It still does, I've left them on as a sort of testament to it's history. They are known as Spray Stoppers and are like doormats on the inside. The only other thing I've removed is the reflective strips down the A pillars and an awful lot of spurious, unused wiring hidden away above the headlining and behind the dash. This is what it looks like now
and this is what it looked like 20 years ago. No reflective strips down the A pillars so they must have been added at a later date.
No she didn't, she met the requirements and those results are what I would expect to see running and being tested on petrol. HC figure is very good at 10 parts per million with a limit of 200 so you aren't burning any oil and petrol combustion is complete as it is a reading of the unburnt hydrocarbons in the exhaust. CO figure is normal and corresponds with the lambda showing it is running very slightly rich.
However, get it running properly on LPG and you'll see a much lower CO figure. Only downside is when things get really bad you can't commit suicide by running a hose from the exhaust because there's insufficient Carbon Monoxide to kill yourself with......
I would think by now he's got over it, but a guy at work posted a link to an article on a medical website written by a GP who has had it. You need to register to read it so I'll post the text here. It should be comforting to any who has either got it or thinks they might have it. At the end of the day, it's another strain of flu, OK it's a rapidly spreading, pretty nasty strain but is still just flu, and is only of concern to those with underlying medical problems.
As a GP who's overcome coronavirus, here's what I want you to know
16 March 2020
Dr Clare Gerada
The only souvenir I thought I’d brought back from my recent trip to a conference in New York was a fridge magnet of the Statue of Liberty. Barely two days later, I realised I’d brought a lot more.
Tucked somewhere in my body was developing Covid-19, which began to show itself a few days after arriving back in the UK. The symptoms merged in with jet lag - tiredness, headache and feeling ‘out of it’.
The dry cough I put down to the long flight home and the effects of rebreathing cabin air. What I couldn’t dismiss, however, was the temperature – which was now above 102 degrees F. My coronavirus experience had started.
Over the next five days, I lived through this nasty illness, wishing it away but never feeling that it would finish me off. Soon after I started becoming unwell, I contacted 111 and went to a testing pod to have swabs taken. Then, I returned to bed, and that is where I stayed for days, rising only to use the bathroom.
The symptoms are as we have been told. Flu-like, with a temperature, dry cough and sore throat. I also had a vice-like headache, muscular chest pain from coughing, rigours and, when I did get out of bed, dizziness.
Five days into the illness, almost in the same order, the symptoms disappeared, leaving only an odd metallic taste in my mouth, nasal mucosal ulcers and intense fatigue. I didn’t need any heroic medicines or interventions.
Despite now being on the ‘other side’ of youth, I have no underlying health conditions and two paracetamol three times a day and lemonade was all I needed. I had God’s penicillin - chicken soup - which seemed to have a miraculous effect of bringing back my appetite.
I’m glad I’ve had it early, as I’m more than likely immune, and can now help my colleagues
My husband practised social distancing - we communicated via mobile phone and he wore the only protection he had – for his face that is - a Chelsea football scarf.
So, my experience. It was the worst illness I’ve ever had. Saying this, I have little to compare this with as other than childbirth (which isn’t an illness). I’m rarely unwell – have had the flu once, dental pain, and fractures over the years, but nothing more. It was painful, and frightening – the fear not because I thought I would die, but because being unwell is just that, frightening.
I’m glad I’ve had it early, as I’m more than likely immune, and can now help my colleagues.
What advice would I give, going forward?
Firstly, each family needs a plan as to what to do when we get sick. This should include calling each other regularly. Someone who is low risk might be a designated carer, to be with the sick person (even if covered by a mask and more than two metres away). This is better than being alone.
Secondly, remember that most people will be fine, even if infected. Our role as GPs is to help those who need more help to get it. We are good at this.
And finally, as GPs, we are crucial in calming the nervous brows of patients and communities.
I’m now out the other end, and very glad that very soon I’ll be back at work and helping my colleagues with the heavy lifting created by this crisis.
Dr Clare Gerada is the former chair of the RCGP, the co-chair of the NHS Assembly and a GP in Lambeth
Sometimes you can cure it with a CD cleaner disc (if you can still buy them?), sometimes it is more serious. Usual cause of faults in any older electronics is failed electrolytic capacitors (they dry out and the stated capacity drops). If you fancy pulling it out and replacing the caps you may be able to bring it back to life.
Depends on what else uses the 315 MHz frequency in the US and Canada. 433 MHz is a Europe wide allocation, and adopted in numerous other countries as well, that is used for 'momentarily operated short range devices' so there's loads of other things using it. If 315 is the US equivalent then the same sort of things will be using it.
I visited RPi once and would never believe anything they told me ever again. It doesn't tally with what the overhaul manual says either.
I've just lost the dining table...... Dina had yesterday and today booked as holiday but got a message from her boss last night. Pinched the P38 to go to the office earlier today and came back with office chair, monitor, keyboard, etc and has installed them on the dining table. Now normally it only gets used if we have someone here for dinner or at Christmas so things better be back to normal by December.......
The HRC part number is a bit of an oddity. A Google search comes up with a few hits but either from eBay or a supplier in the US and does indeed state that it is for a 4.0 litre Discovery. However, I though the Disco engine and the P38 engines are the same 42D prefix and searching Microcat doesn't show any hits at all.. Then I thought that it might be a cam for an earlier, Classic, engine but that has a distributor driven from a gear on the front and I think you'd have noticed if it was that different. That one uses a fully circular thrust plate next to the middle bearing.
I think the important thing is that the thrust plate should be the same thickness as the groove it sits in on the camshaft. If both have grooves of the same thickness then it still points towards the thrust plate being too thin.
That's showbiz for you but a show a day is a promoter taking the piss a bit. The travel ban at the moment is a ban on flights from the Schengen countries to the US with flights from the UK not affected. Dina's daughter had a trip to the US in May planned and paid for but she's cancelled that as she's not sure if they'd let her in. Even though she'd be flying from the UK and is UK resident, she has a Latvian passport so they could assume she's flown via the UK to try to find a way round the ban. If you still have your NZ passport you shouldn't have any problem at all unless things change.
I told her she needed a fob filter, in fact, I very nearly offered to take the one off my car and fit it on hers but then she said she never used them anyway it didn't seem worth it. I did wonder if the lack of sync with the aerial disconnected could be down to the signal having to fight it's way through the car as the Rx aerial is on the RH side but her drivers door is on the LH side. You've already had the BeCM a couple of years ago (still unlocked) and I was able to sync the fobs previously so something has changed. She's got two fobs and originally they both worked, then one stopped and wouldn't sync then the second one went the same way so she doesn't bother any more. The only other weird one with it is that after reconnecting the battery I set all the windows but the drivers window will not set no matter how long you hold the button down but all the others will.
As far as I remember, there's nothing at the back (and nothing shown in the overhaul manual either), it's just held in place by the thrust plate. If it was just the new camshaft that had the end float I'd say it faulty but as the original one is the same, that suggests the wrong thrust plate.
I mentioned it earlier (thought it was on this thread but obviously not) that mine, as an ex-police car, did have extra wiring around the tailgate connector, including a switch and a couple of diodes that obviously stopped something from being back fed. The setting may also turn off the blown bulb warnings in some circuits as I found that if you overload a lighting circuit by adding an extra load (in my case by adding a 25W beacon to a tail light circuit), it will flag up a blown bulb warning and shut that circuit down.
Errm, no.
From the overhaul manual:
Camshaft end-float - check
- Remove rocker shaft assemblies.
- Remove pushrods and store in their fitted order.
- Remove timing chain and gears.
- Temporarily fit camshaft gear bolt.
- Attach a suitable DTI to front of cylinder block with stylus of gauge contacting end of camshaft.
- Push camshaft rearwards and zero gauge.
- Using camshaft gear bolt, pull camshaft forwards and note end-float reading on gauge.
End-float = 0.05 to 0.35 mm (0.002 to 0.014 in) - If end-float is incorrect, fit a new thrust plate and re-check. If end-float is still incorrect, a new camshaft must be fitted.
So 5mm is way too much.
The French have their priorities right. Called in at a large Hypermarket on Saturday as the wine cellar (cupboard) was getting a bit low and found that as well as bog roll and tinned food, the French are stocking up on cheap wine too. I can think of worse ways of self isolating......
That's right but the problem can be that if parked on a steep hill, the pin can shear off so the car runs off on it's own. That's why you should never put it into P while still moving and always use the handbrake as well.
EAS wiring goes through a connector in the LH footwell behind the kick panel. There's another one on the RH side which has cabling for the OBD socket amongst others which also goes green and hairy.
Last MoT figures were CO 0.02%, HC 24ppm
What he's talking about is CO2 which is inherently lower on a diesel engine than a petrol engine which is why diesels became popular in the first place. The CO2 when running on LPG is 10-20% lower than when running on petrol but still higher than an equivalent diesel. However, although CO2 is a greenhouse gas it is the other things that are of most concern these days. The particulate emissions on a diesel P38 will be very high (as it is too old to have a DPF), considerably lower on a petrol P38 and virtually non-existent on a petrol engine running on LPG. It's also a far less complex hydrocarbon than petrol without any of the additives petrol needs to have so the NOx and other carcinogenic emissions are virtually nil too.
Oddly, I've just been asked about the same things by a man who has just bought a P38 with LPG conversion and found the spare wheel well around the LPG tank full of water. His are crumbling away too.
and the verdict is, it wasn't the alternator. One of Teri's neighbours has obviously bought themselves a new toy which is sending a burst of data on 433.975 MHz every 2.5 minutes. So after 2 minutes of nothing happening, the BeCM goes to sleep and within 30 seconds at most, it's woken up again. I wouldn't have expected the 0.7A draw to flatten the battery overnight but with a bit more info it seems that the car isn't used every day. So she had been going to it to check the battery, firing it up to make sure it was OK then switching it off again. So it wasn't being run for long enough to put back what had been taken out by starting it. Initially thought about disconnecting the RF receiver aerial, tried to sync the fob which didn't happen. Was then told that the fobs won't sync for some reason so they haven't been used for some time. Door latch is one of Marty's reconditioned ones and the microswitches check out fine. So just unplugged the receiver completely. Current drain is marginal, too low for the clamp on meter to give an accurate figure and it stays that way, so all good. That was Saturday and it was still fine this morning so I'm told.
Just need to get your alternator back to you now Toby.
I've only ever driven one diesel P38 (a French spec one that I'm going over to sort out horrendous battery drain on at the weekend) and I thought it felt a bit sluggish pulling away from standstill until I gave it more welly, then it didn't seem as bad as I'd been led to believe. Once rolling it drives much that same as any other P38 although not changing up until it hit about 3,000 rpm felt odd after my V8 which changes up at about 1,500-1,700 unless I'm flooring it.