Although I did suggest brake cleaner (purely because the contact cleaner I have seems to leave a slight residue). If you've got a contact cleaner that evaporates completely and doesn't leave a residue, then use that. I went a step further and took the lock apart, hence mention of the little spring and various other bits flying out.

The microswitch that deals with the Key In message is at the bottom of the keyslot and sticks due to a build up of dust and general crud. If you look you should be able to see a small strip of metal that the key pushes against. A good blast of brake cleaner should clean that out and not leave any residue for dust to stick to in the future. I've had my lock barrel out and it's an interesting exercise. There's a tiny spring that will fly out and you'll spend hours a) trying to work out where it came from, and b) trying to get it to stay in place while you assemble the lock again. You may well find that once you've cleaned out where the switch is, the steering lock will start to work again anyway as the brake cleaner will have gone further down and cleaned everything out. A bit of graphite powder in the lock itself will then keep everything moving nicely.

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Steel inserts, is that the rounded socket that the push rod engages with? I'd say they look sunken, but not knowing what unsunken is supposed to look like makes it difficult to judge.

That's the ones. This is one that has sunk into the alloy from a car in the batch that suffered the problem. It had two that had sunk but when running it did sound very tappety. Compare yours and if they are all down by the same amount, you are OK.

The rockers shouldn't slop on the shafts and if any of the steel inserts have sunken it will be pretty obvious. If the rockers are tight and there's no wear on the shaft, then you don't have a problem. When you put them back together, make sure you get the shaft the right way up or it'll wear at a stupid rate.

Apparently the HK speakers sound better although to my ears the standard ain't that bad. Mine originally had the low line speaker setup and no radio at all (plod didn't order one, they wanted to put something else in the hole obviously) but I bought a set of door cards with the mid range speakers and wood strips (which mine also didn't have). Admittedly, I think I've worn out the woofers as they don't produce a lot of bass and rattle a bit when the stereo is cranked up beyond 25 (eat your heart out Marshall!).

If you mean front of the engine, that would be the one that goes on the sensor for the temperature gauge.

Can you look at the IP address Gordon? That would at least tell you where in the world he registered from.

The HK badges were only fitted on cars with the high line HK system. There were 3 levels, low line with just woofers and tweeters in the front doors and woofers only in the rear, all driven directly from the stereo so no amps in the doors. The mid line had woofers, midrange and tweeters in the front doors and woofers and midrange in the rear, again driven directly from the stereo. The high line had the HK badges because the speakers are actually HK and not generic LR speakers, as well as everything the mid line had, it also has a sub in the boot and everything is driven by an amp in each door and another in the sub housing.

So if you had the low or mid line system you can simply slot in any aftermarket head unit and the DIN plugs on the loom connect straight to it. It is only the high line system that needs a bit of jiggery pokery.

Doh, £8 for 4 BPR6ES, that's more expensive than the £1.99 each from my local motor factors.

I'm curious but am afraid to ask what that is actually intended for........

I seriously hope it is him. Then he can find out what an arrogant, unwelcoming, unhelpful, condescending,twat he comes across as to sensible, mature, civilised people. I honestly think he tells people to read RAVE or do a search purely to show that he thinks he knows what he's talking about but doesn't really. I notice that he has edited his post where he gave someone completely wrong information. The guy that asked which temperature sensor was the one that the petrol ECU gets it's readings from and he said the green one. I'd be well pissed off if I'd asked a question and based on the answer given by a seemingly knowledgeable admin on the forum I'd gone out and bought the wrong part.

However, at least we've managed to help out a few new members by getting them over here and being able to give them accurate, helpful advice. It seems that most of the threads started recently are of the look at this reasonably nice P38 I've just bought and then completely fucked up by chopping huge lumps of bodywork off.

I managed a weeks ban after he criticised somebody for not putting a correct location in his signature. The poor unsuspecting guy had put his location as Flintshire so I pointed out that it was far more accurate than WA, CO or CT which to me mean Warrington, Colchester and Canterbury. Thyat post was there for all of 2 hours before being deleted and me getting the ban.

Looking at the forum terms of service that Dave posted a page or so ago, I'm considering reporting RRTH to the owners of the site for contravention of the first term........

By the way, the only true black is Rolls Royce Masons Black. The mix recipe is black base and 24 parts black pigment. That's it, nothing else.

Or bad contacts in the plug between the driver pack and valve block.I took a known good, fully working, valve block and compressor off one car and put it on another. It did nothing. Sprayed the multiway plug with contact cleaner, reconnected and it all worked perfectly.

A '96 HK system won't have the DSP amp (thankfully) but will have separate amps in each door. You can fit any after,market head unit (some can even be programmed to allow you to retain the steering wheel controls) but rather than one with line level unbalanced outputs (which will hum), your best bet is to use the speaker outputs and make up and fit some attenuators, see http://www.rangerovers.net/rrupgrades/entertainment/headunitadapt.html

Think of this forum as a virtual pub (hence the URL). It's a bunch of like minded people sitting around chatting and helping each other out. Most of the problems and questions you have, and the ones you may well have in the future, are all ones we've all been there and dealt with ourselves. I've clocked up 123,000 miles in my P38 in the 5 or 6 years I've owned it (currently showing 328,900 miles). It was a spares or repair job when I bought it and just about every fault that a P38 can throw at you I've had to deal with at some point. Then I went and bought another so I could start it all over again......

Nah, there's only a couple of us that got lifetime bans and a few more that have been banned for a week at a time. Some on here even post on there at odd times........

As for changing the air springs, I've never felt the need to take the wheels off neither front or back. RAVE also tells you to remove the front wheelarch liner but I've never done that either. Just pull it out far enough so you can see what you are doing and get your hand in there and jam a block of wood in to hold it out.

Glad you got it sorted but it does sound like you need to look into why the EKA couldn't be entered before the next time....... Still can't work out why it disabled itself after being locked and unlocked on the key though.

For RAVE, see the second post down in this thread https://rangerovers.pub/topic/355?page=9. It's an iso image of the full CD version so will need burning to a disc and installing but you can copy the disc contents to your hard drive and install and run directly from there.

To go to low range you select neutral, move the lever across to low range and you'll get a beep, beep, beep and the flashing light with a picture of gears. After a couple of seconds, the beeping should stop and the light goes out. At that point you can put it into gear. If the beeping and flashing light doesn't stop, that means the motor has either jammed or is seized and it is trying to select low range and failing.

The gearbox and transfer case are separate each with their own oil drain plugs and fillers. Both need Dexron 3 though.

He does say he won't send stuff outside the US and there's no warranty either (so you can be fairly sure nothing will work properly).