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How does it look familiar mate I have just built it lol. cheers Dave it is looking good really pleased with the way it turned out now time to start building her. Lots to do
Boomer wrote: Converted cash into fuel into miles desperately searching for green lanes in the Reading area that I could have a drive along ... /fail
get your self some os maps. not to far from you theres loads around alton area, also try a site called wetroads covers river crossings fords etc ive found that quite help full some times
Hmm may have to get a few OS Landranger maps for around here then. I know some of the Alton area from blatting around on my VFR, but that is only on nice tarmac roads
Had a peek at the wetroads site and that looks interesting
page wrote: How does it look familiar mate I have just built it lol. cheers Dave it is looking good really pleased with the way it turned out now time to start building her. Lots to do
theres a really good one on there near alton cant rememeber want its called on there but just below alton on the google maps link on there if you click on it you can zoom in on you area. im yet to find one like this for byways surely there should be one, just looked on wetroads around you most are ristricted but if you go on the map bit you can see normal byways too marked with crossed red/pink lines
idiotmobil wrote: theres a really good one on there near alton cant rememeber want its called on there but just below alton on the google maps link on there if you click on it you can zoom in on you area. im yet to find one like this for byways surely there should be one, just looked on wetroads around you most are ristricted but if you go on the map bit you can see normal byways too marked with crossed red/pink lines
This is a site I use a lot. Has got links to videos on YouTube for most of the lanes. You can select the county from the menu at the top; seems like Hampshire has a lot of lanes.
GuardianAngel wrote:
In fact, do you even need it, other than stopping you from chopping your hands to pieces :woohoo:
What I have done is chop the top 30% off the shroud and kept it. The rest I binned. It now serves to protect from the fanblades and has a little bit of shroud for sucking air to the fan. I can access the alternator bracket for adjustment and such like really easily and if I want more access I undo just two bolts and it is off.
Rear brake clean and adjust,diff oil levels condition check after a fair bit of ford crossing recently,new 02 sensor,adjust aux belts,then went for a little run to splash in some puddles :lol:
