Recent content by Hector the Bad

I spent 3 nights camping on a remote hillside farm with spectacular views, in the Lake District, not far from Broughton-in-Furness. Beautiful rain, munching sheep and hardly a soul to be seen. By the way, I had been to LR Parts in Liverpool (the main reason for my trip) to pick up a safety roll...

Info for fuel consumption nerds! I have just done a 380-mile trip from the Midlands and up to Skye, a big chunk of it on the M6.I just chilled out and kept to the slow lane letting all the white-knuckle drivers zoom past me as I kept the speed to 60mph or under all the way and taking in the...

I'm back after fantastic 1300-mile plus road trip down to Devon via camping out in the Lake District and generally wandering around. Huge amount of motorway driving, mostly at 75-85mph, tyres at 30psi all-round, and returned 27mpg, so well-pleased. Toyo All-Terrain tyres were impeccable. Thanks...

Yes I’m definitely over thinking it! I keep a fairly meticulous track of fuel consumption as a possible guide to engine health and this tyre pressure query sort of springs from that. Of course one reason the long drive at higher pressures data are completely obscured is that the tub is pretty...

Ok - I drive a 1987 Landrover 90 truck cab. It has just been fitted with Toyo All-Terrain 225 x 75 x R16 tyres. HMS Haddock (the name for her) is no longer used for towing heavy loads, pulling tractors and tourists' campervans out of ditches or towing anything beyond a light farm 1-ton trailer -...

ou Yes, I took in your good advice from your first two posts but my later queries were just looking into the benefits of a limited slip diff being fitted, for which I came to the conclusion that it was an unnecessary (and v expensive) upgrade, given my limited requirements. The later question I...

ok - a limited slip diff would be a bridge too far for my limited use. But if I engage the standard diff lock, jack up say a rear wheel and then try to turn the wheel by hand, I assume the wheel wouldn't rotate with the diff lock engaged but would rotate if it wasn't engaged, provided the...

Interesting. Luckily, my tyres are fairly new General Grabber which are good on the rough bits for keeping going but have to be used with some caution under heavy braking on a normal or wet road. Great for grabbing but a bit of a roller skate for sudden stopping - but my previous TD5 with...

Thank you every one for explaining the basics - I'm not off-roading so this info will be good for making the difference between being snowed in and making it to the village shop for a pint of milk and ten B&H etc. I have one more niggling question for anyone interested enough to explain the...

Simples! Thank you...

Thank you - nicely and clearly explained. I would only use it in the snow and where there might be some moderate underlying ice from the previous day's snow thawing and then freezing overnight. As I understand it, nothing works on 100% sheet ice anyway - you are simply sitting in a two-ton...

I have a standard 1987 Land Rover 90. I am about to put in a standard refurb Ashcroft transfer box. I don't quite understand what happens to the drive when 'Diff Lock' is engaged. I will only need it to get through the snow on the five-mile potholed single-track road from my pit to the nearest...

Thanks Kev12 - I'll stick to the standard clutch parts then look out for a Borg Warner or equivalent and also see what';s stamped on the existing clutch components when the gearbox is out. Yes, Britpart can be dodgy - I easily broke the alloy clip trying to put up a new rear view mirror (which I...

or are the blue boxes the rather variable Britpart?

thanks kev12 - that is very hepful, esp the advice to the (usually gruesomely overpriced) blue boxes, which In assume refers to Land Rover 'original parts', or nasty Chinese copies?