Aloha after a long hiatus, a number of personal, professional and other issues has kept me away from the RR and from here as well. Sorry!
I had almost not used the car in these past months, very occasionaly. Obviously I kept the battery topped with the charger, and I must say the V8 rumbles to life every time even after 10 weeks without hesitation. Great!
Unfortunately, a couple of occasions I had to leave the car out of the garage in the street, and obviously after a couple of weeks battery goes dead. A couple of times I managed to resurrect it, wit some deep, slow charging, but last time I forgot the lights on (in spite of her beeping I neglected to check) and this time I think the barely 2 year old Varta is kaputt - by the way, I am VERY disappointed about this particular battery performance, I am never buying Varta again .... three days I am trying to get it alive but I think i done. Very bothering as this is a 'present' to the next owner, as I believe I will part with the car, I want to replace it with something more 'agricultural' I can go back to the woods again.... would love it to be a Landy, but ... will see ...
In the meantime what I've accomplished:
Here are couple shots for viewing pleasure ... note still with winter tires, sigh
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Been away for looong due to health issues, and obviously had not time for her majesty.
Took it out of hibernation last week, had been three months almost. Fired right up (it was on hold charge), settle right straight as it should be, all well! Still has the hesitation/misfiring issue when very hot, but I did not get around to do the coil.
I did manage to refit the bumper - it was broken due to a stupid mishap - which took 7 weeks to "my guy" after he begged and promised 2-3 days .... oh well.
During my convalescence, I suffered visions of a nightmare I have not owned yet, that would be an early Def (Tdi), a 90/110 or a late Series, in random order of desire. I will open a separate OT topic to gather my senses, if I manage to ...
That is correct. Also adding that breakers are seldom car conoisseurs (even the famed ones), for them a car to break is money to be made, thus I have often seen stuff thrown inside ruining carpets, seats, plastics, and the like.
They focus on the quick money and carpets are stuff for the very special people ... pity.
If you talk 'beige', I believe you are referring to the Lightstone. It took me long time to find decent ones, so nice I never even put them on, and probably never will (might think to sell, in that case will tell you, first I need to find them!).
You could put yours here, not that I have seen lots of action in this topic (I had high expectations, perhaps)
https://rangerovers.pub/topic/1983-the-place-for-sales-swaps-wants-offers-gifts-and-giveaways
Sorry I see this just now, next time I go see my friend where the 'donor' P38 remains will look at it and make a photo.
Richard your "little jobs" they always turn into an adventure!!!
Me I had a simpler life ... after months of procrastinating, finally I decided to deal with the broken bumper (front), for which I had a plastic outer part in good shape, but without the metal part. I took mine off, unglued the metal part, and was ready to transfer it to the other when I noticed the sides in the "plastic" were shaved off, probably somebody ripped them off when splitting the metal inner part with the plastic outer part. So off loaded everything and went up the road where there is a shop where they do "plasticky" things, so they can weld new fittings to fix the metal sides. Will take a few days but oh well.
In the process, unfortunately removing one of the breather hose into a fog light, it was very stuck and it broke the little pipe in the body of the light. Any ideas to fix that? The stub that was left into the hose disintegrated when I was trying to remove it whole .... darn
Great happy purchases to all!
...and the LPG filler in the rear wing, probably because it has twin electric towing sockets so there isn't a spare space to fit it there as it is on both the others. Not really much that can be done about that but it is a shame.
Well, not wanting to offend, but I think the installer of that system was lazy, or a bit of an animal. I have the LPG filler in mine "inside" the fuel flap, there is space under the fuel cap. It was not done by me, but I have seen another couple cars with the filler in the same position. Shame indeed.
I do not have any need to put LPG currently on any car, but if I had to, I would be very clear to the installer in what and what not to do.
Another favorite is the senseless drilling of helpless (and expensive) trim panels to put the switch/controller. I relocated mine inside the ashtray ...
I have a related question for a friend, how do you actually extract the cable from the firewall? There is some grommet but it seem very stuck...
I also believe in the "myth". I think the reason is the association between 4-pin diff and ETC, because of the (apparent) higher stress on the driveline when the diff "locks".
Since the P38 first came with a 4-pin in the rear, and ETC in the rear also, when the next version ABS included ETC on all four wheels, it became natural to associate it with ... a 4-pin diff :-))
I did exactly as Richard said on mine, just get DIY/hardware store stuff and get on with it! :-)
I also agree on paper. Mine had a 'sports' filter installed and the mesh collapsed and I was lucky it did not disintegrated before I saw it.
I also noticed the OE filter, the paper is slightly oily to the touch, whereas some aftermarket ones are just dry paper. Do not know if is very good thing or not, but for the price difference ...
Yes, Richard is spot on I did replaced mine like this, enough with EAS on high on level ground.
To replug the connector was a hassle, I failed to do it, luckily I had a friend who is a mechanic nearby who saw my pain and came to help. I was struggling for like 12 minutes he did it in like in 12 seconds ... darn
Great!! Enjoy!!
Also, do not be afraid to use the selector to go up an down the gears, at least me I noticed the vehicle responds much better when I 'lock' a specific gear in some situations, instead of letting the gearbox wonder about what to do.
The irritating trembling is back, probably it never left, but in some specific circumstances. I will dig in the topics and get back.
One to go, more to come! :-)
Me, after an irritating trembling, I found time to log the nano and verify what it is happening (I am using the car little lately for a number of reasons). Since it was pointing "multiple misfires" in cyl7, I've replaced the spark plugs (Bosch with 36k km) and since then the issue is gone. Chapeau!
Now it remained some other stuff, but I will post it separately ...
Great find!
I fear also the bonnet lettering has been (horribly) updated to the "recent" models. Luckily the original is still available, albeit expensive.
The holes in the wings are a repair than can be made, any good metalworker can restore them.
Good luck to bring a rare car to life!
Glad Marty answered, I was looking for a console which I've replaced to look at it. The switches look "plastic welded" to the console itself, and a small board attached to another. Can't you find the entire console to replace, wouldn't it be easier?
Even though the diagonal would allow, I think the height of .5m will make it difficult to enter fully.
If is a small distance, you could go with the tailgate(s) open, done this couple times.
When I took a bonnet for repaint (mine was not salvageable) I had to borrow a friend's van, no way it would fit in.
Been a while ... as mentioned elsewhere, sometime in the near future the lady will have to go ... but way before that, I've got stuff that I will really not use/mount, or it will not add value when the time to sell comes.
If any of you guys want anything, chime in! I will dig in my records and see how much these things costed me, I do not want to speculate, if I can recover the expense I'd be happy.
All items are in near perfect or vgc, I struggled to get the best stuff I could find in the years of my lovely dreamy P38 adventure:
Items with (*) I actually got them from Phil which many of you know from here, his things are top condition always!
I will add more stuff as I unearth it from the mess I've got in the garage. To avoid overload the forum, I will send photos on request. Can ship to most places, I got some preferential rates to the Island if case comes.
Thanks!
Agree with Richard about the o-rings, when my time came I used only original ones. Too much hassle to risk ...
Never a dull moment, it seems!
Richard today I had an item drop on the passenger side ("my" passenger side lol) and while I was fishing it out I noticed the very limited area between the seat and the BeCM ... how did you manage? Or is it b/c yours got no elec/mem seats?
Bring this up to ask if there is the chance to find one of the RF filters laying around somewhere in Marty's basement? :-)
Got a friend that after I commented on mine would like to install one on his '99 DSE. Any chance?