I am working (from home) but a weekend one could work. Or next week (I'm on holiday).
I'll send you all a virtual burger :)
That is properly stuck, well done :)
Gilbertd wrote:
and what did you do in 1994 that caused you to meet a GMP Traffic officer? Would probably still have been using their Classics then.
I ran out of fuel on the M62.. nothing sinister except I had two SA80s in the back! Simpler times! :)
Probably the guy I met in about 1994 - he was a huge fan :)
Tanis, do you have a charger that will do a de-sulphation cycle? My latest acquisition does and it can work minor miracles with tired batteries.
This is the one I have but there are many others: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00E907PWS/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
That one is available quite reasonably now as there's a new range out from that company.
Here's the 5A version https://tinyurl.com/y8e9q6u3 at Hellfrauds
Great news! And you've got a refreshed motor as a side-effect.
I like the way you've gone straight to cosmetics :) Approved!!
Were you charging the battery out of the car? If so, it sounds like it's about to become a spare...
Hats off Sloth, you're really going after this!
Mine was doing exactly that until I changed the plugs and wires.
It started with sometimes needing a second crank to get going on very cold days and ended up starting, stumbling and flooding enough to be a major pain.
Either way, it's got to be Spark or Fuel so check em both :)
If you're getting a big Impact Driver I'd recommend making sure you've got some ear defence to go with it. I didn't realise how loud those things are until I borrowed a big 1/2" DeWalt to shift a couple of nuts on my transmission cross-member. After 45s per nut on full Whack my ears were ringing!
Certbot is great, though :)
Ah well, that's what you get for trusting wikipedia!
Apparently it was widely used in the British car industry and the Rover Group but if it was special edition P38s then mine isn't. I'm pretty sure the main parts of the seat are real leather though, going by touch. I'm not going to strip one down to find out :)
I'm glad to say I came from 6 BMWs in a row. 4 E30s, and E39 and an E46. Sadly they're as electronically opaque as anything else now. I don't understand the fear of P38s now that Nanocom is available.
Of all of them, this is the one I miss the most:
Although this was fun, and at the time FWD was all I knew:
Yep, that sounds realistic. My VC issues felt different with random inconsistencies in steering, especially on surface changes or when turning downhill. The box is tight enough.
Have you tested the Viscous Coupling yet? An even simpler test would be to turn at full lock on that gravel and see if the front skips.
Interesting, I thought the P38 used Connolly hide - just before Connolly went bust in 2002.
That's interesting. I'm just casting about for leather products as I've finished my supply of Gliptone which was excellent but I first bought it a while back. Saddle soap isn't exactly a new innovation in the market :) but if you like it, it must be worthy.
Do you clean the seats before using the saddle soap? If so, what do you use?
Lightstone shows every speck.. and there are some minor cracks on the front seats which look terrible really quickly.
Gotta love consumer AV - always trying to justify the renewal license!
Gilbertd wrote:
Don't know what model it was but a few years ago my neighbour was buying a caravan and asked me what I thought he should buy to tow it. As it was at the time we had the TD5 Disco at work I told him to get one of those. So he went out and came back with a Jeep Cherokee of some description. Went away with the caravan for a weekend and came back with a howling rear diff so he went back to the dealers that he'd got it from, a specialist 4x4 dealers. They agreed that the diff was shot and asked if he'd been towing with it. When he said he had, the response was that while they look like they should be good for towing they aren't really up to it. They refunded his money, he added a bit to it and came away with a TD5 Disco.......
He probably made the mistake of buying a post 2001 "Cherokee" known as the Jeep Liberty or KJ in the US.
They're the Freelander of the Jeep world.
I'm no shed-dragger but the XJ is a reasonable tow car for caravan type loads (like 2000kg) according to what I've read. I'd still take the P38 for a big load.
Ah yes, the colour that people go to great lengths to describe as anything but "Murple" in ads.
It looks good in person though :)
My XJ is Gunmetal Pearl which is nice enough but needs US levels of sunlight to really show the pearlescent paint. Most of the time it looks light grey but in strong sunlight it looks very dark grey and is actually gunmetal to look at.
My favorite colour was the Green we had on our first Jeep. IIRC it was Moss Green which was metallic/pearlescent and showed a very restrained sort of bronze under the green when the light hit it right. The only pic of that Jeep I can find is of the dogs and the jeep is filthy.
Try post #32 on this forum :) https://www.cherokeeforum.com/f46/96-moss-green-pearl-i-love-gas-guzzling-97813/index3/