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Mr Noisy

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  1. BUMP!

    so I've been happily squirting for a few years now

    the wideband sensor I bought from euro car parts did not work, equivalent part number sure, but no good.

    i bought one in an innovate bag and it works good, just hooked up my wideband again so I can check out my tuning and see how things are

    wouldnt pass mot last year on emissions so we had to use another vehicle, but the point is I'm interested to see what my current CO is and at what AFR, I am tuned to 13.5:1 at idle, im going to play around with dropping the ego control to 500rpm rather than the original 1100 to see if it will tighten up the emissions for the sake of a slightly more lopey idle

     

    anyway the real reason for posting was I was picking up lambda earth on the spare socket on my relay board which would normally be used for fast idle valve, and during installing my wideband last night and Calibrating the heater I noticed I lost or perhaps even had no earth from the get go

     

    after some head scratching I found a burnt link on the relay board

     

    super easy to get around the problem, but just thought I would mention it so that folks don't make the same mistake in future!

  2. It's a champion 9.5HS so it's nothing special nor sizeable.

    And yes I was going to say I'm sure my 11mm is like a sausage now, especially when not under load!

    And yes I get it now, your extensions are just shorter than multiples of your winch rope and/or shorter extensions

    Very clever :)

    It basically boils down to

    150+vat for 100ft plasma 9.5

    180+vat for 125ft plasma 9.5

    130+vat for 100ft budget 11mm

    100+vat for 100ft budget 10mm

    Cannot decide :(

  3. Don't forget, if you load more rope on there, you have to unload more in order to get the full pulling strength. Don't know the exact details, but a half-full winch isn't going to pull the same as one with just a few coils round.

    this is a major consideration, but going thinner somewhat cancels out going longer!

    Sam, we've got bigger ends on our winches which helps but you can fit 125 on something like a tds - however you do need to spool it on carefully.

    thanks gordon, i think on that basis i will only consider 125ft @ 9.5mm

    I did the entire RFC on 1 9.5 mm plasma rope, with a PTO winch. 10 days of hard off road and stupid hard winching more times than I care to remember, We cleaned and re spooled the winch rope every evening to make it last; The life of your rope is very much depending on this, and things like abrasion on rocks, past trees, double lining over a shackle are all going to reduce the life of your rope to hours.

    We now run 11mm, as the speed of our winch has increased by a factor 4 and we went from a roller fairlead to a hawse style fairlead. This has reduced life of the cable unfortunately. But I would happily use 100 ft of 9.5 mm on a 9.5k low line. In fact, I still run it on our rear ep9. Plasma rope rules in my opinion.

    I always buy 2 ropes, one as an extension with a loop spliced in the end, which also is a spare. For Russia we used winch webbing as extension, this is very compact to store. We had 3 x 190 foot and 2x 95 foot of extension. The lengths are based on 100 ft (as is on the winch) -5 ft, so you can pick over to the next extension with a few wraps round the winch drum.

    Daan

    thanks for that great reply daan

    good to hear that you rate 9.5mm, and particularly plasma at that

    i think if i do choose a 125ft option i will see how it fares on the drum, if it gets too tight i'll just have to shorten it and learn the hard way

    i treat my rope with respect, it gets a good wash out after every day of use, and do try to avoid abrasion where possible, but of course its not always that easy :P

    im trying to figure out your -5ft theory, sounds very clever but i cant quite grasp the thinking, would love to hear more on that

    190ft extension btw?!?!?! awesome :D

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