1. Patman1200

    bad earth

    Yes it's most likely the earth. The indicators and lights all have an earth in one of the screws that holds the bulb holder to the body. I would start by taking out all the screws in the bulb holders, cleaning the bulbs and connectors inside the holder and cleaning the earth strap that screws...
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    Evening Pub Meet: Hampshire, Surrey, Berks.

    Next Thursday. Hope to meet loads of you there.
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    Brake Bleeding Kit

    If you register to receive an email from them you might even get an invite to their VAT free days. Get all the Clarke stuff VAT free and everything else 10% off.
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    Brake Bleeding Kit

    I use a giant syringe. Hook it up to the bleed nipple and make sure it's on nice and tight, top up the brake reservoir to full and then open the nipple and suck. Only problem is refilling the reservoir with fluid, but I've managed on cars, landys and motorbikes for years like this. Clarke CGG500...
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    Evening Pub Meet: Hampshire, Surrey, Berks.

    Went past the pub yesterday and it's still open, unlike lots around here.
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    Anyone recommend a welder in the Basingstoke/Reading area?

    Well done. Doesn't matter if it doesn't look pretty. It's a Land Rover.
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    Metalic rattling sound under my landy!

    It was the rear UJ on the rear prop on my 90 when it was doing exactly what you have said. Easy check is after a run feel how hot the UJ's are. They should not be hot at all. The knackered one on my 90 was too hot to touch and could be moved around but only after we released the handbrake.
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    Evening Pub Meet: Hampshire, Surrey, Berks.

    It would have been if I was wearin' one of them there leather codpieces of yours and daft's :D
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    lost enthusiasm

    I might have it BigChap. I'll have a word with the wifey. Then we have to find a way to get it the 5 miles to my place
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    Evening Pub Meet: Hampshire, Surrey, Berks.

    I spent many a late night as a boy scaring the squaddies in Hawley woods and at the lake :D
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    Evening Pub Meet: Hampshire, Surrey, Berks.

    If you 2 turn up dressed like that I'll start wonderin' what sort of relationship you have....
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    Evening Pub Meet: Hampshire, Surrey, Berks.

    Hi all I am arranging a LandyZone pub meet. If it works out then maybe we can do on in the central southern counties every month, moving it around so people from further afield can make them occasionally. So for the first one:- Date: Thursday 1st July, 7:30 onwards Place: Crown and...
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    Anyone recommend a welder in the Basingstoke/Reading area?

    And damned good fun it is too :D:D
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    handbrake

    Sounds like your prop has seized up. It is telescopic to allow for the movement of the diff. If you cant move it back over the bolts then you'll have to remove the rear end of the prop and slide the whole thing off, then find out why it's not sliding. Also grease the 2 nipples on it.
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    Anyone recommend a welder in the Basingstoke/Reading area?

    And PM me and I'll be happy to have a look and do it for you.
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    Rear Brake Drum Removal

    If the shoes have worn through the drum material then there will be a lip in the drum that the shoes are stuck against. Undo the square adjuster bolt on the backplate as far as it will go then keep whacking the drum outwards until it falls on your foot :D
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    Disco 1 front prop into an 1988 90?

    Should it fit? I removed the suspect noisy one on my 90 last night, and having a spare from the front of the engine donor Disco 1 that looks identical but is about 2cm short. I cannot extend it so i think the prop has siezed on the splines, but would it work if I can get it to extend?
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    Experience wanted

    Get an old scrapper Disco with a 200Tdi engine. Keep the engine and all the parts to put into your 110 and get it running. Flog all the bits off the Disco. Now you have a running 110 worth a lot more money. Run the 200Tdi 110 or flog it and get 110 van. You'll be wasting money to converting...
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    Insurance b******s!

    Didn't tell mine as it's still a 2500cc turbo diesel.