We found the same on Rick's car when checking it after fitting the new blend motors. Initially it was reading 19 degrees, which with the engine running and a nice hot pipe, seemed a little on the low side. Wiggling the connector on it and it dropped to -20, then with another wiggle started to read 50+ degrees which seemed about right. So it does appear that the connector is the weak point.

Just got home, great time had by all I think. Not as well attended as previous ones but I think everyone got everything done they needed to. Rick, I've realised where the two spare self tappers go. Either side of the glovebox surround. You've got the three along the top and then one each side a bit lower down. I only realised because one of the leftovers was rusty and I remember taking that one out on the side nearest the centre console

Yup, that's right, back in the hotel now. But I'll confirm, SU HIF series carbs, The engine smelling of blowby could suggest sticking oil control rings, Try dumping some ATF down the bores while you've got it sitting there.

Wheels off and in the back of the car along with bushes, tools, jack and axle stands (one 1 pair as the SE is sitting on the other pair), Dina asked me what we planned on eating and when I told her Morat won't be there, she's just been and got a disposable BBQ, burgers, cheese slices and buns. As long as someone supplies coffee, sugar and milk (assuming your workshop kettle still works) we should be sorted.

In previous years there have been photos but not that many, I'll try to remember to get plenty this time.

Martyuk wrote:

Once I get there I have to move one of my other P38's out of the workshop

Ooh, Ooh, Ooh, can I tow it out?

Sorry about the address, I wasn't sure if just the postcode would be enough.

Just off outside to sit the SE on a pair of axle stands and a couple of lumps of railway sleeper.......

Marlborough, SN8 2NJ. A sat nav will take you the long way round but keep you on proper roads although there is a shorter route to get to it that involves a bit of off roading......

That looks good. I'm impressed you got the front bumper off, I changed mine with it still on by using a 3/8 drive socket though the vents to get at the bottom bolts. Not laziness (well, not entirely) but the one time I tried a socket on the bumper bolts there was this feel of a twisting bolt rather than one that was coming loose so rather than shear them off when the time comes to replace it, I'll just chop the bumper off and use the angle grinder on the bolts.

It's on spring clips so should just pull out with a good pull. There's a steel pin on the underside at each rear corner and clips on the bodywork so you shouldn't break anything.

Small Tupperware and a couple of old towels to catch/soak up the coolant that will dribble out and a pot of coarse grinding paste in case the screw is tight. You actually lose very little coolant, just the contents of the pipes. TPS will need the adaptives resetting after it's been fitted but my Nanocom will do that.

Bring them with you and if we've got time I don't see why not, although I think you are only there on Saturday?

Who is going anyway? Anyone else in the Premier Inn on Saturday night?

Pleasant as in they don't involve grovelling on the ground heaving on a breaker bar......

Both, I suspect people will arrive mid morning on Saturday and go home when everyone's car is in perfect working condition on Sunday.

I've got a spare TPS I can bung in the post for you so you'll be able to get there and if you bring the O rings that will make a pleasant change from doing radius arms.

In that case, the SE has had a later one fitted at some time in the past, so it looks like they do fit. Unless the one on there has already had new flexi sections fitted at sometime in the past.

I've just compared the PAS pipes on my SE (VIN VA368263) which should be the same early one as yours with that on my ex-plod (VIN WA381091) which should be the later QEP104660 hose and I can't see any difference. They follow the same run (down the side of the PAS pump, then a flexi section to a solid pipe along under the radiator, then a further flexi section before a solid pipe to the steering box) and look to be identical. Still not cheap though. Depending on the state of the metal sections, maybe it's worth having a chat with your local Pirtek (and RR beat me to it......).

I suspect Marty's 20 tonne press will soon wipe the outer coating off.....

Are you planning on dropping in? The workshop is somewhere in the middle of nowhere near Swindon.

Not sure how it will affect the AC but mainly it means your fans won't come on. Normal operation is on a cold morning with the system set to Auto, the fans don't start up until there is heat in the matrix so it doesn't blast you with cold air when you really want hot air. After a cold start you should hear the fans ramp up in speed as the temperature increases.

Looks fine, you've got the right sort of clips on the hose too.

StrangeRover wrote:

Do you think it will really take off in the coming years?

Bloody well hope not, they'll start upping the duty on it then. Seriously, an awful lot of more modern cars either can't be or are very expensive to convert as they use direct injection so that will restrict take up. There's far more out there than official figures suggest. DVLA records show somewhere in the region of 150,000 LPG cars on the road yet I've owned a Saab, a Range Rover Classic and 3 p38s, all on LPG but only one had it shown on the V5, all the others just showed petrol. So in reality, there's probably in excess of 500,000 of us running on it. As long as we keep buying it, then filling stations will keep selling it. There's one filling station near me that is supplied by Flogas. I can go to the Flogas depot and pay 54p per litre yet if I go to the garage down the road, it'll cost me 64.9p a litre. Now you aren't going to tell me that Flogas charge a garage that is buying thousands of litres a time the same 54p a litre as they charge me to fill my tank with 60 odd litres. So that garage is making over 10p for every litre they sell, far more than they make on petrol. So why shouldn't they continue selling it?

Yeah, by a long way. The Saab only had 253,000 on it when I sold it. I learnt a lot from that as it was my first LPG car. Considering I only paid £160 on eBay for it, and then ran it for 3 years (including driving it to Russia and back twice) it didn't do bad.