In the interim i need to extract water from the carpets.
A rather ingenious solution if i say so myself!!
Oh and you know it's bad when the dash is rotting out..
More to come tomorra if the weather holds
did you ever resolve this issue?
My tensioner is making one hell of a racket!
I went out to the P38 today and saw a small swimming pool in the floor where the loom goes and my floor mat was saturated, water is leaking from above the dash and on to the carpet..
The worst it's ever been, prolly thanks to this storm "ciara" we recently had, rain has been relentless.
I've sealed up the pollen filters and everything under the scuttle - Drains are clear.
Duck taped the shagged sunroof up too.
so that sorts out the 2 most common areas,,
are there any other places for water to get in?
Cheers gents.
Patience is getting then regarding this water ingress, i can deal with ruined engines and major components, but small things like this really wind me up!!
H
Any updated David?
hows the build going?
Compression test would surely show a drop in compression from a leak/
Oh right!
"glasses on" genuinely blind LOL
Sounds exactly like mine..
That being an alternator bearing shitting itself!!
Pull the aux belt off and have a listen.
Changed the oil again!!
sounds better when cold, 15w doesn't drain from the tappets like the 5w did!!
Pulled her eye out too!
Assuming you've fixed all the foibles and you were tempted to do something to your P38 what would it be?
I'm kind of dry regarding things, prolly my lack of motivation LOL
H
The Bosch injection pumps can/will give issue and if the quantity servo solenoid wear is a common one and Problems with stalling from idle appear this is when the feedback pot/wiper wear and the wiper loses contact with the pot. If the ECU gets no quantity servo position signal feedback it shuts the engine down by dropping the stop solenoid.
Timing chains stretch
Cylinder heads crack
etc etc
To be fair my V8 would do 18.7mpg which wasn't too bad considering i has knocking on the door of twice the power and capacity..
camshafts will wear if neglected, when i took the valley gasket out of my 120k V8 the cam was in superb nick,
Gilbertd wrote:
But when it's cold it has the viscosity of a 20 grade? It only remains thicker when it gets hot.
Yh.
But the only 20w50 i could get was the mineral halfords green stuff.
And tbh VR1 is a tad rich for me LOL
Bought some new Oil for her!!
The 5w was too thin!
20w50 ideally, but it's too cold at the moment for thick stuff
Dunno if this issue was fixed, but mine had this issue and it was the O-ring for the oil pick up pipe, it had turned to Bakelite and wasn't sealing causing oil pressure to bleed out..
It went from 15psi to 45..
HTH
If i hoofed mine i'd have to be mindful to give it the pedal before dropping to 2-3 otherwise it felt like it was locking the wheels up, obvs that it the engine braking doing feature of the box doing it's thing i imagine..
Mind you, it would fly like nothing else ;)
Gilbertd wrote:
Singlepoint on a Thor?? There's a recipe for disaster if I ever heard of one.......
She used to frontfire through the manifold and blow intake pipes and Mafs apart, apparently!!
Lpgc wrote:
StrangeRover wrote:
from 2003 - 2013 she had a single point LPG system fitted by "someone" her reg is BV51FDG/H19OAK so if you have records Simon then that would be her.
from 2013-present it has an AC Stag system..
I've checked records going back to 2008 which is when I generally started keeping logging numbers of vehicles I've seen, nothing comes up for either reg number but it could be one I haven't logged the reg on or one that the owner wasn't bothered about a receipt for a service etc on. Back in the day I sometimes converted 10 P38s in a row and saw many others for servicing/repairs.
Ahh right, it is possible that she was done before your records as the first conversion was "checked my own records" 22/11/2002 !
She a unique colour, so eh? lol
2008 this was taken, so you might remember her, if indeed she was done by you. LOL
'tis a long shot!
Gilbertd wrote:
I've heard people say this before, Oh it's got LPG fitted but I never use it as it doesn't run right. Now if you are talking about something that does 40mpg then running costs probably aren't that high on the agenda but on a car that can't even manage 20mpg, then you are simply pouring money down the drain. If the 400 miles is in a month, then getting the LPG system working correctly means another £55-60 a month in your pocket to spend on beer and women or waste it on more bits for the car. I never even think about fuel costs, I use my car as much as I want to as I know that when the tank is empty I'm only looking at another £35 to fill it again.
Thats a good point..
I appreciate the benefits and will get it fixed when i can :)
The savings are real i agree, the system was fitted by the PO i had no say in it!
from 2003 - 2013 she had a single point LPG system fitted by "someone" her reg is BV51FDG/H19OAK so if you have records Simon then that would be her.
from 2013-present it has an AC Stag system..
Gulp!!