I'm not sure if the two are linked or not. The misfire was definitely down to the coil pack. I guess I'm dropping the tank to at least have a look.

Well, it did have fuel at the rail, and now it doesn't. Relay is pulling in, pump isn't running (if I jumper the relay I don't hear it start). I guess I'm dropping the tank then! Anyone got any experience with this?

As many as you like. I don't think actually having them tracked does much though.

The other day I had a weird failure where one of the coil packs melted down. I was able to drive home on six cylinders, and fitted a spare one (thanks to David Hallworth for that!). Now the problem is that while it runs just fine on gas, it does not run on petrol at all. There's fuel at the rail, there are no faults logged, it just cuts out dead when switching to petrol. Plugging in the diags, everything reads perfectly. I can't think of anything that would take out just the injectors without showing other signs of distress.

Anyone ever run across this before?

Mine can with the A bar, light guards and side steps already on it. I think they make it look a bit more like the rugged offroader that it can be, rather than just a pavement princess

Some dents and bush pinstripes will do that just as well, without adding extra weight :-D

It's even weirder than that. Up to about 96-97 they used black plugs, 97-Thor used grey plugs that don't fit black plugs, and Thor onwards jused something different.

... but does anyone know what they are? The wiring to the sensors on mine seems a bit crusty and has broken right at the plug on both sides. I've bodged them back together but I'm considering just making new cables up and taking them straight back to the ECU. But first, I need to know what kind of plug I'm buying!

RIP old chap. I never met him in person either but he was always full of good chat here and on The Other Site.

Please pass my regards on to his family.

Edit: Second most active member on the forum! Poor sod deserves a medal of some sort!

I do wonder if simply blocking off the exhaust would be sufficient to get it to fill the tank and rise, maybe by wrapping a bit of latex glove around the threads and screwing it in.

I gave the database a bit of a scrub, so let me know if anything weird is happening.

When I got totally stuck like that I slackened the nuts off a couple of turns, and drove in some tight swerving S curves up and down the farm track.

It worked, but it's dangerous and I don't really recommend it.

It's something I'm working on, in between the job that keeps the lights on, fixing two houses and keeping an old Range Rover on the road ;-)

Wouldn’t it be easier if we were able to just add photos like every other website in the world?

It absolutely would. I'll email you some server login details and you can get right on that for me :-D

It's pretty much how it looks - a variety of Torx bits for the seats, a couple of plugs, and a couple of Philips screws for the door cards (one in the handle trim, two in the armrest and at the front one under the tweeter cover).

Many such Public Systems are only allowed by the relevant 'Security Forces' because they are 'officially hackable' - ie. with some 'co-operation' from the Networks etc

That's always going to be a losing battle, because we can always just turn up the encryption a little. The HTTPS cert for this site uses a 256-bit key which is - to put it mildly - not trivially crackable. If I felt that there was a reasonable threat of a very well-resourced government throwing a huge datacentre at brute-forcing keys I'd just change the certificate more often, and if I thought everyone had CPU power to burn (you do) I'd ramp the keysize up to 2048 bit, pushing the time to factor the keys well into the range of "heat death of the universe".

What can't be done is listen in to your mobile phone conversations.

Well yes, you can, you just need something that will demodulate GSM and unpick the multiplexes. It's not something you can do with a 20 quid scanner from Tandy though ;-)

I know a few folk have a third lambda sensor fitted, so I'm looking for a suggestions on the best way to do it.

I've got a 0V/1V sensor and suitable sensor boss. My cunning plan is to disconnect the engine ECU, gearbox ECU and temperature senders (the one to the BECM), clean up the front of the passenger downpipe where I can get to it easily just above the existing lambda, drill a big hole, and weld the boss in with the MIG, without taking the Y-pipe off the vehicle.

What hideous consequence have I failed to foresee?

The statement about requests is currently true. I wouldn't put in on there if it wasn't true. Do with that what you will ;-)

What with all this GDPR regulations, lots of people are making noise about personal data on websites.

This website, https://rangerovers.pub, does not store any personal data that you haven't put on here yourself (like in your user profile). At a minimum, it stores your (probably pseudonymous) username, your email address and an irreversibly encrypted version of your password. This data is not disclosed to any third party, and is handled as securely as is reasonably practicable.

The site uses cookies to identify your browser, which is a pretty standard way of ensuring that things like logging in works. There's a very stupid law written by non-techie people that requires you to be told this. Ideally there should be a popup warning you that this site uses cookies and giving you the option to reject or accept them. If you do not want a browser-identifying cookie, use your browser settings to block cookies from https://rangerovers.pub. This will break logging in, and you won't be able to post.

Under new GDPR rules you have the right to request that all data about you are removed from the site. If you choose to leave the rrpub community and would like a Stalinist purge airbrushing from history, please send an email to gordonjcp@gmail.com and I will arrange it. This probably won't remove cached copies from Google, you're on your own with that. Oceania is at war with Eastasia; Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

So far there have been no requests from shadowy government agencies for copies of the website database.

I saw OF02COM on a D3 with a lot of aerials and some motorsport stickers the other day ;-)