Oh...my...God...

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Simon Isaacs

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• Jan 18, 2006

• #41

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:51:03 +0000, Mother <"@ {mother} @"@101fc.net>
scribbled the following nonsense:

>On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:13:58 +0000 (UTC), Simon Isaacs
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>, and get a
>Charlotte... Erm, you already have a brand of that... Enjoy...

I've already suggested that she should go walking with Charlotte at
some of the shows.... Her comments were along the lines of she'd be
dead before they got halfway round, given the monster marathons
charlotte does!
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Simon Isaacs

Peterborough 4x4 Club Newsletter Editor and Webmaster
Green Lane Association (GLASS) Financial Director
101 Ambi, undergoing camper conversion www.simoni.co.uk
1976 S3 LWT, Fully restored, ready for sale! Make me an offer!
Suzuki SJ410 (Wife's) 3" lift kit fitted, body shell now restored and mounted on chassis, waiting on a windscreen and MOT
Series 3 88" Rolling chassis...what to do next
1993 200 TDi Discovery
1994 200 TDi Discovery body sheel, being bobbed and modded.....

 

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Mother

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• Jan 18, 2006

• #42

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 20:12:55 +0000 (UTC), Simon Isaacs
<[email protected]> wrote:

>I've already suggested that she should go walking with Charlotte at
>some of the shows.... Her comments were along the lines of she'd be
>dead before they got halfway round, given the monster marathons
>charlotte does!

Depends on the show really. Eastnor has miles and miles and miles of
really good walks (so she says - I guess she may also have found a
chocolate factory nearby tho'). Mind, Charlotte always manages to
souce decent walks at most showgrounds by at least the 4th year...



--
"We have gone from a world of concentrated knowledge and wisdom to one
of distributed ignorance. And we know and understand less while being
increasingly capable." Prof. Peter Cochrane, formerly of BT Labs
In memory of Brian {Hamilton Kelly} who logged off 15th September 2005

 

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Tim Hobbs

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• Jan 19, 2006

• #43

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:40:39 +0000, Mother <"@ {mother} @"@101fc.net>
wrote:

>On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:43:45 GMT, Jonathan Spencer
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Mine rolled in a dead sheep. After he'd dug it up. It had been buried
>>a week, and was mighty ripe. ;-) An involuntary bath in the River
>>Swale removed much - but not all - of the slimy grey stuff off him.
>
>Quality! Max has tried this once, actually twice, first time, dead
>sheep half buried in sand at Renvyle beach (Connemara National Park,
>the best campsite in Eire), then again at the Welsh 101 UNOFFICIAL
>gathering last October - again, dead sheep half buried in the sand at
>Llanstephan (good call Austin, by the way - even though you got lost
>on the way to K Quads!).
>
>Both times he was reminded that such behaviour tends to make his nose
>hurt.
>
>The dead fish was enough to make us sell the Discovery... Tim?

You haven't, have you...

I want it back so much it hurts.

--
Tim Hobbs

 

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Mother

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• Jan 19, 2006

• #44

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 00:58:15 +0000, Tim Hobbs <[email protected]> wrote:

>>The dead fish was enough to make us sell the Discovery... Tim?
>
>You haven't, have you...

I was on the verge of doing so!

>I want it back so much it hurts.

It's a good car - a few interesting issues have cropped up, but I
think she wants to hang on to it I'm afraid.


--
"We have gone from a world of concentrated knowledge and wisdom to one
of distributed ignorance. And we know and understand less while being
increasingly capable." Prof. Peter Cochrane, formerly of BT Labs
In memory of Brian {Hamilton Kelly} who logged off 15th September 2005

 

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Tim Hobbs

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• Jan 19, 2006

• #45

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:26:50 +0000, Mother <"@ {mother} @"@101fc.net>
wrote:

>On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 00:58:15 +0000, Tim Hobbs <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>>The dead fish was enough to make us sell the Discovery... Tim?
>>
>>You haven't, have you...
>
>I was on the verge of doing so!
>
>>I want it back so much it hurts.
>
>It's a good car - a few interesting issues have cropped up, but I
>think she wants to hang on to it I'm afraid.

So where did the fish come from? I wasn't one of mine...

What's cropped up? The arches were shot, but I didn't think there was
much on the horizon apart from that.

If I'd been going to keep it I'd have had to do the arches and
probably a respray to the roof and pillars - it was a
"customer-facing" vehicle after all.

Volvo isn't long for this world....

--
Tim Hobbs

 

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Badger

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• Jan 19, 2006

• #46

"Austin Shackles" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On or around Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:33:53 +0000, Mother <"@ {mother}
> @"@101fc.net> enlightened us thusly:
>
>>On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:12:15 +0000, Tom Woods <[email protected]>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>American camper van (such as at http://www.rvusa.com/ ). Like an
>>>english camper van but twice as big!
>>
>>Hmm.... pop-out sides and roof.... Hmm....
>
> You'll never get it to work...

have you just isued Martyn a challenge, Austin?
Teehee.

Badger.

 

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Austin Shackles

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• Jan 19, 2006

• #47

On or around Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:06:49 +0000 (UTC), "Badger"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>
>"Austin Shackles" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> On or around Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:33:53 +0000, Mother <"@ {mother}
>> @"@101fc.net> enlightened us thusly:
>>
>>>On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:12:15 +0000, Tom Woods <[email protected]>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>American camper van (such as at http://www.rvusa.com/ ). Like an
>>>>english camper van but twice as big!
>>>
>>>Hmm.... pop-out sides and roof.... Hmm....
>>
>> You'll never get it to work...
>
>have you just isued Martyn a challenge, Austin?
>Teehee.

's traditional, innit. Any time someone mentions something unlikely such as
that, someone says "You'llnever get it to work" or "it'll never fit".
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
"Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt"
(confound the men who have made our remarks before us.)
Aelius Donatus (4th Cent.) [St. Jerome, Commentary on Ecclesiastes]

 

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Mother

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• Jan 19, 2006

• #48

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 19:00:12 +0000, Austin Shackles
<[email protected]> wrote:

>>have you just isued Martyn a challenge, Austin?
>>Teehee.
>
>'s traditional, innit. Any time someone mentions something unlikely such as
>that, someone says "You'llnever get it to work" or "it'll never fit".

Cept of course, you're right - in this case.

It would mean rebuilding the entire back body as the way it is
currently constructed affords 4 mini rollcages and a very high degree
of strength (I've seen them rolled with little or no damage).

To build in slide out sides would mean a complete rethink as to how to
maintain structural integrity. Essentially, it's probably something
worth doing to a rolling chassis - but not an existing ambi.


--
"We have gone from a world of concentrated knowledge and wisdom to one
of distributed ignorance. And we know and understand less while being
increasingly capable." Prof. Peter Cochrane, formerly of BT Labs
In memory of Brian {Hamilton Kelly} who logged off 15th September 2005

 

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Mother

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• Jan 19, 2006

• #49

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:20:43 +0000, Tim Hobbs <[email protected]> wrote:

>So where did the fish come from? I wasn't one of mine...

Pay attention at the back!

It's what Max rolled in whilst I was at the AGM and Charlotte was off
walking him along the canal towpath...

>What's cropped up? The arches were shot, but I didn't think there was
>much on the horizon apart from that.

Done the arches ages ago - not resprayed, but it isn't public facing.

It's developed a very (very) severe shaking and juddering on the odd -
unexpected occasion. Done all the usual stuff, wheels, s'pension, and
all. May have everything at the front replaced and buy some new
wheels...

I'm also, it would appear, becoming a lazy old fart, as I really could
get used to driving an automatic now I've the ZF in Grumble


--
"We have gone from a world of concentrated knowledge and wisdom to one
of distributed ignorance. And we know and understand less while being
increasingly capable." Prof. Peter Cochrane, formerly of BT Labs
In memory of Brian {Hamilton Kelly} who logged off 15th September 2005

 

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Austin Shackles

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• Jan 19, 2006

• #50

On or around Thu, 19 Jan 2006 19:22:42 +0000, Mother <"@ {mother}
@"@101fc.net> enlightened us thusly:

>becoming a lazy old fart,

"becoming" ?
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
"My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent.
I shall attack. - Marshal Foch (1851 - 1929)

 

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Steve Taylor

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• Jan 19, 2006

• #51

Mother wrote:

> To build in slide out sides would mean a complete rethink as to how to
> maintain structural integrity.

RSJ.
;-)

Steve

 

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Tim Hobbs

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• Jan 21, 2006

• #52

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 19:22:42 +0000, Mother <"@ {mother} @"@101fc.net>
wrote:

>On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:20:43 +0000, Tim Hobbs <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>So where did the fish come from? I wasn't one of mine...
>
>Pay attention at the back!
>
>It's what Max rolled in whilst I was at the AGM and Charlotte was off
>walking him along the canal towpath...
>
>>What's cropped up? The arches were shot, but I didn't think there was
>>much on the horizon apart from that.
>
>Done the arches ages ago - not resprayed, but it isn't public facing.
>
>It's developed a very (very) severe shaking and juddering on the odd -
>unexpected occasion. Done all the usual stuff, wheels, s'pension, and
>all. May have everything at the front replaced and buy some new
>wheels...

It did have the usual swivel-pin shake, cured by Himself at the same
time as the brake rebuild. Didn't have all the bushes done IIRC.

It also had an occasional 'burning smell' from the PAS, which I put
down as a side effect of the swivels being buggered, causing the PAS
to work harder (?). It certainly never came back after the swivels
were done.

So many buggered Discos around now a front axle shouldn't be hard to
find to strip and rebuild as a replacement. There was a bit more prop
and diff play than ideal, so it would take a bit of the clunk out of
the drivetrain too.

--
Tim Hobbs