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From: Craig Murray <craigp@ocs.cpsg.com.au>
Subject: Re: Attn: Oily Wad Club members!!!
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 95 9:06:17 EST

> Sounds like a load of Kangaroo Krap to me.Last time I went to
> get a 'stat,the guy said he wouldnt sell me a "hot" one,because
	 [ truncated by lro-digester (was 21 lines)]
> Cheers
> Mike Rooth

Kangeroo crap, thats a new one on me!  As for blowing black smoke, I found
out on the weekend, that when you get some windup in the transfer case, 
it really bellows out the black smoke, as the motor is working really 
hard! so may be you should drive around every where in four wheel drive, 
so as to get some windup in the transfer case!!!!  Only problem with this 
is that you go even slower up all the hills!!!!!!!  But seriously, when I 
am just driving around on normal roads, the amount of black smoke is very 
minuet, the only reason I can see it, is because my exhaust exits just 
behind the drivers door, so maybe it is blowing black smoke, and you just 
don't know it!

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Craig Murray                                    |       1955 Series 1 86"
LROC of Victoria Australia                      |       2.25 diesel 
LROC of Gippsland Victoria Australia            |       My car is constipated,
email: craigp@ocs.cpsg.com.au                   |       It has not passed a 
                                                |       thing all day!!

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From: Craig Murray <craigp@ocs.cpsg.com.au>
Subject: Re: Footy Tips - Round: 4
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 95 9:07:43 EST

++USER;craigp; Round;4;++MESSAGE;

^[[H

Craig Murray,

        Here is the Fixture for the Football Tipping Round 4,
        Please ^[[7m^[[1mREPLY^[[m to this letter, by filling in the number of the team you 
        think will win at each prompt.
        The ^[[1m^[[4munderlined^[[m teams are the default selections received if your 
        tips are not entered, they represent the lower-positioned team 
        according to the current AFL ladder.

        This week's jackpot is $20.00 

        Results will not be available until Wednesday 26/04/95

        Quote of the week (from radio commentator Kevin Bartlett
        after Gary Ablett had taken a spectacular mark)
        "Fair Dinkum, he hung in the air like an astronaut's pencil!"

        Good Luck everyone.

                     Press ^[[1m<RETURN>^[[m to continue :   

^[[H

         (Type the number of the team as your selection.)

                                ^[[1m^[[4mAFL Round #4^[[m

        ^[[1mFriday 21, April^[[m
        Game 1)            (1) ^[[4mFREMANTLE^[[m  v  (2) GEELONG : 2 
        ^[[1mSaturday 22, April^[[m
        Game 2)            (1) ^[[4mST.KILDA^[[m  v  (2) HAWTHORN : 2 
        Game 3)             (1) SYDNEY  v  (2) ^[[4mFITZROY^[[m : 1 
        ^[[1mSunday 23, April^[[m
        Game 4)           (1) ^[[4mMELBOURNE^[[m  v  (2) FOOTSCRAY : 2 
        Game 5)           (1) ^[[4mADELAIDE^[[m  v  (2) WEST COAST : 2 
        Game 6)            (1) ^[[4mBRISBANE^[[m  v  (2) CARLTON : 2 
        ^[[1mMonday 24, April^[[m
        Game 7)        (1) RICHMOND  v  (2) ^[[4mNORTH MELBOURNE^[[m : 1 
        ^[[1mTuesday 25, April^[[m
        Game 8)          (1) ^[[4mCOLLINGWOOD^[[m  v  (2) ESSENDON : 2 

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Subject: Majordomo
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 95 20:25:01 -0400
From: William Caloccia <caloccia@sw.stratus.com>

Well, as you've noticed that the timing of the digests has been a bit off
of late.  It seems the latest problem the server is having is related to the
real-time-clock.   I haven't sorted out if this is the reason that this is
hanging, but it is having trouble initializing the RTC occasionally at booting,
and before I altered the time, it thought it was four days ago.

So the daily digest may not be on-time, but whatever mail is there will get
delivered. 

PLEASE do NOT send posts TO THE LIST asking if you missed a digest, etc.

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From: Craig Murray <craigp@ocs.cpsg.com.au>
Subject: Re: Footy Tips - Round: 4
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 95 10:47:51 EST

Oooppssss!!!!!!!

I've done it again!!!!!
A thousand million appologies for the wasted bandwidth again!!!!!!!!!!

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Craig Murray                                    |       1955 Series 1 86"
LROC of Victoria Australia                      |       2.25 diesel 
LROC of Gippsland Victoria Australia            |       My car is constipated,
email: craigp@ocs.cpsg.com.au                   |       It has not passed a 
                                                |       thing all day!!

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From: dwebb@waite.adelaide.edu.au (Daryl Webb)
Subject: Re: Kangaroo Krap ???
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 10:41:10 +0930 (CST)

Ok somehow I missed the original but Great Uncle Mike writes:

> Sounds like a load of Kangaroo Krap to me.

Krap?  Have you looked at your Kangaroo's do do's recently?  Kinda like giant
mouse droppings really,  Krap is hardly an appropriate description :-)
> Sounds like a load of Kangaroo Krap to me.

> I think I shall swallow my pride and buy a tin of liquid engineering
> and stick the contents in the fuel tank.According to the write ups
> this should cut down,or eliminate,the boring grey smoke,and give me
> back my nice black stuff.

Ah Mike just a little skeptical are we.   Actually in some parts of the world
some of these additives are really usefull.  Particularly the Biocidal ones..
Kill all of the nasties growing in your fuel line and injectors.  If you get
really serious a can dumped directly into the fuel filter, followed by a
major flogging of the motor results in the greatest cloud of white/grey smoke
you'll see from a diesel.  Afterwards however uch of the black smoke is gone
too,.. a poor mans injector o/haul we used to call it.

> Wonder if it will run on Light Ale?

No No the yeasts will clog the filters!

cheers

Daryl ( dwebb@waite.adelaide.edu.au)

(Sorry just bored waiting for my gel to run)

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From: ScottFugate_Group1@ctdvns1.ctd.ornl.gov
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 95 9:24:56 EDT
Subject: Query: Buying a used Range Rover

This a solicitation for advice in purchasing a used Range Rover.  About three 
years ago I bought a 1970 Series IIA, which I restored, then I bought a 
Jaguar, and now I am planning to sell a perfectly dependable, 100% paid for, 
absolutely adequate Jeep Cherokee and buy another aluminum beast.  Am I sick, 
or what?  My budget is $20,000.00.  Research has revealed that I should be 
able to get a pretty good '90 or '91 for that much.  I read a submittal a 
month or so back that discussed (primarily) how to look for drivetrain 
problems on used Range Rovers.  I would appreciate additional input from the 
RR owners out there on the net on the following topics:

1) Where are likely corrosion spots?

2) Are there any special maintenance requirements at any point in a RR's life? 
 Someone recently told me that he spent $1,200.00 on a "80,000 mile service" 
for his '89.  That seems pretty excessive to me.  Thoughts?

3) How many miles can you expect to get from the V8 before a major rebuild? 
(given maintenance per owner's manual)

4) Any other special areas to look for?  I am aware that RR suspensions 
bushings need to be replaced after a few years.

5) Any merit in saving some money and buying a higher mileage example?  Would 
I be asking for problems?  I certainly don't want another restoration project, 
but I would be willing to do some repair/refurbishment if it could improve the 
old cash flow situation.  Thoughts?

I appreciate any input that you can give.

Scott Fugate
Knoxville, Tennessee	Office Voice 615-576-1397  Fax 615-576-9642
'70 IIA 88

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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 21:56:42 -0500
From: rover@pinn.net (Alexander P. Grice)
Subject: Brakes 'n such

Chris Pitts writes:
>How do you bleed the brakes on a Landie without going insane?

I've made up a few "special tools" and have a few tips.  First of all, don't 
mix Castrol (glycerine-based) fluid with silicone; a complete system flush 
is advisable first.  Silicone is the way to go, though, and well worth the 
hassle.

Two schools of thought: work from the cylinder nearest the master and 
proceede to the farthest, or vice versa.  Each has advantages.  (PS, for LHD 
Rovers, the right front is the nearest because of the crossover/4 way union.)

I made a low-bucks pressure bleeder out of a defunct 1 qt. garden sprayer 
and a spare reservoir cap...it'll fit both clutch and brake reservoirs and 
precludes the need to find a friend/slave/significant other to work the 
pedal.  Total cost <$2 for a brass hose barb.  The factory manuals are 
specific about the special Girling clamps that don't damage the flex lines. 
Get some 4" needle-nose vice grips and slip small lengths of 3/8" Schedule 
40 iron pipe over the jaws.  Now you can clamp off each wheel after it's 
been bled - no chance of air re-entering that cylinder.  This will also 
indicate which wheel is spongy if you release/test them one at a time when 
you're done.  The bore of the flex lines is rather small, so it doesn't take 
much to squeeze them shut.

Jeff Aronson, the newsletter editor for Rovers North, was in town last 
weekend; he was teaching some software demo to the local constabulary.  Got 
together with a few of the blokes for malt beverages at Reggie's and on 
Saturday, cruised out to see Robert Davis' fleet.  He's got three (four?) 
109's for sale right now, including a Chevy 250 Dormobile that's in Hemmings 
this month.  Jeff is a real nice guy...He'd love to get up on the 'net, but 
the Info Superslab doesn't extend an hour's ferry ride off the Maine coast 
quite yet!  Cheers.
      *----"Jeep may be famous, LAND-ROVER is Legendary"----*
      |               A. P. (Sandy) Grice                   |
      |       Rover Owners' Association of Virginia         |
      |    1633 Melrose Parkway, Norfolk, VA 23508-1730     |
      |  E-mail: rover@pinn.net  Phone: 804-622-7054 (Day)  |
      |    804-423-4898 (Evenings)    FAX: 804-622-7056     |
      *-----------------------------------------------------*

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Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 06:17:08 +0200
From: peter@zditr1.arcs.ac.at (Peter Kutschera)
Subject: sorry about the german message!

SORRY!
I had not seen that 'reply' did also send a copy to the list!
SORRY!

Peter

BTW: See the english-german dictionary at 
     http://zditr1.arcs.ac.at/~peter/LR

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From: "GAWIE VAN BLERK" <A48462@bfnnfs01.eskom.co.za>
Date:          Fri, 21 Apr 1995 08:07:51 GMT+200
Subject:       Re: Repost : How-To's and Steering Damper Fault

Hi Roy

> I am in the process of starting to write a manual like
> you are talking about.  The format I am going to borrow
	 [ truncated by lro-digester (was 17 lines)]
> the frame transfer. I have already collected many good tips 
> and things from the net.

This sounds great let me know when it is finished. I will sure order 
a copy.
> I am also thinking of adding some chapters in the back about 
> camping and expedition things.  Kinda a small how to live with
	 [ truncated by lro-digester (was 8 lines)]
> the net as they come up and you can get answers.  I know I have
> since I started getting this list. 
 That will even be greater. Maybe you can change "live" with 
"survive" and add tj=hings from the survival handbooks etc. Keep the 
format small, so it can be taken along on safari. Not bigger than A5 
I would say. I will send you some stuff on suvival and African 
Animals, Roads, officials etc.

Greetings and good luck.
Gawie van Blerk
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Internet : A48462@bfnnfs01.eskom.co.za (work)
         : gawie@pixie.co.za (home)
URL      : http://www.pix.za/0/business/bloemfontein/gawie.html
Tel      : 27+51+404-2421
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From: "Gawie van Blerk" <A48462@bfnnfs01.eskom.co.za>
Date:          Fri, 21 Apr 1995 08:31:23 GMT+200
Subject:       Re: Repost : How-To's and Steering Damper Fault

>  Apparently the server was out last weekend (Friday through Monday
>  or so), try again!

No I don't think that was the problem. It seems like we are not able 
to make URL links from za to au and some sites in other countries 
too. Could the owners of the two Rover pages please be so kind and 
zip (DOS) their whole directories and mail it to me (if possible).
 
>  PS- Nice home page.
Thanks, did you check my Bloemfontein pages. Will soon start working 
on some Lesotho stuff. 

>      ALL CAPS (AS IN "GAWIE VAN BLERK") IS THE EQUIVALENT OF SHOUTING.

Sorry bout that. Sysops set it up and I never bothered to change it.

Bye for now......
Gawie van Blerk
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Internet : A48462@bfnnfs01.eskom.co.za (work)
         : gawie@pixie.co.za (home)
URL      : http://www.pix.za/0/business/bloemfontein/gawie.html
Tel      : 27+51+404-2421
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