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Using my limited knowledge, if you've only got one socket, you won't be able to do it. If you've only got one socket, then it's designed for the lights on your trailer or similar. To tap power off of this you would need to leave some sort of lights on in the car. (Lights/Fog/Reverse etc...) This would take out your battery quicker than any tent lighting would. If on the other hand you have 2 sockets by your tow ball, then you can do it. The one you don't plug your trailer lights into will have constant power running to it. At worst there might be a switch in the back to turn it on and off but you wont need to leave any of the car electrics on to use it. Not even the ignition. As far as power consumption goes, def find some suitable LED lights. But to be perfectly honest, decent LED lights use SO little power C or D cell batteries will last days with no worries about screwing with the wiring. Please, if anyone knows better, correct me. I have only the basic understanding of trailer and caravan wiring. Hope this helps.

It's just as bad the other way around. The inner-city super-mini brigade at work spent the last year having a go about my "Chelsea tractor" until Monday. Now all they moan about is being stuck behind some 4x4 that was ONLY doing 25mph..... "..you people buy those 4x4's, drive them around all summer destroying the earth and then when you can use them properly you drive all slow, it's because you don't know how to drive them....." ...... .........(Punch!)...... Final straw for me...... didn't like him or the job anyway!

Hi, I’m not sure about any of the MOT side of things, but I brought a 90 a few years back with a 3.9 EFi out of a rangie dropped in. I had loads of probs with the bugger over fueling. New plugs would blacken and stall the engine within 10 miles. Had Land rover specialists look over it, plug it in but couldn't find a single problem, the computer just said "Everything’s OK- Now naff off!!" So bit the bullet bought some carbs and did the conversion in a weekend. Yes the rangi is supposed to do 12-15 mpg and the carbs ended up getting 12mpg on a good day, but that was better than having to stop every 10 miles, remove all 8 plugs and wire brush them clean!!!!!! Now I didn't find it too hard! Needed to get a standard 90 fuel tank pump and all the relevant valley gaskets but other than that it was easy. It took me longer to get the bodged wiring loom out the car than the carbs on. I assume you can just leave the wiring in the rangie, just unplug the injection system as it comes out the engine bay. Now there was is one snag, the standard 3.5 litre needles in the carbs don't seam to fuel the 3.9 much over 4000rpm. But a little chasing around found me speaking to a Morgan racing team engineer who had raced a 3.9 on twin SU carbs, He gave me the 3 letter code for the needles he had spent ages working out. £12.50 or so later and a 2 minute job and the beasty was revving to 6000rpm no prob. The only thing is I posted a question on hear a while ago trying to find out what needles I’d used, I sold the landi a couple of years ago and gave all the paperwork with it. I can't find anywhere that can help me and there are about 60 odd different needle codes to choose from. I'm doing the same conversion to a project at the moment. I've got all the bits and i'm looking into a 110 in tank fuel pump fitting the rangi tank. I'm still hunting down the needles! If your going to do it, then all I’d say is make sure you've got a load of water hose and get a land rover inlet manifold, there are a few different types about, mainly differences in the water flow/pipes. They'll all work just you'll need to muck around with the hoses! Find a friendly v8 owner and take lots of pictures of their engine bay, so you know where each water hose needs to go. I was lucky enough to have my dad's 110 v8 parked next to me on the drive!! Yes I understand what the guy's are saying about the injection.........but there's just something pleasing about the carbs! Plus when the balloon goes up, all hell breaks loose and the world plunges into a Mad Max style free for all, you guys will be looking for solar panels to charge your laptops while we'll be siphoning your fuel tanks........ :lol: :ph34r:

Hi, this is my first post so please don't beat me too hard if I’ve done this wrong or it's ended up in the wrong place!!! I've been a member for a while and have been trawling through all the info on here, it’s been a great help, but I’ve got stumped. I can’t find anyone that’s carbed up 3.9! A little history, my first landy was a white 90 CSW with a 3.9EFI chopped in from a rangie. Loved it! But not long after getting it the ecu and everything I touch with the EFI system died. Had it looked at by the professionals (not the TV series) and they confirmed that they couldn’t work on it and the lot needed replacing. The person that fitted it had bodged it big time and in my haste to get a landy I had neglected to check everything properly. With my limited funds I sourced a pair of SU’s and a manifold. I think the manifold was off a SD1 because I had to make my own throttle linkage. Everything was great and got it running smooth, until about 3500-4000rpm when it suddenly had no guts. A few questions and long chats with people I spoke to some Morgan V8 specialist who gave me the 3 letter code for some metering needles, £20 later and Everything was ok. It went like stink and was still getting about 12 mpg. Role on 4 years to now and the white beasty got chopped in for a grand Cherokee (I know, I know…..but the wife with nipper made me do it!) But I find my self in the same situation. A friend and I have brought a RRC 3.9EFI with 66k miles for £300! The body was knackered but the running gear and chassis was sound. It’s midway through an odd conversion, we’re putting defender front on, a long pickup tub on the back but in the middle we’re building our own role cage/ frame high sills with no doors and leaving the whole range rover dash and bulk head. But as this is a toy and will be used on high days and holidays only, the efi systems going. We want to be able to tinker and fix with out the need of a laptop. I know how these clockwork things are seen in here, but it’s what would best suit us. Finally to the point…… I’ve lost all record of what needles I used, I can’t find the guy who knew the guy, who knew the guy, who I asked and the guy at the jeep dealership who naughtily brought my landy off me, did a strange disappearing act from the company a few days after I picked the Jeep up. So I’m throwing the question wide to anyone who may have put su carbs onto a 3.9 or anyone who may know what would be the best needles to use. So far all I’ve got is (BAF) , (BAK) and (BGC) where all used on the 3.5 and some people have used (BBW) when tuning their 3.5. Any help, info or phone numbers would be great. And I hope to up load some build photos soon……( so you can all laugh and point!) Many Thanks and please be kind!