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If your bottom is really tight then the waxoyl can be mixed with old engine oil (definate no to frying bacon). It works just as well. Waxoyl is only slack wax (which at one time was a fairly useless by product of oil refining) taken up in a solvent. However it does the job provided all of teh...

Sorry been busy for a few days getting a new (second hand) car. Yes we did. I am well pleased with the concoction we have put together using the rear axle hanger straps - BUT it has not been banged around rough ground yet. The hanger straps which came with it (cannot remember where it was...

Being a teacher I kept an ongoing record of every penny spent even tins of grease. Then having decided that I was (a) becoming very sad old git (b) becoming a very very sad old git I just forgot about it. I spend when I have the dosh and when I need to spend. Life is too short. However spending...

just as an aside. We replaced the exhaust system a few years ago (the vehicle has gone though a major rebuild during the summers (under tarps during the winter). We replaced the exhaust system after we cut out the rear floor and before we installed the new rear floor. We used standard exhaust...

my thoughts entirely, PS if anyone thinks about buying a Rover 25/45/75 do not - the components used in them are crap and are ridiculously expensive to buy. Had nowt but trouble with my 25 sport - need to get a new motor before going back to work on the Beast.

Just done the anti freeze plugs on a Series 3 (what a pain they are) so the manifolds had to come of. Decided to replace the exhaust whilst we were on. The new one would not go any where near as there was way too much meat on it. Took the grinder with a grinding disc as opposed to a cutting disc...

Thanks for the replies - In between painting my newly constructed solid fuel bunker (between the rain showers) I have had a thorough look (yes I should have done so earlier!). I can see why I was confused and possibly how it went through the MOT five years ago (it has been under cover during bad...

many thanks, I will have to suffer my son being right as usual!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

my son and I have just about got the series 3 (short wheel base van 1978) ready for MOT. It was bought 5 years ago in a mess but with a valid MOT (cannot see how as we had to weld up the chassis sort the steering, suspension and just about everything else). During the final checks I find that...

my son and I have just about got the series 3 (short wheel base van 1978) ready for MOT. It was bought 5 years ago in a mess but with a valid MOT (cannot see how as we had to weld up the chassis). During the final checks I find that the very bottom of the bulkheads on either side (i.e. just...