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No, it's working away just fine. Are you typing in the new address, lrukforums.com ?

Don't know why but I would guess that it was a rebuild project and the guy doing it gave up/sold the truck it was going into/got a modern engine instead, TDi perhaps and then didnt want to spend the money finishing off this engine so stuck it back together to sell it on dishonestly. gill

The ram and pump are the easy bits. The difficulty is in controlling them. It has to be unpowered when there is no input from the steering wheel to allow for feedback and it needs to be powered only when the wheel is turning and needs to provide assistance relative to the speed you're turning...

Going by the stink of ep90 when i'm driving mine, loads haha

Apparently not Darren.

Good show Simon. Just tried that myself and set it to show threads from last 100 days and now have it all back. If anyone else tries it, just remember to hit save changes at the bottom of the settings page once youve changed it . mine was set to forum default by the way, before I changed it.

Man up, last time I lifted the head on my landy it was in a field in the snow haha, true story. I'm being flippant of course, its a bugger working out in the drive, let alone in the road. I would say though, if youre tipping all manner of stuff down the bores don't run the engine without...

I'd be whipping the manifolds off and having a look at the valve stems. If the cam and ignition timings are spot on then it could be your smoke is coming from leaky stem seals. My engine smokes like hell when cold but it clears once its hot.

Could be a collapsed main shaft bearing although I would expect difficulty selecting gears in that case. Because 4th gear is direct, it is usually much quieter than the other three so you hear other noises more clearly, like UJ's and T-box whine.

The rings on my PT were stuck. I managed to free a couple of them off with the piston out - engine was getting a full stripdown anyway - but even carefully poking and prying with thin things I still managed to break two of them before I gave up. Rings are quite expensive for it in comparison to...

Maybe you have greater access because you were a MOD. I can only see todays posts and stickies. Great to be back though and bog thanks to our mysterious benefactor.

sikaflex is great stuff. Brilliant for stuff that is subject to vibration and moderate amounts of movement. Would be good for the front of the roof where the rivets invariably break. Silicone tends to unstick on at least one of the surfaces, whereas sikaflex wouldnt. No replacement for...

I have put a tea light candle holdery tin bit in the passenger side pipe for the demister. It's just the right size and allows more of the air to clear the driver side window. It now only takes about 25 miles for the window to clear. I have been toying with the idea of fitting a heater out of...

It should be fairly easy to find out. Pre 1960 vehicles have been MOT exempt for a wee while now. According to the document, only 6% of pre 1960 vehicles take them for voluntary tests. There must be some of those that have been pulled over and found not to be up to scratch. The thing with...

Whenever i have been pulled over at a VOSA checkpoint there have been little in the way of safety checks. Usually a little Hitler-esque guy (actually he was more like the guy off "on the buses".) hitting the wheel nuts with a hammer and barking orders to operate the lights and wipers as well...

I was going to post the same thing! Who is this mysterious saviour?

Those two fixings under the bulkhead are a real pain, when I replaced my gearstick, I only put one of them back, I ran out of patience. Your dash looks really good. Does the bent gearstick prevent a passenger from using the middle seat? On the occasions that Ive had a passenger in my centre...

So at what point does your truck actually become officially 40 years old? My v5 states that the approximate age of first registration was august 1980, but then I think the approximate first date of registration was august for all the cars Ive had that were older. Do I have to wait till August...

Given that I'm the same age as my landy, free tax was about the only thing I was looking forward to for turning 40 in not too many years time! Now I have something else to make it worthwhile.

excellent well done Big man.