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After reading this thread I'm not surprised.

Question 1, does your Td5 already have AC? Question 2 what makes you think you need extra cooling? I have a TD5 and use it to do heavy towing including up the Massif Central, and it is totally standard, never a whisper of an overheaing problem...

Hope all go's well , Ryan air are a right pain these days and bump the cost up at peak times

You may well find you make your car go better and more economically simply by changing the exhaust. I did that to my D1 300tdi, it certainly gave it more low down torque and the mpg was the same or better. As I was going to do a lot of heavy...

I ordered a remote battery cut off relay as extra security, fitted it and it worked really well until I realised that neither by tracker or alarm worked 😒. It promptly got taken back off and I could have rewired both directly to the battery but...

I don't think you were directly insulting but I think you did made insulting comments about me to others that I could see. But there are a lot of people commenting here and I haven't really kept a track record of the level of rudeness of...

This is actually a really good quick read, with lots of info and no fuss.

pwood999, thanks for your rapid repose to me question; much appreciated 👍 I thought as much, having rebuilt numerous vlalve blacks, pumps and replaced loads of airbags on the P38s I've owned through the years. I did soapy water over the...

You know how to live you do. 😁

its pay and go :)

On that basis nobody should ever drive at 35 mph at the lower RPM? If the engine is cooled and has sufficient oil it doesn't matter. But higher RPM is more wear on the bearings, camshafts and cylinder bores.

Here is the torque curve for the engine. I am not concerned with fuel economy. I just want lower RPM on the highway.

Hello, I would like to rebuild my engine, pistons, rings, valve covers, etc... could you let me know where you got the parts? Thank you.

If you look at the passive aggressive comments that started from the moment I posted here, I didn't get personal for a very long time. Comments like "you clearly know nothing at all about Mechanics" or something like that because I didn't agree...

Unfortunately the P38 Nanocom doesn't show the GEMS immobilisation code, so it's probaby gotta be a bench job. The Nanocom has the Lucas AS10 option for cars that use it, which appears to show the code, but it would need someone with an AS10 &...

Exactly, someone told me that I could not do this modification because no one modifies cars anymore. That was their amazing insightful input. When I mentioned that people do modify cars they got offended.

I am already slow off the mark, rarely using more than 1,500 RPM when accelerating so that is unimportant to me. If I am on a steep hill needing to go forwards or backwards slowly I can put it into low range for that special rare situation. But...

Also, re the "no one modifies cars"". Well loads do, I for one seemingly never stop doing it, but then I did run a Kit car club and there is little more modded than that except perhaps Rods and Customs.

You asked if it was crazy. Until you have actually fitted them and driven them you still do not actually "know" the answer to your original question, and I don't remember throwing any insults at you either, maybe you could quote my insults. The...

Sills are fine, one arch is rusty and I'm fixing it this week. I just replaced all of the brake pipes and brake hoses on the car so I have been under it and in the wheel arches looking carefully at everything. There is also rust on the subframes...

More likely the opposite airbag lifted a bit with whatever air was left in it. There's no crosslink valves on a P38. All four airlines go directly to the valve block. There's a known issue caused by leaking exhaust that melts the rear...

Yeah, just got to the bottom of the thread and see events have progressed. Changing diffs is quite usual on race cars or where people change wheel sizes. Of course, those pursuits require a fair bit of fettling and expense anyway! Guess we'll...

Actually the only reason that you kept arguing and insulting me is because of your thin skins. If you had thick skins you would have shut up when you failed to prove a point. Like I said, I have watched this forum for about a year, getting...

I do also wonder, if the diffs are that rusty, what are sills & arches like under all the plastic bits !!

Yes but Grrrr remeber he doesn't care about fuel economy.

Lower oil pressure too though and water pump will be spinning slower. It may actually be better to rev at 1300 rather than 1100?

If left for a week, my P38’s suspension drops to it stops. Removed the valve block & compressor to rebuild. Connected Schrader valves to each of the four airbag lines. Inflating each airbag, I noticed that the airbag on the opposite side of...

Best fuel economy is at max torque. Guessing on the petrol that's about 3000 rpm? I'd leave it as it is. I'd also guess that given most fuel economy figures are quoted at 56 mph (80 kph) then that's probably what it has been tuned to do best...

Actually no, because every single person here who has given me a reason why the change would not work has given me reasons that are not valid. In fact the little data that they have presented shows that it would be reasonable. So that part of my...

Yeah that's mine in the video. Everything else is solid besides that and when id taken it off the rubber had become detached. No idea what's going on but I've ordered a poly set and I've also managed to get a febi set from my local motor place...