I use Duckworths, Island4x4 or LRDirect depending on if I want genuine and next day or happy with pattern and/or a little wait. Duckworths give a forum discount fyi.
Mine is normally just about hot enough to touch (can touch it but wouldnt want to hold it for long!). I can hear it running too much in my opinion, but i think i have a sensor problem as the height is always adjusting a little even when stationary. Really noticeable in a drive-thru queue for example!
Changing the accumulator worked a treat.
Followed RAVE but still got brake fluid squirting out when unscrewed it. Not a great deal but under a bit of pressure...
Was a bit of a cow to get to as the LPG was installed all around it. Ended up unbolting the fuse box, lifting out of the way and getting a spanner underneath to crack the seal a bit. Then could remove by hand. Nipped new one up in the same way. Longest part was clearing up the brake fluid as it cover the airspring and travelled along the chassis dripping!!!
20 times = a lot of coffee breaks for me! I always seem to buy a coffee when i fill up abroad!!!
How do you find the LPG filling stations? I've never just "noticed" them and my old map with them all on is well out of date/crap
Cheers
I filled up with LPG yesterday which isn’t an often done thing at the moment. At 45p per litre I realised I’m doing the equivalent to 50mpg!!! Not bad for a brick with a 4.6L engine and 20 years old!
Clive603 wrote:
I can send you drawings in PDF for a comprehensive tooling set for removal and installation that can be made on any half decent lathe, or a Myford if desperate.
Yes please Clive...
dhallworth wrote:
The Vogue SE that I've just put the engine in needs a brake accumulator I think. If you park the car up for 24 hours, then jump in it, start it and move off straight away there's no brakes. Thankfully, moving straight away for us is going into reverse and turning around on the driveway but the first time it happened I did brick myself!
Going to order a new accumulator and a new radiator as the Eurospares one from Island 4x4 hasn't lasted 500 miles before it started to leak. There's no damage on it but when the cooling system is up to pressure it's leaking. Annoyingly, it's 1 month outside of it's 12 month warranty too.
David.
I'd be interested to know if this fixes it David.
Morat wrote:
You filthy filthy Shed Draggers!! :)
I'd never consider towing a caravan unless i could keep up with traffic! I enjoy driving/riding too, and hate being held up by the trundling types.
@dhallworth - pretty much what I'm going for!
Thanks all. Appreciate the advice.
Will locate the relay and see if it’s getting hot too...
Thanks, I will monitor the situation.
Presumably it’s a vacuum storage device that develops a leak somewhere??
Thanks, I will monitor the situation.
Presumably it’s a vacuum storage device that develops a leak somewhere??
Slightly conflicted thoughts here for me then. First is that this has happened only 2 or 3 times and only recently. I've left the car for a month before and not had a soft brake pedal, but also had it running on position 2 (no engine) which also seems to prime the pump so maybe that was it.
I'll monitor it. I think it runs nearly every brake press.
Fluid and bleeding is about 12 months as did rear callipers after a bearing collapse melted things!
Soft pedal when car left for a few days. Fine after about 20 secs of running.
Cow moo noise almost every time I press the brake pedal (always done this to be fair)
Am I looking at the accumulator?
Thanks Richard. I presume you use yours for work given the mileage you do?
So basically if I balance a twin axle nicely we should be good?
I keep fluids and brakes fresh so I'm confident on that score.
Do you disable the EAS motorway height when towing?
Now we’re a one car family and the P38 won, it’ll get all the towing duties. Obviously it’s more than capable of towing a large caravan, but anyone got any advice etc please? I already know it’ll drink even more fuel!
Is it unadvisable to run the cable(s) along the chassis in flexible conduit from front to back? My grommet on RHS is getting rather full i cant see it taking another 2x25mm cables now...
Yeah the cheap ones are crapola, but these are decent branded ones. The rest of the joints are black Legris like in your link. The only place I had a leak was out of the gauge! It was a brand new SMC one. Swapped for the current one off an old air compressor and it's been spot on since.
after much f***ing around, i made myself a widget for emergency situations with the upside of onboard tyre inflation if i want it!
