Personally, I love the EBC Greenstuff pads. They give great bite from cold and don't fade. I use them with the grooved/dimpled EBC disks as I don't like disks with holes all the way through.
There are many options!!
Mine are tinted, just on the acceptable side of scruffy now. The annoying part is the need for brighter reversing lights!
I'm suddenly motivated to get the Austin 7 on an exhaust tester before puttering round London :)
"Cheap" is right, but not in a good way.
Sweet, thanks for your experience!
karlos, the Jeep is only 1500kg wet so it should be OK.
StrangeRover - thanks :)
Folks, could someone tell me what the recommended nose weight (or range) is for the P38?
I might be towing my jeep to the West Riding next week (1500kg).
Thanks!
Whenever I'm looking for a big old petrol I generally find that the low mileage examples are on straight petrol and the leggy ones have LPG. I bought the Jeep converted, but ended up having it all replaced bar some pipework so I bought the Range Rover without LPG and had Simon do a conversion from scratch.
I'm far happier with the conversion that was done properly in the first place.
Yeah, that's probably it. I just want to confirm what's going on before I get into dropping the tank or cutting a hole.
Of course, I went to it yesterday and it started from cold on the first hit. You gotta love 'em ;)
Benefit in kind for company car drivers.
BIK works on a sliding scale. EVs attract 0%. 3% for new PHEV, up through the various decreasingly "green" options to 21% for anything that produces 100g of CO2/mile or more.
So, if the company "gives" you an M3 you'll pay 21% of the purchase price in tax. If they give you a Tesla you'll have nothing more to pay.
Lpgc wrote:
You could use a schraeder valve tool to remove the valve temporarily while you have the pressure gauge connected. Some such tools look a bit like a radiator key but with a forked end.
That's a good idea! Certainly worth a shot before splashing out again. I'll just make sure to do it from cold ;)
And yes, I'm having some weird starting issues from cold. Warm restarts are 100%, cold starts take a lot of faffing about. It seems to start much more readily if I run the fuel pump between start attempts so I thought I'd better measure the fuel pressure and see what's going on at the rail.
From cold it cranks, stumbles, stops and after I run the pump I've got about a 50% chance on each subsequent crank of it stumbling again, or starting as if nothing had happened.
I've had some misfire issues last year so I replaced the coil packs, plugs, and wires which seemed to sort it out. Then the issues came back with cold weather and gradually spread to all the time. I have the odd misfire code (unsurprising) and the occasional serial link error for the antitheft but they occur far less regularly than the starting issue so I'm not sure if they're related or it's a multi-factor problem. The fun continues :)
I tried hooking up my fuel pressure gauge to the schraeder test port at the back of the engine the other day, but I couldn't get the pipe to hook up. It seems like the centre of the valve sticks out too far for the pipe on my gauge to get a grip on the threads.
Could you recommend me a gauge that will hook up to a P38 Thor?
Cheers
Morat
The brakes are now on. It stops straight, no wibbling. Hurrah!
I'll do the break-in in 200 miles time (EBC specify a very pedantic routine).
I probably missed the click on the torque wrench when I snapped the bolts, but this time I just tightened them down and gave them a tweak.
F1 is more of an arms race than a sporting event. I love it, but I do admit that the drivers are only going to make x% difference to the overall results.
Rugby is my sport, I've never "got" football/soccer at all.
mad-as wrote:
a twenty minute job is only one broken bolt away from becoming a 3 day job:😂
So true!
Gotta say, that is a really good looking set of wheels :)
I don't like the way that gov policy has swung all round the compass from crowning Diesel as the next Messiah - until they realised that it spread PM10 and NOx all over the shop and kills people by the thousand every year in the UK. Then pushing LPG half-heartedly until they realised that the motor industry had no interest in refitting existing cars (the greenest option, surely) and only wants to sell whole new cars with a percentage improvement in fuel economy per generation. This shouldn't have been a shock, because car companies couldn't give a flying one about the planet, they literally exist to sell people new cars every few years with a marginal improvement (And shiny new paint).
Then it was Hybrids, starting with the Prius. I loved the ep of Top Gear when they drove the nuts off a Prius round their track until the tank ran dry and followed it in an M3. They recorded better Mpg over the test in the M3 because it wasn't stressed (but moving at exactly the same speed). The true value in a hybrid is understanding that it makes driving economically the goal of owning the car. Driving like a 90 year old on mogadon is the way you feed that comforting confirmation bias that tells you that you made the right choice and YES you are getting something for nothing, unlike those other schmuks.
After that it was the turn of plug in hybrids - most of which ran around as pure petrol cars with dead batteries because there was no incentive to charge at home.
And now.. powered by unicorn farts and rainbows it's the turn of the EV. They sound terrible. Well they sound exactly like the old milk floats, minus the chinking of glass bottles. I don't think there's any way round that but they do have the advantage (in some cases) of being truly and ridiculously fast. A sub 2.0 second 0-60 time and sub 9s quarter mile is bonkers* There are more of them arriving by the week as ALL the traditional car companies scramble for EV ranges before the various cut-off dates for Fossil Fueled vehicles. This means it's an exciting time to watch the market, but it's a particularly rubbish time to buy because this year's Best Buy could be totally out-Top Trumped in 6 month's time and depreciate like a Kipper on a Sunbed.
Let's be honest here, the biggest cost in motoring is depreciation so I'll be stretching out my fleet of dino fuelled vehicles as long as I can (brake bolts notwithstanding!) but it's still an interesting time to play fantasy garage, especially if you're the kind of car nerd who really likes computers. Teslas are rammed packed with computers with premium gaming and streaming services that would actually make me want to flick the autopilot switch and kick back for a couple of hours :)
I'm sure they won't be alone for long, and I'm sure that the other manufacturers will contribute their own flavour (err communicate their Core Brand Values) to the whole EV theme over the next few years. Sadly for Aston Martin, their beautiful exhaust notes are heading to the great Dodo perch in the sky, which is a crying shame.
*Some fast quarter mile times: https://blog.dupontregistry.com/features/top-10-fastest-quarter-mile-times-production-cars/
**Some really fast quarter mile times. Possibly. https://www.carscoops.com/2020/09/tesla-model-s-plaid-60-in-under-2-seconds-quarter-mile-under-9-seconds-200-mph-top-speed-520-mile-range/
StrangeRover wrote:
Taxing the fuel will be mandatory though, once you remove the free fuel and tax what benefits do you have to driving electric?
Lord High Elon is predicting that he'll have self-driving tech so well sorted "soon" that you'll be able to send your Tesla off to be part of a driverless fleet of Ubers (except, not Ubers but Teslas) when you're not using it. This will mean you earn money from your car while you're at work or asleep. He's so confident that he has put the price of Autopilot up to about £6k even though is isn't ready yet.
Will he be right? Who knows. I can't imagine they'll plug themselves in to recharge though.
Hard to say.. it's new if that matters.
I got a pair of them to cover the range required when I replaced the UJs on the front axle of my jeep. That was IIRC 220lb/ft for the axle nuts, down to 12 lb/ft for the caliper bolts.
I'll just give them the old "tight and a bit" with a 3/8" ratchet and call it good next time.
Yep, I'm not sure they're ready yet - but they're coming so I'm conditioning myself to enjoy the changeover.
What I'm also interested in is whether EVs themselves will be a stepping stone towards Hydrogen which seems to be the runner up every time we look at clean fuel.