Recent content by James1966

Apparently they are under new management and will be opening again, give them a call he was a bit cagey when I spoke to him but said they will bo open again. Wht happend for the EA to get involved ?

good idea, I would never risk buying an engine from Basildon ;)

its a shame your packing it in as your service and products seem rather good, can you not down size a bit so less overheads, less work more spare time ?

you can change them with the box in place just jack it up a bit to take weight and swap the mounts out, you can do this with the round ones and also the later square type, they are only around £8 each for gen LR ones, the square ones are sided.

check trailing/radius arm bushes at both ends, normally the problem.

used a dial guage down injector hole or plug hole before, just put a piece of bar down the most vertical hole and wait till guage stops, that should do the trick, get it close by using the rockers first.

take it off and soak it in a bucket of water for 5 minutes giving a spin from time to time might just be mud in the brushes, unless it has seized up ?

best way to check if you need an adj Panhard rod is measure axle posistion, is it in the middle of the chassis ? If it has been lifted then it may require one, just make sure you have used loads of threadlock on it have seen one come undone and then worn the threads and it came apart. Mine is a...

you keep picking laning days that I cant make !! those fords will be deep.

are they genuine bushes ? mine have been in for a around 2 years and still OK, non gen bushes can be rubbish and not last long, also use new nuts and bolts and tighten in the correct fashion/torque and all should be good. Polybushes in the panhard rod can sometimes allow grit in and wear...

fit the disco arm, then its just a trackrod end to change nice and simple :)

they are such a poor idea, changed one once best way is box off cut arm off and fit with a disco one, they are track rod ends so the arm stays on the box for ever and you can just spin a new track rod end on with ease.

take the cover on the wing top off and check the drain hole is clear, they block and rainwater ends up in heater.

I am a chimney sweep and also fit/install stoves and chimney liners, please be carefull installing it yourself I see many a keen DIYer, engineer, builder etc fit them and some are death traps some are fitted well but not signed off so just as bad. Building control will sign them off if you pay...

is it earthed back to the battery ? live should go from battery to isolator to solenoid then to winch earth should also go all the way back to battery.