Hah.. yes it was!
Thanks ☺

Is this a flat battery?
I get gearbox fault, eas fault, traction failure, abs fault and it won't start..just click click click with the dash lights dimming in time.
Help!

Pffft, amateur :-)

Top Tip:
If it IS a front wheel bearing, it's cheaper to replace it before you end up sacrificing the brake disk to keep the wheel in place as you limp to safety...

:(

OK! well that looks like some very high quality pipe. If it fits, then great :)
btw, I don't hold any copyright on the "Drilled Banana Method" - I just paid the guy who worked it out to fit my LPG.
If I attempted to fit LPG myself you'd all hear about it on the evening news!

While I was away, we had someone from Zycom come up and have a look. They're sure that the repeater is actually being hit by multiple requests from radios to log in with the Smart Despatch software. They reckon there's a network problem which is preventing the login acknowlegement being sent back to the mobile and that causes multiple retries. I'm not convinced it's network, but I'll have to eliminate it before we can do much else.

I had a local garage refuse to do the bearings and demand a full hub... just sayin!

Back from a week holiday and there was the new MAF sitting there looking all shiny and new....
After a quick check online I worked out that EVEN I can fit one.
I also cleared the codes (again) and reset the adaptive values (again).

Much improved. Everything settled down really quickly - in fact I didn't notice any poor running at all this time - and nor did the ECU. I've just come back from 18 miles of country roads with no faults in the Motronic! She also seems a little feistier with the correct fuelling and the flat spot at 3500rpm seems to have gone.
I'll give it a few more miles before I'm certain but this looks like a result :) Then I'll try it on LPG again and see if that needs twiddling to suit the new MAF.

Marty, I saw your email come in thank you - I'll reply soon now I'm back at a PC.
Morat

Sadly I can take no credit, but it does seem to work... well it will once I get a new MAF :)
Morat

Yep, I'm with you on that. I think there's a problem with the repeater, but I can't quite understand what on earth it thinks it is doing but I'm loathe to call OFCOM unless we're sure there's an external problem.

Thanks again!

They're used as digital, certainly. One of the sets in the video is programmed to receive on analogue so we can hear what is busying up the repeater. The video shows short bursts, sometimes they're a couple of minutes long and we can't transmit because it's using both channels. I'm chasing our radio supplier.

Oh, Ofcom say our channel is shared but there shouldn't be anyone nearby.

Hmm, the plot thickens.
http://www.lard.me.uk/Interference.mp4

I wonder if our repeater is buggered :(

I can record more if it's useful.. For that one I just used a recording app on my phone, a radio and a quiet room. Is the quality good enough to read it into your kit? I'm not sure if that sample had the header because I was using a "Skip Silence" feature but whoever it is is transmitting regularly enough for me to wait about.

We're using 75 Hytera 7 series handhelds with a repeater and two channels. The kit is about 3 years old and this interference started at about Christmas time so maybe it was a shiny new Mtrbo present for someone :)

Thanks! That has eliminated a huge amount of dicking about!
Our system is licensed and current - I'll check the paperwork tomorrow but I think it's a Technically Assigned license. Our supplier (Zycomm) have checked the list of license allocations and there's nothing in our area on our frequency.

I'll head down to the repeater tomorrow, and check over the config before calling Ofcom just in case it's an embarassing own goal.
Not that I've made any changes recently, but you never know! I might ask a local Amateur to listen in on our freq and see if he can get any clues to help out. My initial guess would be taxis, the problems seem to start slowly in the morning, ramp up by mid day and last until late at night.

Again, thanks a lot. This is causing our radios to be pretty much inoperable for large periods of the day and that causes us a lot of Health and Safety type implications quite apart from the general PITA.

Gilbertd :)
I wonder if you could cast your expert ear over the following recording?
http://www.lard.me.uk/nastynoise.wav

Something really horrible is interfering with our work radio repeater. It's located in a Farm Yard with adjoining works yard and joinery shop, so there's loads to go at and I can't think of anyone with more experience who might be able to narrow it down a little bit!

I can't stretch to £350 a day and free F1 tickets but I could manage a pint :)

OK Marty, like I said there's no pressure on the switch pack. I'm definitely not backing out of the purchase but I'm happy to slip down the queue if you're busy. I'm concentrating on the fuelling for now.

I'll send you the ABS ECU with the switchpack for you to prod :)

MAF.. heh. Exactly what Simon LPG suggested to start with. Better not tell him!
I'll prod the nanocom and come back with some readings if you don't mind looking them over. There's a lot on that page I don't understand.

Marty - I've still got this ABS ECU that I forgot to bring down to summer camp. I'm not keen to have it destroyed (unless it turns out to be a bad one) but if it could be of value to science then I'm happy to lend it to you on a long term basis. Should I send it down?

edit: Sorry - yes please to the switch pack! I'd like to get something off the list :)

Marty, I've been running it on petrol to eliminate the LPG from the equation - for exactly the reasons you describe :)

As for the switchpack - yes please but you'll have to talk me through it or I'll break something else!
(wood one, with sunroof?)
Cheers,
Miles

Sloth wrote:

Those plugs can be an arse to get undone... especially when covered in oil!

The rough road thing I think is normal.

The water drip may be condensate from the air conditioning - if its clear it probably is. The drains are either side of the gearbox. If you get underneath and look up with a torch, you'll see the black rubber things that have a cross cut into them high up.

Ahh thanks. Aircon condensate makes a lot of sense. I'll check for sure next time I'm underneath (which probably won't be too long!)

I'll have another go at the O2 plug, my mate Bob did the whole thing in 10 minutes and I can't for the life of me remember whether he used something cunning to undo the plug or just relied on the fact that he has hands like molegrips.

I'll keep driving the thing for now and try to work out why the adaptive values would be out of range with no other reported faults. Airleak?