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Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 04:10:35 EST
From: "Steve Reddock" <steve_reddock@uk.xyratex.com>
Subject: Viscous Coupling Unit

David, I think both you and Gerald are right on this point!
  
You said that there is no need for a centre diff as the Viscous Coupling
Unit handles it.
  
Gerald said there was a Viscous Coupling and a centre diff.
  
I would say that the viscous coupling is a part of the centre diff
assembly, or that there is a viscous coupling unit which incorporates
the centre diff, and it doesn't really matter which way you call it.
  
There is a differential unit of some sort, or else you would be back to
series technology (stage 1 owners please keep quiet at this point!!)
  
The VCU allows both props to spin at different speeds, by it's
differential part, and limits the speed difference by the viscous part.
  
So now it's as clear as viscous coupling fluid.
  
Steve Reddock, Xyratex       | Just as he thought he had
Ext.(01705) 486363 x4450     | clinched the interview he was
IBMMAIL (GBXYR96P)           | visited by the ghost of Usenet
Steve_Reddock@uk.xyratex.com | Postings Past.

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Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 22:58:14 +0900
From: Alan Logue <alan@a011.aone.net.au>

Is there anyone who can help with the location of an original Land Rover
Raised Ar Intake kit to suit a six cylinder long wheel base Series III.

The part number which I have is 608154 which I got out of a 1984 Optional
Equipment Parts Catalogue

I did try a few dealers in the Uk a few years ago, but with no success -
Maybe they all went to africa!

Alan, Series III Military Restorer

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Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 14:46:34 UTC
From: Gerald Tan <gtan@bbchw.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Viscous Coupling Unit

In your message dated Thursday 29, February 1996 you wrote :
   
> I would say that the viscous coupling is a part of the centre diff
> assembly, or that there is a viscous coupling unit which incorporates
> the centre diff, and it doesn't really matter which way you call it.

There are 2 separate components, a VCU and a differential unit, which if you 
disassemble, you will find all the bits associated with a normal diff. 

I've had one apart!

Regards, Gerald
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Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 17:30:23 +0100
From: lopezba@atnet.at
Subject: Re: Unleaded

Since there was some discussion about the use of unleaded in older vehicles, 
here's what some people in Austria do:
Castrol sells a product called Castrol TBE here which supposedly enables 
older engines to run on unleaded. I guess the additive mimics the 
lubricating effects of lead and protects the valve seats that way. Most 
Series drivers I know use it with good success. You are supposed to add 
about .05 litres of TBE to a tankful of gasoline, so the standard .5 litre 
container will last you ten tanks, which makes it very economical given the 
price differential between pseudo-leaded and unleaded here. 

Since I mostly fill her up in Hungary, where gasoline is still leaded and 
cheaper than in Austria, I have no personal experience with TBE. Probably 
the good stuff is not on sale in the US due to your liability laws... Too bad. 
Peter Hirsch
SI 107in S/W
Vienna, Austria (officially 1,000 years old this November 1)

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Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 20:56:39 +0100
From: lopezba@atnet.at
Subject: Lumiweld

Dear all,
the LRO list has shown some interest in Lumiweld and/or welding Birmabright. 
I have volunteered to provide an article from the Land Rover Series One 
Newsletter on welding Birmabright, but can not find anything on Lumiweld in 
my files. Can anybody help with some advice? You would get credit, needless 
to say, and your name would be cast in Birmabright in the LRO archives. 
Thanks in advance
Peter Hirsch
SI 107in S/W
Vienna, Austria (officially 1,000 years old this November 1)

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From: smitha@mail.CandW.lc
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 22:37:17 -0500
Subject: The ant hijack

Hi all, 
For those of you who responded that the case of the self-drive 90 was a 
fabrication, the owner of the rusty galvanized sheet fence now wants to 
discuss compensation for the dent in the rusty galvanized sheet. I can only 
imagine what it looked like, but some time between 9 and noon a locked and 
unoccupied Defender cranked up and rammed the first thing it encountered. 
How I wish it was all made up! But no, the ants did provide a circuit to 
the starter motor and I am still afraid that it suffered damage.
Would anyone really bother to make up something like that?
Allan Smith
300Tdi   el Galeon
St. Lucia

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