http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:39:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/archives/1437 http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/archives/1437#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:13:36 +0000 Nick http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/?p=1437 The swap to later axles is raising the diff ratios from 4.71: to 3.54:1.  It would be quite possible to fit the 4.71 crown wheels and pinions from the SIII axles to the new units, but since the Tdi should cope with the 35% gearing increase fairly easily, I have chosen to benefit from the [...]]]> http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/archives/1437/feed 0 http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/archives/1431 http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/archives/1431#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:52:28 +0000 Nick http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/?p=1431 http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/archives/1431/feed 0 http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/archives/1426 http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/archives/1426#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:48:52 +0000 Nick http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/?p=1426 Several years ago, during the intitial rebuild, I bought a heated fuel filter for a pound at Old Sodbury.  It is made for the Bosch filter units used on Tdi engines and is used by Land Rover on Artctic spec vehicles, and is just a sandwich plate that fits between the standard filter housing and [...]]]> http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/archives/1426/feed 0 http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/archives/1428 http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/archives/1428#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:48:29 +0000 Nick http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/?p=1428 http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/archives/1428/feed 0 http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/archives/1412 http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/archives/1412#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:43:37 +0000 Nick http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/?p=1412 The axle is now basically complete.  I still need to clean out the insides of the brake callipers and add new seals and pistons, having cleaned their exteriors of all the rust and grime and having found that the pistons were rusted beyond use. The original Salisbury stub axles were refitted to the axle with new [...]]]> http://www.nickslandrover.co.uk/archives/1412/feed 0