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  1. Greyman
    thats down to the stupid things they stick on like the egr valve and the dpf, they work alright when the engine is new and running clean but as it starts getting a bit older they just clog everything up with crud, it's all done in the name of the environment, but seems more like deliberately giving motors a shorter life,
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    there is a compressor built inbetween the chassis rails, which runs off of the pto on the gearbox, so it's always been classed as machinery and never taxed or mot,d, I used to be allowed to run on red diesel until they changed the law a few year ago so it's been a very cheap and useful bit of kit to own, I even have air hoses, jackhammers and demolition guns with it that all still work fine and because of the extra weight in the chassis it's much better in the mud than a normal landy
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    your right mate, today's Diesel engines are total rubbish compared to the engines of even the 90s, too much goes wrong and a fecking fortune to fix. To much electronic stuff on them nowadays. I know it's mental, my landrover still has a starting handle, once the glow plugs are warm the electrics cease to matter, I can start it with the handle and as long as the airfilter is above the water level it will keep running completely submerged, I have sat waste deep in water in the drivers seat driving through floods and don't even consider it stopping, gives me a ton of smug pleasure pushing a big
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    your right mate, today's Diesel engines are total rubbish compared to the engines of even the 90s, too much goes wrong and a fecking fortune to fix. To much electronic stuff on them nowadays. I know it's mental, my landrover still has a starting handle, once the glow plugs are warm the electrics cease to matter, I can start it with the handle and as long as the airfilter is above the water level it will keep running completely submerged, I have sat waste deep in water in the drivers seat driving through floods and don't even consider it stopping, gives me a ton of smug pleasure pushing a big
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    This is another reason I have just stuck a new engine in my 96 banana transit, as there is nothing on the road that will live with it, they may overtake me but nothing out there will out last me,,I am upto about 260,000 on the clock and with the engine change should be good for another quarter million miles, I have a mig welder to patch up the rust spots so there is know reason for it not to last me until I don't need a truck in my life anymore, i know another guy that has just sold off his nearly new van for work, bought a smiley face transit and had a nut and bolt restoration done on it for
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    I always thought iveco was ford, just made in Spain? And in truth modern motors are as shite as each other because they share things like cheap tacky fuel pumps that will fail regardless of the badge on the bonnet, so I,d be looking for the lowest miles and most well maintained, sadly the days of transits doing 300,000 miles are becoming a distant memory,
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    the band goes round a small pin, I use a bit of tube,or a matchstick, you just double the last bit, around the pin, stretch the elastic and pull it down into the slit, takes a few seconds if you want a close up piccy let me know and I will stick one up
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    alright mate, if you have the tabs and like them, the easiest way I have found was to put a small piece of rubber pipe on the tab and whip to it, but usually I either button the top of the fork or put a small slit down the fork with an hacksaw, I will stick some pics up, the starship is whipped to a bit of petrol pipe, works well, and the natty,s are buttoned or slit, the hacksaw slit makes for the fastest band changes with know tying, cheers
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    Just off to the PO here are your bands,tying strips and a bit of paracord to pull through, also a little brass and bone catty I,ve just finished polishing for someone in the Netherlands
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    Moorhens live in and eat simular things to a duck, which tastes lovely, also all this talk of shotgun only quarry, we used to go out as kids with 9ft lb webley Hawks and bsa meteors, Mercury,s and shoot bucket ful,s of the things, in fact if you sit still near the water you could wack them with the butt as they come so close, I would think it mad overkill to use a shotty and there certainly would,nt be enough left for a meal after, have even shot loads with a catty as a kid, so get your field craft sorted out
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    you are right as a carp angler of 30 plus years it's about holding the fish out and getting the camera as low as you can, but a big fish is still a big fish and if not photoshopped that's still a big old hare
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    Badger Skull

    Greyman replied to DIDO.1's topic in General Talk

    Just incase anyone is worried about the head or simular rare and endangered species, (because badgers are really rare and need all the help they can get )I think if you write to defra and explain the circumstances of your find they will give you a document, I had to do it last year when a sparrow hawk hit my mates window and died, know one would stuff the bird without the letter, but once obtained all was good and the bird was stuffed vigorously and legally
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    will do you four sets for rogues and runners if your interested. Cheers
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    My house is a very open one, for many different reasons, and at the moment I,m up to eleven for dinner, but that could still rise to around fifteen, if someone chooses to have Christmas alone good luck to them, but if someone is alone through death, divorce, or other shit in there life, I will make a space for them at my table,I don't even have to know them well, but that to me is what chrimbo is about, I could not give a shit about the latest must have gadget, but I would find it really hard to leave someone out in the cold, on the one day of the year when family and friends should be togeth
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    The permission belongs to me though. Utopia for me would be that I am the only person hunting on my permission. And I bet that you wouldn't call me a dick if we were face to face pal Maybe the landowners need to get someone else as their eyes and ears ....if you need to ask the question on here how to keep poachers of your land you are not the man for the job ....poach.jpg A farmer who woke up to this last month with lads poaching his ground and its been an ongoing problem has contacted me through another farmer ...when I get back I have got permission on his ground now and the poacher pr
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    someone asked me in November if I had my tree up yet, I said yes, up in the loft until Christmas, it's rediculous even the January sales start before Christmas
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    how many sets of bands you after mate?
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    It's just more division, when the sheeple wake up and realise that division is what keeps the elite safe and us in control we might just stop hating each other and get our own life's back, left or right, black or white, Christian or Jew, man Utd or man city, trump or Obama, in or out, none of them important just means of keeping everyone divided and under control, As has been the way since we stood upright, stupid us
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    Thanks Greyman,, I really appreciate your offer....I would to say yes, but I'm hoping for to get something that's going to be easy on my hand...suffering with my muscles, and unfortunately I think I'll struggle with the brass milbro, although it looks lovely. Only recently Come across the starship recently, bit too big for me.Think I might buy a sniper type eventually....I think that's the name, one with finger grooves. Thanks again not a problem mate, hathcock target sniper,by Bill Hayes is what you are referring to mate I have one of those to but it's a keeper, you can buy a cast ally one
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    your over sensitive, I live in an area were many local shops are now polish supermarkets, don't hear anyone complaining about that, it would be nice in a country that seems to bow down to every culture around the world to just allow the native people a little bit of self pride, even st George's day is probably the least celebrated national day ever, it's ok celebrating your multi culturalism but it's still England
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    nice gesture dude, and hopefully one that will lead the little fella into an outside life, do you have to have a milbro, as I have a nice little through the fork natty I could send him, how old is he? Here,s a pic of one I could send you it's a beauty, but if he's really young I could knock him up a tiny natty, it's the one to the left of the phone so you can see the size, not asking nout for it as its for a good cause and I love seeing kids doing what kids should be doing, not on an I device cheers
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    I drove one of those from Bristol to London when I was 15, I had to do it once a week for a few months, it had 4 gears and was so noisey a radio was a waste of time, plus it was always hot because the engine was in between the seats, only good thing about it you could cook your bacon on the manifold as you were driving, oh happy days
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    only if it's a two door and made in the avo factory, many of the old standard family stuff ain't,t worth a lot even if it's mint, I was offered a barn find ford classic only a few weeks ago, this was the predecessor to the Capri, when I valued it up I turned it down at 2k as I could get a fully restored minter for less than 3k, I was only going to pass it on and make a few quid but it was,nt even worth the two k the bloke wanted so I would have been stuck with it and out of pocket, so tread carefully before you launch the next episode of wheeler dealers, it's a mine field
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    nice one, the other side of the story thanks, do you hunt with it, I have,nt used those square bands since I was a kid it used to cost us 2p a foot from the buy and try hardware shop,
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    Thanks Greyman,, I really appreciate your offer....I would to say yes, but I'm hoping for to get something that's going to be easy on my hand...suffering with my muscles, and unfortunately I think I'll struggle with the brass milbro, although it looks lovely. Only recently Come across the starship recently, bit too big for me.Think I might buy a sniper type eventually....I think that's the name, one with finger grooves. Thanks again not a problem mate, hathcock target sniper,by Bill Hayes is what you are referring to mate I have one of those to but it's a keeper, you can buy a cast ally one
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