elbekko
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The Td5 speedo just takes a pulse input, right? Would it be an option to use a sensor mounted to a driveshaft and translate that to the required input?
Or grab it from the ABS sensors/ECU, if you have it?
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That's some impressive damage!
Good to know that the XC90 handles the wading well. A lot of modern SUVs seem to be rated for deep wading, my GLE even states it as 50-60cm depending on options selected. With a nice bow wave you'll probably get away with more, as long as you don't float away.
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Cunning.
Looks like you can just swap out the ID in the URL and get a bunch of different models:
https://parts.jaguarlandroverclassic.com/parts/index/hierarchy/id/30/brand/land-rover/ (Velar)
https://parts.jaguarlandroverclassic.com/parts/index/hierarchy/id/25/brand/land-rover/ (L405)-
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16 hours ago, Daan said:
Let's not forget the Koreans though:
Can I at least try to?
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I don't see why it would be an issue other than a bit of wind resistance. As long as it doesn't hang over too much, all good.
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No, that looks like an MLS gasket, shouldn't need anything extra.
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Stephen down south to portal all the things?
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15 hours ago, Phill S said:
Ok - thanks. I found the exact same thing on ebay for £15 all in, so I'll go for that.
Be a bit careful with knock-off FTDI stuff. As I recall using the official drivers with a non-official chip will brick said chip, not sure if that's still the case.
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Looks like the same sort of adapter you need for the EAS cable. I did a writeup of that here, includes a link to the adapter on Digikey. But the one you linked is probably the same ish.
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On 4/6/2024 at 9:30 AM, elbekko said:
Tried doing some more modelling yesterday. It's driving me up the wall at the moment. I'm not sure if the scan is bad, or the chassis on @Escape's car is crooked, but I just can't get any symmetry out of it. I'll have to verify some more measurements with a tape measure, with some luck it just did a bad correlation with combining scans, but all the lines look correct, the LH chassis rail is just at an angle and about 7mm out from what it should be according to RAVE
Also, Fusion really can't handle the huge mesh. Seemingly not helped by needing to push it to the cloud every time you save, which you have to do often in case it crashes. This is on my powerful laptop with an i7 7700K, 1060 (mobile) GPU, and 32GB RAM...
So any frustration from a potentially iffy mesh is amplified with frustration from Fusion constantly hanging.
Looks like it's the car, and not the scan
Well, also 
That means I get to take my bumper off to check how differently crooked that one is...
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54 minutes ago, FridgeFreezer said:
Not my cuppa either but I must say that at least JLR's lineup is a lot cleaner looking than 90% of the other stuff on the roads that looks like it's in competition to be as ugly and overly-complicated as possible.
Volvo/Polestar are doing the Scandi minimalist thing quite nicely but the rest of the field seem fugly as hell.
The GLE (non-coupé) is about the only SUV outside of JLR's lineup that I can stand to look at, but it's certainly no looker. Everything else seems to have all dem anglez all over. Especially the Japanese stuff, barf.
But still, the D5 is just a needlessly ugly thing. If it actually had had a spare wheel on the back, it wouldn't look nearly as godawful.
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10 hours ago, deep said:
So, no more Discovery in the line-up?? What have I missed here?
I try to forget about that abomination.
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28 minutes ago, FridgeFreezer said:
At least that's the nice thing about brass rads - you can solder it up if needed.
I ran an epoxied plastic rad for years. But that was a small crack, a dent like that would've definitely shattered the plastic tank.
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Maybe Solidworks does it better, dunno. Small meshes should be fine in Fusion. I just jumped in with a huge mesh, that hasn't been optimised at all.
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5 hours ago, FridgeFreezer said:
60k is entry level these days then?
Mind you even if I won the lottery I'd be more likely to spend 100k+ on restoring my fleet of old bangers than on a single new car whatever that might be.
Sadly, pretty much. Even a C-class gets there pretty quickly...
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40 minutes ago, Ed Poore said:
Regardless the RR started at £104k...
Yup, the Defender is very much the entry level "proper" Land Rover now, anything else with low range (FFRR, RRS) start at ludicrous prices.
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Tried doing some more modelling yesterday. It's driving me up the wall at the moment. I'm not sure if the scan is bad, or the chassis on @Escape's car is crooked, but I just can't get any symmetry out of it. I'll have to verify some more measurements with a tape measure, with some luck it just did a bad correlation with combining scans, but all the lines look correct, the LH chassis rail is just at an angle and about 7mm out from what it should be according to RAVE
Also, Fusion really can't handle the huge mesh. Seemingly not helped by needing to push it to the cloud every time you save, which you have to do often in case it crashes. This is on my powerful laptop with an i7 7700K, 1060 (mobile) GPU, and 32GB RAM...
So any frustration from a potentially iffy mesh is amplified with frustration from Fusion constantly hanging.
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The shell of my old front bumper is in decent shape and just sitting there
Of course, would be glad to have another one of mine cut out as well, just decide before I get the rear bumper sent out to the laser guy.
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25 minutes ago, FridgeFreezer said:
Just remember that sensors - especially lambda sensors - can be easily confused by stuff that is not as they were expecting. For example your temperature gauge is not accurate if all the coolant falls out, and Lambda sensors are very easily damaged or clogged up or just confused.
Excess unburnt fuel, burnt oil or coolant going down the exhaust can clog them up and "blind" them, and exhaust leaks throw them wildly off (because they're measuring oxygen and a leak means air gets sucked in).
If it smells rich, it's rich, even if the lambda sensor has gone blind and is swearing you need 50% more fuel - trust your nose and the seat of your pants!
I know, hence why I don't trust what it's saying. Plus the injectors are still a bit of an unknown, might be better to get those taken care of before we try and tune anything.
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It was good to finally take Phoenix out for a drive
I hope we can get the fuelling situation sorted out, the lambda didn't seem to be doing much, and the autotune suggested chucking in ~50% more fuel, which seems excessive. Maybe it just needs to be burned clean, even after playing with req_fuel it stayed around 0.22v, even when triggering acceleration enrichment.
She sounds damn good though! Except for those lifters, it just sounds broken
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Daimler-Chrysler was a disaster, and led to a lot of the issue of the 2010ish Mercs. Quality greatly improved again after that.
Lately it seems to be going downhill a bit again though.
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2 hours ago, FridgeFreezer said:
If you've got the space those horizontal mills seem to come up a lot for quite cheap... although they seem more specialised than regular vertical mills, I've seen Abom79 do a lot with his.
Yeah, and if it comes with the 90° head, they're more versatile than a regular knee mill.
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1 hour ago, Bowie69 said:
Also, Taunton is only 25 mins from me (on a good day on the M5).
I'm in for the pictures of 5 40" Treps stacked in/around LGT.
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2 hours ago, Stellaghost said:
Purely out of mischief....
Rotary table allows you to turn parts on a mill, my 1uz to LT77 adaptor was finished off with mill as lathe was too small......Regards Stephen
Or, as Keith Fenner did a few years ago, put a chuck on a horizontal mill:
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That has always stuck in my mind as a damn good solution for 90% of lathe jobs. And I think sort of more versatile than milling with a lathe.
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That means I get to take my bumper off to check how differently crooked that one is...
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Potential insanity
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@Escape's triple axle tiltbed Ifor is about 800-850kg empty. Probably a good chunk less now without that tailgate. So definitely plenty of capacity left. If you can transport a D3, you can transport an empty container...
Center of gravity is probably the biggest issue, but also not a huge issue I would think.