Goodyear Wranglers on mine, good on the road, wet or dry, and seem to work pretty well on the slippery stuff too. They are cheap on mytyres.co.uk, came out as the cheapest of the known makes when I got mine.

Thanks Peter, I've just added the link to the How Do I Mend It sticky in oily bits so all useful stuff is in one place.

davew wrote:

And for anyone else doing this via 'Photobucket'...

Just click on the 'Direct' box on the right of the photo (second line down - eg. http://i etc etc -) to copy it
and then paste it in the pop-up box on rrpub as Gilbertd explained....

Note that the other Photobucket http://**s** etc etc variants don't work (well at least they didn't for me) !

That's right. This site is looking for a direct, clickable url but the others have additional code for other forum/facebook/email, etc software. So yes, you need to use the Direct url.

I like Photobucket as it's free and has loads of space. I've got about 5 pages of images on there and it's still telling me I've only used 3% of my available space.

and me

Oh bollocks. Sorry Dave, I just tried my mod status to edit your post so the picture appears rather than a link and cocked it up so both have disappeared.

If you edit the post, put the cursor under the text, click on the Image button and paste the Photobucket location for you picture into the little pop up box, it should appear in the post.

I've had that a couple of times when clicking on Forum to go back to the home page. Try a second time and it works.

I've swapped two front axles. The first time I took the axle off complete with radius arms, the second time me and Marty unbolted the axle from the radius arms and left them on the car. Agricultural engineering at it's best but with big sockets and a long length of tube to put on the socket, it isn't that difficult. You'll also need a crowbar to get the axle disconnected from the radius arms.

Yes, it doesn't matter where the photos are hosted as long as there is a url that goes directly to them.

Step 3 is simply pasting the url of the picture in the box.

Archived pages on other websites can be done just the same only using the link button (to the left of the image button) instead.

To post pictures you need to upload then to a hosting site like photobucket (which is the one I use) then, when you are writing a post and want to insert an image, click the insert picture button and put the url of the photo you want in the box that pops up.

Yup, loon is short for lunatic but in a friendly, bonkers, sort of way. It basically defines anyone that considers doing 3,000 miles in a 17 year old, 300,000 mile car as a good idea.

Latest update is that I seem to have confirmed I've worn out the track on the fuel gauge sender as since bunging 20 litres of 98 octane in the tank (well, it doesn't get to run on petrol very often so I may as well give it the good stuff and anyway, it's cheap out here) the gauge has sat at half full and not dropped to empty and come up with a fuel gauge fault since.

In other news, if we do organise a road trip, do it at a different time of year, the mosquitoes at this time of the year seem to like Western blood. Oh yes, and with the running around I've done here I'm currently 500 miles short of 320,000, the magic half million kilometres mark. By the time I get home next Thursday (assuming I do get home and Big White doesn't suddenly decide to die terminally on the way home), I'll be up to 321,000.......

and welcome to Dave too before we get completely sidetracked. Where in the country are you?

Nothing from either email as yet but now the thread on the other forum has disappeared, I suspect it is all being brushed under the carpet and never happened.

Their loss not mine.......

Sorry Nick but I still think the E30 is the best looking 3 series they ever made, the later ones just look a bit too bloated. Like someone pumped up the spare wheel and the air leaked into the car and inflated it.....

If I remember right, the Loctite goes on the spline on the input flange not on the half shafts. My original one did the same and there seemed to be an awful lot of free movement on the input when the propshaft was off so I changed the diff. Improved it no end but there's still a little click there when drive is taken up in the opposite direction. With the number of joints in the drivetrain (transfer case chain, splined joints on both transfer case outputs, 4 propshaft UJs, a pair of diff input shaft splines and the halfshafts themselves, it;s a wonder there isn't more noise. There is on a Classic believe me.....

In the last 2 or 3 years I have learned to ignore RRToadHall. As I said in my email to admin, I suspect he is actually a decent enough bloke he just comes over as arrogant in some of his posts. I suspect more as a result of frustration at the idiotic questions often asked than anything else and that frustration, and the culture differences between us and over there, make him seem more of a prat than he really is.

I'm also grateful to pl626 (and no doubt a few others) on there that have been reading this thread and have chipped in to speak out for me. I answer people's questions from experience and a sense of wanting to help. I have covered over 120,000 miles in my P38 in the last 6 years and am currently 1,520 miles from home in it. These journeys have not always been without problems so any advice on how to repair something is from experience, not always at the most convenient of times either! If it can go wrong on a P38, I suspect it has on mine at some point or another. Through answering these questions I have met many like minded people, either in person or virtually and if it were not for RR.net, this forum and the friendships it has instigated would not exist.

I'm interested in leftlanetrucking's latest on the RR.net thread where he says that the matter was first raised by the site owners on the admin forum (which isn't able to be seen by anyone other than an admin). It would have been nice if something had been said to me at that time as that would surely be the way to deal with a member that was not playing by the rules? A warning when they first became concerned could have alerted everyone to a problem. But that is obviously not the way they work (although should anyone feel like asking the question of them any reply might be interesting). However, it does seem to suggest that it wasn't the doing of RRTH.

Having not yet received a reply to my message to admin, I've just sent the following email to Verticalscope directly and will wait with baited breath for a reply (or not....):

Dear Sirs

It has been alleged that I have been sending a large amount of what have been described as spam emails from my account on RangeRovers.net under my username of Gilbertd. This is something that I strongly deny and suspect that my account has been hacked and the emails sent without my knowledge. I can only assume that they were sent as private messages but the most recent private message I have sent was one entitled 'CassAuto 06' sent to Mikeinfrance on 23rd or 24th August. Prior to that I believe I last sent a PM around early July.

Would you pleased supply me with a list of all outgoing private messages sent from the account of Gilbertd in the last 3 months or so? If it is possible could you also ascertain the IP address that these messages were sent from? I would normally use BT Internet in the UK as my ISP so all messages would have come from a BT IP address. I was in France on the 14th to 17th July and again from 18th to 22nd August so between these dates anything would originate from a French ISP IP address. Since 28th August I have been visiting family in Latvia so have been logging on to the site from a Latvian IP address. Anything sent from any other IP addresses would not have been sent by me.

Should you need any further security information to verify that I am indeed Gilbertd, do not hesitate to contact me.

Thank you

Richard Gilbert

You need to come on the proposed road trip out here then. All wide single carriageway and the only way to get past the trucks is to use the button and 4-5,000 rpm.......

I've just used the ask a question of admin to send Mr TH a reply. See below:

I presume this will go to Carl, RRToadHall, but if it doesn't could it please be forwarded to him. Having read, and had time to digest, your email to me and the current thread running in General Chatter, I only have one question. Where has this spam on a daily basis come from? I admit that when the rrpub forum first started (back in December last year), I did send out invites to a number of people. I picked those that were knowledgeable and with a sense of humour, the sort of people you would mix with in a real, rather than virtual, pub. As far as I am aware, all of those that received the invite have since joined so would not have considered the invite to be spam.

However, more recently, I sent a PM to Mikeinfrance last week mentioning the forum as an aside to informing him of a breakers I had found in France with 3 P38s in it not 10 miles from where he lives. Prior to that, the last invite I sent by PM was back in early July. Hardly a daily basis by any stretch of the imagination so where this has come from I have no idea. Some of the private messages I have sent have been entitled New Forum but the most recent was entitled CassAuto 06 so if not admin on the forum someone must be reading these PRIVATE messages for the content to be known. Or are Verticalscope really worried about a little forum run by a man in a cottage in Scotland with just over 30 members? I can't see how they can be but why would they, if your assertion that my ban came on direct orders from them, be seen in any other way? I work for the UK equivalent to your FCC and if I wish to apply a sanction or prosecute someone for a wrong doing, my boss expects to see some evidence. As I appear to have been severely sanctioned, I too would like to see the evidence that has led to this sanction.

I appreciate anyone that spends their time working to keep the older cars on the road as you and I both do. I also feel we are very similar in our attitude in that we don't suffer fools gladly. The difference is that I respond with sarcasm, something which appears to go over the heads of the average American, while you respond with a short and to the point retort. To anyone not familiar with you or the site, this comes over as unwelcoming, unhelpful, condescending and arrogant. I would like to think that you are not that way in person, but the written word, without the benefit of intonation, makes it sound that way. I would think that, to anyone not used to British sarcasm, mine just come over as plain rude, hence your reference to trolling. For this reason I have, in the past, sent invites to new members that are in the UK and have obviously not received the welcome to the site they expected. As Gordon has pointed out, there is a difference of culture between the US and UK, so some of my witty sarcasm and use of language that is in normal everyday use here, may cause offence there. Hence my anger when I was banned previously for using language that would not cause the slightest offence in the UK.

One reason why rrpub has not been widely publicised is that we would prefer to keep the membership to people that have a modicum of technical knowledge and have respect for their cars. Hence not wanting those that insist on removing the EAS to lift their cars or having the need to ask how to clean a bulbholder of join two pieces of wire together. The butchering of cars seems to be widespread in the US whereas here we like to keep them as the designer intended. It is a public forum and is open to anyone, but has always been intended as a friendly place for a natter with no profanity filter and the minimum of editorial control. As a founder member I have moderator status but have never felt the need to edit or delete a single post and it will hopefully remain that way. Although with the publicity you are now giving it, rrpub may soon be a rival, who knows?

I look forward to receiving copies of the spam I am alleged to have been sending on a daily basis at your earliest convenience.

Regards

Richard (Gilbertd)

I've found in the past that the best time for a rant is in the morning UK time. As the States are 5-7 hours behind us, it gets seen by quite a few people in Europe before he gets out of his bed and deletes it. Oddly, I've only sent out one invite recently, the last one was in early July so what has caused him to suddenly react I've no idea.

I'm amused by the threat that any IP address I've used will be barred. As I use BT as my ISP at home and I don't have a fixed IP address, it will change on a regular basis. The IP address is traceable as far as BT but no further so anyone else that uses BT is likely to find themselves barred as well just in case it's me.

So far, as a banned ex-member, I've been unable to find the link to customer services he mentions. There's a link to contact the moderator but as the moderator is what caused this forum to exist in the first place, then there's little point in that.

As for trolling the most recent post I made was to the guy that wanted to know how to make his EAS compressor work with a dead thermal switch. I pointed out that it is a 30 second job that involves nothing more complicated than lifting the EAS box lid and poking a jumper wire between the orange and black wires. If that falls within his definition of trolling, then he has very thin skin.