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1	"Beckett, Ron" [rbeckett	37	Fuel Economy Spreadsheet
2	"Beckett, Ron" [rbeckett	45	Sand Eats Land Rover
3	Ray Harder [ccray@showme	25	siia 88 ragtop consultant...
4	Erik van Dyck [erikvandy	13	major problem?

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From: "Beckett, Ron" <rbeckett@nibupad.telstra.com.au>
Subject: Fuel Economy Spreadsheet
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 21:53:00 +1000

I've re-done my fuel cost comparison spreadsheet
for the North American Market.

It now works with litres/100 km and MPG.

It allows you to work out the payback period for
recouping the costs of a diesel or LPG conversion.

If you want a copy, email a request directly to me.

On the subject of LPG conversions, one of the AU-LRO
list members noted he had a backfire problem with
his Rangie.  The backfire destroyed a butterfly valve
and the cost of the repairs outweighed the fuel savings.

On the same note, the latest Australian Automobile
Engineer notes that Ford 1995-1997 EF & EL  Falcon
6-cylinder models should have the PCV valve replaced
with a  metal unit if it is plastic.  I don't know if this applies
only to after-market conversions or the factory LPG
models as well.

Apparently, backfires with LPG blow the plastic PCV
apart and the bits get into the engines valve train and
jamming the valves in the open position resulting in
severe damage to pistons and timing chain etc.

.Regards,

Ron Beckett
Emu Plains, Australia

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From: "Beckett, Ron" <rbeckett@nibupad.telstra.com.au>
Subject: Sand Eats Land Rover
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 21:52:00 +1000

My wife found this in an article about sand in
New Scientist for 21/28 December 1996

"ACCORDING to the 1993 Guinness Book of Records,
Fraser Island, off the Queensland coast in Australia,
is the largest sand island in the world.  One of its
sand dunes is 120 kilometres long. it has some 40
freshwater lakes, many of them high above sea level.
Recently I heard a story about how Fraser Island ate
a Land Rover!  A fisherman on Fraser Island, who loved
fishing from the beach, had a Land Rover.  It was old
and tired, but the diesel engine was very rugged and
economical, and the aluminium body didn't rust in its
seaside environment."

"Unfortunately, the battery was flat.  So one day, after
he had started the engine with jump leads from another
vehicle, he drove along the beach to his favourite about
50 metres from the water's edge.  He decided to leave
the engine running for the hour or so that he would
fish, because diesels are very economical in that state."

"After about three quarters of an hour's happy fishing
on the water's edge, with his back to his Land Rover,
he heard the steady beat of the engine cough and
splutter.  He turned around to see the Land Rover half
buried on what had been solid sand, with the tops of
the wheels level with the sand.  He did not know that
a stream ran under the sand into the ocean.  The sand
was apparently solid, but the combination of water and
steady vibration from the diesel engine had gradually
liquefied the sand, so the Land Rover slowly sank."

"No shrimp on the barbie that night!"

Regards,

Ron Beckett
Emu Plains, Australia

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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 11:21:07 -0500 (CDT)
From: Ray Harder <ccray@showme.missouri.edu>
Subject: siia 88 ragtop consultant...

in preparation for red river, new mexico, i am
going to swap tops <starting> this weekend.  hardtop
off and canvas top on.  my 1961 siia 88 has never had
a canvas top.  i have the kit and the parts manual
pages that gives the explosion diagram, so i am
hoping most will be straight forward.  what i am
asking for is some replies of lros who i might contact
by phone or email if i have to "remotely look" at a
vehicle that had the top factory installed.  for example,
if the parts explosion shows some doo-dad bolted to the
body tub, i would like to know "...4inches down and 3inches over..."
before i install.  (or other things like that).

reply to me if you are available to take a tape measure out
to your 196x siia 88 w/canvas top to assist me...  phone number
and email...

alone in missouri w/few landrovers around...

Ray Harder -- siia 88 (LULU aka, EXPERIMENTAL)

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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 16:19:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Erik van Dyck <erikvandyck@mindspring.com>
Subject: major problem?

I haven't recieved the lro-digest for about two weeks, have unsubscribed
twice (once got a confirmation, once a mssg. that I was already subsribed).
I have seen postings on the Web page site, albeit not much.  What, pray
tell, is going on?  Is the major abroad again?
erik
Erik van Dyck
Suwanee, Georgia
1973 Series III  88"

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