New battery in July, mine has the jumper cable from the alternator to the battery. It is all good, just the starter getting lazy. If this proves not to sort the problem out in the longer term, then I think it is the solenoid, just given the symptoms. We shall see. I have to say though, with 28 Landrovers, Range Rovers and Discoveries under my belt since 1976, this is the first one ever I have had to even think about looking at a (possible) dodgey starter.

Well today all I've done is empty an awful lot of rubbish out of it (sweet wrappers, empty Monster energy drink cans, chocolate wrappers, etc) and take a couple of photos. However, since Friday morning I've driven it and filled the LPG tank lots of times. In the last week and a bit I've opened the bonnet twice, once after my first 1600 miles to see if the coolant or oil levels had dropped, which they hadn't, and again this morning to check the same thing and they still haven't.

Killed lots of bugs in the meantime though.....

Replaced the LPG filler cap mine seemingly disappeared it must of fallen out the last time I filled up..

Also trimmed the bumper a tad to allow the exhaust to fit it a bit better!

Yesterday, finally reinstalled the rear soundproofing and carpets having dried it out (MOT is due in October so didn't want it to be empty for that - checked diff oil and transfer fluid and levels/greased props last weekend), and had another look at the rear seat positioning and seat-back latching arrangements which were a bit intermittent in terms of actually working.

What have i done to my Rangie? Well today i found a great big crack running up the exhaustfrom the centre box to the rear. So I have ordered a fall replacement for that minus the centre box. Not gonna have one.
Yesterday I replaced the front anti roll bar drop links. That was a fun job. I just need to finish that by replacing the polyurethane bushes. Can't do that as the bolts are rusted on. So I'll be spending the next few days spraying those with wd40 and attacking them with the wire brush to hopefully loosen them. I also replaced the tailgate straps which was a nice simple job.
I need to find a black rear bumper one day as well. Someone decided hitting us in the right rear quarter was a good thing to do. Right now though funds are gone due to the exhaust. Yay.

So the to do list is growing. Which would be a strange thing if it wasn't with these cars.

I am putting back together the dash ... which means sorting the cables .... and checking out the rear window regulator or motor, that it has never worked (what a PITA job on a P38!) ... I left all the leather dash/center console parts for one of my regular suppliers to do some magic ... and I will soon re-start with the wiring for the aux battery. Photos? Soon!
After more than an year, I really want to put the RRP38 back on the road, I am becoming obsessed ... :-/

Yep, it is going to be a new starter. Starting to get to the stage of not starting more often than starting. It is either the contacts in the solenoid, or the brushes, and I now thing the latter. On the occasions when you turn the key and it doesn’t jump in, you can clearly hear the solenoid slamming the pinion forward, but the starter doesn’t turn. I have now discovered, If I hold the key in the start position on these occasions, the starter will slowly start to turn after a say a second or two and then race up to speed.

When it operates “normally” it still feels like the starter is giving a real grunt to try to get over the first compression.I’ll change it out and recondition the old one for a spare, I have found a source of brushes locally.

Refitted the front grill. Replaced the roof rails. Changed a bulb in the dash.
Sorted out fully comp insurance and unsorned the car. The car has been sorned for 6 months.
Road tested the car around Cheshire's leafy lanes. MOT booked for tomorrow afternoon.
Stress level up to a 7 or 8 at the moment.

It'll pass

Car passed it's MOT. No advisories. Stress level down to 3 to 4.
Back home now. Door bell rang and Amazon delivered bottle of whisky (early). Stress level now down to 1 to 2.

Drove it in endless circles at work... events field, office, events field, office
She didn't complain. Much nicer than a Gator!

Today, went to the shops in it and opened the bonnet. Coolant level, not dropped, oil level, not dropped, closed the bonnet again.

However, on Thursday, I drove it to Dover, got on a ferry and found I'm not the only nutter that drives to the Continent in what some consider to be one of the most unreliable vehicles you can buy. Drove off the ferry to find myself 3 cars behind a Classic (M900 something, don't remember the rest). Fully loaded, roof rack with a pair of spare wheels, small box trailer piled high and the interior of the car full too. He headed off towards Lille while I was heading towards Paris so after a bit of light flashing and waving, we went our separate ways.

Friday, arrived at Morat's parents in rural, Central France, loaded a 1932 Austin 7 onto the Ifor Williams CT115 trailer I was dragging behind me and set off back towards Calais. Weather slowed progress a bit due to flooded roads around Paris (didn't bother me but everyone else seemed scared of puddles more than a couple of inches deep) but finally arrived at Calais to be told the weather had screwed up the ferry timetables so I had to wait a couple of hours for the next boat.

Saturday, took the Austin 7 up to North Yorkshire, dropped it off and headed back home again.

Looking here, https://rangerovers.pub/topic/1945-got-there, I hit 400,000 miles on the 21st August and I'm now up to this.......

If I carry on at this rate, I can hit half a million in about a year and a half......

Would love to show that picture to a load of loons on Landyzone! ;)

Great work!

Mine will be reliable .

One day.................................

Show it then..... Right Click and select either Copy or Copy Link Location. Difference between my P38 and their Defenders or Discos is I can cruise at 75-80 mph and get out 1,000 miles later needing nothing more than a coffee.

I drove her round a classic car show, as a works van/trailer towing vehicle. There weren't many exhibitors vehicles I'd have swapped for :)

The GEMS decided to throw a bunch of EAS and other sensor faults at me this morning, as I started it to go to the MOT place. Just found out it's passed though, which is nice. Much like Dave3d a few posts above, stress levels dropping to normal. Advisory on oil leak, will look at that in due course. In sympathy (probably) the Thor threw out an EAS fault as well, whilst out at work - timer relay out/in again sorted it for now. (Nanocom is with the local garage in the '97 as there is a tyre to look at as well and they might need it).

Pulled manifold and plenum off my parts engine. Took the injectors to a local place that does nothing but injector cleaning thinking it would be cheap. $35 USD / injector. FTFU, Sir. Cheaper to buy the upgraded injectors that clean the existing ones. Have those on order now.

Next paycheck I buy all my bushings and a press. My extra radius, panhard, etc are all ready to go. Impulse bought the front radius arm tool. Thankful I don't have to learn how to press bushings on my daily driver.

In closing, I've found a local place that will machine my heads for $200 - $250 each which includes everything. Not bad for big city prices. Knew the engine and didn't get excited about it.

After a complete shitstorm of random EAS faults regarding the FR solenoid not operating correctly..

I pulled the front height sensors "in the pissing rain" and checked them, they worked flawlessly throughout all their travel so happy with that, all the plugs were stellar aswell..

A quick blast with some Contact cleaner helped dislodge any crap...

My attention was then turned to the drive pack, I had already ordered one from a 4x4 bloke on Ebay CNSS 4x4 I believe, this required the valveblock to come out..

And what a ballache that is, the last LPG installer fitted the reducer around 1 inch from the EAS pipes, so the vape has to be removed.

All pipes out and the new drive pack installed..

I got 90% of the way though before I realised I hadn't plugged the cable in underneath the block, so the bastard thing came back out, all plugged in and pipes pushed in..

Started the mota and left my stopwatch running for 3mins

After 3mins I slammed the door and the car arose from the bump stops, which by now look like pancakes.

A quick testdrive was in order I gingerly took her up and down a duel carriageway hoping to not hear the dreaded "beep beep" of the car telling me it has yet another fault..

All was well..

even exiting a roundabout I had some twatty boy racer in a corsa come up the side of my on a roundabout and cut me up, the wanka..

A poke of the S and some right pedal saw the old P38 float past, amazing seeing that I was barely going past 3k and he must of been screaming the shizzzle out of his corsa, all done up it was too with 1/4 inch or ground clearance and KFC bucket rims.

Hopefully my EAS stays happy for a little while!

New fuel pump. Typical electric pump. They work and work until they don’t.

The old one just died. It had good fuel pressure too. Checked the new one, 40 psi, engine off, 37 psi at idle. I left the gauge connected and still reading 35 psi an hour later. I’ll take that as a sign of a reasonably sound system and no leaking injectors.

Sounds good to me. I've got a brand new one sitting in a box waiting to be fitted. There's nothing wrong with the one that is in there except with running on LPG and always keeping roughly 1/4 tank of petrol in there, it has worn out the gauge sender track at that point. One day it will read 1/4, another day a bit higher, sometimes empty, other times the dash will beep at me and say Fuel Gauge Fault and read nothing (presumably when it sees an open circuit). Problem is, I have no idea of exactly how much petrol is in the tank, it could be half full for all I know......