First one is easy. The round thing is an inspection plate and there's no gasket as there should be nothing but fresh air the other side of it. You've got a minor leak from the gearbox front seal (if it's runny and red) or the engine rear main seal (if it's less runny and oil coloured). It's dribbling down and some is coming out of the join between engine and gearbox while the rest is settling at the bottom and coming out of the inspection hole.

Second one is a bit more difficult as I can't for the life of me work out what we are looking at......

If you've got your foot on the brake they shouldn't dance no matter where you are. If you've got one front sensor saying one thing and another saying something different it will try to raise to match one but then find the other says it's too high so it will adjust and so on. But with the brakes on, it should just sit there and do nothing.

Has he been blagging them off you too?

Odd thing is, he joined in July but this is the first post he's made (unless he made another spam one and that's already been deleted).

Simon, you're brave, clicking on an obviously spammy link, there's no telling what's been uploaded to your computer now.....

OK, hands up, do I delete it and forever send it to oblivion?

Land Rover Special Vehicles will build you whatever you want on whatever chassis you want if you ask them nicely but quite a few oddball vehicles use Land Rover chassis of some description, whether Range Rover, Defender or Discovery, as very few vehicles have a separate chassis these days so it makes them an ideal base to start with.

Only if someone has done a swap......

Like everything else, what used to be used as regular, if slightly offbeat, daily transport is now reduced to being bought out for the odd Classic car show or rally. That's where you'll find the Forward Controls and assorted other ex-MoD stuff. I found a Carmichael 6 wheel fire engine Range Rover Classic recently and I have a feeling Luton airport still has one as a rapid response unit.

I've got personal full European breakdown cover including recovery that covers me for any vehicle I'm driving or even a passenger in, irrespective of age, from ADAC, the German equivalent to the AA. Costs 80 Euros a year and even works in the UK. You have to phone Germany but they get their local agent to come out to you. In the UK their local agent is the AA but they wanted almost 400 quid a year for the same cover.

I can delete the whole thread but I think Gordon is the only one that can ban someone. If it is being done to spread spam, I doubt he'll come back anyway.

Filling stations with LPG are probably more common than you think, you just aren't looking out for them. I've got 5 within 5 miles of where i live and when on a long journey I've never been able to not find somewhere on my route where I can fill up, it just needs a little bit of extra planning if it's a route I haven't used before. Agreed on the less complication side but that also depends on what system you have fitted and how old it is.

As for Marty's 16.5 mpg, I just worked it out compared to mine. At 16.5 mpg I would get 241 miles from a 65 litre fill compared with the 200-220 I currently get but as I'm running the single point, I only use a thimbleful of petrol to start and it changes over to LPG immediately. So I'm running solely on LPG. With Marty's multipoint, it starts and warms up on petrol so unless it is a continuous run with no stops and re-starts, he's running on petrol for the first mile or so after starting so the 16.5 isn't solely on LPG, but on a mix so there probably isn't much in it.

My first Range Rover was a '93 Classic LSE with the 4.2 V8 on LPG. I bought it from a mate of a mate with nothing working properly, heater blowers, central locking, electric windows, interior lights, etc were all considered irrelevant by him but his missus hated it. He replaced it with a DHSE P38 which his missus loved as it was comfy and shiny and everything worked. He hated it as, compared to what he'd had, he had to thrash it mercilessly to get anything approaching the sort of performance he was used to and, as a result, could only get 25 mpg out of it so it was costing him more to run than the V8 had. Like you say, there's little to choose in running costs (but with LPG working out marginally cheaper) but as you say, it's overall condition that is far more important.

You sure it's the compressor you can hear and not the ABS pump? I can't hear my EAS compressor even without the engine running unless I take the lid off the box. ABS pump running when your foot is on the brake suggests a dying accumulator.

Martyuk wrote:

If it makes you feel better Simon... I only manage 16.5mpg on LPG still...

Cor, that's good. I get between 13.5 and 14.5 mpg out of mine depending on how much weight is in it and how hard I drive it. But, with the price of LPG that's worked out at a cost equivalent of 27 to 32 mpg compared with running on petrol. So still cheaper than a diesel even if not by much.

Relay 20 turns the pump on and off so it could explain the pump cutting in and out if it has gone intermittent, try swapping it with one of the others but I doubt it is that in all honesty. What heights do you have set? Is one corner significantly different to the others? Rumour has it that if the settings are more than a few points out it can cause a problem. If you check the height sensor readings at all heights do they look right or is one not moving smoothly? The other thing is the driver pack or connections between the driver pack and valve block might be playing up.

Get yourself (or make) the cable and use the RSWUnlock software but it does sound like you may have an iffy height sensor.

The VM was fitted to the early diesel Range Rover Classics when they realised that some people baulked at the fuel consumption of the 3.5 litre V8 and there was a demand for a diesel version. It was a sort of interim until they started fitting the 300 TDi lump into the Classic. Then the P38 came out with the BMW unit as BMW owned Land Rover at the time (so they could steal the 4 wheel drive technology and put it in the X5).

You sure it's the gearbox Chris? When I first got mine it would whine like a London bus and that was the rear diff. If you suspect the T case, then the whine will be road speed related rather than engine speed related but a diff would also be the same. When the viscous coupling goes, the front end of the car hops and skips all over the place when pulling away at full lock so I doubt it is that if it is driving normally.

Tweaking the FIP to adjust the timing and take out the retarded timing caused by the stretched chain is the other fix. From what I've read, it involves turning the FIP towards the engine a smidgeon although that's about all I can tell you as I wouldn't know a FIP if one jumped out of the undergrowth and bit me.

Depends on the mileage you do as to whether it is worth it. Even with a self install, it's still a 4 figure outlay and are you going to get the benefit from it? In saying that, it is nice not even having to think about fuel cost when 200+ miles is under 40 quid.

I had someone notice my changeover switch last week and comment that they were surprised I run on LPG as the engine will be worn out in 50,000 miles. So I turned the ignition on and pointed out the odo showing 336,000 miles. There is so much bollox talked by people that know nothing about it. The LR V8 is an old generation engine so an old generation LPG system is going to work fine, Christ, I'm running a Leonardo single point on mine.

However, I did convert someone yesterday. While waiting for the Ascot to go into the workshop for the MoT and chatting to the owner of the garage and another customer. Customer also owned a Nissan Leaf EV but was saying that the lack of range meant it wouldn't suit everyone but when the oil runs out we'll have no alternative. I pointed out that I run on a byproduct so there'll still be Propane around for a long time yet. At that point the MoT tester started my car up to drive it into the test bay and the rumble of the V8 made him look. Told him that was on LPG and by the time we'd finished he went away with the idea of using his EV for commuting but getting a V8 on LPG for long journeys......