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The RDX web site used to have instructions for the relay, but essentially the knob determines the point at which the trailer indicator on the dash flashes. If both sides of the board are flashing,as ever, it points to dodgy earths as @Arjan says. Presumably all works ok withput the board, therefore the problem has to lie either on the board or the towing plug socket or its connection to the main harness. If it is a 7 pin plug there is probably tarnishing on the plug and socket pins.
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Brilliant. But kind of disappointed you haven't turned them from solid out of a bit of ship's propshaft you had lying around. In about an hour.😉
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If its use is just as a dowel, could not a person with a lathe produce something similar, ok not sprung, but maybe loctited into place?
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I don't know the correct name but that's the sort of thing for keeping a control knob on a pot on an old fashioned radio or cooker. I (carefully)googled ' control knob spring clip' and some were returned.
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On 4/16/2024 at 12:20 PM, markyboy said:
Wow, very spendy!
True, but one possible solution. I remember dynamos and seems amazing now alternators were a breath of fresh air. The dynamos themselves are quite reliable and easy to fix, the cotrol boxes were cantankerous. Maybe there are solid state controllers these days.
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If authentic appearance matters you can get alternators that look like dynamos eg link, dynalites. The dynamos aren't normally too bad, brushes are the usual thing, but those control boxes....
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If you have to replace the turrets, I like Gwynn Lewis's- they are open so you can rinse the mud out. And galvanised.
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All Land Rover repairs are temporary! They just vary in temporariness. The intermediate shaft is an appalling design, it can wobble about on the O ring varying the gear mesh. I have wondered if it might be possible to fit a welch plug in the casing.
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28 minutes ago, rusty_wingnut said:
Could someone with a 300tdi confirm that the thermostat housing isn't full of coolant when cold?
Mine certainly isn't. If you take the plug out there is always some air, by the time the plug is out there is anyway, can't see through the plug so it may have been full. If the heater is working there probably isn't an airlock, that seems on mine to be the first thing to show an airlock.
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Not sure how you coulld change the O ring in situ but if you take the box out it's quite easy. There is a tech archive article, I think 'the O ring bodge' or similar.
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You should be able to smell which oil it is, EP90 has a distinctive smell. If it is EP90, it's the transfer box, and the layshaft O ring has to be prime suspect.
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Yes I too have found plusgas way better than wd40 for freeing up Needs time to work mind. But seems no longer available in 5l cans. Looking at Bulldog Bdx as a replacement.
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I like irony too it was a lift pump you were fitting; sounds like the diesel was happy to make it's own way anyway.
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I have wondered why the ring gear and diff aren't dowelled together like eg crank and flywheel. They would help if the bolts are stretched momentarily
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Is this a Puma pulley?
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If you go for a Sykes they do a special adaptor for TD5, and another for 300tdi, as far as I know not usually included in the kits. @Peaklander got a non-Sykes one from Amazon I think, for 300tdi, this one, and that worked for him. You could get the Sykes gauge and specific adaptor quite a bit cheaper than a kit. ( I have been looking into this myself for a while)
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Defender 300 tdi has that kind of handbrake, as I think do earlier ones, but there are different versions, with different cables. The parts book is your friend.
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Tremedous. If Sid was a gate, that's what he'd look like.
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I had a clutch do the same thing, ok, on a 300. Next to no friction plate wear. I replaced with a Motor and Diesel one for 2.8 TGV, I think LOF do them now. Bur all has been ok since, just a bit clattery as some of the damper springing was omitted, but supposedly more robust.
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Some interesting and errrr, entertaining comments there, thank you
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Does anyone have any recommendations for knee pads? I have some gel ones which are old and comfortable, but are showing signs of wearing out, and they seem to try to pull my jeans down. Any favourite ones out there? At my age and in tha absence of a lift, they are nearly essential.
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Bravo! Of course there won't be any celebratory doughnuts done. Absolutely not.
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Or, just as an alternative, if originality isn't important, maybe a Dana 60 axle could be made to fit, the bracketry is readily available, and props can be made to fit.
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I guess you are aiming really to get things pretty close to where they were when you started.
Understanding injection pumps and VGT's
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The auto box will absorb quite a bit of performance. Might be worth checking the pump timing, I don't know about TGVs but 300s seem to like a bit more advance. Plus of course what was said above.