Recent content by FlyingPanda

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No worries, I may hire a van and bring them back home so I'll let you know if I do that!

Took me longer than that to get the exhaust manifold off!

If you don't mind collecting from near Wolverhampton I would be looking for around £500 for the four wheels and tyres as a set. They have done less than 600 miles since they were bought new, and look mint...

I was amazed to hear that they had stripped my 90 and the other guy's 110 down to individual parts, packaged them and shipped virtually all of them out of their workshop within 24 hours of nicking the vehicles. The parts that were left when the workshop was raided were already wrapped in bubble...

Just as a very late update: Staffordshire police didn't give up on this, and tracked down and arrested the culprit. He has just been sentenced (last week) to just over 2 years inside. Full story here...

Yes, fair point. I'll be back in front of a computer tomorrow and will post some more pictures.

At 2:30 am this morning (Sep 29th) some scumbags broke into the workshops of Staffordshire 4x4 and made off with a Red 90 300tdi Hardtop and a Silver 110 as well as a huge amount of tools etc. Both quite distinctive vehicles, please keep an eye out, thanks.

I would say so. Unfortunately the replacements tend to fail as well at some point, but at least you will have had the practice in getting the bl00dy thing off!

The way that oil is pooling at the bottom of the lower welch plug looks to me like the replace-the-rivets trick might not fix it. These things seems to leak from every flippin' oriifice!

Ah, right. It never crossed my mind that the rear diff oil would have any effect on the selection of reverse. I have much to learn Obi-wan.

Sorry if I'm being thick, but could you expand on that? Are you meaning refill the gearbox with the same oil as you would use in the diff??

That looks superb, can I ask what colour that is (yeah, I know it's red...) and is it metallic? EDIT: Sorry - just seen it mentioned elsewhere - a Renault colour - interesting choice!

Ok, thanks, I'll get back underneath and start fiddling. I was surprised how much I could rotate the wheel before it started to rotate the propshaft, but maybe that's normal?

Thanks James, I haven't actually got any further than removing the wheel and realising that the flange/shaft are all one piece. I guess I could strip it out, but does the amount of rotational play sound excessive (this is with rear jacked up, handbrake on)?