Bought the Laser Tools bush removal and replacement kit as I didn't want to mess around making the bits.

Guess what.

No tapered installation compressor and no mention of one being needed. Just squeeze it straight in according to the Ikea style picture instructions. Great! So I'm still in for making one once I find out what the proper taper sizes are. Be surprised if you can get much more than 6 ton force out of the dinky threaded rod through the middle. Says threaded rod and nuts are a consumable part. Yeah about one per bush I reckon.

Not that any car stuff is going to get done this month as I put my back out (again) last Wednesday making up the guest bed. Standing around at a machine sort of OK from Monday, sitting up still not good but off to Horsham tomorrow to pick up my air tank and see if the man still has a badge for Mark and will part with it sans tailgate. Says he has a BRC gas set-up from a P38 for under £400. Grab, look over careful like or run?

Clive

Clive603 wrote:

Says he has a BRC gas set-up from a P38 for under £400. Grab, look over careful like or run?

Run, at £400 anyway, you could buy new for not much more (and something a little more user friendly than BRC). At half the price it might be worth a punt but bear in mind that a tank will be dated and has a certified life of 10 years. Admittedly, if in the spare wheel well and protected from the elements it should still be fine but if you, or your insurance company, decide it needs to be checked and certified, it'll fail on an out of date tank.

Gilbertd wrote:

Run, at £400 anyway, you could buy new for not much more (and something a little more user friendly than BRC). <

About what I thought. New tank and gas lines being pretty much given unless it were only a year or three old. But if all the rest was quality kit and properly installed it looked to be saving a fair bit of work with all the pesky details needed to get an install right. So much easier to modify out the "cable-tie" level stuff on an existing install than do a clean sheet of paper one myself. But if its just another so-so set-up the effort isn't worth it.

Clive

When i did my bushes the 30ton press readout never showed more than 5 ton pressure to get the old bush out and no more than 3 ton to get the new one in. (Genuine Land Rover parts...)

P38 Range
Nice to know that I'm not going to have any pressure problems when I'm finally fit enough to the job. Looking like next year as I did my back good and proper this time. Spasmed and tore things inside the muscles. Just thankful that it didn't do a disk in.

Gilbertd
That BRC LPG set up the guy at Horsham had was a neatly done installation and he was selling everything manifold, wiring et al all hooked up. About 8 years old tho' so of no interest to me. He said he'd had same on a P38 before and it all went well. Not that worried about selling it due to considering going back to a P38 from an L322 TD6 should the right deals come up.

Clive