geoffbeaumont

How many fields would you want? And are we including part vehicles? Some people on here could probably assemble quite a list... Probably best just to encourage people to state what vehicle they're talking about.

It does change your title depending how many posts you've made, but you only get boring titles that way. I feel the lack of interesting titles will be sorely missed, so I'm cooking up a little something that'll unleash the mods again

I haven't done away with the dizzy yet - I'm still fitting all the bits for the distributorless ignition - but yes, the distributor will be left in place to drive the oil pump.

That's helpful... 'Fraid I've deleted your PM. Was it the one about the image link that didn't work? If so, rename your file to whatever.jpg instead of whatever_jpg, as I think it's checking image type by file name (and yours doesn't have an extension, so it's not matching the list of known types). It allows jpg, jpeg, gif and png. If that wasn't what your PM was about, best ask again

Having recklessly been out and driven the thing, it's not anything new - but it's a lot more obvious now I've got a decent spark. On the plus side, I reckon it's been like it for a while so either: a) it's nothing particularly serious b) I've already done all the damage Just got to figure out how the hell to get to the bottom of what's causing it

Possibly - although with the noises my engines making at the moment, possibly not

Not ignition timing - tried it again with fuel and then fuel and ignition off. It's still there, just not that easy to hear at that speed over the starter motor. I'm wondering if it was there before - I've suspected for a while that there was more wrong than just the ignition, but the ignition's made it impossible to diagnose anything else. At least if that's the case I probably won't do any more damage driving it

darthdicky - it isn't costing me anything for this. I already had a hosting package with plenty of spare space and bandwith and Bigfoot acquired the landroveraddict domain names. Several people (notably, to my knowledge, Les Henson and Bigfoot) have put a lot of time into this, so that's were your thanks should really be going.

Are you up to date on security patches yet? There've been a few security holes in MSN that allow people to spam you like that but as far as I know they were all fixed ages ago. If you aren't up to date, get it that way pronto - although if you aren't behind some kind of firewall, you may already have had it. One of the technical sites did a test a few months back where they put a freshly installed and unpatched Windows XP machine online (ie. as you'd have to do to get the patches off Windows Update...) and monitored it to see how long it lasted. Each time it was successfully broken into - if memory serves me correctly, in around 30 seconds (it takes hours to download all the patches).

It's still a bit quiet in the Range Rover forum, so I'll try in here - DEANO doesn't reckon anything I've done it likely to have affected the timing unless the pin was already gone and I've just displaced it a bit (in which case I've had a very lucky escape not doing it with the engine running). Just started the RR up after putting all the crank pulleys and things back - sounds like one of those nasty oil burners The noise seems to be coming from the top of the block, and sounds like a louder version of the noisy tappets on my old car. Timing? I've had the crank pulley apart mounting a trigger wheel for the distributorless ignition, but all appears fine in that department - belts are all fine, the trigger wheel isn't fouling anything and there's no abnormal noises from that area. I've had the plugs out and been turning the engine over from the crank pulley by hand, but that shouldn't have done any harm? What should I be looking at? Any idea if it's likely to be driveable or not (yes I know, kind of hard to say without hearing it)? Oh - one more thing I've just thought of. Before I refitted the plugs and started her up, I cut the fuel and disconnected the coil and turned her over on the starter motor to double check the trigger wheel wasn't fouling anything - there was no tapping noise when I did that. Hmm. Ignition timing? Haven't changed it, but I cleaned up the earth strap while I was under there, so it might actually have a good enough spark now to cause problems if it was out anyway.

How can I check? Any other suggestions?

If that was meant for me, then no. I went to school in the somewhat less sunny climes of North East Scotland

Just started the RR up after putting all the crank pulleys and things back - sounds like one of those nasty oil burners The noise seems to be coming from the top of the block, and sounds like a louder version of the noisy tappets on my old car. Timing? I've had the crank pulley apart mounting a trigger wheel for the distributorless ignition, but all appears fine in that department - belts are all fine, the trigger wheel isn't fouling anything and there's no abnormal noises from that area. I've had the plugs out and been turning the engine over from the crank pulley by hand, but that shouldn't have done any harm? What should I be looking at? Any idea if it's likely to be driveable or not (yes I know, kind of hard to say without hearing it)?

Les - you can, using 'Pre-Register' in the users section of admin, but if you do that you'll need to email them their password. Probably easier just to wait for them to show up.

Yes, any events can be added to the calendar - at the moment, you have to be a moderator to add to the calendar.

Just a brief warning - if you put your birthday in your profile, it shows up in the forum calendar, so if you don't want to advertise it to all and sundry, don't enter it. Doesn't seem to be any way to turn the calendar completely off - doesn't seem to be a lot of point when we've got the Events forum.

Fitting most of the new EDIS ignition to the Range Rover (plus running around doing other odds and ends - taking the dog for his jabs, bit of carpentry)... Got the trigger wheel on (thanks Geoff) and have the VR sensor bracket. Currently having problems getting the bolt back through the bottom of the alternator strut, which seems to be longer than the space it occupies

Works if you follow the instructions, Nige

Can't edit Nige's screwed up poll, so this is to try and find out what went wrong...

And they hog all the space too Wonder if you can ban huge images with this software?

Welcome to our new home - the rules here are pretty much the same as they were on the LRE Forum. Keep it clean and family friendly and the mods won't be (especially) cruel... This is a temporary home for the forum - it'll be moving just as soon as everything is properly set up. It'll probably get a new look 'n' feel as well when I (or someone else - any volunteers?) get the time. If you've any suggestions or comments, post them on this thread.