to build it up even though they have the best international platform in the world to do it with.

Hey ho.

 

[Ratae]

Bauer have nothing whatsoever to do with the one I linked to, haven't even mentioned it in the magazine or on that facebook garbage that they think will be a substitute.

Photobucket royally ****ed over many really useful threads - including yours - when they decided to go with their ransom demand.
FWIW there is a very good thread on an Oz land rover forum showing replacing seals in a Disco1/RRC steering box which I intended to refer to when the weather gets better & the photos on that were PB & they've gone too.

 

[dieseldog69]

I am yet to recover my SD cards with the pictures of my build, but I am hoping to be able to replace the pix in my build thread here and meybe try to resurrect some of the old techy threads I did.

I always had a feeling that PB would do the ransom thing at some point but I lost everything, I have no account or anything anymore and there isn't even a voice or email contact to try and get some resolve, I scanned the fine prints and they can do what they like once you "accept" their Ts&Cs.

Steering box seals are never the problem it is always the seal land on the shaft, not sure if you remember my steery box thread but I used a speedy sleeve on the shaft to recreate the land for the new seals, easy enough job so long as the shaft's no buggered.

 

[Ratae]

Be nice if some of the Buster's Bus ones could be restored, I saw your comments there.

I remember your speedisleeve one, I've used them for a few jobs in the past. Did you do the input & output seals & how has it held up?
Don't suppose you happen to remember what diameter sleeves you used?

 

[dieseldog69]

32mm rings a bell but it was not as snug a fit as i was hoping for, you need the next one down 31.5mm, I fitted mine with bearing lock and 5yrs on it's still leak free.

 

[Ratae]

Brilliant. Thanks very much.

 

[Simon Perks]

It was to do with new legislation - The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - coming into force in May this year & the site owners Bauer Media decided the easiest route to comply was to close all their magazine forums which included LRO. Brexit makes no difference to this piece of legislation.
They have reappeared here http://thelandroverowner.proboards.com/ and I believe much of the stuff from the old forums is available.

no it's rubbish ... just been to take a look ....