blueplasticsoulman wrote:
yeah seen it. it seems one of the better conversions. lines look ok. Bodywork is tidy for the age. I imagine a bit of it has been repainted when they did the conversion.
it's also a diesel and has begun to overheat.
I'm still unsure about the side vent mod. I have a pair that I bought ages ago. Not sure it's the right thing to do. End of the day, I have a p38. If I wanted that look, I should probably buy an L322.
On the side vents, just say no!
Don't they all dance at the traffic lights?
A friend of mine has a Bobcat. It's a Classic chassis cut down to fit a D90 trayback body. It was originally built as some sort of off road recovery vehicle with winches front and rear and a crane in the back. It still has the winches but the back now has a booze locker and mainly carries game.
Fun thing though. It had a 3.5 v8 on carbs but that popped and it now has a cammed 4.6, still on carbs.
There are some very odd range rover hybrids out there because the chassis makes it possible. I saw a thread once where someone put an BMW e30 cabriolet shell onto a range rover chassis. God knows why!
Made it out to France 😀I'm contemplating a breakdown before starting the return trip!
More seriously the CO-OP sold me breakdown cover with recovery to the UK for £56 when green flag and the others flat out refused European cover.
Right, time to find a beer 😀
That's a kind offer but we're going via Hull... which makes it a bit of a detour!!
(but does leave a bit of time on Sunday if anywhere is open nearby)
OK, thanks Sloth. I ask because I tried ramming an 8mm-8mm joiner into the existing hose and it wasn't going. I guess the important dimension is at the expansion tank end...
Cheers!
Morat
but it's working for now
The throttle body heater leak was getting ridiculous so I cut the hoses and managed to gently massage* the pipe from the head over to the other side and hook it up to the plastic pipe which promptly snapped and left me without enough slack to join the ends. So I ended up breaking some more plastic pipe off so I could use some of the other rubber pipe in a bodgtastic fashion to make the fine engineering solution below. It isn't leaking now, but the rubber hoses are joined over bits of very brittle plastic pipe so I don't have great hopes for longevity.
So, seeing as the pipes I have don't appear to be very original or even their own shape... should this be a 6mm ID pipe all the way through? We're driving to France on Sunday so I'm very tempted to nip into HellFrauds and pick up some coolant pipe of the right diameter and replace this a run from the expansion tank to a single join to the hose which comes from the top of the engine. I'm not up for taking the throttle body off unless I really have to.
*Pull while swearing
I think it's a little box of magic, used to tame dragons.
Congratulations! On getting married that is :)
Now go and have a P38 free honeymoon!
That is pretty slick, and I do like your LPG switch too.
Marty, you know you're right :)
Don't worry, if my DSP amp is still working next time I'm down (and I'm sure I will be sometime!) then you can have at it. I think it sounds good when fully working but I won't be spending hundreds to replace it once it goes. Things have moved on a bit since 2001.
Hehhe. I guess if they could demonstrate that the alternator was taking X% of the engine output to generate Hyrdrogen which boosted the engine by >X% at the same load they'd have a case.
Bet they didn't though :)
He might swap, that interior is even tartier than his! 😀
Of course it's only a few years since the massive oil boilers were replaced with ground source heat pumps which need 80A of phase each...
Seeing as I work at a visitor attraction this is going to be a real issue. At some point we will have to dig up our car park and provide maybe 500 charging thingies. How are we going to pay for that? How will we support large events when we could have 20,000 people on site?
We have 450 amps of three phase to play with. What is going to be needed in terms of the national grid to cope with all these random loads in weird places?
Hasn't had a lot of use recently :(
Laundry day at Gordon's is quite squeaky...
Sounds like that temp sensor is the culprit then...or does the solar sensor only come into play once the system is up to temp?
If you become a shed dragger, please confine yourself to the uncivilised bits south of Watford ;)