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    That is really good of you. Its a 3 door petrol. I have a torque wrench so fingers crossed that's the method rather than a special tool. The Haynes manual I have skips gaily over anything to do with the diff area . Once again" Bagdadnights" thanks for taking the trouble to help.I'll tune -in tomorrow . .
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    Thanks for that .I felt all confident then you mentioned pre-load . Er how does one measure / set pre-load ?
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    Hope someone can help. The rear axle differential to prop shaft oil seal is leaking on my 97 1600 Vitara. Am I right in hoping that removing the prop shaft and flange on the diff will expose the seal and enable it to be replaced ?. If I'm right do I need a special puller to get the flange off ? Any advice would be gratefully recieved . Many thanks
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    Oscar Wilde. I would'nt get too cosy with him but I think he'd like to know that were he alive today a man of his wit and amorous inclinations would almost certainly be in demand as a TV chat show host ... Or MP. I met Oliver Reed several times in a local country pub. He was always polite and he had a cute Jack Russel . Crazy Horse would be my serious choice for a proper conversation though .
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    She's not ready for work!. Keep her on a lead until she can be totally trusted off it and don't even think of letting her into a working situation . Go right back to square one training . .Might take a few months or even a couple of years but rather that than rush her into the field and have her be a pain in the arse for the rest of her "working" life. Good luck and patience Grasshopper.
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    Quite right. The collar is at its most accurate with the inside of the collar facing the sky. In other words just the position it would be in when hanging under the ferrets neck . The trouble is that ferrets tend to scrabble about when on a lay-up. They wrestle ,twist and turn for position. This sends the L.E.D.s loopy .Its as if they were intended for use on something less active than a keen working ferret. Maybe there is some truth in the rumour that these things were originally designed to be fitted to drain rods as an aid to finding blockages . Trouble is would anyone r
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    Ha. How many times have I seen us older chaps who prefer the grey box slagged off for not moving with the times and not appreciating and embracing new technology?. Even Deben realised that they were selling a piece of absolute sh*t in the MK2. Did they then have the prototype MK3 tested by the same idiot who claimed the MK2 was fit for purpose ?. As they say,"Those who do not learn by their mistakes are condemned to repeat them ". These multi-switched ,delicate,and inacurate lumps of overpriced dung,er sorry modern electrical equipment , with their flickering LEDs and stupid
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    Mole shooting is almost a traditional method of control. Done with patience it is also very effective . Sadly Jasper Carrott did little for its image !. .Many moons ago I managed to suffer a few weeks of working for a" fairly big PC company " that had a contract on various golf courses . The only good bit about working for the firm was that I actually enjoyed some lovely frosty dawn patrols with my old Baikal . The manicured nature of these places made it possible to spot activity from quite a distance . Its amazing how the slightest wisp of mist rising,twitch of the frozen grass
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    Have yet to measure it on my Son in Law's chrono but the Tornado is matching my HW97K pretty much page for page in slightly unscientific penetration tests using piles of magazines as a backstop. Out of interest . Have you found that your Relum has any preference when it comes to pellets?. The Accupels that my HW likes were inconsistent . Apart from the odd weird "flyer" I've managed a few thumbnail groups using cheap old Marksman pellets up to 20 yards whereafter my aging speccy- eyes,crude open sights and general wobblyness combine to limit further accuracy .
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    I remember seeing what looked like a burning missile light up the sky early one winter evening . It passed over ,turned sharply and accellerated into oblivion in an upwards direction. I was standing in the farm yard talking to Dennis The Head keeper. He was a real characature of the dour Yorshireman . Not a man given to expressions of delight or surprise . Well ,this thing rocked us both . Even Dennis was moved to comment ."That were no ******* shooting star,an I've********* sin a ******** few". Was his immediate reaction. A day or two later I was listening to local radio on in the
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    Its no trendy carbine ! Overall its 45" long and the barrel is close to 18.5".It's well balenced though and feels just right for open sight hunting in cover where something with a bit of swing is an advantage and a scope would be a hinderance . The whole thing is a little crude and workmanlike -as you would expect from an East European manufacturer- but the quality of the barrel and accuracy is surprising for what was an inexpensive rifle that probably harks back to the mid 1970s. Sadly I think later Relums lost a bit of their robust quality and became just another budget air rifle wit
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    MISTAKE NUMBER 1 ...I only really intended to whack in a new washer and replace the original springs with an old Weiracht one I had kicking about just to get the thing working . So apart from a cursory wipe with a rag on a stick the cylinder itself recieved little attention. This was a mistake . After reassembly the thing was only popping out 6ftbs. Ok, so I hear cries of "What do you expect. Its a Relum". A mere five minutes with a couple of screwdrivers and a hammer saw the beast in bits again. The piston had obviously hit a foreign body at the end of the cylinder and the n
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    For some perverse reason the subject of white poo almost has a cult following these days . A bit like the Austin Allegros and I guess there is a similarity .... Most of us older persons will be more than familiar with the sight of a "teacher poo" -as we used to call em on account of the chalky appearance . It adorned grass verges everywhere . Throw back to the days when dog food came from the butcher not the supermarket shelf . Dogs love bones but as Skycat warns ,a bit of quality control does'nt go amiss.
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    Try P Messaging "Tyler". He's local to you.
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    Snuck away from work for a day out of Littlehampton. It was hard going but while i was hard pressed to catch a few pout ,mackeral and small bream some of the other lads managed to fool a few bass . This was the best of the lot.
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    Several folk have suggested the "crap" steel theory but my memory of the original spring in my old Telly was that it lasted well and the ten quid Relum certainly performed better than the Meteors that seemed to be a common rifle of choice for a lot of my mates in my youth. Maybe I was lucky. The central spring is relatively weak and I can't think that it performed any usefull function as far as adding to power output.
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    Saw an old underlever Relum Tornado in a customer's out-house and mentioned that if he ever wanted to sell it I'd be interested . "Its knackered and you can have the bl**dy thing", came the reply!. When I was 14 I skipped school lunches and saved my dinner money to buy a Relum Telly-the break barrel version of the Tornado- from my Mum's catalogue . I really liked the look of the Tornado but they were £14 so settled on the £10 Telly before Mum began to ask questions regarding the missing dinner tickets .. About 30 years ago I fitted a PTFE washer and spring upgrade which definatly in
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    The early (so-called MK1) collars designed for use with the "Grey Box" reciever will not work with either the swiftly withdrawn MK2 reciever or the Mk3 reciever . All the Mk 2 collars I've seen have been made from black plastic as oposed to the MK3s which are grey. The MK2 will work with a MK3 reciever but the ones I have tend to "tick" faster than the Mk3 collar. Maybe this is why theMK2 collars seem to eat batteries faster. Don't assume that just because they were fine on the last trip that they will still be ok.Apart from the shorter battery life they will be fine . This is wha
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    If you use a torch use a red one. The back-light off your bicycle will do. If you are worried that your Trusty Dusty will malfunction at close range don't use it. Simply tape a 35mm camera film canister or plasic egg cup to the end of your pole . Pop a bit of ficam in it , push it into the centre of the nest,jiggle ,remove ,retreat .
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    True buzzards are great scavengers and eaters of insects -lazy some say compared with other birds of prey . Hell ,faced with a pen full of naive poults you can bet they've learned to take advantage of easy pickings . Especially as the baby buzzards fly the nest just in time for the release period . Under the old rearing fields and release systems that used broodies and coops and usually had a keeper or two on watch the buzzard would not have had the oppertunity to learn bad habits or lead its youngsters astray . Nowadays buzzards are making a big come back into a Gamekeeping scene
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    I've found on a couple of occasions that ferrets back out with their tail like a bottle brush if a mink is home . I well remember once when my jill had emerged somewhat bristling and shaken . The dog continued to mark the hole -albeit in a rather perturbed -looking manner . Like a pratt I stuck my head down the hole and came face to face with minky. He spat and shrieked and I made a girly sort of noise !. Last time I saw a mink while ferreting it popped into a pipe under a gate . Blocked one end with the spade and poked a 410 up the other end .
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    As has been said -very useful to compliment a Talpex or barrel trap if you break into a three way tunnel.One of the few traps that actually contract when sprung so they don't need any headroom around them and are thus great for tight spots. I would'nt feel under-equipped without them but they are useful little tool in the armoury.
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    A shared phone line with the neighbours . Can't remember how it worked as i was pretty much banned from using it without God's permission . Then there was the Summer of 76 when it was so hot the roads melted and you had to lean your motorbike against a wall because the stand would just sink into the tar and the bike would fall over . I blame The Fonz for the handlebars !.
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    Hi mate i would rather be with bear because i think ray would try and bum you, who's that old bloke with him You probably mean Gordon Hillman if you are thinking of the chap who knows his edible plants . Though he did work with Ray Goodwin who is very respected canoeist . Never heard of ray being a bandit until this thread . He was living with a girl he met on one of his courses . it would be sad if she was the dead wife that has been reffered to .
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    I would'nt like to argue with either of em. Ray would be my choice though . I met him once and in the few minutes of conversation he came across as a self confident sort of chap with a bit of humour about him -not at all pompous. Bear comes across as as bit more gung-ho and more of a showman-fair play to him it makes him a living and I read that recently a lad in America got himself out of a sticky situation by remembering something he'd seen on a Bear Grylls programme . Ray is more than a survival expert . He is a wilderness living expert and there is a difference . Stick with him an
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