Peaklander

Will you put a window in it for him, or leave as it is? 🤔

The Alucab Icarus roof does produce a slightly strange look when closed. However it provides an ‘upstairs’. It really is a bedroom above a ‘living room’. When you are ready to turn-in, you pull the bed down (it’s stowed on gas struts, up on an angle under the roof) and climb up, closing the access flap at the rear door end. There’s nothing else to move or fix. The bed is the same size as the area of the roof. With the bed down it’s just possible to sit underneath on foam seats at the wheel arches (I am 1.8m). 😄Just thought I’d mention it. I am biased of course and am sitting in my ‘living room’ right now.😉

Yes my lamp works as it should.

I’m out of suggestions. Sorry. I have a larger Hella alternator on here. I can’t remember the part number but it is 100A or maybe even 120. I often pop a charger on during long layups and the Ctek charger (little smart 5A one) uses a plug/socket with the socket permanently wired across the engine battery. I also have a Ctek charge controller onto both batteries from the alternator and solar panel. I haven’t had any issues using the charger in this way.

Just one more thing to check, especially as you have the fault across two alternators. Maybe the crimp on that exciter wire connector Is suspect and the wire in it isn’t making good contact. .

When you earthed the exciter wire, which bit of the circuit from the charge lamp to the alternator did you actually use? I think I read earlier that you did it at the binnacle. Are you sure that the exciter wire is connected right through to the alternator? Edit: just disconnect it at the alternator and touch it to earth.

I have an additional big cable coming off the back that feeds my head and spot lamp relays. Don’t see that your circuit can be anything to do with the problem.

I would say that the charge / exciter terminal at the alternator has somehow got disconnected internally. If the alternator is really charging the battery, then it must be working and connected to ground through its body and on to the battery -ve.

That's nice. Is the other guy the previously unseen JP?

What happens now? I don't know anything about RR metals but I presume a new subframe is not available. Will you need to source a suitable used one?

That would explain it then and why I can still remember the experience.

We went to Glastonbury in 2003. The weather was perfect and the experience was amazing. Headliners were REM, Moby and Radiohead. Plenty of others too of course. The non-music highlight was a cider bar selling the most beautiful stuff I had ever tasted. No fizz, just purity!

Great to hear of your problem solving and feedback about the effect of dodgy connections! P.S. please explain more about this thing called "full sun"?

I agree, it isn't the 300TDi crank pulley as the bolt isn't big enough. On the 300 it's 27mm and the power steering pulley doesn't have a centre bolt. Edit, here's mine showing water pump pulley top right and power steering underneath.

Set off in good time tomorrow and there should still be an Easter Egg left by the time you get here!

@Anderzander if you feel like a drive you can come and try mine. I don’t know what adapter you need or what I have but I can look in a day or two.

I didn't realise that this thread looks a little unfinished. So, just to say, everything works. The fobs set and unset the alarm and at the same time, lock and unlock the doors. If I operate the key in the driver's door, the CDL works but the alarm is not set. This can be very handy. My second row doors are still manual. One day I will fix this. Conclusion, fitting CDL has made things far more convenient and was worth the effort.

I was talking yesterday to a farmer in the back end of nowhere. He has an 88" sitting rotting outside that he's "going to put in the shed over there, once it's cleared it out and get it back on the road." Yeah right. However, he offered me a Discovery 200 TDi "with a good chassis because I always oiled it but a rotten body". It's situated very roughly between Leek and Buxton. It may also be very rough and situated between Leek and Buxton. Just in case, FYI.

Don't forget that if you introduce an additional car to the mix, you will have to add the insurance, which won't have any available no claims bonus. If you were able to transfer it across from the Ibex then that would help but the Ibex would then be un-insured which would not be desirable.

He has been my guide @western. Those videos describe the whole job and I couldn't have managed without them.

Well it might depend on where you live and what sort of weather you get. Do you use the heated mirror function on your daily driver car if you have one? It might be that you don't realise this, as sometimes they are configured to be enabled and then temperature triggered. If you switch them on manually then you have answered your own question! I find them very useful for clearing mist and droplets at the start of a drive but sometimes during one too. Of course in frosty weather they are great. I am fitting the egt gauge so that I know the temperatures that I am getting. I doubt I will have to change my driving style but we do drive some reasonably challenging roads when on trips; often steep and sometimes high (>2,000m) so maybe there's something to gain by measurement.

I have a Mudstuff panel in my 300TDi 110. I don’t do bling but I need what’s on it. Switches are 1 and 2 for interior lights; one at front and a pair further back 3 work lamp at rear 4 hazard. Wanted this front and centre. Original position is near door at knee height 5 6 7 heated front screen, rear and mirrors Also have boost gauge, voltmeter fed from a dpdt switch to flick between the two batteries, an ammeter off the solar panel and a couple of usb outlets Recently I went for power windows so that was two more Carling Also there’s LEDs for the coolant level probe in the header tank Finally I will be adding a miniature EGT display that has a maximum and alarm set point The clock is on there because in its place at the binnacle I fitted a VDO oil pressure gauge and I wanted this in plain sight The vehicle is a camper and these additions are helpful when driving and when parked camping.

Nah, there's nothing like driving in the heat with the flaps open, the windows open and then arriving at the campsite, relaxing with a drink and listening to the sound of ringing in your ears!

This is my filter to FIP pipe. It's about 45cm long.

Yes, it’s a shame as resolving things is good but it’s probably for the best.