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Forum: The Trailer Park

Mar 13th 2023, 9:59 pm

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Two of my sons were drooling over it. " sacrilege ' was a comment from one of them upon seeing the Nissan picture. Was told the V8 conversion was notorious for prop shaft vibration issues. The...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Mar 13th 2023, 8:12 pm

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Was offered a mid 60s Jaguar Saloon, rusty but that is to be expected. Saw the car it was very rusty, floor pans shot, interior and dash very poor. Undeterred I thought that the engine has a value, I...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Nov 30th 2022, 8:25 pm

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Same here we have had around 7 deer collisions, one a total loss on the second deer and a new Yukon XL Denali hit a big buck. Have a Ranch Hand bumper on my truck and a very solid brush bar on one of...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Sep 30th 2022, 1:08 am

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Duramax / Allison ?

Forum: The Trailer Park

Apr 21st 2022, 11:54 am

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I have driven Ford for a long time and was looking for a light duty truck around two years ago. I friend suggested I look at Dodge and I bought a Ram 1500 Big Horn Crew Cab 4wd Off Road. So far I am...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Apr 20th 2022, 8:24 pm

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I saw the proposed buy back due to quality issues.
My F350 needs replacing, I am told the 6.7 Ford diesel is still a little hit and miss. I am hearing a lot of good things about the straight six 6.7...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Oct 15th 2021, 9:07 pm

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In 1947 Land Rover developed the center steer prototype for agricultural use. In 1948 the first Series model was introduced. There are lots of opinions and theories regarding what happened to the...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Mar 16th 2018, 6:33 pm

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We have one for our F-350, the good is it keeps whatever you have in the back dry and relatively secure, the bad obviously is you have height limitations.
I forget the price it was ordered to match...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Feb 20th 2018, 12:41 pm

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The " squirrel cage " heaters on the Series 2 /2A Rovers are truly worthless.

The Series 3 and Defender heaters are not bad.

I did see a picture of a Rover with a small woodstove fitted, it was...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Jan 31st 2018, 12:11 pm

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A friend in Ford Development told me the V10 was produced as Dodge had one in the Viper and truck, it is a "modular" engine so adding two cylinders to a V8 was relatively easy.
The Ford diesels...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Jan 30th 2018, 12:32 pm

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If anyone wants a diesel Cummins Repower offers the 2.8 turbo diesel new in the crate with all ancillaries for $8999.
It is supposedly a great engine used all over the world, a friend is fitting one...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Jan 25th 2018, 4:13 pm

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Correct I tend to favor the more obscure models.
A friend of mine in Saudi had a bronze one and rolled it missing a camel on the " Christian Highway " that goes around Mecca, it sustained very...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Jan 25th 2018, 1:06 pm

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Posted By ottotheboar

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Do not see many of these around, I asked the owner if he would sell it and he is thinking about it.

Forum: The Trailer Park

Jan 19th 2018, 12:31 pm

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Posted By ottotheboar

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We have an operation similar to what you have in mind. We ship container loads of motorcycles to the UK and use the pounds to buy spare parts in the UK and ship them to the USA.
Regarding cars we...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Jan 18th 2018, 12:33 pm

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Very anecdotal but when we pick up a car from the docks we never see many British cars at the terminals.
There is traffic both ways definitely, most of the European exporters have an agent in the...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Dec 21st 2017, 12:53 pm

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I sold a very heavy trailer mounted 300KW generator with a large Detroit 6/92 engine.
The buyer put the shipping on Uship and the chap towing it pulled in with a Ford F250 with a huge amount of...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Dec 17th 2017, 12:56 pm

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Posted By ottotheboar

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Definitely, one chap ran an Excursion with a huge amount of lift ( twin shock set up ) with a V10 engine which was clearly too small to opted for a large Cummins / Allison set up.

Forum: The Trailer Park

Dec 15th 2017, 6:45 pm

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In our neck of the woods in addition to the lift a pair of exhaust pipes behind the cab pointing up making a load roar and emitting a large cloud of black smoke under acceleration is popular. One...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Dec 6th 2017, 11:02 am

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Posted By ottotheboar

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Interesting I had never looked at the specs of a Toureg.

Would also put any of the 6x6 rigs Defender / Pinzgauer / Perentie and last but not least the Mercedes as awesome.
Was in a 110...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Dec 5th 2017, 10:10 pm

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Can not think of any other combination of 4wd vehicles where you would have two cars and twenty cylinders

Forum: The Trailer Park

Dec 5th 2017, 9:54 pm

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Posted By ottotheboar

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What !!!! you do not like the LM002 ? awesome beast.
The V12 Countach engine should be removed every 5000km for maintenance plus around 5mpg but what the heck.

Forum: The Trailer Park

Nov 25th 2017, 1:25 pm

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Posted By ottotheboar

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Let us know how the Prime Choice ride.
A few years ago we rebuilt a Series 2A 5 Door Land Rover on a ex MOD chassis to convert it to lhd. The only shocks I could find to fit were Pro Comp and...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Nov 12th 2017, 12:33 pm

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Posted By ottotheboar

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I would go for the Monroe I have known people use them, I have no experience with the other brands but a couple of years ago did research shocks when we were fitting a true two inch lift and found...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Nov 2nd 2017, 11:50 am

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One of the vehicles I drive most days is a 110 with a 5 speed and have no issues, our children are the same.
If you start cutting engine mounts to put in something different you will devalue the...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Oct 26th 2017, 12:35 pm

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Posted By ottotheboar

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Hard to say the plate is definitely old. The weak point on a Defender clutch is the operating arm the push rod pushes through it. The gearbox needs to come out to replace it so most put in a new...

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