elbekko
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1 hour ago, geoffbeaumont said:
Not familiar with this particular one, but with removable type balls you often have to loop around the tow ball neck. There's nothing else available on my car to attach to. Far from ideal.
Same on my GLE, the eye for the safety cable is attached to the towball that comes out electrically. AFAIK there's no other eyes closer to the chassis, might have to look into adding something...
When I installed the tow bar on my E-class, there was an eye that bolted to the non-removable part, that was much better. -
That's proper scary!
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1 hour ago, FridgeFreezer said:
No idea what the scam was because you still got a Wurth sprayer with good seals at the end of the day, it just took a couple of days longer. Bizarre.
The ebay seller is effectively getting them at half price, and the original seller is losing 1/2 of his sales income.
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13 hours ago, simonr said:
My favorite paint, for quality of finish, is CombiColour. It goes straight on to metal but is not very mechanically tough
That's an understatement. I used it on my bumper build, and it scratches off like crazy. I think when I redo the paint I'll try some 2K primer + finish.
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7 minutes ago, Stellaghost said:Wow how much stuff on Temu
Will be revisiting
Regards Stephen
I've been wary of Temu (like all things that are advertised heavily), but it looks like it's just AliExpress with some added privacy concerns. I wouldn't install the app, but ordering from the website is probably alright for non-essential stuff.
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16 hours ago, simonr said:
A lot of the problem is manufacturers (not only Land Rover) making new cars so easy to steal. Keyless entry & keyless start are the main problem. Only now, after years of thefts are the manufacturers adding Time of Flight measurement - so it works out how far the keyfob is from the car. Unfortunately, they've only done a half-a***d job of this as there's already a very simple exploit that defeats it.
I saw this myself a few weeks ago with a guy in a supermarket car park wondering where his new (I think it was a Bentley) had gone. They must have wandered around the store with the repeater while someone outside just waited for a car to unlock.
It's only a shame all Land Rovers of all ages are seemingly lumped together as being a high insurance risk. The last generation (Disco & RR) before keyless are apparently very hard to steal - but still the premiums are increasing.
When parked at home, I always make sure to disable my GLE's key, it's a double tap on the lock button. No risk of replay attacks then.
I'm guessing the same is possible on a modern Land Rover?
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43 minutes ago, FridgeFreezer said:
Having just done a budget OBA install using a Jag air suspension tank I'm not sure I'd want to be using anything that's not a pressure vessel as a pressure vessel - first run-up watching that gauge climb makes you acutely aware of your own mortality
Especially the x-member which is hanging down asking to be clonked on a rock.
Agreed, wouldn't want something going very bang underneath, and also losing air pressure at the same time.
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9 hours ago, TD5toV8110 said:
I can't fully remember (10 years ago) when we put a 1UZ in a mates Hilux.
It needed a hall sensor on the tail shaft telling the ECU to increase idle as the vehicle came to a stop or it kept stalling at junctions/lights etc.
Engine was from a Soarer, the sensor was in/on the gearbox that we didn't have.
We never did fit one! I taught him to heel n toe to prevent it cutting out...🤪
Cheers
Dave
That's actually really interesting for unrelated reasons. @Escape, it might be the Jag's issue after all.
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That's an impressive break
(Coming from someone that split his in half on a rock)
Something must've been severely binding in there?
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Just a bit.
Laning in Belgium has all but disappeared over the past decade. In Flanders you mainly need to look out for the dreaded blue sign with a tractor on it (you're not allowed in there) and signs for private roads. In Wallonia you're basically not even allowed to be between trees - you're not allowed to drive in forests, and the definition is loose enough that they can basically get you for having a row of trees on both sides.
Don't trust Wikiloc blindly. There's a lot of outdated routes, as well as a lot of routes from people that don't care about legality...
I'll be impressed if you can find much greenlaning-wise around the battlefields.
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1 hour ago, Stellaghost said:
connector in the middle of the gap has a chewed through wire
Best to go over all of the wiring and double check it, then
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3 minutes ago, landroversforever said:
Rather OT but sounds like a story?!
Actually not even that OT!
One of the admins was putting an LS into his P38, and piggybacking the LS ECU on the GEMS, so the rest of the car wouldn't freak out. I was trying to convince him the car barely needed any feedback from the ECU, and it would be trivial to just connect those wires to the LS ECU. Not sure anymore about the exact interactions, but I remember telling him to get his head out of his behind, and then I was suddenly banned
We've since proven with @Escape's MS that it is indeed perfectly doable (even though it isn't running in the current car yet, it has worked in a different car).
And also why I'm convinced integrating something like the Haltech shouldn't be too difficult. Just need something that meets all of my requirements, and isn't going to be worse than what I have now.
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5 minutes ago, Ed Poore said:
Have you looked into the Link series of ECUs?
Not in much detail, but at a quick glance it doesn't really wow me with better features.
3 minutes ago, Ed Poore said:There was a guy called RRPhil on the Land Rover forums based somewhere up north who was basically the gospel on all ZF auto boxes. He used to design auto boxes for a living if I remember correctly and then decided to set up his own shop refurbishing ZF boxes for Range Rovers (mainly from the L322 era). I can't remember if he's still going or decided to pack it in but it might be worth trying to find out? He was fairly active on fullfatrr.com.
I remember him from rangerovers.net (before I was banned). Could be worth asking.
Or if someone just knows what damn CAN messages the autobox ECU needs, I'll just build a translation module... over the years I've even amassed several CAN-speaking devices, just never got around to doing any sniffing.
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On 9/20/2023 at 3:43 PM, elbekko said:
Yeah, I think I'll ask for some clarification on that.
Said clarification:
QuoteThat's something I may have overlooked actually.The Haltech ECU can support both high and low impedance injectors, but it cannot change settings on the fly.It's common in LPG applications for the Haltech ECU to only continue controlling spark.i.e. injector outputs shutdown, but the LPG is injected via it's own injection system.The Haltech controls ignition timing still.Otherwise it could be possible map the LPG injectors as as secondary stage with custom stoich value and different injection time based off a switch.I guess the secondary stage is what we would want, then. I sent this response:
QuoteEliminating the second ECU for the LPG is one of the main reasons I'm looking into an aftermarket ECU, as they are terrible things that give nothing but issues. I realise the Haltech won't be able to do gas pressure adaptation, but that's alright, it's a very minimal effect anyway, and should be compensated by the AFR anyway.Running it as a second stage sounds like a decent option. With an Elite 2500 that means bank fire for both systems, right?We'll see what they say. They usually respond the next day, I'm guessing timezone related due to them being in Australia
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As interesting as the discussion is, I doubt Speeduino will work for my requirements, as it's missing most of the functionality I want.
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1 hour ago, =jon= said:
Thanks - I read through their specs and it says they can run high/low/peak hold, but I never got as far as asking if you could do a mix - run half the injectors with one and the other half with the other, or swap based on an external input if you are switching between the two via relay or similar... I'd be interested to see how you get on
Yeah, I think I'll ask for some clarification on that.
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22 minutes ago, =jon= said:
Have they said it will drive low impedance LPG injectors in addition to high impedance petrol injectors, with switchable maps between them?
This is one of the options I've been looking at - I've got MS3 + an LPG ECU, it all works but it's not 'great' - there's various things that could be done better if everything was driven from one unit...
I explicitly asked about it in my e-mail, and they didn't say no to it anyway
And according to their specs, they can do both out of the box.
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Reviving this idea...
I've been in contact with Haltech support to talk about this. According to them, none of my requirements should be an issue, BUT
Apparently tuning the gearbox control isn't easy (guy said 2-3x harder than fuel map tuning), and really should be done by an experience tuner on a rolling road.
Is it a terrible idea to say "how hard can it be?" and do it anyway?
The other option is to make something that speaks CAN, and talks to the stock gearbox ECU, which sounds like a pain in the butt (but on the other hand, should be fairly straightforward once you know what needs to be said).
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10 hours ago, Peaklander said:
I did split the gearbox off sometime last year to sort out a squeaky release arm. I didn’t notice a broken spring but I will see if I have any photos.
That looks fine, yeah. How are the input splines on the gearbox?
I'm inclined to agree with @steve b that the clunk is unlikely to come from inside the R380.
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Broken clutch spring?
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Stick it inside? Or in the middle of the car, like an Ibex, and only have the rope running towards the back.
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You can get lightly damaged metal roof panels for very cheap. Screw those onto a wooden frame that you tie down with pegs and cables (or other suitably heavy things).
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19 hours ago, P38 Paul said:
Yes, I have the cable that connects to the Nanocom.
Any faults logged? If it's refusing to start the compressor for a reason, that reason should result in a fault.
Especially the x-member which is hanging down asking to be clonked on a rock.
(Coming from someone that split his in half on a rock)
Could this be the understatement of the year?
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Honestly doesn't look like that bad a fix? It'll take up most of the tensile forces on that weld, and definitely looks chunky enough to do it. It's like a little axle truss on the bottom of the axle.