Agree totally, plus if it's fitted it should work.

Not very I would say. You've got two catches (and only one has the switch on it), then there's also the safety catch and a very heavy bonnet. It isn't like some modern cars where the bonnet is so lightweight a gust of wind will flip it up over the windscreen.

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(I already see this queue of P38s on the Promenade des Anglais, what's in a name)

You mean you were there in December too? There was a queue of P38s on the Promenade des Anglais when I was there in mine driving in convoy with the one my mate who lives down there has just got. This assumes you can call 2 a queue.......

I've noticed that in France and it may be the same for you in Holland Tony. We can buy anti-freeze concentrate that you mix 50/50, or whatever concentration you want, whereas in France you can only buy ready diluted that you don't mix with water, you just put it in straight from the bottle. No doubt some health and safety rules which haven't got here yet.

Wouldn't like to say on the first one, second is an Etagas and the last one is a Prins so definitely not an AEB ECU.

Yup, near enough. I was told to use something thicker when I put my rebuilt engine in but always used to use 10 (or 15)W-40, semi synthetic. Dexron 3 for gearbox and transfer case, whatever make you can get. 70W-90 or 75W-90 for the axles and DOT 4 brake fluid. The place I use sells Comma and Carlube brand for the generic stuff and I use that.

I tried to bend the tab on mine and it snapped off.... I just unplugged the microswitch so the BeCM thinks my bonnet is shut even when it isn't. Not ideal from a safety point of view but it stopped the message on the dash.

That's probably why my effort failed, I injected the 5V at the pressure sensor so probably wasn't back feeding everything that needed a supply. Seems the cure for the Photobucket disease is to do a full refresh of the page by holding down Shift and hitting the reload button. The pictures should appear when the page refreshes.

Here's the one I made (hope you've got some caps to decouple it)

and then wrapped it in glue lined shrink wrap but with the tab sticking out so it could be bolted to something solid

Should do although I'm not sure if there would be a difference between your B and the later D spec ECU. I tried the 7805 trick (Yes, it's a 3 legged beastie where you put 12V (or anything up to about 40V if you are feeling really mean) on one leg, ground another and 5V comes out of the remaining one) on a car that would cut off after 90 seconds unless a computer was connected to the diagnostic port when it would run fine for as long as you wanted. It didn't work although the 5V was applied to one of the sensors and I suspect it wasn't back feeding the rest of the system. Had we had more time I could have opened up the ECU and fitted it inside but didn't. So it might work but didn't on the one I tried it on.

This place https://www.merlinmotorsport.co.uk/s/goodridge/goodridge-600-series-brake-clutch-hose-fittings list the P38 kit but will also sell the hose and screw on fittings separately so you can make up your own. I prefer a nut and olive to crimped on any day, the same as the difference between screw on and crimp on RF connectors on some of the stuff I work with, the crimped on ones are always the first to fail.

SRS fault should clear. GEMS needed a reset, Thor clears as soon as the fault is no longer there.

No need to apologise Tony, I just hated the thing. Uncomfortable, heavy, slow, didn't handle, diabolical brakes but as a friend said at the time, in order of sophistication there are cars, motorcycles, agricultural vehicles and Harley's. Closer to a two wheeled tractor than a motorcycle. I can sort of understand it for the US with miles of straight roads and a 55mph limit. With your feet forward and high bars, at anything over 60mph your body is the airbrake, at 70mph it tries to detach your arms from your shoulders.......

They've sent you a set for the later layout, not the early one. 95 to 97 uses the ones you have, the ones you've been sent are for MY97 onwards. Did they come direct from Goodridge themselves?

Wait until the headlining is out, then you can get to the drain tubes. 2 birds, 1 stone.......

Did mine in the summer. Ideally you need 3 people, one each side to hold the material clear of the shell while the third presses it down (I used a small foam covered paint roller). The Martrim kit comes with 3 cans of glue, use plenty in the hollows, but beware, once the two parts stick, they are stuck so if you get it wrong or get any creases, they are there forever. The hardest part is getting the old glue off the shell (wire brush seemed the best way) and deciding what you are going to do with the pillar trims. The old flock comes off easily enough with a scraper and cellulose thinners or white spirit to clean them up again. The foam backed headlining can't easily be used on the pillar trims as you can't get a clean edge where the seatbelt mountings slide.

Not known it before but it could be the roof rail, the seam in the metal underneath it or, most likely if it's ever had a replacement windscreen, the screen seal itself.

It isn't the amount of fuel they use but the tiny fuel tanks. I had to deliver a Harley 1340 Fat Boy to Paris and the cheapest option was to ride it there and fly back. Bloody thing only did 90 miles before it had to be put on reserve! Also the most uncomfortable motorcycle I have ever ridden in my life so stopping every 90 miles was actually a benefit but made the journey take forever.

Had a PM on the other site from Ash or Ash saying he couldn't log in again. I just tried logging out (which I don't normally do) and logging back in again and confirmed that you do need to log in 5 times. On the 5th attempt the Captcha box pops up and it lets you in. Hopefully, if people see this when not logged in, it'll tell them what they need to do in the meantime until it's sorted out.

The Captcha has only just been added to stop the automated spam messages that started appearing. No doubt Gordon will see this and have a look at what the problem might be.