So this place is becoming a sort of safe haven then. I like the idea.
Well today was a dry day so I had a look under the top finisher, is seems someone had been here before me with a kitgun.
In the post Sloth pointed at was a hole aswell, now I see that there has to be a notch that holds the finisher-clip.
This could be the culprit too, also the kit that holds the screen looked like it could leak.
I cutted out all excessive kit with a Stanleyknife and filled the windowtop and cracks again with Sikaflex.
Let's hope it stays dry inside now (c'mon let it rain).
What annoyed me most is the ferries to Texel have stopped their service.
Bunch of sissy's.
Gilbertd wrote:
Have you got the storm in Holland too Tony?
Yes, force 10 for tonight. The road (dike) Enkhuizen-Lelystad is closed due to overcoming water, several lorries on their side, trees on cars etc.
But all the tiles still on the house!
And a leaky P38 roof. But I saw the post I was pointed at, that might well be the case, where the top finisher of the frontscreen meets the roofrail there is a suspected weld (spotweld) and maybe a pinhole just under the finisher.
It is not the roofrail itself, they are attached by clips and not bolts going through the roof. Took me some time to find out how to undo it but google is your friend.
Yes, just a seconds hiss. Outside in today's storm you won't notice it.
First you need to store the picture at a host like photobucket or similar. Then you copy the photoadress, write your post, click the 'image' button (5th from left in topbar) and paste the picture adress into the line.
That will show your picture here.
davew wrote:
as it is equivalent to one pint a mile
That mile must take him at least half an hour then.
On the other hand, I can do a pint in less than 5 minutes, not moving at all!
Oh well, I thought I'd say something nice about the P38...
You're not too picky at all Dave but not everyone is inclined enough to translate codes into action to be done so that should be useless. At least it told me it was a bulb in front and I am sane enough to know that I pushed the stalk down on that moment so it must be a bulb left front (after a flashy resumee of my own brains).
Yesterday I had a blown indicator bulb, nothing shocking. The audible indicator sounded the fast click-click-click as we know from regular indicators when a bulb has blown and the message 'blown bulb' showed.
Looking outside which one it was I saw the remaining good bulbs were flashing the normal pulses per minute, as obligatory by law. Pretty sophisticated that central brain of ours!
Looking closer at the picture it seems to me that after the bearing had walked out the fan pulled the shaft forward and the belt pulled the shaft up, noting the scratches arrowed.
The impeller turns (in this picture) clockwise, that way the blades are bent too. Just lucky there is no more damage to the frontcover.
I have the same problem, some times more than the other. Last week left-front lost 1 bar overnight, time to visit the shop.
They charge 18 euros per wheel included balancing.
Orangebean wrote:
I'm finding I'm losing around 5psi/ week from all of my tyres on both cars though. Strange...
Sounds familiar, don't blame the weather.
It's corrosion on the rim-shoulders. Take tire from the wheel, wirebrush the wheel shoulders where the tyre should be airtight.
Refit tyre. Or have a Kwikfit do it for you.
WC scenario: steel impeller got loose from the shaft and got stuck, given the play on the shaft Richard says. (oh oh, frontcover!).
I just 'borrowed' these two pics from Paul's P38A valveblock guide. Are these the buggers we are talking about?
Give a ring at Dunlop for spares?
As you say Richard, strange there was no warning in terms of screeching or so, if it's the bearing. Or the impeller got stuck (how, by means of what?).
Try to resume when the pump is off, very curious about it.
davew wrote:
Guess you could tie-wrap it in on the plastic ones but I now will stick to (lubricated) metal !
That's what I did, drilled two little holes where the outercable runs underneath and tie-wrapped it up so the outercable cannot fall outof the slot. (did it both sides)
Morat wrote:
The gauge on the dash showed 1 degree pretty much all the way and my feet had nearly fallen off by the time I got to the hotel.
Is this part of the service of this particular repairshop? Great!
Thanks Clive for this explanation.
Clive603 wrote:
but the usual industrial rated way of doing things would have been too expensive so i imagine the engineers had to work hard to get the price down to something reasonable. Those sort of compromises tend to bite after 10 or 15 years.
Reasonable? The LR price for RVH100030 (valveblock only) is €1450.- ex VAT
One might expect something for that money.
Aha, is this a result of O rings totally worn out so the brass parts getting hit, I mean servicing too late?