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monkie

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  1. Is the cylinder head on? If so, I would remove it so you can see what is going on and inspect the bores.
  2. I would expect Adblue to leave white crystals of urea everywhere making it quite easy to detect. Did the 2015 defenders use adblue?
  3. Put some water on the patch and see what happens. If it is engine oil, gearbox oil or diesel you will see a rainbow film appear on the surface. If it is screenwash, coolant or water then nothing will happen. If it is brake fluid then it will go milky.
  4. As far as I am aware, there was no catalyst fitted to a 19J in the 1980's so the standard set up will be fine. It is what I have fitted to my 1988 110 with a 19J and it has never been an MOT issue.
  5. Yes, this is exactly my experience regarding the caps. I had fitted cheap ones in the past that were supplied in a blue packet. They were quite brittle and didn't last long before they started to leak. I replaced them with genuine ones and the difference was night and day. They are not brittle and have been on for a few years now leak free, including being taken off and on again last year when I replaced the swivels.
  6. I don't know why you seem to have a flywheel with no slot in it allowing you to lock it. Have you tried to lock it incase it is matter of you just not being able to see the slot? I used to have a 300Tdi in my 110 that was fitted to the LT77 so when I changed the belt I didn't lock the crank shaft. I just did 2 things: (1)Once the timing cover was removed, used the key way in the crank as my marker for the timing and was very careful not to allow the crankshaft to move once the old belt was off. (2) once the new belt was in place and tensioned, turned the engine slowly and carefully by hand a few revolutions then rechecked the position of the FIP and cam sprockets to ensure nothing had moved out of time.
  7. Did you find out which was which in the end with your bottles of antifreeze?
  8. That will more than likely explain the unused wires you have. Green/brown is the reversing light switch. White is 12v feed from the ignition switch Yellow/white - I don't know. Something to do with the ignition coil when it was a petrol?? I don't recognise those from my 1988 19J diesel. Sorry I can't be of further help.
  9. Do you know if your vehicle was a diesel version when it left the factory? That may well make a difference to some of the wiring which would explain any confusion. For example, if your vehicle was originally a 1985 90 Hard Top fitted with the 19J diesel turbo engine; your VIN will start SALLDVAB. It is the 8th character that denotes the engine type. B= 19J Diesel Turbo C= 12J NA diesel D= 17H petrol E= 3.5L V8 carb petrol
  10. There have been a few reports on here that the lift pumps fail with apparent ease, even genuine ones. I always have a spare Bearmach lift pump handy in case. I would say it would be wise and relatively inexpensive to replace it any way and see if that helps. As Red90 says, it only takes a bit of rubbish in the fuel to stop the valve in the lift pump from being effective. Also wise to double check the security of all the joints in the fuel system pipes to make sure it can't pull air from anywhere when you stop the engine.
  11. Hydrometer is the word I couldn't think of! According to the link in my previous post, the specific gravity of 100% concentration is 1.13 at 27'C or if it is 50% diluted then the SG will be 1.077 at the same temperature. Hope this helps you.
  12. Measure the specific gravity (I think Wilkinsons might sell a cheap kit in the home brew section). Info can be found here on the measurements.
  13. Have your put your thermostat in some hot water and slowly bring the temperature up measuring with you IR gauge and observe what the thermostat actually does?
  14. Going up hills and carrying heavy stuff around also has quite a bad effect on mpg. Land Rovers are magnets for accumulating heavy stuff in the back like tools, bottles of oil, screen wash and bags of stuff etc. So it pays to have a clear out regularly. If I drive round at 50-60ish carrying nothing and stick to the level routes I get a vastly better mpg than carrying stuff up and down hills which can result in awful mpg in my 19J.
  15. Very true that burning stuff in just a few big boxes is better than burning stuff in many more little boxes - It is also very measureable in those big boxes in terms of the carbon used to generate a given unit of electricity. In the USA for example, the department of energy have an online calculator (here) to show you how green an EV is compared to other cars. It is state dependant because of how each state generates the electricity differently to the next. So in Idaho for example where they have a lot of hydroelectricity in the mix an EV comes out very green in terms of CO2 output per mile. If you then look at West Virginia where they use a lot of coal in their power mix, the CO2 per mile for an EV dramatically rises. EVs win on CO2 every time compared to a petrol car but it is clear the CO2 from how the electricity is generated dramatically changes based upon how much carbon is in the energy mix. Therefore I can't agree with saying this is a fallacy - it simply isn't.
  16. This is why I think we will have to wait for a radical change in battery design before they will really take off and start shoving petrol/diesel cars off the road. I agree with Red90, removing batteries and putting a charged one on like you do with an electric drill - I can't see that happening for many reasons. Imagine if we did reach a point where most EVs did share a common battery to allow this to happen; it would limit innovation or design change of new batteries and/or when a change did happen it would render the charging/swapping system useless. Batteries have got to be cheaper, smaller, lighter, longer useful lifetime, charge in about the time it takes to fill a standard car with fossile fuel, and give about the same range as a tank of fuel does. I don't know if we are getting anywhere close to that with current technology. Not to mention cleaning up how electricity is made.
  17. I know what you mean. I too prefer that look on a Land Rover. Sorry, I don't have any recommendations for anywhere.
  18. Alternatively, could you get the new paint colour matched to the old faded colour?
  19. Now you've said it, I think it was the Daily Mail where I read about the wood burners!
  20. We've been good at digging very big holes in the earth for a long time then leaving behind a right old mess. Just watch the scene at the end of Get Carter where Michael Caine kills that bloke after the chase and you'll be reminded that we used to dig up stuff out of a coal mine which was full of God know's what toxic materials then dump it straight into the sea and that was not that long ago in the UK! Everything has to be considered - Gathering the raw materials, processing them, production of the battery, transport (often right round the world, before use then again after use), recycling/disposal once their useful life is over. And not just the batteries but also other exotic materials for the motors for example. I found a paper published last year about the effects of recycling Li-ion batteries (not just cars but phones, laptops, tablets etc) and its not just the materials inside the battery; what about the plastics used for the casing, dump it in landfill, burn it? Somethings aren't as bad as you'd think, other's might be far worse. On balance we don't really know - for me, that is the scary part. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305693870_The_Environmental_Impacts_of_Recycling_Portable_Lithium-Ion_Batteries
  21. Right on cue, look what is in the news this morning...... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46823729
  22. I agree with that 100% - its happening before our eyes at quite a pace. It seems to me that it is almost distracting politicians from earlier agreements to do with carbon emissions. There has already been suggestion to address the air quality issue has resulted in a larger carbon output for 2018.
  23. I do agree, and I understand that they are trialling just this in at least Australia and California on a scale much bigger than anywhere previously done to my knowledge. Ignoring the carbon or green issue for a minute and assuming there is nothing game changing in battery technology within the next decade: I don't think batteries will do anything to cheapen power supply. Much the opposite! There are already papers being published on the cost and effectiveness of the Californian project that I am following. I think any conversation about generation capacity is inextricably linked to carbon as it is shaping how we think about and do things. If it weren't for carbon I doubt we'd be having this conversation at all about electric vehicles and capacity in the grid. We would all be driving petrol cars and most powerstations would be coal or oil.
  24. Both go hand in hand. The relationship between our carbon output and effect on climate change is not a matter of belief or opinion to the majority of the scientific world. The guy in that talk in that link does mention the attempt to manage demand from wind/solar but these efforts only really tinker around the edges in the grand scheme and just serve to confuse the engery mix further. So, unmanageble? I agree, probably not. Effective? Not very due to the relatively low energy density which brings us back to batteries in cars again.
  25. Our big problem is that we can't stop burning stuff. Even at night when there is lowest demand we are still burning a lot of carbon, more than just keeping plants ticking over. It would be good if nuclear could take up much much more of that base load. As it stands, if there was an extra demand placed on the grid through electric cars for example; you are right that most of the time we have more than enough capacity to easily cope, but at times we simply don't. And when we don't we have to fire up coal stations to fill the gap. When that happens the carbon credentials of electric cars really start to drop dramatically. This is an excellent 14 minute TED talk by Michael Shellenberger on the issues of power production, worth listening to (I think I have posted a link to this before). He cites an interesting study on battery storage with some surprising figures.
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