So... how did you split the driving?
There was no puking, I think it's been a while since it was checked. We lost cabin heat then ended up stuck in traffic -> overheat. I pulled over immediately and waited while my wife brought the water :) (she did insist).
The drove to the garage (1/2 mile?) and took the vid while waiting for the LPG pump.
Top Job Gilbert! I'd love to stalk you out there on a P38 run one time, it sounds like a fun place to visit :)
yeah the calipers are horrible :)
Guess I won't be bidding against anyone then!! (or at all, tbh).
She's been using a bit of coolant recently, not sure how much if I'm honest. I should have been measuring it. There's definitely a leak on the LPG reducer and the head -> expansion bottle return judging by the pink stains. However, today she overheated and took 1.5l of de-ionised water before the levels came back.
I've noticed what I think is quite a steamy exhaust - do you reckon this is a problem? The video was taken with a hot engine at 0 degrees ambient, running on LPG.
Video of a P38 steaming gently to herself on a garage forecourt
Hah, I had a similar feeling last week as I gave some guys a lift at work. I picked them up in front of the house, engine running. Got out to move the child seat and knocked the door pin down and the door swung shut. At that point I was standing outside a running car with all the doors locked and no spare key. Of course, the driver's door had only shut on the first catch and once I'd thought about it for a couple of seconds I knocked the door fully shut and the doors unlocked.
It was a heart stopping moment and I'm glad all my doorlocks are behaving - thanks Marty!!
OldShep56 wrote:
What the fukk makes that worth 12.5k?
It's a very rare model, in good condition. I'd say it's worth £5k if it's as good as they say, but even then it's value is as a daily driver rather than an investment. I suspect the owner thought he was buying something that would make him a mint and how he's selling it to invest in bitcoins :)
I do have a soft spot for that model though, the tables look great even if I'd never use them myself.
Sadly I don't have the money. Maybe I could knock off £12k for misdescription on the alloys?
The Hankook is a beast. After dicking around with re-charging and dealing with ABS/TC fault warnings on cold warnings I bowed to the inevitable and haven't looked back.
Guess you found it! :)
Well as long as the oil level isn't rising it sounds positive :)
On the upside, it's nice clean looking coolant - not the moccachino crap you get with a headgasket. Hopefully it's just a duff hose rather than a good hose failing due to over pressure.
115 degrees sounds terrible but if you caught it quickly it's not bad. I don't think it's the actual coolant temp you need to worry about so much as the localised hotspots caused by coolant loss, which it sounds like you avoided.
The carpet can soak up a huge amount of fluid - there's a couple of inches of foam underneath it. I think it's time to have a peek underneath the carpet in the driver's footwell.
Mine was dry from the top but there was nice red coolant underneath. You might see a trace of staining on the side of the transmission tunnel under the dash depending on the carpet and coolant colours.
How is your oil?
It sounds more like a licensing issue than a USB cable issue... :(
I have Shed Envy!
Sloth wrote:
Supposedly an L322 with LPG according to someone who was there on one of the FB groups.
So obviously, it must have been the LPG that caused the parked up car to spontaneously combust. Couldn't possibly have been an electrical fault, or coolant, brake fluid or oil dripping on a still hot exhaust....
It was burning under the bonnet with a nice bright orange flame, it looked like a petrol fire to me although I've never seen LPG burn. Can LPG burn in any sustained manner? I'd have thought it would flash off and be gone unless you had a sustained source of gas, like a pressure relief valve venting but that would have been at the back of the vehicle.
Sorry Marty, I got confused :)
Anyway, it seems that both plumbing designs are valid. I will say that I do notice less heat at idle, but that was a pretty extreme example (sleeping out overnight in the Range Rover and starting the engine to heat up the seats). It was also below freezing outside. That might be down to an unequal split between the two routes, or it could just be a lack of flow overall due to the speed of the water pump. The reducer didn't freeze, but it wasn't flowing much gas either.
Hmm, all very interesting.
I wonder. If Marty is still getting good cabin heat with his heater matrix running in series with the reducer then surely there must be plenty of heat left in the coolant after it has heated the reducer?
Also, would it be more efficient to run the coolant to the heater matrix first when it is at its hottest and then to the reducer which doesn't need to be as hot?
My Reducer/Heater Matrix also run in parallel without (known!) issues - but I can definitely see where Gilbert is coming from with the theory.
The idea of running two totally separate feeds using the redundant 8mm circuit from the throttle body heater tickles me. I reckon you'd get away with an 8mm feed even though it's a big difference in flow. This is based purely on gut, without maths - so it's just BS until we work out a way to test it.
Sloth, good call on the ring binder. I've got access to decent copier/MFDs that would print but I don't really do much paper so I'd forgotten about those comb binder things.
Now, I wonder if I could get my minion to laminate the lot? :)
Happy New Year :)
And don't get stuck in the snow!