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I haven't seen Mike's latest video yet, and this method is absolutely fine on iron heads like on the 12J..... But a word of warning to anyone reading this with a later engine. Never use oven cleaner on aluminium heads (or any other aluminium part). Oven cleaner works by using sodium hydroxide to react with the baked on grease in your oven. Sodium Hydroxide is a very powerful caustic agent and will attack aluminium just as an acid would.

I think that's got to be getting you into the territory of having to save up for a huge ironing board style wing on the back to provide all that extra downforce needed for the drive down to Halfords to get some supplies in to wire up your neons under car lighting so people can see you are a moron not just in the daylight but also on these dark winter nights 😁

I've got a lot of learning to do before I dabble in this webasto wizardry. I'm following this thread with great interest.

I saw this on ebay as I'm sure you have. I thought it seemed cheap. Why is this so cheap and what is missing for it to be fitted into a 110?

Oooh, I can't resist this as its a new one on me. I have seen "superchargers" that run from your 12v cigarette lighter socket before, but this "supercharger" is spun by the flow of incoming air. This blockage in your induction system can also save you on fuel apparently..... Hang on, I get it now. It leaves the 12v lighter socket free to plug in your LED/capacitor fuel saver. Genius.

The hotpots are often not in that tight and can fall out when you lift the head from the block. They are held in place usually with a dab of grease when the head is put back on. How is the surface of the head? Did you adhear to the correct tightening procedure (in terms of torque and tightening sequence) when the head was put back on last time?

My dad set up his own garage back in the 1970s when he left the RAF as a flight engineer. He said in hindsight he wasted a lot of time and potential money fault finding that in the end were either a simple fix (maybe an adjustment somewhere) or were so involved the customer wouldn't bother. He always said the person who came up with Kwik Fit had a good idea. Little fault-finding time, just replace the tyres or exhaust and get the next paying customers car on the ramps. The genius of modern cars is, if you can't plug it in to read or clear a code, you have no choice but pay someone who can.

Bugger all Ralph. The premise of those devices was that they align the fuel molecules using magnetic field. Fuel is almost exclusively a mixture of non polar organic molecules utterly unaffected by magnetic fields no matter how strong. I think the reason people buy in to these things is that a small fuel saving effect is so hard to reproducibly prove that people selling this tat can get away with backing up their products with some extremely dodgy science!

Maybe she's put it else where because it's clearly not doing the job as she's at the pump filling up

... And the thing that is really troubling is these people presumably hold a valid driving licence and drive on our roads

Thanks Dave. To be honest it is largely cosmetic. The engine had a bent conrod because water had run down the exhaust. I took the big end caps off and they looked fine so I left the bottom end alone. I just replaced all the fluids and filters, had the injectors serviced and lapped the valves when the head was off. It runs great. Thing is with modern cars, I think they are so much more reliable than they used to be. I remember my dad's cars breaking down when I was a kid and they were only about 3 or 5 years old.

I think it must there to protect you from too much fuel saving, can't think of any other reason? 😁

I also find the "turbo" that runs from the cigarette lighter socket quite humorous. Again I knew of someone who paid for one of those too!

That's a good point Ralph. One of my old house mates years ago actually paid good money for a magnet that clamps round the fuel pipe and claimed to reduce your fuel consumption by aligning the molecules

Clearly the cap is the key to its wizardry

The whole things had a hard life! Been trying to get the right pair of rear wheels for a while now, but it isn't important when I have a 110 draining my funds 😁 I'll look out the conrod I replaced and post a pic. It really is bent like a banana. This little Nuffield was a hedge row find. Made the farmer an offer and rescued it.

I thought that it might have something to do with its rather streamlined shape

This popped up as an ad on my Facebook. I had to click on it through disbelief as I can't understand why people buy this stuff with an expectation it will work

Glad it's getting sorted. I didn't want you to have to buy any tools when I've got them sat at home on a shelf. My tractor is a little old one just for fun. It's a 1957 Nuffield Universal 3 😁

Yes, not done it on an LR engine but my tractor (yes I am a stereotypical somerset man with a tractor!) I had a bent conrod and pushed the piston out from the bottom with the head off. It was easy to do, just wear eye protection as oil will still be dripping as you work.

Yes to the layers of materials. I painted the underside of the seat box, floor, transmission tunnel with sound deadener paint. Covered the inside with dodo dead mat, 12mm closed cell foam on top of that then marine carpet. The difference is amazing. The dodo dead mat on the inside of the door skin and roof makes a huge difference as it stops the panels waffling about like a drum skin.

Yes if you need to fit new rings, hone the bore so that the new rings can bed in.

Dave, I'm sorry to read about the trouble you're having and that money is tight especially in the run up to Christmas. To keep costs down, don't go buying any tools specific to the job. I've got plenty of tools for these engines and I am not rebuilding anything right now. I can lend you a ring compressor, deglazing tool, timing locking tool set etc. I'm sure we can do a forum relay if needs be. Send me a pm of what you need and if I have it, you can borrow it to get your Land Rover sorted. I am driving up north this week and stopping at my mum's in Leicestershire. Phil

PS this is the blocker on Firefox I'm talking about in the screenshot below. When I googled options for blocking ads on YouTube the top suggestions were to either root your mobile or get something called blockada. When I looked into it I didn't like the idea of rooting my mobile and I tried blockada and I didn't find it effective on the YouTube app.

I've got sick of this using the YouTube app on my phone. I now only view YouTube via Firefox browser with the adblock plus pluggin installed. Problem solved. I can now watch YouTube in peace without interruption from ads for goods and services I have absolutely zero interest in 👍