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Mark Piercy said:
Get a donkey and a cart, actually it's a nice idea. Just think of all we miss around us while we bomb about in our boxes....
Arrrrrrr did I say that out loud.... :oops:
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When horses were the main way of getting about the amount of **** in cities was obscene and they were smaller then and only the rich really used them. The only way horses work is in small rural communities and even there they chew up the paths PDQ. I suspect that with the amount of food they eat plus emissions they're probably worse than a diesel engine. You can always wind the windows down.
 
Grrrrrr said:
When horses were the main way of getting about the amount of **** in cities was obscene and they were smaller then and only the rich really used them. The only way horses work is in small rural communities and even there they chew up the paths PDQ. I suspect that with the amount of food they eat plus emissions they're probably worse than a diesel engine. You can always wind the windows down.
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Oh yeah...I went there.:cool::D

https://horses.extension.org/what-is-the-carbon-footprint-of-a-horse-compared-to-an-automobile/
 
Grrrrrr said:
When horses were the main way of getting about the amount of **** in cities was obscene and they were smaller then and only the rich really used them. The only way horses work is in small rural communities and even there they chew up the paths PDQ. I suspect that with the amount of food they eat plus emissions they're probably worse than a diesel engine. You can always wind the windows down.
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It's slightly different these days. The manure doesn't last long around here. Cars and,trucks pick it up on their wheels, spreading it around. It also gets nabbed for gardens. I'm in an area full of small rural communities, where the roads to get anywhere are tarmac. Only paths most horses/ponies, here, see are from field to road, so the paths aren't really affected. Chap near me has a pony and trap. He walks pony from field to his house, tacks up from there, and straight on to road.
It's actually quite nice to see a small, rural, village reflecting why most of us live in such places. Rather than the reams of d1ckwad tourists, damaging everything that they supposedly come here to enjoy.




Get the idea I detest most of the tourists? :D
 
myfirstl322 said:
Oh yeah...I went there.:cool::D

https://horses.extension.org/what-is-the-carbon-footprint-of-a-horse-compared-to-an-automobile/
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I am not sure that is correct. The horse eats carbs and releases CO2 in order to get energy for work. The question then becomes is the horse able to convert usable energy from plants better than an internal combustion engine. 80% of what a horse eats is just to maintain temperature etc before it has even lifted a hoof. It is never switched off. Plus, when the horse dies its carbon is released - as methane if buried. An electric bike would be much better all around as long as it is charged from renewables, notwithstanding the horrible impact of making the batteries if they're lithium.

Lots of horses around here. If you want manure it is delivered to your door with a thank you note!
 
So it arrived this morning and it’s a jump it’s sat in my drive. Put a new battery on it first kick started then died. It is lpg that’s what that first picture is. Never having had a LPG car what does it mean. The orange light on the left just flashes I press the button the car dies am I out of lpg.
2nd picture is stereo and hvac screens are gone can’t read them and stereo doesn’t work are these a straight swap or need programming.
 

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Therustbucket said:
So it arrived this morning and it’s a jump it’s sat in my drive. Put a new battery on it first kick started then died. It is lpg that’s what that first picture is. Never having had a LPG car what does it mean. The orange light on the left just flashes I press the button the car dies am I out of lpg.
2nd picture is stereo and hvac screens are gone can’t read them and stereo doesn’t work are these a straight swap or need programming.
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Looks like the button may just switch between petrol and LPG.
If the symbol lights up alternately with each push between the lpg and the petrol then that'll be it.
It should have at least a small petrol tank, so if I were you I'd put a bit of petrol in the petrol tank to get it going then worry about the lpg later.
Looks like you may be out of both, but the green light implies there ought to be at least a bit of LPG in the tank(s). BUT it will prolly only run on lpg after having been run on petrol to warm the system up. Is there a petrol gauge?
 
Therustbucket said:
Been a while since I’ve owned and even longer since I worked on petrol anything. Spark plug gap can anyone tell me the what happened it should have been on eurocar parts and they vary in gap size.
I know if the gaps too big spark won’t jump so what is the right size.

What oil is used as well when I get the p38 just going to change everything as going to presume never been done. I normally use 10w-40 but that’s on diesels.

I’m going to do engine oil and filter, fuel filter, pollen, air filter, spark plugs probably diff and transfer box as well.
Can you tell me what oil is in diffs and transfer box and anything I should service while I’m there.
What should I check and do as a preventive.
Sorry for all the questions just trying to get ahead of the game hoping to spend weekend on it.
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All this basic info will be in a Haynes manual.
 
gold rover said:
It's slightly different these days. The manure doesn't last long around here. Cars and,trucks pick it up on their wheels, spreading it around. It also gets nabbed for gardens. I'm in an area full of small rural communities, where the roads to get anywhere are tarmac. Only paths most horses/ponies, here, see are from field to road, so the paths aren't really affected. Chap near me has a pony and trap. He walks pony from field to his house, tacks up from there, and straight on to road.
It's actually quite nice to see a small, rural, village reflecting why most of us live in such places. Rather than the reams of d1ckwad tourists, damaging everything that they supposedly come here to enjoy.




Get the idea I detest most of the tourists? :D
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Bloke up the road from us has a load of donkeys. He is always looking for peeps to lend him fields to keep them in. But he is a bit of a shyster. For years we let him do it on a field of ours, on the understanding that when the season finished he'd go in with his gyro cutter on the back of his tractor and tidy up the field edge to edge.
Problem was he'd leave them on there too long until there was nothing left for them to eat, so they'd destroy our fence to try to get to our plants to eat them. AND he only ever once did the cutting that was part of the agreement.
But he does hire them out to peeps for donkey trekking and to companies who use them to help move stuff where the terrain is too inaccessible even for 4x4s. They are mostly happy and in good nick.
 
Therustbucket said:
So it arrived this morning and it’s a jump it’s sat in my drive. Put a new battery on it first kick started then died. It is lpg that’s what that first picture is. Never having had a LPG car what does it mean. The orange light on the left just flashes I press the button the car dies am I out of lpg.
2nd picture is stereo and hvac screens are gone can’t read them and stereo doesn’t work are these a straight swap or need programming.
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As @Stanleysteamer put some real juice in to start, some don't like to start/run from cold on gas.
I have a little button on the 90 that basically acts like a choke so I can start and run from cold.
Why the light flashes may mean its low or to cold, without knowing the system its all guesswork, get it running on prime dinosaur juice first:).
and now the learning curve gets steep hope you like it, cos you are gonna hate it too:D.

J
 
RangeRoller dt said:
Was told once that the old joke of slipping on a banana skin (when no one really had bananas, around here atleast) was a polite twist of the everyday slipping in horse s***?
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Bananas were in short supply during the war but available before that. I cannot remember if it was my grandma's cousin or her mother's but he slipped on one while in New Zealand and was killed. I laughed when she first told me and she wasn't best pleased. Kids can be unfeeling little so and so's.
 
Changed oil filter and had a good look round personally I think it’s a steal someone has actually spent money on it. Front door locks don’t work either found out hard way. Put 20 petrol in and played with lpg and it does switch between the 2 so have to fill up on LPG and see what’s happening.
Also fuel gauge doesn’t work stayed on the same amount as before I put fuel in. I didn’t expect much from 20 but expected more haha.
 
Therustbucket said:
Changed oil filter and had a good look round personally I think it’s a steal someone has actually spent money on it. Front door locks don’t work either found out hard way. Put 20 petrol in and played with lpg and it does switch between the 2 so have to fill up on LPG and see what’s happening.
Also fuel gauge doesn’t work stayed on the same amount as before I put fuel in. I didn’t expect much from 20 but expected more haha.
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You won't get a tickle from the gauge with£20, ;)
 
Therustbucket said:
Changed oil filter and had a good look round personally I think it’s a steal someone has actually spent money on it. Front door locks don’t work either found out hard way. Put 20 petrol in and played with lpg and it does switch between the 2 so have to fill up on LPG and see what’s happening.
Also fuel gauge doesn’t work stayed on the same amount as before I put fuel in. I didn’t expect much from 20 but expected more haha.
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Door locks usually burn out from RF interference. Could be wireless weather station or camera or all sorts of things. There's an upgraded receiver or Marty does a filter or Brian has a second fob jog-switch fix.
 
Grrrrrr said:
Door locks usually burn out from RF interference. Could be wireless weather station or camera or all sorts of things. There's an upgraded receiver or Marty does a filter or Brian has a second fob jog-switch fix.
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Where would I see about one of them upgraded receiver. Does anyone do lcd repairs on here also.
 
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