Irrelevant waffle deleted! Coffee time :)

There are no good batteries for our P38s at Halfords.
Bend to the inevitable! Buy the Hankook of Power!

lol :)

In other news, I took the Duchess to work today put the seats down and rammed her full of five tills, two network switches 7 big UPS units 3 CCTV cameras and a load of associated cables and tools. I didn't even need the trailer, there's tons of rooms in these things :)

I think you just have to put the key in the ignition and turn it to position 2.

Sloth wrote:

Sounds about right for a setup where they are all switched on at the same time. Some newer cars pulse them individually, which had me really confused how they were getting away with a weedy main feed to the control unit until I worked it out.

What is the advantage in that? Surely it just means that it takes longer to heat all the cylinders? Or do they shove $MANY_AMPS down each one for a very short time?

Apple Chutney, with a nice bit of chilli. Nothing fierce, just a single birds eye in a batch. No Cinnamon though, people put it with apples all the damn time.

Welcome Donald! It looks you're gifted with the spanners!
I think a 2020 summer camp would be a great idea, and then maybe a mass arrival at a show/rally/trial to wave the p38 flag in the 4x4 world?

I love the EBC pads and disks too. Great price, someone probably had their knuckles rapped for that one!

Finished the plugs and HT Leads, test drove, no faults - DONE!
Hopefully for good this time.

5 years is what I'm hoping for :)
Marty says he swapped the leads for me a couple of years back but I don't remember and it's not on my list so they probably pre-date my ownership.

The plugs are OK once I've got them out with a decent gap and light, light brown deposits but the outside of them is rough. There's rust on the hex and conductors and the wires are all grim on the inside of the connectors which seems to be what caused the misfires/weak spark. No4 was badly corroded.

I've bought some silicon dielectric grease just for the hell of it. I'll smear some on the plugs when it arrives - hopefully it'll help seal the boots up and prevent corrosion. If not, it'll save my knuckles when I pull the wires off next time!

OK, I got all the old wires out and 6 new Platinum NGK 14mm plugs in before having to leave for lunch.
All the old wires have crappy corroded conductors/connectors at the plug end. Some of them were welded to the plug and I just pulled the wire out and had to put the spanner over the remaining rubber.
Is there any magic potion I should apply before ignoring the whole lot for another five years? :)

I went with platinum in the end as Iridium are just too spendy, I may regret that one day :/

One of the fun parts of P38 ownership is that things can escalate quickly if you disconnect the battery. At the very least you've got to reset all the windows and sunroof. If you mess it up you'll be entering the EKA and hoping that your door lock switches are all working or you've got a nanocom to hand.
That's assuming you haven't left your only key in the ignition ;)

OK, I'm sure I wouldn't make that mistake in a year's time!

Cute Boxer :)

Good luck! and Happy New Year :)

Merry Christmas everyone - and good health!

Swapped the plug in no4 from a "big hex" Champion something to a "small hex" NGK platinum job. When I popped the lead off it was all powdery and crap, no wonder the spark was poor. I looked at swapping just the No4 wire but it seems to be at the bottom of the coil pack and I couldn't get my hand to it without removing all the others first so I called "Christmas Eve" and just cleaned up the existing wire with a shot of Carb Cleaner.
I've since found my contact cleaner so that's in the boot along with the other 7 plugs and the new set of wires in case we have a problem.
Put about 30 miles on it since clearing the codes and all has been fine.
Back in business - but I'll need to get the wires changed over. Marty reckons he did it last time we met up but I have absolutely no recollection. I've certainly never bought Champion plugs so I'm confused. The leads say 2015 on them, so Marty is probably right :)

The poor Duchess is now running on 5 old Champions, 2 BPR6 and only one correct NGK. This will be remedied.

I'm at work this weekend, sadly.
But can we confirm that entering the EKA with the nanocom and then using they key only for locking/unlocking will leave Frank even :) with a reliable workaround until he gets a new fob and probably driver's door latch assembly?

If so, I'll see when I'm next off and see what we can do. It won't be till well into Jan now I'm afraid.

Absolutely nothing. She's sitting out there sulking on her bumpstops while I drive the Jeep instead. Unless we get a magical amount of sunshine between now and Christmas that's how she'll stay for another two weeks. I'm not changing the plugs and wires in the dark and I'm not driving her down a pot with a mix on full lean.
Bastard thing.

I know we're far from a statistically significant sample but...

How long have people run their Rover V8s for?
If you have had headgaskets, cams, chains - or even new engines it would be interesting to know when those items were replaced.
It would probably be useful to know what mileage was showing when you bought the car. For example, mine was bought at 96k and it's now showing near 130k so I can't speak for anything that happened before 96k as it had no service history.