Is she a bit smoky? :)
DaveW, I think you have to accept that when the threads go quiet it is not because you have persuaded people of your point of view.
I have a boat!
It's diesel powered... but hey :)
Davemilner wrote:
Thanks guys it's appreciated.. hopefully a kind member will help me out soon 😁
Well, I'm closer than Heathrow!!! Malton YO17 but that's still the wrong side of the Pennines... I'm in this weekend if you fancy a trip!
Personally I'm neither for nor against Greta or any climate change activist. I think there's a lot to be done and we all need to address the issues. I don't care enough about Greta to bother researching her or to get upset by her claims.
On the other hand, I don't think that replacing fossil fueled cars with EVs is realistic or even desirable in the timescales being discussed. We're going to need to re-invest in public transport with the twin priorities of making it both ubiquitous and green. How the hell that can be achieved is not up to me.
In the near future, I'm pretty sure that fossil fueled vehicles will be taxed off the road or simply banned. I just hope that there's a viable alternative in place when it happens. Sadly, it looks like the personal freedom to take off in a vehicle and simply travel for the hell of it is likely to disappear* but if that's the cost of keeping the sea off the land I guess we'll have to pay it.
*with the exception of touring on a bicycle which is good fun, but not quite the same thing
There's one__ in .......
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Dave, have you beaten BT yet?
Do you still own a P38 yourself?
Here's some more science!
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/055d/88887123275e802183a568845b7e0e8acc91.pdf
I need to make a 4.6 stroker for my Jeep! You can get kits that give about 10.7:1 compression.
Go for it! I'm sure you'll be welcomed in any school. Especially as you're a scientist.
I'm sure they'll find a use for them, Merry Christmas :)
Well, she's running again. I logged in to have a look at the faults in the BECM and found these:
PO333 Knock Sensor Fault Bank 2
Drive Cycle B
Occured once
Signal too low
(not currently present)
P1668 = Anti Theft Alarm Serial
Link Fault Drive Cycle A
Occured once
Signal Too Low
Fault not currently present.
Then I tried starting her and she fired first hit. I cleared the faults for the hell of it and they didn't come back. Does the Anti Theft alarm cause a no -start? Does anyone know the cause?
She was quite rough until she warmed up a bit and on the "Roughness" page of Motronic pot 4 was showing values up to about 7. The misfire count was 0 all round.
I suspect it's time for some spark plugs, so I'll whip a couple out to have a look.
While I was in there, I had a poke around - what is "Moisture Detection"???
Anyway, I've got a running car - I'm just a little wary as it's a fault for which I don't have a cause.
EDIT: Immobiliser was showing "Disabled"
I didn't realise they'd crank when immobilised, thank you folks!
I'll have a go at this tonight when I get in, I'm missing my heated seats already :)
The Jeep is feeling smug now it's back on DD duty, so it'll probably find a way to let me down too!
The Duchess is being a little minx again!
After running perfectly as a DD for a couple of weeks she refuses to start. She has sometimes needed a couple of hits on the key when starting from cold, but has always started, nearly always immediately.
Suddenly she won't start at all. She cranks fine but there's no hint of any pots firing. Th8s is just a whinge really as I haven't bothered with any diagnosis yet but I'll post up results as I get round to them.
I'll start with a Nanocom scan, fuel pressure and try taking a spark plug out to test for a spark.
My money is on the CPS right now but that's a flat out guess until I have any data. I'll check before loading the parts cannon!
If anyone has suggestions on what to test, please let me know (apart from my head for still running this vehicle! 😀)
Maybe after you've done a recce we can organise a Pub outing the year after and have an epic convoy to Moscow or even Turkey or somewhere nuts :)
Just make sure you're in Moscow by Autumn :)
I had similar, and on advice from the forum I cleaned up the yellow connector under the seat with contact cleaner and it has behaved since.
Once it gets too stiff it'll load up your front drive-train and cause lots of nasty wear.
I'd guess that the wear will start somewhere between the correct amount of slip and fully-locked so I think the torque values are going to be important here. By the time I realised (well, Marty figured it out) that my Viscous Unit was done, neither of us could turn it at all so the actual torque settings were irrelevant.
Probably a silly question but.. how are your roll bars/bushes?
edit: it was a silly question - you've already changed the bushes and links.
Only the bars themselves to go then, but I've never heard of them wearing out/going floppy
Booo! Is that just because the Russians don't like us or have Belarus and Russia fallen out?