Simon, are you sure it's a 3.5? The Disco only came with the 3.9 engine and fuel injection whereas the 3.5 fitted to the early Range Rover had carbs. Static advance on the 3.5 is 3 or 5 degrees depending on the exact spec of the engine (which seems to vary with what carbs are fitted), the 3.9 timing is 2 degrees for the low compression without cats, 4 degrees for high compression without cats and 5 degrees for high compression with cats. All are checked at 800 rpm with the vacuum disconnected.

Ah, in that case it does need to come off and if it's been run for any length of time like that, it'll need the groove skimming out of it. When I bought mine it was blowing the other way, number 4 was blowiing into the Vee. You could see the valley gasket jumping up and down every time it tried to fire.

Orangebean wrote:

Mine's a 36" and I can't remember how much overhang I get with that.

Bragging again.....

Or, unless it is showing signs of head gasket leakage, just leave them on and worry about that if it ever does.

C'mon Miah, how are you getting on, we're getting a bit off topic again.......

Hmm, yes. I can see that was some years ago. About where that hut was for the boat trips out to the islands there's now the steps going down to the underground multi storey car park that they built under the harbour. In 2004 I was there quite a bit as my mate was living about a mile along the coast road in Cannes La Bocca and we would regularly walk to the source of the best pizzas in Europe at La Pizza opposite the corner of the harbour. The road hasn't changed much, the hut has been replaced with a nice new building, La Pizza is still there (and has been for 50 years now) but you'd never find a parking space there these days.... My mate has a Cranchi 24 that lives on a mooring at La Napoule so most days when we've nothing better to do are spent at anchor between the Iles De Lerins.

I've got a feeling, from when I repaired one for someone, that the 5V regulator in there is a 1A version so the 2A one you have will easily be up to the job.

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.

Ferryman wrote:

(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?