LRDirect often list 3 brands for most things, genuine Land Rover if money is no object, OEM or aftermarket (usually Britpart). Britpart are the cheap ones to avoid, OEM are made by the original supplier to Land Rover and are often from Bearmach or Allmakes which are the ones to go for.

No Tony, you are confusing Gordon with Orangebean (like I confused Vancer with Rayodunne and said Vance was Canadian). OB is down in the south west, Gordon is in Scotland.

From the new banner, I'm assuming Gordon has had some. But he is just to the north of Glasgow so gets a but more than Morat, a lot more than me and considerably more than Orangebean.

Merry Christmas everyone and may all your problems be minor ones (or ones that can wait until it's a bit warmer anyway).

In saying that though, if the engine has been so neglected it's suffered a pretty catastrophic failure, then replacing it is probably a better option. There's more 4.6 engines about than 4.0 litre so they are more common but a 4.0 litre will go straight in as it uses the same block. The only difference between the two engines is the crankshaft, conrods and pistons so you could make up a 4.6 from a 4.0 block using the innards from your 4.6 (if it is a block problem).

I've tested an engine, not a V8 but a 4 pot, and found compression on only one cylinder. That was because the cam belt had snapped so what valves weren't bent and not sealing weren't moving. Both valves were closed on one cylinder so that one had compression but none of the others did. I would suspect a cam chain failure personally.

Oooh, what is it they say? The worst insult you can give to a Canadian is to call him an American> You've just done that. He's not in the US but in Canada so he's half English and half French.......

Hmm, do you think they went to a soft top manufacturer and asked if they'd got something on the shelf that would fit a hole about this big?

Found one.......

Yup, an Evoque with a cloth roof. Can't find a decent picture online but the rear window is tiny and it looks really bottom heavy if you know what I mean. There's far too much bodywork below the waistline and a very low roof above.

No, it just won't connect if the firmware in the ECU and the software you are using don't match. No different to trying to use something like Bigas, OMVL, etc software with your Zavoli ECU, although they use the same AEB ECU, it just doesn't connect because of the differing firmware.

Not sure if anyone else has seen one yet, but saw one of these today

Possibly the strangest looking vehicle to have ever carried the Range Rover name. Admittedly, I've always though the Ejoke should really be the Land Rover Freelander Mk3 (or is it 4?) and not sully the Range Rover name but this thing is just plain weird. Looks even worse with the roof up.

You ever known one fall off? Seems pretty robust to me. Anyway, they knew the hoses would split and it would stop working within a couple of years so it didn't matter.

I was amazed at the difference it made. My mate bolted the compressor in with both top and bottom washers the wrong way round and you could hear the EAS compressor over the sound of the engine when driving along. Had a look at mine, swapped them over so they were the same and I had to put my hand on the compressor to see if it was running. You wouldn't think something so simple was so critical.

Looks like Tony has just caused someone on the other side to make his humming even worse. The EAS compressor washers have to go concave side DOWn at the bottom and concave side UP on the top so they only bear against the metal centre leaving the compressor to float on the rubber but with the rubber not in contact with anything.

These days I'd ignore any incorrect info on there (if they don't want me, then why should they have the benefit of my info?) but when it comes from someone on here, I felt it needed to be corrected.

Didn't come from a man in France did it? We bought a fully overhauled Volvo B20 engine that was like that. It looked pretty but had virtually no compression due to valves that didn't seat and bores with a lip at the top you could trip over.

I doubt it, the GEMS has a Sanden TRS 105N AC compressor while the Thor has a Nippon Denso 10PA17 compressor so I wouldn't think they are interchangeable.

Well damn me, I always thought the heads were the same for all versions right back to when they went from 14 bolt to 10 bolt. However, checking the part numbers it changed from the end of the WA series. So Thor heads have a different part number to GEMS heads and you've just found out the difference.

You're right, I thought there was one but just looked and there appears to be a gap. L322 from 2010-2013 but not for the earlier ones.

Probably, I usually use diesel.

The sex of a car can be a problem. I always referred to mine as a she but Dina has this habit of giving character to a car. When she first saw the Innocenti Mini I bought a few months ago in France she said it was a small boy. She said she could imagine it running around kicking a football and climbing trees. So I asked her what the ex-plod was and she said it's a big, strong dependable man and always refers to it as big white man. So what is it now?

OK, thrash the tits off it then......