hawky666
Well-Known Member
Well, what can i say. After a great deal of help from LandyZone members for which i will always be greatfull. A 7hr train journey, 2hrs looking it over, decision made 
I picked it up, had then filled up, plugged the sat nav in and bang went the electrics Luckily i'd had the foresight not only to have pulled up outside Halfords but also to take with me wire, connectors, insulation tape, fuses and strippers. After a fair bit of head scratching and a purchase of a multi meter from halfords i found out that the cigy lighter had been wired up with a permanent live aswell as an ignition live, NO EARTH. Also it was corroded to hell.
It blew my sat nave charger and most of the fuses to lights etc so had to buy even more fuses from halfords as well as a new multi power point cigy lighter, splice this to the ignition live and run a new earth... job done. just as it got dark :bounce:
SO... of i set on the 8hr journey home, or so i thought.
Got as far as northampton after a food stop then at 60mph there was a sudden, fast, loud clanking noise fololwed by a massive bang and terminal loss of of power to all but the electrics... dead.
Now at this point my stomach has colided with my heart and didn't know wether to head out through my throat or my arse and my head dropped about 12" onto the steering wheel as i'm sat in the dark on the side of the a45 on a slipway.
I should also add that i'm freezing cold as no heater working what so ever, and there's no interior light. Probably again through the wiring hash ups that seem to be common place in this 90.
Good news was that i had a good recovery policy and after a little miss hap with locating me, due to my lack of local knowledge, i was in a warm cab heading south again. Now 12.30am.
OF course, i'm thinking the worse... fu**ed engine but am hoping not.
Then i remembered that the seller had stated he'd changed the gearbox and transfer box along with a heavy duty clutch due the old one whining a lot. Also the front drive shaft i think. I comment on this to my driver and immediately he thinks that something has given on this side which has in turn jammed the engine.
MY local trusted mechanic has this morning been able to manually get a few turns n the engine, although still wont budge on ignition, and can't look any further until at least tuesday....
So what do you guys reckon with these symptons??????????
Prob now is i have no idea what this will cost to sort out or even how to do it without the labour costs, so what has already cost me a fair bit in time aswell as money, now looks like its gonna cost a darned site more and i'm in effect snookered and very deflated
Oh, and here.. some pics of her outside the garage.
Some pic's i cant show for embarresment right now as had enough without the mick take off here i'ts a stickers issue, nothing to with me i'll add.
I picked it up, had then filled up, plugged the sat nav in and bang went the electrics
Luckily i'd had the foresight not only to have pulled up outside Halfords but also to take with me wire, connectors, insulation tape, fuses and strippers. After a fair bit of head scratching and a purchase of a multi meter from halfords i found out that the cigy lighter had been wired up with a permanent live aswell as an ignition live, NO EARTH. Also it was corroded to hell.It blew my sat nave charger and most of the fuses to lights etc so had to buy even more fuses from halfords as well as a new multi power point cigy lighter, splice this to the ignition live and run a new earth... job done. just as it got dark :bounce:
SO... of i set on the 8hr journey home, or so i thought.
Got as far as northampton after a food stop then at 60mph there was a sudden, fast, loud clanking noise fololwed by a massive bang and terminal loss of of power to all but the electrics... dead.
Now at this point my stomach has colided with my heart and didn't know wether to head out through my throat or my arse and my head dropped about 12" onto the steering wheel as i'm sat in the dark on the side of the a45 on a slipway.
I should also add that i'm freezing cold as no heater working what so ever, and there's no interior light. Probably again through the wiring hash ups that seem to be common place in this 90.
Good news was that i had a good recovery policy and after a little miss hap with locating me, due to my lack of local knowledge, i was in a warm cab heading south again. Now 12.30am.
OF course, i'm thinking the worse... fu**ed engine
but am hoping not.Then i remembered that the seller had stated he'd changed the gearbox and transfer box along with a heavy duty clutch due the old one whining a lot. Also the front drive shaft i think. I comment on this to my driver and immediately he thinks that something has given on this side which has in turn jammed the engine.
MY local trusted mechanic has this morning been able to manually get a few turns n the engine, although still wont budge on ignition, and can't look any further until at least tuesday....
So what do you guys reckon with these symptons??????????
Prob now is i have no idea what this will cost to sort out or even how to do it without the labour costs, so what has already cost me a fair bit in time aswell as money, now looks like its gonna cost a darned site more and i'm in effect snookered and very deflated
Oh, and here.. some pics of her outside the garage.
Some pic's i cant show for embarresment right now as had enough without the mick take off here
i'ts a stickers issue, nothing to with me i'll add.
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