Comments on: Sacrilege? http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/archives/993 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:21:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Nick http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/archives/993/comment-page-1#comment-5598 Nick Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:11:12 +0000 http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/?p=993#comment-5598 Hi Alex. James Taylor wrote an article about the trip itself in the November 2008 edition of Land Rover Enthusiast, on sale at the moment. We're in a couple of the pictures and unfortunately get a mention when he refers to the trip being arduous and taking its toll on several of the vehicles, stating that we had numerous over heats. In fact, we never had any over-heats, but did suffer from running hotter than I was happy with for the first half of the first off-roading day, until we traced the problem to the fact that my electric fan was a pusher, not a puller (mis-packaged), and so was working against the airflow through the rad. How much this may have contributed to a coolant T-piece that sheared on the way up to the tracks that morning is debatable, but the consensus was that it was down to normal vibration taking its toll on a sub-standard plastic part. The 109 is also featured on the penultimate facing page with the other "next month's features". The big article is in the December edition, coming out in the next few weeks. James was kind enough to send me an e-mail of his draft of the main text for checking, and only a few minor corrections were needed. It was quite flattering, overall, and will hopefully be a good read for everyone. Thanks, Nick Hi Alex.

James Taylor wrote an article about the trip itself in the November 2008 edition of Land Rover Enthusiast, on sale at the moment. We’re in a couple of the pictures and unfortunately get a mention when he refers to the trip being arduous and taking its toll on several of the vehicles, stating that we had numerous over heats. In fact, we never had any over-heats, but did suffer from running hotter than I was happy with for the first half of the first off-roading day, until we traced the problem to the fact that my electric fan was a pusher, not a puller (mis-packaged), and so was working against the airflow through the rad. How much this may have contributed to a coolant T-piece that sheared on the way up to the tracks that morning is debatable, but the consensus was that it was down to normal vibration taking its toll on a sub-standard plastic part. The 109 is also featured on the penultimate facing page with the other “next month’s features”.

The big article is in the December edition, coming out in the next few weeks. James was kind enough to send me an e-mail of his draft of the main text for checking, and only a few minor corrections were needed. It was quite flattering, overall, and will hopefully be a good read for everyone.

Thanks,

Nick

]]> By: Alex Bowie http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/archives/993/comment-page-1#comment-5596 Alex Bowie Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:41:31 +0000 http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/?p=993#comment-5596 Hi Nick Alex from LRUK.Enjoyed all the musings of your Alps Trip. Great to see you get a mention in press for all your efforts with Landy. Long may it continue to give you pleasure..........I`ll need to buy the mag to do a nosey. It will be first mag I`ve bought for 3yrs! CYA Alex Hi Nick
Alex from LRUK.Enjoyed all the musings of your Alps Trip. Great to see you get a mention in press for all your efforts with Landy. Long may it continue to give you pleasure……….I`ll need to buy the mag to do a nosey. It will be first mag I`ve bought for 3yrs!

CYA
Alex

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