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Fixed. I <3 Essex sometimes... And sounds like perfectly rational thinking Dan Just go for it, you'll get over the hurdle easy enough if you dont remember it's there

What!? It's never going to go that far! The spacer should go inside the thread of the crank and sit on the bb axle, this is shaped to fit with the part of the extractor that screws in towards the axle and pulls the arm off. So just sit it over the screw-y bit level with the end of the threads on the extractor, screw the extractor into the crank arm and the get a big ass spanner on the end of it to tighten it up, it'll come off no problem.

You'll be alright dude This is my mate Tom's from a few months back on a London all-nighter;

You gayer.

And sell me your now obsolete frame?

Yeah, there should be an insert/ spacery thing with the extractor to use it with an isis bb. Goes over the end and the screw pushes against it.

You can't get it off with a crank extractor

Geo?

No, unless you want to sit down on it much.

Sounds good Shamus! Look forward to hearing how it goes I'll keep an eye out for you. And that's pretty lucky for you dude! (not so much them...) Discos with daft owners are godsends for cheap parts and an easy profit, truly awful for 95% of other things though

For <£2000? And now worries Shamus, it's just things i've picked up and wished i knew/ had done when i started out, i got dragged on a 400 mile round trip to see a pile of scrap pretending to be a series 1 last summer with 4 landies and a 16ft Ifor, that wasn't ideal. Would be cool if you could find out about his project though dude! Oh and one more thing, never pay the asking price! Pick holes in it, start low on offers and know what it's actually worth - search around online to get a guide price in your head.

Yeah you'd probably do it then - again the only downside with a pickup is people space, having only 3 seats in the front of 110/09's! Then if you managed some double cab action, you'd only have the room you'd get from a 90 pick up left! They're not all that bad on normal off road stuff, just can get stuck 'cos of the length if you start being silly with them. Welding will only be minor, but even replacing cross members and outriggers is easy enough to do on them. I learnt a lot from the first trucks i was looking at and got majorly f**ked around with, my advice is get as many pics as possible before you go to look if its any considerable distance away, take a hammer and i big screwdriver - if the chassis' is described as being solid, make sure it is! A good way to get money off is to put a hole in the dumb irons (behind front bumper) they ALWAYS rot, most will be easy to put a hole in even if they're still actually very good - nice and easy to repeair when you get it back too Check all crosses, check the tops of the chassis rails if possible, spring hangers on series', make sure it runs and drives if you want to leave it as is, check the steering's tight - an inch or two either way in a series is ok, any more and something's f**ked, defender's arent much better. Make sure the brakes work, can be a bitch to replace, and if something been "recently rebuilt" as they always have been in the adverts, make sure it's not britpart stuff - it WILL fail in under 2 months. Bulkheads are easy to sort, series motors will rot on the top rail under the seal of the windscreen where it folds up - look under there if possible, door pillars go, footwells rot all the time but all are easy to replace, defenders are better but still rot around the top corners the most. Every landy leaks oil, but if it's excessive check it out further, a bit around the bottom of the gearbox/ tranny box, diffs etc is fine. Get it up on a jack and wobble the wheels a bit to check the bearings, jack it and turn the propshafts, too much play before the wheels move is never a good sign - check they're not loose at all too. Basically, just be really thorough and look like you know what you're doing, even if you dont Oh, and what's this project you speak of? OH! And if you're looking into 2a 109's or early series 3's, make sure it's not a ringer!!! It's easy to put a 2a grille and plate onto any series 3 - the door hinges should stand proud on 2's, they're flat and rounded on 3's, if it's a 2a with rounded hinges ask about it - 3's on wrong plates are harder to tell apart, but have a look online and check the numbers on the chassis (front near side dumb iron i think? they're all over the place... ) and check that numbers on the engine, gearbox and axles are both the right model for what it is (2/2a on a 2/2a, 3's on a 3) and preferably close together numbers - google will tell you all about that 'cos i'm pretty shit on anything other than S1's!

Yeah, you look a mong sat down riding on most 24"s. I know, I am/ was one of those mongs. However some less so than others, inspireds have a longer seat tube, my Leeson even more so, that seat just looks incredibly low!!!

Doors are there to be closed...

It's completely pointless, the seat stay and the top tube are in-line, the seat tube only has a hole in it 'cos it's fashionable to have a seat on a 24". If it was a bit longer, it'd be both look better and you could actually sit down on it without looking like a mong.

Just lay back and think of England.

Disco's rust like a c**t and good cheap Rangies are getting hard to come by - usually expensive to run too as most had 3.5/3.9 V8s in them. For that money, you'll get a 2.5NA 110 which'll be alright - slow but a proper workhorse that'll just keep on going and going - same engine i've got to go into my 80" (but that weighs barely over a ton, so it'll be rapid ). You might get a 200TDI 110 if you're very lucky, my mate got an ex-water board one for bang on £2k which was a steal but was far from a good buy, diffs have blown up, gearbox decided it liked having neutral in all gears, various other problems, but chassis and bulkhead have been good. If you want to go off road, any LWB Landy will be awful in comparison to a shortie but they're still very capable. I know i'm the resident series kid on here and am as such slightly bias - but i'd highly recommend looking into a 2a 109" (TAX EXEMPT!!!!), either already fitted with or look into fitting a 200TDI to it, awesome performance and really good fuel consumption for a landy! Standard 2.25 diesels are ok, slow without an overdrive, 25-30mpg, but utterly bombproof - 2.25 petrols are horrendously un-economical, you'll see 20mpg on a very good day. With a 200TDI though, we regularly get 35-40mpg out of my mate's 110, the 2a will be lighter and as such more economical! Parts are dirt cheap, they're very very spartan inside but it's all part of it for me, whack a heater in and you#ll be fine. They teach you a hell of a lot from the workshop side of things through to the driving side. I know people will say it's not got coils so will be shit off road; not true. Set of 750s with decent tread will make a massive difference, and if you do find yourself struggling off road get a set of Parabolics with decent shocks and big shackles - it'll go anywhere a 110 will. I reckon you'd do that all for under £2k if you know where to look and don't mind a bit of welding. As for load space, they are really, really roomy in the back. You might not fit the bike in but you could have a bloody good go at it! Especially if it was a rag top, take the roof off, some funky stand in the back = bueno. As for seats, you'll stick some bench seats in the back of either of the above - not the safest of things in the world but you can get belts for them, often factory fitted and you can then fit 6 passengers in! Perfect if you're only occasionally going to be fully loaded up with people. What you're looking on the double cab front really won't happen for the price range you've got, 110 double cab's are f**king expensive at the best of times and have a pretty rubbish load space in the back - better than mine but still - my truck is nothing to use as a point for comparison when it comes to load space

If that had a non-stupid length seat tube, i'd be tempted by one of those. Looks good built up

I think a f**king huge dent/ crack/ scratches etc might give it away a bit

Headfuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

Get it done dude! Stolen from OLLR; The reason coil springs are gay. The Gospel acording to St. Phillip of Sterndale. And on the eighth day (when he had rested and was feeling, frankly, rather on the ball) God created the leaf spring. The leaf spring articulated well, was not prone to breaking and leaving bits lying all over the place and God saw that it was good. Not known for his modesty, the lord looked upon his spring and was rather chuffed, to say the least. So pleased was the Lord with his creation that he considered, for a while, uncreating the foot, which he had created the week before and adorned with a red sock. The leaf spring had rendered the foot useless and those who bore the foot with the red sock had already become pious and uninteresting but God relented and allowed the foot to remain. For generations man used the spring created by the lord and found that it articulated well and was not prone to breaking and leaving bits lying all over the place and the worshipped the Lord for his creation. There lived in the firery pits of Hades the evil lord Beelzibub and on a visit to the earth he looked upon the lord’s creation and was envious of the way man worshipped the lord for the way his spring articulated well and was not prone to breaking and leaving bits lying all over the place. And sensing that the time was right Beelzibub decided that he would lead man away from the way of the Lord and his creation. Beelzibub appeared unto man and did take his own coiled, metallic tail, which he gave to man and did say: Here is a new kind of spring that is called a coil spring and it articulates well (although he did not mention that it articulated no better than the lord’s spring and was prone to breaking and leaving bits lying all over the place). Man, being stupid, did look upon the new spring and did think that it was good, even though it articulated no better than the lord’s spring and was prone to breaking and leaving bits lying all over the place. Beelzibub was pleased and, being on a bit of a roll, did then take the metallic scaley skin from his body and did give it unto man and did say here is something that is called chequer plate that you may walk safely, and without slipping, on the vertical surfaces of your landrover. Man, being stupid, did look also upon the chequer plate and did think that it was good. Meanwhile the Lord did return from his post-creation holidays and did look upon the earth and did see that many men (who were stupid) had forsaken the lords spring, even though it articulated well and was not prone to breaking and leaving bits lying all over the place, for the devils spring. The Lord was displeased and did call the coil spring gay (In the same way that he did call gay the men who did covet the bottoms of other men, especially as he had gone to so much trouble to invent girls, with tits and that). The Lord did then notice that man had adorned his landrover with chequer plate and did call that Gay too. The Lord did then call white spoked wheels, that some men had shod their landrovers with, gay. The Lord did also notice that some men had adorned their landrovers with deep sills so to appear as skirts, in the hope of attracting men who did covet the bottoms of other men, and did call them gay too. And so did the Lord eventually tire of calling things gay and so did create the interweb and with it OLLR so that it may continue, on his behalf, to preach the word of the Lord’s spring that articulates well and is not prone to breaking and leaving bits lying all over the place. And the Lord did say unto the admin of OLLR: ‘Thou shalt preach the word of the leafspring, that articulates well and is not prone to breaking and leaving bits lying all over the place, and thou shalt, on behalf of the Lord, call things gay and all things that thou shalt call gay shall be gay and so it shall be.

Buy my f**king Leeson instead.