Re: [lro] Major Surgery

From: Jean-Leon Morin (offroaddesign@softhome.net)
Date: Wed Dec 11 2002 - 00:04:46 EST

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    > On Sunday I hammered the Land Rover down to Timm Cooper at BCB at 80 MPH.
    4.5
    > hours door to door at 10 MPG which is not very good. Timm will have her
    now for
    > a month. He is going to get radical with a lot of things including
    Defender Disc
    > brakes on the front and a heavy duty NP435 Tranny (I think) The exhausts
    were
    > blowing and 2nd and 3rd gears were grinding and jumping out very often. I
    just
    > wanted to get there a few more miles and all the problems would be fixed.
    I
    > spent a very informative hour in the shop looking at Land Rovers in very
    advanced
    > states of dissassembly, including Simon Harding's. If anyone is
    interested, I
    > will keep you abreast of what happens.

    I'd be interested in knowing what happens with this thing. Keep me posted!

    thanks

    J-L
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