This is really terrible news :(
I haven't been on the site recently due to moving house. I was hoping to hear good news about OB as I thought he was a really great guy. Gentle, amusing and kind. I will always wear braces when doing car maintenance, in his honour.
Rest In Peace, Mark.
Lpgc wrote:
Morat wrote:
started leaking from the reservoir after a week.
Look on the bright side Miles, still better than if the noise was coming from the engine's bottom end lol!
Tried these http://acdoflancashire.co.uk/ ?
Maybe the Chinese merged the Yank PAS pump design with a Merc PAS pump design.. leaking reservoirs is a common Merc problem. Dunno why firms like Merc design their own bits such as PAS pumps only to make a less reliable part than well proven generic stuff that would've probably cost them less than their own design.
I think the issue is that the Chinese produced their own Jeep Cherokees after Euro-whatever killed the 4.0 in 2001 along with the rover v8, lampredi twin cam and other classics. I'm guessing that they have a decent parts supply from local manufacturers but there are detail differences.
The good news is that the bottom end is fine :) The issue is that the engine doesn't run on petrol or LPG properly when warm (fine when cold) but if I disconnect petrol injector #2 it runs on 5 on petrol and perfectly well on gas at all temps. So for now it runs on 5 until switchover and then it's all fine. I've no idea what to do about it, but you might be getting a visit! :)
Despite cleaning some of the more obvious engine grounds with a wire brush and switch cleaner before re-attaching them without much effect I'm still clinging to the theory that it's an earth issue. The radio develops a nice crackle which appears to be engine speed related and the gearbox can get sulky on a hot day. That's definitely electrical as it changes fine when you use the gear lever.
I bought a power steering pump for my jeep from chryslerparts.co.uk via ebay.
The confirmation email was in something Slavic and the tracking came all the way from China via every one horse town in between. The pump arrived with Chinese on the cap to tell me how to check the levels, needed custom hose bodges to fit and started leaking from the reservoir after a week.
Buy cheap buy twice
I should be old enough by now....
The 30th anniversary is a bit Marmite. If you like green it's ideal with green paint, leather and wheels.
I'd love one but I wouldn't expect to pay a huge amount.
A couple of nice looking ones went on the bay for about 15k last year. I'm not sure if they sold for that.
Even I put them back in the right order. Labelling is the best option of course but even just looking at the wires is enough to get them back in properly.
I think it's almost time for another Miles/Litre on LPG thread :)
I think I just need an armoured grill, headlights and windscreen. Bloody Pheasants!!
I've got a new grill to fit.
Are any of them armoured? :)
hah, a week off just means you're working on your own list!
They are definitely the way ahead but I wish there was a tablet out there that was a millimetre smaller so it would line up with the bottom of the clock.
The one that is helpfully labelled as a motorway sign :crazy:
Hubba hubba!! :D
Lpgc wrote:
One thing that narks me - When in a shop paying at the til if they ask you for any or all of postcode, phone number, name, business name, email address. Tell them you don't want to give them the info and they sometimes act like you've insulted them or as though you're the exception and must be paranoid. If I'm under a car and hear my phone beep it's annoying to get out to check it just to read that summers here so I might be interested in Halfords sale on pushbike helmets or MachineMart's 20% off patio log burners.
Halfords are particularly bad for it, but that'll have to change. They can only insist on the information that is necessary for carrying out the contract (ie the sale of the goods) and they have to explain why they capture the information and what they use it for. If it isn't necessary for the contract then you can just say "no". In future. If it works as intended. Under GDPR you have the absolute right to refuse processing of your personal information for marketing purposes, so if Halfords store all this stuff and market to you they could eventually end up with a pretty stiff fine.
Gilbertd, one of the main changes under GDPR is the right to deletion of your personal information so you were bang on :)
Were Lucas ever any good?
I'm certainly in no rush to replace the DSP setup in The Duchess. When it fails, it'll probably all get ripped out in favour of an android headunit/nav system. Until then, it's quite cool.
Another neat touch from Simon was installing the filler with the lugs vertical so the nozzle is parallel to the bumper when filling. This reduces the strain on the hose and makes it easier to fill from either side.
My filler is about 8 inches to the right of the tow hitch. It's the same side as the petrol filler without being impossible to fill from the left.
At the same time, you can still get to it if you've got stuff on the hitch, like a bike rack.
Good to hear it :)
The greens are on The Duchess now, not bedded in yet but Mrs Morat is taking it easy (she claims!)
I'm looking for a set of greens for my Jeep but they seem to only be available in the US. It turns out that EBC have factories in UK and USA.
Gilbertd wrote:
Mukiwa wrote:
Every cell site is connected to GCHQ and they can access all SMS's and meta data over the phone networks.
Except for WhatsApp as it is end to end encrypted and doesn't appear anywhere on the network in a form that can be unencrypted. Which is why the security services tried to ban it......
What can't be done is listen in to your mobile phone conversations. The way GSM works is that it uses Time Division Multiplex. Each carrier is split into 10 time slots, 8 carrying speech as data and the other 2 carrying timing information. So if you were to break it down you would hear a snippet of conversation 1, a snippet of conversation 2, then 3, then 4, etc, until you get back to number 1 again. That's why music on hold sounds so bad on a mobile, because the codec is engineered for human speech as it has to fill in the gaps between slots and can't easily cope with music. CDMA and UMTS get even more complex.
GSM is decrypted at the tower - the authorities just get the feed from the carrier.
I've been getting calls on my work mobile for Jason Bennet ever since I first got the number in 2010. It seems that Mr Jason Bennet is being chased by just about every debt collector in the UK and he's using my phone number on the applications!