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It is not ALL EN590 compliant , some of it is still high in sulphur content . But that will be changing as every pretty much new peice of agricultural and construction equipment now is made euro 6 compliant and the manuf warranty requires use of EN590 . The engines in tractors and diggers these...

Nothing , modern constructuon machinery engines are fuel sensitive and all are fitted with DPF filters and common rail injection systems just like cars these days so red diesel is available as EN 590 off the shelf and is as sulpher free and has all the same additives as white ..just has the...

Skateboards , Skis ,sledges , armchair ..and a Canoe ...all been towed and ridden in behind various vehicles over the course of my teens early 20s ..The canoe was a terrible idea due to the barrel rolls they do when cornering . But **** like that is fun , only people getting hurt was us , we did...

Love my BMW 3.0 straight six , choice at the time was Audi 3.2 TT , BMW Z4 , Alfa Romeo Brera Q . ... Brera ..to slow .. Audi ..to many buttons , paddles ,nonsense and finicky bits .. BMW .. bare as bones , sounds great , goes and grips really nice if a little harsh ... loved it ..bought it .

You can buy sockets that are made to remove rounded off bolts . I have an impact set that copes with 90% rounded .

Company bought one for regassing excavators and bulldozers ....side benefit ....it fits all our cars too

The 1988 landrover ...didnt happen to be roof hatch entry , fuel in a stainless tank in the short pickup bit ...bucket seats 5 points and cage ...and was painted BP green ....reg mark escapes me , it was my brothers and i know a yorkshire fella bought it from him .

Just ***ume one of his friends told him it was his big end, so now it's on his drive half stripped with green tarp over the engine bay and quietly rusting. That always works in my mind for closure on mystery engine noise threads that become forum zombie material.

It's a simple but long winded weld job , thats the reason for the two days . When I weld cast manifolds etc ... prep , preheat , weld and then wrap it up in a couple of fire blankets and sit it in the corner overnight .. Unwrap and give it the crack detection treatment .. if bad ..do again , if...

I would be tempted not to change rear quarter.. You will break the factory primer seal over a big area and find instead of curing the issue you make it bigger, never break through or remove factory primer if ever in anyway possible.

Yeah it was the supercomp , with rudimentary lights that glowed with a gentle hue and mountain bike speedo that gave intermittent guesses to your speed and went totally blank above 40mph and vibes so bad it blurred vision and made you sneeze ...but ...all was forgiven on a damp cold winters...

Yeah it vibed and hurt , fortunatley it was the revised kick start with the easier to boot setup . But you didnt want to be going very far thats for sure . The landy ...ahh ..two days welding the chassis and it passed its mot ...had had an engine swap ...had a yorkie in it ...christ it was slow haha

Oh thus is a challange .. Umm ..have a go . I will keep it to primary vehicles i used to commute on and skip out the secondry toys Honda C90 Honda MTX 125 Landrover lwb series 2 Mazda B2000 Honda CR 500 ...road legal ..yeah i know ..i was young . Nissan D21 Suzuki GS750 Honda CB750...

I have a repair kit that uses mushroom rubber plugs and a gun to insert them into tyres . I have used it numerous times over the years and after rigorous testing inculding having three of them in a KTM 990 superduke rear tyre and a day at santa pod of burnouts ,hard launches and winning a...

Well also being a bike owner through the years , I am comparing my RGV 250 riding experience to Aprillia RSV and KTM 990 experience . Also had a Yam TY 250 trials and have at various points ridden everything from Beta to Scorpa being fort william born and bred trials was unavoidable ...and a...