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[TheBoy]

Good job varche

I too am indebted to the 2 people you mention, both of whom spent a lot of their time ressurecting my tractor. Truely top blokes

Imbeginning to think i am strange? cos i enjoyed working on yours too maybe i have a fixation disorder?

Thats odd, coz everyone else has already noticed you're strange

When you next over here?

  Landing around the first of october and am bringing  the Omega home for a visit!!! may sell it if i can find a newer and as good mechanicaly as mine is? however dont hold out much hope for that!!!
so all eyes open please!! must be manual estate 2.5  

I guess a nice blue auto saloon isn't much good then

In fact as i told you i do like your car very much but as you know i hate autos so i take it its very cheap to me? cos i would have to put a manual box in  it

I'm tempted to throw a manual in it myself....   ....but then thought I may as well just sell it and get one with a manual already in it....

now your talking sense!!!!! however would you be buying another load of trouble? would it not be better the devil you know? manual conversion is relatively pain free compared to sorting out another car?
just a thought!!!

If I'm honest, I have a soft spot for the tractor, and like it.  But I'm bored with it as nothing needs doing to it, so I fancy the challenge of another. Mrs TB says one has to go before I buy another, and that won't be the MV6...

How strange is that!!! thats exactly the reason im toying with the idea of changing mine!!! its so darned reliable and easy to service it gets boring!!! however i thank it for that and it was one of the reasons i bought it in the first place!! my fuel filter is due for renewal and oil and filter will be due when i get back to UK and it appears i have sorted the annoying noise on the front(no sign of it since i changed the wheel bearing) although could find nowt wrong with the old one!!!
so if nothing needs doing to yours then surely changing it to manual would ive you something to do on it?

I've certainly achieved - with a lot of help from forum members - what I set out to do 18 months ago, which was to get it running well again.

The fact I still have it is a testament to how good the tractor is as a day-to-day car.  I love it, gets thrashed everywhere, rear tyres don't last  , it gets abandonned in dodgy areas - its a car I can rely on, yet never constantly worry about where its parked.

The last remaining job that I will do to it is the A/C - I have a replacement compressor in the garage, just waiting for when the Nottingham boys are available to do the deed...

Rather than convert to manual, I think I'd just go and get a manual - though your chances of a manual TD Elite are slim.

[JamesV6CDX]

I enjoyed driving your tractor. It's surprisingly good, for a deisel  - and performance/economy, it kills the 4 pots

[TheBoy]

I enjoyed driving your tractor. It's surprisingly good, for a deisel  - and performance/economy, it kills the 4 pots

In this weather it struggles with traction - I left the works carpark at lunchtime and used 10,000 miles of rubber....

[Omegatoy]

HMMPH traction? whats that? mine lights up the rears in a straight line in 90degree heat out here when i press the pedal to hard!!! and even worse it did it with 4 people in it the other day still got earache from the bashing i got from the mrs!!

[TheBoy]

HMMPH traction? whats that? mine lights up the rears in a straight line in 90degree heat out here when i press the pedal to hard!!! and even worse it did it with 4 people in it the other day still got earache from the bashing i got from the mrs!!

advantage of an auto - you have to really try to break traction in a straight line in the dry on my tractor...