Maybe after you've done a recce we can organise a Pub outing the year after and have an epic convoy to Moscow or even Turkey or somewhere nuts :)
Just make sure you're in Moscow by Autumn :)
I had similar, and on advice from the forum I cleaned up the yellow connector under the seat with contact cleaner and it has behaved since.
Once it gets too stiff it'll load up your front drive-train and cause lots of nasty wear.
I'd guess that the wear will start somewhere between the correct amount of slip and fully-locked so I think the torque values are going to be important here. By the time I realised (well, Marty figured it out) that my Viscous Unit was done, neither of us could turn it at all so the actual torque settings were irrelevant.
Probably a silly question but.. how are your roll bars/bushes?
edit: it was a silly question - you've already changed the bushes and links.
Only the bars themselves to go then, but I've never heard of them wearing out/going floppy
Booo! Is that just because the Russians don't like us or have Belarus and Russia fallen out?
Sounds like an excellent plan! I'd like to run the E30 route to the far end one day. I first started dreaming of it when I ran an E30.. but I think a P38 would be far more suitable to cope with the road surface as you get further East!
Folks, my fronts are pretty buggered due to driving 10k miles with a locked up viscous so they'll need replacement for the MOT. The rears are.. as you'd expect for 10k miles with plenty of tread and even wear. Am I OK to replace just the fronts or do I need to have the same rolling radius front and back? I'm wondering if having a difference would knacker the viscous again..
Thanks!
Aviation is certainly a huge brake on progress towards zero emissions. They burn Kero by the ton and no matter how you play with the stats of passenger miles/kilo of CO2 the bottom line is that most of the journeys are holidays and we really don't need them.
Neither would sound like a real Spitfire, but the V12 would cost a zillion times more and have a lower power-to-weight ratio. Plus, you can get brushless motors in pretty much any size and configuration while the V12 would be a custom build. I wouldn't dare put my 10,000 hour labour of love up in an RC plane but it's up to you :)
My secret dream is to build an RC Sunderland with real radial engines but seeing as the engines are £1200 a pop and I'd need four... that's a hell of a lot of cash before you even start looking at the rest of it!
Brushless motors and Li-Po batteries have revolutionised RC stuff. There are some seriously impressive models out there running on LiPo and they're much more reliable than the old "gassers".
You could go fully retro and run the vacuum from a cart in the street!
There was research done by the Medical Research Council in London into particulate pollution caused by vehicles back in the 1960s. Even back then they noticed the huge spike in readings when diesel vehicles drove through the underpass they were using for the tests. I don't have the references as this is word of mouth (My Grandfather was their Librarian after he retired) but it seems that legislators have regarded what is now known as PM10 as an "inconvenient truth" for many decades.
Richard, I'm not convinced that removing lead increased the total CO2 emissions of petrol engines by a significant amount as the cats are only converting residual HC to CO2 which is basically just tidying up after the main combustion process has done the same thing in larger volumes. I always understood that one of the main reasons for switching to unleaded was to allow the introduction of catalysts which are are poisoned by lead in petrol.
On the other hand it's definitely true that the Benzene added to fuel as a lead replacement is carcinogenic, but no-one seems to have proved that its use in petrol has caused any ill effects. This could be due to catalysts cleaning up residual benzine, or maybe it's just because anyone drinking unleaded has died before developing cancer! :)
Could well be, and I'd like to see a bigger sample set. Do the GuvMint collect data from all the MOT testing stations? I'd like to think they have some idea what LPG does for emissions compared with the major fuels, otherwise they're just throwing darts in the dark (which could be how they ended up backing diesel).
Mine wasn't really dead, but after a day or so of sitting in the car it would fail to crank. I took it from 8V to about 12.3V eventually on my little charger but it never came back to being a reliable battery. Maybe a really long journey or a decent CTek or similar conditioning charger would do it, but I was starting to fear for the alternator and decided to get a new battery.
Trouble is, according to that long and not exactly thrilling pdf I link to earlier, LPG isn't that great for NOx. Better then diesel but worse than petrol.
It's a small sample size, but I haven't actually seen much research into the actual emissions produced by the various fuels.
I'm on my second Hankook, but that's after 3 years of total abuse and several deep discharges. They're great batteries!
Sounds like those vintage looking French vans with corrugated sides that get converted into Coffee stands or Pannini Wagons. The ones I see at shows arrive and leave on a trailer anyway!
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/148/1/012060/pdf
And interesting comparison of Petrol, Diesel, CNG and LPG.