There's this place http://www.rrlondon.co.uk/ I got the Ascot from them as they were selling it on behalf of the owner. It wasn't them that had MoT'd and failed it on numerous non-existent faults and they seemed a decent sort of place (for London anyway).
Mine is encouraging me to walk to the village shop to get my fags. If I start it from stone cold, run the 400 yards or so to the shop (on gas or petrol, makes no difference) and then turn it off, it's reluctant to start unless I switch it to start on gas and give it a big bootfull of throttle which would suggest it has a bit more fuel there than it needs. If it has warmed up a bit more, it starts on the first turn as it always does any other time.
The other time I've had starting problems is if the evap valve decides to open and flood the inlet manifold with petrol vapour. Then it will start but run really roughly, if I keep it running for 30 seconds or so it clears or I can switch it off, restart and then it is fine
If the MAF is giving a high reading, then it will dump more fuel in to keep the mixture correct. But I wouldn't have expected that to affect starting.
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Gordon, have you scanned the Motronic for faults yet
Difficult as it's a GEMS....... Although checking for any fault codes is always a good place to start.
I had mine done at a local branch of Formula 1 (but not sure if they are National). They charge £39.99 if they have to adjust anything, or £15 if they just check and find no adjustment is needed.
Blimey, mine only got rid of the mud from the inside of the mudflaps from Marty's track after the radius arm weekend yesterday. That was only due to torrential rain through Belgium, Holland and half of Germany......
That test checks everything, even if the compressor isn't turning it will still allow the Nitrogen to pass through it. What they should do is pressurise it, shut off the valve and then leave it for a while to see if the pressure drops. Simply listening for a leak will only show up a big leak but not a small one. It's quite possible that you can have a leak where it will work for maybe a couple of months but will be losing the refrigerant very slowly, listening definitely won't find that. Not sure why they use Nitrogen as the first step in the regas process is to vacuum the system to get everything out of it so you could just as easily use air as it's going to be sucked out anyway. Maybe something to do with air having water in it?
That looks like someone has turned the UK CD into a bunch of pdf files, exactly the same structure and content as the CD.
Is that the single file one that popped up on RR.net? So it's just one huge pdf but is created from the US version that covers all models.
If we can upload them to your server that would free up some space on my Google drive as it's almost up to the limit for free use and they keep prompting me to pay money for extra storage. I've got two further RAVE Cds covering other models if they could be of any use, one has a load of TSBs on it too.
GEMS is 34-37 psi
Check it when you've first turned the engine off and again after it's been standing. If the pressure has dropped then it's either leaking back through the regulator or through the injectors.
Haven't you got a tyre pump with a gauge? As long as you blast air through it afterwards to get the petrol out of the hose, it should be OK.
Probably the same one I've got here https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzxqPPypF5J5bEM2RnBrQy10MmM. That's an iso file complete with the all important readme file. It needs to be run on something running a 32 bit operating system, it won't run on 64 bit.
Island still have Boge fronts and Rimmers list rear OEM which would have been Boge, so you may be able to get some still.
Pretty crap picture as it's getting dark and I was in danger of running into the back of someone driving at 55 mph on my favourite bit of test road.....
As you can see, 2,500 rpm is 70 mph. If cold, the torque converter won't lock up so the revs will be higher but not as high as you are running at. Sport only has an affect under acceleration holding the shift point to higher up the rev range but once cruising the revs will be normal.
Can't remember the actual revs but just over 80 mph is 3,000 rpm, I use that as my normal cruising speed in Europe (better quality roads than in the UK, 81 mph speed limit and very little traffic). If you are revving to 2,500 at 55 mph, then that sounds like you are staying in 3rd. What do you mean by the gate light not being on?
Just been out in mine and tried dropping down the 3rd at 65 mph, revs run at around the 3,100 that James experienced. According to RAVE, if the gearbox ECU detects a fault while the car is stationary, limp mode is to stay in 3rd gear or if it detects the fault while moving, it stays in 4th. Kickdown and the Sport button won't work either.
Gearbox Fault when starting is usually a sign that the battery is low (voltage drops below 10V while cranking) so that would put it into limp mode and as the fault is detected while stationary, it would only use 3rd gear.
That's the version that includes all models but doesn't have a lot of the extras like accessory fitting instructions. I've got the UK CD version that only covers the P38, L322 up to 2005 and the Defender uploaded to my Google Drive here https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzxqPPypF5J5b1ZlU3RpMmVwanc. It's an iso file that needs to be burnt to CD but can then be copied to hard drive and run from there.
Low battery voltage will cause a Gearbox Fault message to come up on the dash and if the gearbox ECU detects a fault it will go into limp mode, not use all the gears or cause the torque converter to lock. The final gear is actually the torque converter locking up, if you count the changes you'll find that although it has a 4 speed box, there are 4 changes making it appear to be a 5 speed. The other time it won't immediately lock up is after a cold start. I've noticed that I can start the car from cold, drive off and after a couple of miles it will appear to change up a gear when travelling at a constant speed. I mentioned it to Ashcrofts and was told that is normal so maybe it was still cold?