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    Talking Profile of a Landrover Employee

    G'day All

    After having spent a couple of hours trying to keep the Monsoonal downpour out of the passenger side vent in my 110 I've come to a couple of conclusions.
    1. I'm a tight ass bastard and when I saw a new 110 seal kit for sale on E-bay I thought "if that goes over 20 bucks + postage its too expensive." Wrong, They are a ****load more than that from a dealer. Mental note to self, check price from stealer n then start bidding.
    2. After having had a close look at the fittings and desparately trying to find my 1/4 and 9/32 ring/open enders I thought to my self "damn if I still had my Mechano set I'd be set like a jelly"
    It was at this point a rather funny but evil thought formed in my head. Using my HR profiling skills I came up with the following selections criteria for an LandRover assembly line worker pre 1998.
    1. Must have graduated from Oxford after haveing been sent there by Mummy n Daddy as a means of getting him off the farm.
    2. Must smoke a pipe charged with Dr Pat and own at least 2 Cardigans, preferably one with a faireyle pattern in it and have a slightly "lanoliny" smell to it.
    3. Must have owned a "deluxe" Mechano set between the age of 14 and current and must still have the spanners (very handy for doing the vent assebly).
    4. Must have owned a hornby train set. This is just in case the career @ Landrover falls through and the applicant is forced to seek alternative employment with British Rail


    Cheers

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    G'day Stevo_62

    A cheap and cheerful way to fit new rubbers, is to get some 1/4 by 1/8 flat sealed sponge rubber weatherstripping from Clark Rubber and with a few minor cuts in the right places for the 90* corners and it will make a seal possibly better than genuine, and can be fitted without removing the flaps.

    cheers

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    Seals

    On ya Uncle

    I re glued the existing one back in (come on its only 10 years old).

    I'm fully expecting to have to re do it again soon and if so I'll use 20mm x 6mm self adhesive that I happen to have on a role left over from making engine room hatch covers on my crusier.

    Thanks for the tip, much appreciated.

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    Howdy Adrian, hows the wet treating you two??


    Poured a bit here today, yesterdays downpour was so heavy I had to go into the lunchroom to talk on the phone!!

    Catch up soon,

    JC etc.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stevo_62 View Post
    G'day All

    After having spent a couple of hours trying to keep the Monsoonal downpour out of the passenger side vent in my 110 I've come to a couple of conclusions.
    1. I'm a tight ass bastard and when I saw a new 110 seal kit for sale on E-bay I thought "if that goes over 20 bucks + postage its too expensive." Wrong, They are a ****load more than that from a dealer. Mental note to self, check price from stealer n then start bidding.
    2. After having had a close look at the fittings and desparately trying to find my 1/4 and 9/32 ring/open enders I thought to my self "damn if I still had my Mechano set I'd be set like a jelly"
    It was at this point a rather funny but evil thought formed in my head. Using my HR profiling skills I came up with the following selections criteria for an LandRover assembly line worker pre 1998.
    1. Must have graduated from Oxford after haveing been sent there by Mummy n Daddy as a means of getting him off the farm.
    2. Must smoke a pipe charged with Dr Pat and own at least 2 Cardigans, preferably one with a faireyle pattern in it and have a slightly "lanoliny" smell to it.
    3. Must have owned a "deluxe" Mechano set between the age of 14 and current and must still have the spanners (very handy for doing the vent assebly).
    4. Must have owned a hornby train set. This is just in case the career @ Landrover falls through and the applicant is forced to seek alternative employment with British Rail


    Cheers
    You forgot:

    1. Have own supply of brown overalls.
    2. Answers to the name of "Bert".




    M

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    Quote Originally Posted by camel_landy View Post
    You forgot:
    1. Have own supply of brown overalls.
    2. Answers to the name of "Bert".



    M
    And one of those tweed cloth cap thingos ... but definitely not a deer stalker ...

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    G'day Rosco


    You mean an "Andy Cap" cap

    cheers

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    Quote Originally Posted by UncleHo View Post
    G'day Rosco


    You mean an "Andy Cap" cap

    cheers

    Yep ... that's the one ...

    Cheers

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    Wasn't that Randy Clap?

    Oh sorry, Wrong catoon.

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    Wink

    Quote Originally Posted by justinc View Post
    Howdy Adrian, hows the wet treating you two??


    Poured a bit here today, yesterdays downpour was so heavy I had to go into the lunchroom to talk on the phone!!

    Catch up soon,

    JC etc.
    Mate, Got your VM message, somewhat bizzarly yesterday morning!!!!!

    They keep telling me that things r a bit slow in FNQ but really. Anybody would think that we were on a different planet.

    Will call you soon.

    Cheers,

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