Blanco
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7 hours ago, Arjan said:
ahhh.... the joy of a foreign language..
I reckon you do very well Arjan, ... you don't miss much!
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If memory serves two flare nut spanner sizes should cover the whole car, 7/16 and 9/16. Automec do nice brass fittings to replace everything that is crusty.
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Welcome back, .... way back in my early days here I was hooked on your plans for an OM606 build, .... got me started on bigger projects really, (although my transplant plans have morphed a bit since then).
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My old 110 (should never have sold it!) worked hard off road towing usually overloaded trailer or sawmill. It had Detroits front and rear they were great. Do I think you'll benefit? Probably not. Best ever tip for France and Spain is make sure it is all in good order before you go and carry a few choice spares with you. Spares availability is slow and expensive. If you want insurance then bang for buck the winch is hard to beat as Stephen has said, particularly with some stakes or a ground anchor.
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I guess plod's standpoint is understandable, but you would have thought proof of ID and home address would be sufficient, coupled with a limit of 1 per 12months or so.
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No surprise the answer is '... it depends', I need to get the codes from the cats themselves, no problem really but I'll have to stick it on the ramp. I had hoped that I would get some interest in the engine while it could still be heard running, But most callers seem interested in the potential of the cats. (Or more acurately potentially getting them for next to nothing). I think I'll video the engine and stick it on a pallet, get the codes sell the cats or the downpipe and make a start on sifting out the bits I need.
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Just WhatsApp'ed my neighbour, she works for the local dismantlers, I'll post when I hear.
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I have just advertised for breaking the Discovery V8 I bought from Simon_CSK and one of the first enquiries is about the cats from the exhaust. Now I have seen them featured on the news etc. but when I check the new price of a V8 front pipe it is over £1000 at Paddocks, ... has the world gone crazy !
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On 1/4/2022 at 8:48 PM, smallfry said:
could that be a fracture in the casting, between the makers plate and the cable bracket ?
Doesn't look good, .............some good info on this THREAD , particularly post #13 and #18 by Ashcrofts about the boxes, but the 061 isn'tt going to swap into the 065 slot without surgery. This other thread is about a diesel but illustrates the physical differences.
The larger TC will have a lower stall speed and enables you to make better use of torque at low revs, probably mainly noticeable if you do a fair bit of towing.
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A little update, just in case anyone else has the same sort of issue. I read somewhere on another forum which I haven't found again yet an explanation of how a MAF issue can cause a similar symptom; I had kind of assumed that it would simply adopt the default fuel map and not cause fuel starvation, but apparently it is a possibility. Anyhow, just back from N.E. Scotland,. had the 'hiccup' 5 times on the road up before Christmas. The RR sat unused for the duration but just before coming back yesterday I took the MAF unit out, hosed it out with brake cleaner and then electrical contact cleaner and stuck it back in..... result..... absolutely faultless on the way home, 450 miles! Now I know it isn't necessarily conclusive but given the weather yesterday I was really pleased about that!
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Desert storm??
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Everything is pretty dry and air tight, with the engine out, everything was cleaned and new gaskets/washers etc. I have checked fuel flow with a full tank, and when it drains down a bit I will check it again.
My thoughts at the moment are 1) an intermittant fault on the in tank supply pump made worse by low fuel level. or 2) some piece of dirt or debris stuck in the FIP which for some reason moves occasionally? It doesn't 'miss' on one or two cylinders it seems to completely lose pressure and die.
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.. 4wd, diff locks and low box?
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I know the heavies aren't what is required, but this does seem good value, bit like a Mog without the portals....
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In brief my P38 is now running (mostly) very well on a replacement engine with about 120k on it. Engine was in a few days before a big trip to the Isle of Mull, and it performed faultlessly until the way home when it stuttered and died, Nanocom showed a fuelling issue fault logged, it started straight away and appeared to run well so we continued. All in all it happened a handful of times on the remainder of the journey.... not always bringing us to a stop, mostly it cleared and picked up again. I put it down to dirty fuel, put some Redex in the system and changed the new filter for a clean one. Since then it happened only a couple of times on local runs and I subsequently did a trip to Stonehaven near Aberdeen without any trouble at all. Cured I thought........... no!
Happened again yesterday and today, yesterday I was down to 1/4 tank (hoping the price would go down!) but now I have filled up and it still happened.
In tank sender/pump unit isn't that old... filter is very fresh.... am I just being unlucky with diesel or does it indicate some other problem? Any thoughts or previous experience of similar appreciated.
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... very, ... we were promised a few flakes this morning but it is little more than low cloud. I do wonder if LR owners generally are the ones that never quite lose that youthful pleasure in simple things.
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That cheap stopgap Transit still going strong?, must be a couple of years now
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On 11/21/2021 at 7:41 PM, landroversforever said:
I’ve always wondered that…. The bigger you go, the ever smaller number of passers by that could pull you out.
Agree totally,... any bigger than a 109/110 or a troopy and it gets out of hand. A ground anchor and sweat should be all that's required?
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Recommend the LR TIME video recently appeared in the viseo section, he explains the difficulty is in stuff that goes over the back of the engine with little or no space to work....... he managed, but clearly it's a pain and he learned a lot and would do it slightly differently a second time.
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6 hours ago, landroversforever said:
Couls have sworn that was longer than a 90
... 109 I think, an FC chassis originally.
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Alternative energy plans seem to be the order of the week,... I don't recognise it but I look forward to the thread
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He has some interesting stuff on LR3/D3 and more recently D4,.. I quite like his sense of humour. The DIY lineboring was impressive, I just wonder how good that crank will be, .. have to wait till next week.
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19 hours ago, Badger110 said:
There's some interesting stuff there!
Done Deal is kind of our Gumtree, Ebay has never really taken off here and ebay.ie is not really useful, mostly UK stuff that now has all the uncertainty of duty and maybe never delivery. The only thing is that the market is small and there are some price expectations and anomalies that can surprise!. Also the local definition of 'Mint' is not what you might imagine
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We did wonder! have a search online, there are sites where you can find the RAVE files, I get the PDF version for my RR from Here, but I don't know if what you are looking for is there. (I know the RR box is similar, not sure what the differences are though)
Bear in mind that the RAVE system works on an older Windows operating system , there is a recent thread on the subject on here somewhere, you need to right click and change the settings when you do find a likely suspect. For some reason I can't get that to work,hence my use of the PDF's but for what I need it is just as easy.
The "Pass the Bucket" 4x4 For Sale on Ebay Thread
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Speaking of seats... check the seat covers on this out, proper period stuff!