Mazz1 wrote:
Hello Hoppy. That lump of metal is now with Tom. Strange you should mention a gear box fault. Mine now appears to have that as well as everything else that is wrong with the stupid thing.
Which points to a MAF sensor problem as Hoppy described then? Hoppy has described how a dodgy MAF can be the cause of both a (phantom) gearbox fault and a lack of power... He's implied/suggested that you should unplug your MAF sensor to see if it cures both your problems. If it does cure both your problems it goes a long way toward proving that the underlying problem is actually the MAF sensor, in which case you should replace the MAF sensor.
Ridiculous to delete forum content to 'upgrade' software. A forum is it's content, no use without the content regardless of how pretty it looks.
Could this be a temporary situation with intention of restoring old content to the new software (perhaps when they have sussed how to do it)?
When it seemed LPGforum could be taken down at any time with the possibility of all that content being lost I asked my son to come up with a way of downloading every thread completely and he managed it... Not needed now as LPGforum has been saved but I still have all that data backed up and I'm sure we'd have come up with a way of including that content in a new forum if LPGforum had disappeared. We didn't/couldn't download user accounts, an implication of that being that the old content would have to be available on the new forum just as some sort of archive, but we'd have done all we could to make the archive searchable.
Edit - Hehe I started writing this post just before a customer turned up, finished writing after the customer left... Probably a bit out of touch in the light of recent posts it crossed with.
I would err on the side of others advice above, unless when you took it to the garage you told them something to the effect of 'just fix it please'.
Anyway, if you know it needed a new water pump... it obviously needed doing... so is there a problem with them fixing it?
Hope you eye is OK Morat.
Thanks for the reply om 31st July Bolt, yes that's what I suspected. Now I'm back from holiday I'll keep letting some out until the surging stops, then let a bit more out.
Back home, had no dramas on holiday or on the way home. Rear wheel bearing maybe just slightly louder than it was but will still use it and not expect it to break until i have time to change it. Done over 2200km, over 700 miles of that towing, all good.
Wouldn't think you could have that much pressure in there Gilbert or wouldn't some high pressure switch prevent the AC compressor engaging? As seems to be the case on mine since I overfilled it.
I have owned AC regas gear albeit not professional gear for years and recently bought another set including little refillable/exchangeable bottle and charging 'gun' (pipe with LP connector, connector to exchange bottle, trigger and pressure gauge) from Halfords.
My car, not a P38, supposedly takes 0.99kg of refrigerant. I recently fitted a replacement rear evaporator and some new lines on it then took it to a garage for re-gassing. It worked fine after re-gassing but I regularly drive many other examples of the same model vehicle and some of the others seem to get just a bit colder. With my paranoid head on I wondered if the 0.99kg should really be 1.05kg but the vehicle manufacturer avoided stating over 1kg as some refill garages would charge a lot more for a regas over a 1kg threshold, also wondered if the garage machine was set to over-read the amount of gas it was putting in (to short charge systems to save the garage some refrigerant). So I put a bit more in myself... quite a bit more, and it seems I overdid it! Because it worked perfectly after the garage regas but now on a particularly hot day (for the UK) if the engine has already been run and the condenser is heatsoaked, as soon as the compressor clutch engages it disengages and this continues until I've driven some distance until maybe the condensor has cooled a bit and some refrigerant has been shifted. It was even worse until I let some refrigerant vent to atmosphere.. I could probably improve it by venting some more refrigerant but don't want to risk breaking it altogether while I'm on holiday.
Passed my test at 17 in 1987 after about 4 lessons.. But in 1984 I was driving Landrovers towing one boat on the back and pushing one boat from the front (front towbar mounted towball), not on public roads though,. But dad did used to send me into town by myself on public roads to buy fuel for said boats.
I have a Nissan Elgrand Jap import... Lots of confusion over whether or not it's even legal to tow anything with the import(?) but I towed my caravan to Cornwall with it...
I just became a member on the other forum... thought I already was (from years ago) but went to log in and found I couldn't, no emails from the .net site either,
I do have to have to have posts approved but that's to be expected for a new user. Will see in time if posts no longer have to be approved. Different username to the one I use here but an obvious one to most of you lot.
I've seen that film Enemy Of The State...Never look up - satellites with face recognition are looking down ;-)
Smug mode :-)
Made it to Newquay no probs and driven all over since in the few days we've been here.
Can still hear that wheel bearing though, and also perhaps a wheel bearing at the front. But no worries at the moment.
Same once happened to me in a Vauxhall Senator, pin prick hole in aluminium heater pipe sprayed hot water on my calf and ankle.
Morat wrote:
I think it will depend on how often you're topping up. A kettle boils many litres of water once each, your radiator should really be reheating the same water all the time so the amount of calcium available to deposit as limescale should be very small in comparison.
My thoughts too. Unless you're Martyuk ;-)
Morat wrote:
And you'd be bored with something that didn't have any issues ;)
Maybe but boredom is better than raging anger or frustration ;-)
Martyuk wrote:
The other downside, is my MOT ran out on the 15th - it was booked in to be done on the 12th, but then this happened on the 9th, so it's had to be put off. So I can't really take the RR out for anything of a run to see how it performs under load and driving conditions - unless its being driven to a pre-arranged MOT. And I don't really want to book it in for the MOT, until I'm happy that it can do the required engine running bits without any signs of blowing/damage. So feel a bit between a rock and a hard place!
I believe usually you'll get a few weeks leeway after an MOT has run out even if police stop you... Just tell them 'ahh bloody hell yes thanks for that I'd forgotten and the garage were supposed to send me a reminder'.
Really attributed to limescale?
Had a chat with an ex Landrover specialist garage owner today, Chris (mentioned on Mazz's diesel problem thread). During the chat he told me that a P38 that I'd converted years ago, a 2002 4.6 that he'd personally rebuilt the engine on only a couple of years ago was recently sold for only £1100 because the owner (who is or was owner of a factory in Halifax who chain smoked all his life and now carries a bottle of oxygen on the front passenger seat) had been messed around by a couple of potential buyers then reckoned he couldn't get a higher price for it. And I thought he was a clever bloke and businessman.. daft lad! It was an extremely nice example with no issues whatsoever. I'd like a P38 but haven't got good reasons to justify owning one... but still I'd have snatched his hand off for a far higher price.
Yes top dead centre Mazz
I once had a Pug 306 1.9 turbo diesel that occasionally sounded like a petrol pinking (during which the usual diesel knock became more like a rattle), if it was doing this at idle it would rev itself up, I put this down to air in the system.. knocked on a neighbours door (ex diesel fitter) but neither of us found the problem.