I can see the ones in the first post fine but figured that as so many people seem to have trouble posting pics it would be worth a reminder on how to do it. I think there's been enough of mine on here anyway but here's another......

As the previous thread talks about Photobucket who now insist on money, I now use Imgur. If using that you select the picture and click on the Copy button next to Direct Link and paste that into the little box.

It would seem this thread would be a good place to resurrect this one https://rangerovers.pub/topic/193-archives-and-posting-pictures-documents

Martyuk wrote:

EDIT Or am I interpreting the flowchart wrong? Should it go from the BET section in chart 1, and then onto chart 2 (as it's starred with the note)?

Yes you are and so are they. You start at the beginning with Chart 1, then continue with Chart 2. Chart 1 ends with doing the BET test and if the vehicle is later than 1992 you then go onto Chart 2. First entry on Chart 2 is BET passed, test complete, you only continue if it failed the BET.

dhallworth wrote:

Gilbert, any idea where you ordered your Britpart one from? If it definitely fits, as much as ordering something in a blue box goes against the grain I'll give it a go.

LRDirect, the top one here https://www.lrdirect.com/STC3679-Condenser-Air-Conditioning-New-Rr/?keep_https=yes

The only thing I had to do was drill out the lower mounting holes, they were too small for the bolts to go through.

Just checked Microcat and there are two part numbers for the fan assembly, STC3680 and YRP100050 but it doesn't give a date or VIN range although a quick Google suggest that the condenser and fans changed on the later diesel but the petrol models all used the same one.

The car that used to belong to OldShep that was bought by one of my neighbours had what he'd been told was a whistling alternator bearing. I took the belt off and it spun freely with no sign of any noise or roughness. Put the belt back on and used a long screwdriver as a stethoscope and found it was one of the idler pulley bearings. It had got to the stage that you could hear the noise from that over the engine noise but spinning it with the belt off and it felt fine.

Yes you can, see the testers manual here https://www.mot-testing.service.gov.uk/documents/manuals/class3457/, section 8.2, Chart 1. They've done the CAT test when it should have been done to the BET standard. The emissions regs have changed but only for diesel, nothing has changed for petrol/LPG engines. It should be tested on the fuel it is running on when presented for test so as long as you are running on gas when you take it in, that is what they test it on.

I fitted a new condenser recently and all my bolt holes lined up perfectly. Odd as I bought a Britpart one....... I only got it as it was a bit cheaper than an OEM but from stock and came with a 2 year warranty. I figured that it isn't that difficult to change every 18 months or so to swap it for another new one.

It didn't come with O rings though but I ordered a selection at the same time as I couldn't find anywhere that told me what size I needed. Microcat just lists part numbers for different sized rings but not what size is needed where.

I took all the trim off mine when it went in to be sprayed so there was as little masking needing to be done as possible. Obviously some bits had to be taken off once I'd got it there as driving without mirrors and lights seems to be frowned upon. Everything comes off easily enough with trim removal tools.

The only masking they had to do was the strips on the roof.

While the body was being done, I sprayed all the trims and the grille with black bumper paint so they had a nice satin finish. Later I masked and sprayed the bumpers with the same stuff. That was over 2 years ago and it still looks good.

super4 wrote:

but do you realise that the rest of us are going to have to keep the P38's on the road now and make them Classics otherwise all your knowledge will be wasted !!

I got asked how old my car was last week when going through security at Dover port. "20 years" was my reply, "and how long do you intend keeping it?", "at least another 20 years", so mine at the very least will be a classic. The knowledge I've picked up over the years will help me, even if I've got the only P38 left by then......

Check the inertia switch first. Power to the pump goes from the relay to the switch and then onto the pump. If you are dropping the tank, get yourself some 8mm ID fuel hose first, the steel fuel pipes often rust above the tank so you might as well replace them while it's dropped. I had to do those on the SE as the return had rusted through so it was pissing petrol out as soon as the engine was started. As said, dropping the tank isn't that difficult as long as you have a spare jack to lower it down, I didn't even need to disconnect the filler hose.

i recently replaced the front discs and pads on mine and for the first few miles the brakes felt worse that they had before I'd changed them but they soon bedded in. If you have air in the power circuit you don't get a spongy pedal like on a conventional system, you get a slight delay between hitting the pedal and the brakes coming on (as it has to compress the air bubble before anything happens). When I first got mine the brakes felt OK. They worked and stopped the car but, like you, I had nothing to compare them against. Then I flushed the system and bled it all through and the difference was very noticeable, much more bite and no delay. I had a bus change lanes in front of me a few months back, hit the pedal and fooled the ABS by locking all 4 wheels at 70 mph. If I hadn't been wearing a seatbelt I would have put myself through the windscreen!

If the viscous is seized it isn't a whistling, it sounds like you have a jet engine under the bonnet. You should notice it when you start the car after it has been standing, there's a roar as you rev it which goes away after a few seconds of running as the viscous frees off (unless it's bloody hot and you need it).

The reason why the idle revs went up is that the ECU stores a value, around 0.5-0.8V for the TPS at closed throttle. As you open the throtlle this value increases so the ECU causes the idle air valve to open to raise the revs so it acts like a progression jet in a carb and gives more controlled performance at very small throttle openings. By fitting a different TPS this would have raised the voltage to above what was stored so the ECU thought the throttle was open very slightly and raised the revs accordingly. It should adapt over a period but I've found that if the stored value was higher than the actual value it will adjust up but doesn't seem to adjust down if it's the other way round. Resetting the adaptives will set the stored value to the actual value but also resets other variables to base settings such as fuel trims, MAF air flow rate, fuel flow rate, etc which adjust to account for manufacturing tolerances and drift in component parts.

As you've got a Leo fitted then the LPG system and petrol system are virtually totally separate. I suspect you've disturbed something and broken a wire somewhere, either the common feed to the petrol injectors or something in the vicinity of the emulators.

This one came with a 10 year warranty, maybe because earlier ones broke......

What I couldn't understand is that if I take stuff to the council dump, there's an area for small electrical items and they would quite happily take it yet leaving it out with the recycling bin, which goes to exactly the same place, and they didn't?

Got as much of the dust off under the bonnet as I can but I can safely say that brake cleaner doesn't work. It turns it into mud then evaporates so it's even harder to get off! All I need to find is a ford that hasn't dried up.

Make your own blank..... You're an engineer ain't you?

Yes, I suppose the Evoque is just the next model up from this.....

No, the old one packed up so I put it out with the dustbin. The dustman didn't take it but somebody else did before I had chance to take it down the dump........

Having just bought a brand new Dyson, I suspect someone might not appreciate that idea......

Cleaned the fan and shroud off and wiped some of the worst off the alternator and other places. Hopefully it will just get blown off over a period

Under the right hand rear panel, the one at the side of the boot. If it's been unplugged, it won't plug itself back in though so no worries there.