I've got a 95 litre tank which used to click off at 80 litres from dead empty. Worryingly, it no longer clicks off but I stick about 80 litres in when I get down to empty and it's fine. Anyway, with a rather tired GEMS with single-point I'm getting roughly 200-240 miles to a tank, although today I got well over 280 miles. Must be magic gas or something, I was genuinely wondering WTF the engine was running on by that point.
An 84 litre tank ought to hold 70 litres, give or take, so for the same sort of fuel consumption that mine's got I'd expect about 175 miles or so.
The problem isn't people like Greta Thuneberg, the problem is the hardline far-right politicians like Trump, Johnston, Corbyn et al who don't really care about the environment but see the whole thing as a great way to sell more debt.
"Hmm, so we can ban combustion engined cars, and get folk to buy electric ones? And we'd sell those on finance deals, like the existing scrappage schemes?" and pound signs flash up in their eyes.
When I had my expensive introduction to P38 ownership I bought mine for 500 quid on eBay from a guy called cn4x4sss. Some 70k later it still works, although the tappets are so dished you could serve soup out of them. Think it was an additional 60 quid to stick it on a pallet up to Glasgow.
BlackSpeed66 wrote:
Arnott GenIII springs at all four corners
See, there's your problem. Fit proper Dunlops instead of those shoddy knockoffs and you won't have any of these problems.
Think that deserves to be more widely seen :-D
Watch, because I bought some O rings for my gearbox cooler pipes and whatever they were, they sure as hell weren't ATF compatible despite being apparently fuel and oil compatible. In about six weeks they'd turned to something like black evostick.
Someone set up an account apparently as RRTH years ago when this site started first. I emailed him at the time and he says it wasn't him, which might or might not be the case (it was registered from an IP somewhere in the US, but that's about all I know), and I locked it to prevent abuse. It can easily be unlocked, if he asks. If he wants to join the site - or LLT for that matter - then he'd be just as much a welcome and valued member of the rrpub community as anyone else.
Clive603 wrote:
Theoretically the air gap between ABS sensor and reluctor ring can self open up reducing the signal and causing problems. Seems unlikely to me as I've never met one that could be removed without destruction. They do self adjust after a new one has been put in all clean and nicely lubricated but after a few years ...
Mine popped out incredibly easily, and went back in again with no drama. Not like the bloody hub bearing carrier...
RutlandRover wrote:
If he's doing any proper offroading on much more than a mild slope in a field he very definitely wants to use low range manual mode - especially if inexperienced.
Manual is just going to give you problems. Anything vaguely steep needs low range, but like I said I've never found manual to be useful.
If it actually was manual then it might be okay but all it does is start off in first then attempt to jump to the selected gear once the travel speed is high enough for it so you just end up screaming around the place in 1st all the time.
RTFM. There's a whole section in the manual on driving off road.
I use mine off road a couple of times a week at work, and I've found that Cooper Discoverer ATs were as good as anything else in all but really wet skittery mud.
I never bother with manual mode in the low box, just stick it in 3rd for going up hills and 1st going down, and D for everything else. It's really really important to remember that in 1st the sprag clutch in the gearbox is locked up so it won't try and "freewheel" down the hill! Try it in high range on a quiet bit of road or big empty car park - in 2nd or above as soon as you lift off the throttle the revs will drop and you get very little engine braking, but in 1st it'll stay locked together.
Just remember "As slow as possible but as fast as necessary", and you'll be fine. And there's *always* another route. You want the slowest easiest route, where you can.
Gilbertd wrote:
But only if you have a laptop with a serial port.
This is true. I'm so used to keeping a USB-to-serial cable kicking about for EAS, the gas ECU and of course all that Cisco bollocks at work that I forgot that a lot of folk won't have half a dozen just lying around ;-)
If you download the software there's a helpful PDF that explains how to make the cable.
Pierre3 wrote:
children don't normally read through forums about specialist cars when they can't drive
I was going to say something like that but there's a 12-year-old sitting Minecrafting away on the other side of the room who's a better off-roader than most of the grownups I've ever encountered, scary good at it.
and also that forums to do with DIY on vehicles would expect to receive earthy comments from home mechanics.
Hence the strapline of the site, decided upon in the original pub discussion to keep the rude-word-obsessed away.
Lpgc wrote:
the owner of the last Landcruiser I converted told me "If you want to go into a desert you need a Rangerover, if you want to come out again you need a Landcruiser". Oooh, uncalled for eh!
Well I guess the desert is dry so the Landcruiser won't rust its arse out before you get back.
Gilbertd wrote:
That's the one thing I haven't complained about as I don't see them. Adblocker for Firefox is a wonderful thing, blocks 10 or 11 ads per page......
You shouldn't be seeing any ads at all with or without adblock, once you're logged in...
Bolt wrote:
Scot, eh?
Well that would certainly explain why he cannot resist the temptation to fiddle and fettle the site!
What was the famous quote? "All Scots are engineers and the best engineers are Scots"..... Can't argue the point!
Good on ya Gordon!
Well it was Gilbertd's idea, and we were in a pub in Glasgow - the Bon Accord if I recall correctly - when he said "I mean How Hard Can It Be?"
Not all that hard, as it turns out. There are bits of the forum that are a bit flaky and I work on it as and when I get time. It's not run for profit, it's not run for marketing, I stuck some Google ads on for not-logged-in users to try and capitalise on the Russian spammers and maybe offset some of the hosting costs. However, like our beloved Range Rovers (and other cool old cars) there are a few odd little faults that crop up.
Just noticed the copyright message at the bottom, yikes, I'm using a well out-of-date copy of the forum software. That's another thing though, the forum and the systems it runs on are all Open Source so if you don't like how something works you can open it up and have a poke at it!
Pierre3 wrote:
Just out of interest, why can't we click on an icon to agree with a post either here or on the RR.net forum.
How's your Python programming? That sounds like the sort of thing someone suitably skilled could write a little plugin for.
If you're going to do that, you can finish my image hosting plugin for me too.
davew wrote:
Yes, maybe there are no 'thumbs up' and 'smiley' etc emoticons in use as it is mainly adults using these sites Pierre3 ?
There aren't "thumbs up" and "smiley" emoticon graphics on rrpub because I broke that bit when I was installing it and can't figure out how to get them to download now.
RR.net once had a much friendlier atmosphere too of course..... although their latest layout just makes me laugh... !
Their latest layout is a nice responsive design that looks like it might use bootstrap.js as its layout framework. That's what flaskbb uses for its default theme (you can see it by going into your settings and setting the theme to "Aurora") and by extension the three rrpub themes Alveston Red, Oxford Blue and L4Y3R C4K3.
tanis8472 wrote:
My pc is full HD. There's about 6 lines of topics. Should be about 20 on one screen.
How does rrrpub look on it? I'm mostly looking at it on 1366x768 or 1600x1200 but I should try more sizes.