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From my presence on LPGForum.co.uk, I know an LPG system in Oz costs a lot more than here so it will take much longer to save the initial outlay. A decent quality multipoint here will cost around £1500 to install, about half that if you buy the component parts and install it yourself but obviously, either way, you need to do the mileage to make it worthwhile. Or, you buy a car already converted, purchase price will be no different, somebody else has taken the hit on installation costs and you're into an immediate saving.

StrangeRovers 14mpg doesn't appear brilliant but with the price difference in fuels his cost equivalent price against running on petrol still makes his car cheaper to run than your 21mpg. Coupled with the fact that from my point of view, running LPG allows many European countries to categorise me the same as a hybrid for their low emission zones is a definite bonus and the cleaner burning fuel results in less wear in the engine too. What's not to like?

I'm paying 58p a litre compared with supermarket petrol at £1.10 a litre, or filling station petrol at £1.16 - £1.20 a litre, so half the price. So 14mpg on LPG gives the cost equivalent of 28mpg if I was running on petrol, about the same, if not less, than running a diesel.

Dunno on a Thor, on a GEMS it's on top of the LH shock mount. It's got a hose from the charcoal canister and another to the inlet manifold.

I've also had a very intermittent occurrence with mine where it would start as normal but not want to rev. After 20 or 30 seconds it would clear and run normally or if I switched off and restarted it would run normally too. I put that down to the purge valve sticking open and flooding the manifold with petrol vapour. As said though, it only did it very occasionally and hasn't done it now for a couple of years.

As Symes says' it could also be LPG leaking into the manifold so you have a very rich mixture when initially started. Try switching to petrol for the last half mile of the journey to use up any remaining LPG in the system.

The distribution quadrant is stiff compared to the others. The others are just moving a single flap and not at least 3 like the distribution flaps so it's going to be stiffer. Just how stiff is too stiff is a different matter though. There's a bodgers method of freeing them without taking the whole heater box out and stripping it down in post 25 here https://www.rangerovers.net/threads/photos-of-method-for-freeing-blend-flaps-with-s-t-screw.14322/page-2 (click on the thumbnail picture to see all of them).

The codes may have something to do with it. On a cold start the fuelling will be open loop initially to give time for the lambda sensors to heat up and start giving an output. It could be that the mixture is so far out that it doesn't want to run right. Have you tried resetting the adaptive values?

As Paul says, yes you can. As long as the instrument cluster is connected you won't offend anything.

Doesn't look too out of place either

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I've got international breakdown cover, although I've never had to use it, but the last thing I want is to be sitting at the side of a motorway 1,000+ miles from home with a car that won't go for the lack of something I could easily carry with me. The starter because you can't tow or push start an auto so everything can be fine but if the starter has died, you ain't going anywhere. Same with the alternator, a lack of electrics and again, you are stuck. Coils fail without warning (as do crank position sensors and there's one of those in there too but I forgot to mention it). If I can't fix it at the side of the road a breakdown man wouldn't be able to either, but he would take me to a garage where I'd probably be waiting days for parts to be found and got to me.

Kenwood KDC-BT950DAB, https://kenwood-electronics.co.uk/car/rec/dab/KDC-BT950DAB/, I've got the predecessor to it and colour 18 is a perfect match for the HEVAC. The display is also dimmable at night time.

My cover has been cut into three pieces (not by me, it was like that when I got it). Once lengthways (front to back of the car) down the centre, so the right side stays put, then the left side has been cut in half crossways so I have a quarter size hatch that I can lift out to get to the stuff that is under there. There's a length of timber screwed to the underside of the right hand half for the two left hand halves to sit on so it is all flush when closed up.

It fits in between the steering wheel controls and the aftermarket head unit and has been used by a number of people with great success. It converts the ladder resistor network used on older cars like the P38 and others of similar vintage to the data signal that a newer head unit needs. I think you have to program it in some way depending on what brand of head unit you are fitting.

You'll get a lot more in there that that. I've got the main bit full of LPG tank but in the space next to it where the polystyrene thing would have gone originally I've got some lengths of assorted sizes of heater hose, a set of spark plugs, a bag of assorted sized nuts and bolts, a set of ignition coils with leads, a bag containing the EAS emergency kit (Schrader valves, pipe joiners and lengths of pipe), a bag of assorted size jubilee clips, a spare serpentine belt, a starter motor, an alternator, a brake accumulator, my warning triangle, two tow ropes and a pair of heavy duty gloves.

I can't remember if the brake lights are separate 21W bulbs or if they are dual, stop/tail lights. If the former, you need https://autobeam.co.uk/collections/led-rear/products/led-382-rear-brake-unit-high-resistance (the same ones for the rear fog light) if the latter you'd need https://autobeam.co.uk/collections/led-rear/products/led-380-high-resistance-rear-brake-unit. Number plate lights are normal 5W push in, so they need to be https://autobeam.co.uk/collections/led-number-plate/products/led-number-plate-lights while the high level brake light will need 5 of these https://autobeam.co.uk/collections/led-rear/products/led-580-rear-brake-unit (assuming they will fit, they look like they may be too tall).

Are you sure they are going to work and not give you blown bulb messages due to the lower current draw?

Sounds like the motor is weak or the flap is stiff then. If you can move the quadrant by hand from end to end that should be OK but bear in mind that the quadrant drives two cogs, one at the top and one at the front as well as a lever at the back. The blend motors are fairly easy to take apart and I've got one working again by spraying contact cleaner into the motor and hitting it with 12V in both directions so it drove both ways. With the lid off, the motor has two tabs that slot it onto the circuit board so it pulls out. When you put it back together, note that the main cog that drives the quadrant has an arrow on it as does the cog on the pot, they need to be lined up (a bit like timing marks).

When you first turn the ignition on and it does it's self test, you said the motor moves when dangling on it's cable but does it still move when attached to the flaps? I think you said it does. In which case, it is a lack of feedback so while it is moving the HEVAC isn't aware it is moving so thinks it has stalled.