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**** FROM ROLLS-ROYCE STAFF MAGAZINE **** Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist!! (true story).. Scientists at Rolls Royce built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields of airliners and military jets all travelling at maximum velocity. The idea is to simulate the fre...

Looking for feedback on engine over heating sensors?? good or bad? cheers Bilbo

Hi. I'm nearly at the point of either upgrading my ED33 1988 civilian engine with a turbo / exhaust/ Intercooler or looking at total engine swap. Has anyone swapped out the ED33 engine for a something else? TD42 maybe? Any thoughts / help apreciated. If I could go back in time I would have bought a T...

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G'day members, I've just been doing a bit of a dig around in the Search areas regarding hoses & as one member mentioned "Talking about excess weight is like flogging a dead horse (with the appropriate cartoon to go with it)." I used to carry a 10m water hose & the same in the sullage hose but have b...

Trying to get in direct contact with Aus-Kiwi. He's a very knowledgeable guy and I would very much appreciate his input / guidance on a few matters. If you out there mate. PM me !! Cheers Mick

An anyone tell me if cape Keraudren is very busy. We will be heading there soon. Many thanks Trish

A man wanted to get married. He was having trouble choosing among three likely candidates. He gives each woman a present of $5,000 and watches to see what they do with the money. The first does a total makeover. She goes to a fancy beauty salon, gets her hair done, new makeup, buys several new outfits and...

The song, The Purple People Eater tells the story of a strange creature, described as having one-eye, one-horned, and the ability to fly. The creature comes to Earth because it wants to join a rock n roll band. The premise of the song was said to have come from a joke told by Wooley's friends child. Woole...

A kangaroo kept getting out of his enclosure at the zoo. Knowing that he could hop high, the zoo officials put up a ten metre fence. But the next morning he got out again, and was found roaming around the zoo. A twenty metre fence was put up. But again he got out. When the fence was forty metres high, a camel i...

Hi All. I've got an ed33T to put in my civilian and although the original turbo works it very old and while I have the chance to replace / upgrade before I get the engine put in I am looking for information / suggestions for a good replacement or better yet an upgrade to get the best I can out of this engine. ...

Ive made myself a copy of a Rock Tamer, obviously not as pretty as the real deal, and have it fitted to my 200 series Landcruiser. Ive cut a hole opposite my downwards facing exhaust pipe and have the mudflap angled at approx 30 degrees. When pulling our 22.5ft van the exhaust soot is blowing back onto the...

Hi All - Just looking for some feedback re my wind-out awning. It's 4 metres x 2.5 metres reach, with a vertical support at each end, which is attached to guy rope. My question is, with the addition of a privacy screen along the 4 metre length, is it advisable to add an additional vertical support pole in t...

Two Crocodiles were sitting at the side of the River.The smaller one turned to the bigger one and said, 'I can't understand how you can be so much bigger than m...e. We're the same age, we were the same size as kids - I just don't get it.' 'Well,' said the big Croc, 'what have you been eating?' 'Politicians...

I have a somewhat unusual problem. I took my Land Cruiser in for a service and they said that one of the tyres on the LC is the spare, and would I want them to put the original tyre back on. I said yes please but got a call a few hours later asking where my wheel brace was, because the wheel nuts were non-standar...

We are newbies in our 60s and plan some off road/isolated trips and wondered how people deal with safety and security issues please. Do you have motion detectors or nighttime alarms, pepper sprays or even tasers for self defense?