that and they should constantly flick between lean and rich when everything is working correctly.

I though we'd established that the Ascot was a special edition for the Classic but not the P38?
Or am I mis-remembering?

The correct way to dispose of LPG is to hook it up to a barbeque and invite 30-40 of your closest friends around for a hog roast :)

Lol, these diesel types :)
Welcome !

Polys squeak. You probably wouldn't notice inside a p38 cabin but to my mind, if they squeak then something isn't right.

Oh, and science. Clive covered that 😀

Direct Line insured my lowered BMW E30. Things may have changed since...

no10chris wrote:

Underneath mine is clean, I had no options but to gunk and jet wash, the self lube chassis system went out of control.
If your gonna have a go I recommend a pair of safety Goggles, the crap goes everywhere
I definitely use goggles/glasses. I do have a Karcher/jetwash thing (mainly for cleaning concrete) but I have to use it in the street which is crap because I live on a blind bend! I generally run the cars through the car wash at the local Sainsbury's which sprays up underneath as well.
During winter salt season I get to the local jetwash every couple of weeks to try and keep the rot off.

But at least you can use the suspension to give you more room :)

No, the dessicant and filters were clean as a whistle. I hope the valve block turns out the same way. I've got the O rings so I'll do that and put it all back together and feel much happier. I might need to change the rear left height sensor as that is the one that seems to read 10mm higher than the rest and sometimes throws an "out of range" error but I can live with that for the moment.

Yep, that's the sort of thing. Different shape, but definitely of that ilk. There was a very impressive puddle of Mercury at the bottom so it was left well alone in case the glass broke as we wrestled with it.

How do you shampoo and jetwash the underneath? at a local jetwash or do you put it up on stands?

I have to say, BPSM does keep a really clean car :)

It'd be worth sorting the coolant issue. I can't live with coolant leaks in case they mask something more sinister like a headgasket. But that's my brand of Paranoia :)

I doubt the throttle body heater plate will have magically healed itself. You can get a replacement for not a lot of cash or do what most of us have done and bypass it completely by running new hose from the head (where you have taken the other photo of a leak) to the coolant expansion bottle.

I suspect it had a commercial value, judging by the speed the sparky offered to "look after it" :)

edit: I mis-remembered. It was actually some kind of transformer, or maybe rectifier. Real Frankenstein's lab type stuff :)

It's working fine, thanks :)
I'll clean/rebuild the valve block and swap them again as soon as I can.
I'm interested to see what state mine is in.

I really wish I could find the pictures I took of a piece of industrial junk we found at work. It was a mercury tilt switch from the original stand by generator. It was massive and contained about 6 litres of Mercury. Amazing glasswork and bloody heavy.

Well, after Gordon very considerately disabled this website to stop me prevaricating any further I cracked on with it.
If you can consider 4 hours to swap the valve block Cracking On.

Thank you OB for your valve block which is indeed very lovely, although some of your collets needed a little attention after the tape was removed. I dropped all the air out of the system, cleaned the inside of the EAS tray to Michelin star levels of cleanliness and changed the filters and desiccant in the dryer.

The dryer was fun. I don't have a vice so I managed to fashion an EAS Dryer unscrewing tool out of a dog lead, a 1/2" ratchet extension, a latex glove and an oil filter removal tool. Once I got in, using some powerful language, I cursed the Dunlop techs who had sealed the unit with a couple of large smears of glue on the threads.

I haven't taken my valve block apart yet but there has been no sign of the dreaded brass swarf so far. I'm taking that as good news. I did try and time the compressor while it filled the reservoir from scratch but it started to rain, then blow a gale then I realised that I had only tightened the brass nut on the blue pipe finger tight while putting the compressor back in. Curses again. It's now all buttoned up but I thought I'd let it cool down and go back to it after grabbing a snack lunch at 3pm. Not before pressing the wrong button on the Nanocom and dumping it back to access height. Ah well.

Fun!

Now I need to go and buy a crochet hook....

wow, is it really that long? I'll call it scheduled maintenance then, and feel better about it.