I bought mine because I had need to tow 1950s and 1960s American cars to the South of France, so that is what it does more often that not. Heaviest was towing a 3.5 tonne boat on a 1 tonne unbraked trailer from the south of France back to home (953 miles). Somewhat bum clenching at times, looking well ahead was the order of the day and brakes could only be used when travelling in a straight line. Cruising speed was about 50 mph on the flat but a bit less going up hill. The 50 limit was self imposed knowing that stopping it was going to be more of a problem. As long as the trailer is loaded correctly, I can cruise at anything between 60 and 75 mph depending on how much weight I've got on it. Bought a Mini Cooper (proper one, not one of these BMW fakes) back from France and took an Audi A2 to Latvia and it didn't even know the trailer was there, would sit at 75 mph all day long (saw just over 80 at one point through Germany). Get too much noseweight on the trailer and it'll hit resonance and start to shudder at anything over 60 mph, too little and the tail starts to wag the dog at anything over 60 mph so loading it right is more important than the weight.
I've taken plastic Tees off that have been used on LPG installs and every one has distorted so is no longer round. Maybe because they've had Jubilee clips on them, but it doesn't instil confidence when I've pulled on one hose and the Tee has cracked. I make them up using 22 and 15mm copper and Yorkshire fittings.
I don't like plastic Tees or joiners, they will always leak after a while. I'd be included to swap it for something like this https://www.merlinmotorsport.co.uk/p/32mm-aluminium-t-piece-with-16mm-spout-mhj-t32-16 or if you can't find one of the correct size, one of these https://www.merlinmotorsport.co.uk/s/cooling/aluminium-hose-adaptor with the correct size stub https://www.merlinmotorsport.co.uk/s/cooling/hose-adaptor-take-offs. Although with your fabricating skills Clive, I'd expect you to make something.
I bleed the coolant before starting the engine. Take the overflow pipe off the radiator, fill the header tank then squeeze the top hose and plug the overflow with a finger when releasing the hose so it sucks coolant in and blows air out when you squeeze the hose. Keep doing that until coolant comes out of the overflow (it'll take a while and you'll need to top the header up a few times). Then put the pipe back on and carry on only this time plug the hole in the top of the header where the jet of coolant comes back into the header. Eventually, you'll no longer be able to hear bubbles in the system and at that point you know you've got the air out. Only then start the engine and give it some revs.
One was stolen and never seen again years ago and the others are all out there but registered simply as 4.6 HSEs.
I was looking for the source of a power steering leak on my old Maserati last week. Everything was covered in fluid with drips off all low lying parts. Sprayed it with brake cleaner (which appears to be paint friendly as it evaporates so quickly it doesn't get chance to soften the paintwork) so everything was clean and dry. Started the engine and could immediately see that it wasn't leaking from a hose or banjo joint as I'd hoped but I've got to take the rack off and source some suitable seals.....
Spray it all with brake cleaner which will clean it all off and evaporate very quickly leaving everything clean and dry. Then run it to see if you can see the origin.
Where did you disconnect them? Could be glove box light or sun visor mirror lights?
You only coming for the one day then? Normally we make a weekend of it.
Martyuk wrote:
My workshop is probably 15 miles south of Swindon - just outside Marlborough.
I've been there at least 4 times, so what made me think Reading???
Marty's workshop on a farm near Reading. Some book into a Premier Inn (with a pub attached), at least one in the past has bought a caravan though. In my case her indoors came with me, she was on cleaning the old foam and glue off headlining shells duties when we did the mass headlining session, otherwise buy her something nice so she lets you out to play cars for a weekend.
Martyuk wrote:
The next time I'm over there,
If you ever get over there before hitting retirement age..... A mate who's a full time professional musician has been told as the theatres are going to remain closed, he's unlikely to get any work until next year.
Best I can manage I'm afraid, can't find an LR number on it anywhere......
I'll have a look at the numbers on my old one tomorrow. My car is also a 98 and I suspect plod would have specified the 120A option. It died a couple of years ago after around 300k miles but it's on a shelf in the garage waiting for the time I decide whether to sling it or get it reconditioned.
If anyone needs their AC recharging, a mate has just started his own mobile business. He's using a Clio for doing that but as he completed a full restoration on one of the last soft dash, long wheelbase, Classics last year, he could always bung his kit in the back of that.
That way, if Simon came as well we could have an AC and LPG diagnostics session too.
I reckon we'd be looking at July or even August.
How did you get rid of the Joying logo along the bottom? That would annoy the hell out of me....
Same here, Maltings Off Road, fitted first time everything lined up. Cheap too.
Looking at the URL it looks like it's just the file name you've posted. Open the video, copy the URL from the address bar, start your post, click the URL/Link icon (fourth one along, looking like a chain), and paste the URL into the little box that pops up.
Morat wrote:
But no, there's no danger of any government seizing land in the UK. When land is needed for roads or w/e they have a thing called a CPO (Compulsory Purchase Order) where a value is calculated and the owner has to accept it.
There's the odd exception where they need to buy the land and offer a price, the owner rejects the offer so they up it until he does but just occasionally someone refuses to accept the offer no matter what it is. So you end up with a situation like this https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Whitefaced+Woodland+Sheep/@53.6415939,-1.9547333,663m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x487bda4f42ef164f:0x50ffd5e56e229444!2sM62!3b1!8m2!3d53.6625082!4d-1.8533994!3m4!1s0x487bc3fbb249a0cb:0xcf09aa3b3269ba94!8m2!3d53.6416195!4d-1.9520896?hl=en where a landowner refused to accept the offer (probably in the hope that the motorway wouldn't be built) so they ran the motorway either side of his house......