The good?
A major Land Rover parts supplier has opened in the Philippines.
The bad?
It's Britpart!
Marty was right on the money.
Took the sensor out (using the proctologist's hands) because that was the only way I could get any purchase on a very stuck plug, eventually parted it and gave everything a good blast with contact cleaner.
Reassemble and away she went. Fault cleared and happy Range Rover.
Thank you!
Thanks Marty, I'll strip it all out this morning and give things a good clean.
Is there any way to bench test it?
Brief history.
Car running fine. No faults on Nanocom check about three weeks ago.
Parked up for best part of two weeks. Battery dead. Charged up and can crank but no start.
Nano throws up 0340, cam position sensor fault.
Read RAVE which tells me that engine will run with this fault, but flat battery makes it forget where it was.
1) Is replacement the only solution? Of course, I have a spare crank sensor but not cam.
2) If an existing fault any idea why it didn't show previously on Nanocom?
Any input gratefully received before I go underneath in the morning.
Found this on another forum. A guy rebuilding a 3.5 for his Rover P5B.
http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/195083/rover-p5b-coupe?page=5
Great step-by-step stuff for those wanting to do most of the work themselves. Good write up and many pics.
Enjoy.
With mine, the box would "hang" if you like. It's like it wanted to change up but couldn't, and I'd have to lift off the throttle slightly to get it to do so. Cold or hot, traffic or no, although it was obviously more noticeable in Manila's notorious queues.
Having adjusted the cable as per RAVE, the changes were where and when they should be and no pedal lift-off was required.
Don't ask me what the deal is, I don't know, but the results were startling.
I found that tensioning the throttle cable exactly as per RAVE transformed the changes.
I was amazed the difference such a small input made.
Could that be the reason for the different characteristics?
Ferryman wrote:
But we had a good weekend in the sun.
The correct attitude to have!
I'm on a UK car forum and the amount of times I've read, "I wish you were nearer" as an excuse on For Sale threads is incredible. I mean, how big is the UK really?
Here, you don't work on distance, it sets up a false hope. You quickly learn to describe by time. As an example, when I bought mine, it was 13kms away from where I lived. It took between two and three hours either way every time I went over to the garage and deliver some paperwork, of which there was much.
I reckon I spent around 15 hours travelling, plus finally driving it home. The latter took four hours as they'd closed the busiest road in Manila, mid-morning on a Saturday, to do a spot of filming.
Anyone says to me, "How far", I answer in probable hours.
It stops people just dropping in!
Welcome to the board.
Sounds like someone saw your FIL coming!
I think I can safely say I'm not near Middlesbrough, but wished P38's were the same price!
Thanks guys.
The whole thing is moot at the moment. DOT 4 is apparently brewed from a rare form of Unobtainium which is only mined on Saturn, according to everyone here anyway.
Initial logic says no, but I'm not 100% sure why.
Where the motor is at the moment, level ground is at a premium, purely because of narrow streets, and she's parked thus...
However, I need to do a full bleed - if I ever find enough DOT4.
The more I think, it shouldn't make any real difference, we've got to get the air out anyway, slope or not.
Thoughts?
Mine's early '95 and the Nanocom tells me it's got 4-wheel TC?
On the modulator, assuming the bores are all okay, there's 7 o-rings in there, so I presume that fluid could get around ageing ones. From the initial bleeding problems I had, it looks like there's "high" and "low" pressure sections to the unit, so I assume dodgy rings could allow fluid to be diverted where it's not wanted.
This is purely from my experience, not factual knowledge, so could all be bullshit!
What I did notice though is that my brake light would take a while to go out and then it would flicker sometimes when braking - presume the pump was also operating on overtime, but I can't hear it from inside. Following the rebuild, the issue has gone away,
Smiler wrote:
Fixed! I try'd the earth but made no difference. I did however discover the cause of the clanging when shutting the door with the window open. As suspected the glass is wobbling about in one of the guides. In this case it's the forward guide. I'm guessing that there should be a nylon block of some sort clamped around the front edge of the glass.
There's a length of rubber that eventually falls off and will be found lurking in the bottom of the door.
Hope the engine turns out okay.
Gilbertd wrote:
Nice one. You probably don't have to deal with rusted bits like we do in the UK, I've always had to get the angle grinder out for the nuts on the drop links.
This is the biggest difference I've come across, nothing is rusted up. All the jobs I've done have been so much easier than at home. Drop links took around 15 minutes and gave up without a fight, and on the job I've just done, every brake union and bleed nipple were easy to crack with a light tap with the heel of the hand. It really does make working a pleasure.
Saves money on an angle grinder as well so you can invest in highly expensive DOT 4 fluid instead!
Good work!
aero wrote:
Oh and as an aside, the order I mentioned a couple of posts back that I placed on March 29 ~10.30am Manila time, arrived March 31 ~3.30pm. That's from ordering to order preparation and shipping from the UK to my Philippine doorstep. Must be some sort of record.
I normally expect 3-5 days form the likes of Rimmers, Island, etc but if we're looking at records...
The brake hoses I'd waited so long for took 42 days to get from Manila International Airport to the Central Post Office, via PHLPost. A whole 11kms!
Success!
We haz brakes. Not as good as I'd like but commensurate with the amount of DOT4 available to me (3.5L - it's hard to find here) so she will stop and it'll do for the short trip from one abode to another tomorrow morning. When I source more fluid, I'll re-do the bleed.
Thanks again Gilbertd, you are officially my current hero!
Give that man a coconut!
Obviously something missing from RAVE; "Wiggle the fork" and guess what? Fluid from the nipple. Praise the Lord it's a miracle.
Don't know about the rest yet as I've come upstairs for a re-hydrate, but I'll be heading down shortly.
Cheers Buddy, you're a life saver!