When I picked my bottom end up, along with a set of studs, from V8 Developments, I asked what I should torque them to and was told 80-85 Nm. That meant nothing to me until I converted it to lb/ft (being an old bugger) and it seemed a bit on the low side. Hence setting on 65lb/ft (88 Nm) as that was the same as I'd used on similar alloy engines. With the stretch bolts it is like attaching the heads with a big spring, the bolts are always under tension hence the difficulty in getting them out.

RH side will most likely be the output shaft seal on the gearbox. Fairly easy to change with the transfer box off and that is a job that is either fairly straightforward or a real pain. Definitely a two man job though, it's heavy.

From your description I can't quite work out where it is dripping from. The Tee in the exhaust is further back, nearer the front of the rear prop. Is it coming from the front of the transfer case/rear of the gearbox or is it from one of the output flanges? In any case it isn't a gearbox out job, transfer case off maybe but if from an output flange the seals can be changed with the T case in place.

After all that work it seems a shame not to get some use out of it but, with an offer like that, only an idiot would refuse. Interesting that the same dealer has a 2001 Vogue up for £24k, despite it having the book showing on the HEVAC.......

Pink should have power on it to the solenoid, Green/Red has a ground from the RH door latch which goes to one side of the pushbutton, the other side of the pushbutton goes to the solenoid. Tailgate will only open when the RH front door is unlocked as that supplies the ground. There's no way to get the solenoid to operate from outside as the wiring goes via the pushbutton which you can't get to. Usual problem is the pushbutton spring rusts which prevents you from being able to push it in far enough to operate the switch, which would explain the intermittent operating. Jabbing on it with your finger can often move it far enough for it to open.

If you can't do it that way, get in the boot, pull the flap down at the bottom so you can get at the 3 quarter turn screws that hold the inner panel on the lower tailgate. Pull that out (you'll need to bend it to get it out but it is possible), then you can manually operate the solenoid and, once open, you can take the pushbutton out and take it apart. If the spring has rusted it's pretty obvious.

Sorting out the Vogue I half own had a similar leak. Took the throttle body heater off and it all appeared fine but resealed it anyway. Put it back together and the leak was worse. The ends of the hose had started to perish so the constant tension clips were no longer doing anything. Trimmed the ends off the pipes and refitted, leak sorted.

Cubby box cup holder was standard on higher spec ones and an option on others. Exhausts seemed to be whatever they had laying around at the time.

If anyone has the full version of Microcat, it should show what options were fitted from the VIN but doesn't always.

DVLA docs are often wrong, it all depends what whoever registered it put it down as. Someone recently said that all the later high spec ones were badged as Vogue rather than HSE, but not sure how true this is. Specs seemed to change every year anyway. I have a feeling that running boards weren't standard on any but an option although that may not be correct. The problem is that you could ask for options to be added when you ordered a car so an HSE could be the same as a Vogue in all but badge if someone asked for the additional bits.

So did I, re-trimmed?

That's right, you'll have nothing to plug them into. It might be a good idea to short out the plugs, you don't really want a couple of dangling plugs attached to small explosive charges floating around under the seats.....

Yes they are, all door cards will will all years. I know what you mean by the tabs pulling out of the cards. Over half of them had pulled out on a couple of the door panels on my Ascot. I ground the heads down on some self tappers and screwed them into the cards (with a dollop of Araldite to keep them in) to use instead of the original plastic tabs. The cream interior is Lightstone Beige but I don't think it changed over the years. The main difference with interiors is the post 1999 cars had airbags in the seats but the earlier ones didn't. There's 3 bar seats, 5 bar seats and Oxford leather (which are very comfortable) but all are interchangeable.

God No, think of the methane, it's worse than CO2......

When I worked for BT many, many years ago there was an installer called Eric who was well known as a walking disaster area. His job was to install and connect phones in houses. One woman said she wanted a wall phone rather than the normal desk phone and pointed to where she wanted it. Eric bent down and plugged his power drill into a convenient socket and started drilling the mounting holes for the phone bracket directly above the mains socket. One big bang later he realised he'd drilled through the capping and the mains cable buried in the wall feeding the power point he'd just plugged his drill into. He was the same guy that cut off the heating to a whole street too. A new estate had a district heating system, a boiler house on the edge of the estate, feeding hot water to every house on the estate. Eric was drilling a hole in a partition wall to run a cable in when the wall around the hole started to change colour. He realised something wasn't quite right so stopped drilling and pulled the drill out of the hole for it to be followed by a jet of scalding hot water. He'd drilled through a central heating pipe running inside the partition wall. Unfortunately, nobody had thought to install a means of shutting off the supply to individual houses, so the whole street had to be shut off and the partition wall cut open to repair the holed pipe.......

ELCB or RCD will trip if Neutral and Earth are connected. Not sure if you have the same in Ireland as in the UK where the trips on each circuit only cut the live supply or if you use the European system where they break both live and neutral. With the UK system you can switch off a circuit to do some work but still trip out the whole house by earthing the Neutral as they are both still connected. Great fun if you are working on a consumer unit in a cupboard under the stairs and you turn all the lights off.....

As yours is doing it with brand new reducers, apparently it does.

Simon will probably confirm but some LPG reducers do that if certain conditions are met. It's the diaphragm hitting resonance.

Welcome, that makes two of you. Most of us here have the older P38 but you're welcome to join in the banter, you just might not find much help if you have a problem. You might find this thread of interest https://rangerovers.pub/topic/2247-2007-supercharged-l322-project-thread

Shouldn't matter, GEMS and Bosch Motronic both have knock sensors. Might be worth running it on 98/99 Octane petrol (or 112 Octane LPG) to get the best out of it.....

I agree, it did go off at a bit of a tangent but I knew what you were doing. It's made me start thinking of going the other way. Keeping my 4.0 litre pistons (in my top hatted 4.0 litre block) and putting a 4.6 crank and rods in. Running on LPG the higher compression could be used without any danger of pre-ignition.

The 4.6 has a stroke of 82mm and rods that are 149.7mm so from crank centreline to TDC is 190.7mm, whereas the 4.0 litre has a stroke of 71mm and rods that are 155.2mm which, as you would expect, gives a crank centreline to TDC figure of 190.7mm so the blocks are identical and obviously the piston pin to top of the piston has to be the same. The difference is that the dish in the top of the piston is smaller on the 4.0 litre so the compression will be higher.

I currently have a set of Vredestein Quatrac 5 tyres on my car and have been very happy with them but they are getting towards the end of their life so I figured I would get another set. As I have the 7"x16" poverty spec wheels, I need 235/70x16 tyres but when I checked oponeo.co.uk where the last set came from, they were shown as out of stock. None of the other online suppliers listed them but I have read elsewhere that certain tyre brands and sizes are in short supply at the moment with a combination of Brexit and Covid being blamed. So I emailed Vredestein to ask if this was a temporary problem and when would they expect to have them back in stock, only to be told that the size I want has been discontinued. They are still doing them in other sizes but I'd rather stick with standard and the alternative all season tyre, the Quatrac Pro, is only available in 17 and 18 inch.

The closest equivalent I can find is the Kleber Citilander which is available in the size I want, has the same C, C, 70dB rating and the 3 peaks marking that I need. I seem to recall a similar discussion a couple of years ago when they were mentioned but did anyone buy them? If so, what are they like?