Slooby

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Pretty much as title

I've got a '95 2.5 DSE that's been parked up a couple of years after the injector pump decided it no longer wanted to hold diesel on the inside, and would prefer to liberally coat it's anti-rusting properties over the engine bay.

It was a fairly mamoth project that I documented in detail on here to bring it back to life a few years back, I spent a huge amount of time fixing the air suspension, properly, repairing body mounts and generally making it useable, which is was for about 6 months until there was a whiff of diesel and, well, the pump did it's thing.

You can read about my exploits here: https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/a-series-of-faults.371050/ and see all the work that went into it.

I've got other projects I'm more interested in completing, and really just need the thing gone now. The pump is off, the correct tools used to hold the timing in place and they will come with it. Along with a brand new Bosch seal kit for the injector pump. As a nice little sideline hustle there's also a box of higher duty cycle than stock variable resistors that are required to fix the dreaded heater blend motor shizzle, yes that needs doing too, but the parts are there.

There are loads of spares to go with it, like another complete air suspension distribution block, the original alloys as it's now sitting on 18" L322 rims, various bits and bobs that you are welcome to along with the special tools. I just want to move on and sort out all the other projects I have. It's located near Tonbridge in Kent, and the sum of all the new parts in it must be worth more than the £500 I want for it.
 
Loads of pics in the project thread...it's looking a bit green at the moment and the discs will need de-rusting because it's been stood for over a year. I have so many projects on the go and having tried and failed with the insitu injector pump seal replacement (it just moved the leaks to the other seals...) I took the pump off (using the correct locking tool) to rebuild it on the bench, and promptly went off to tackle something else and so it sat...

I know I could fix it if I put the time aside, but each time I get down to Kent I find myself involved in fixing and doing things for a my folks (both in their 80's, dad is going through Chemo, while caring for my mum who has dimentia) to keep things functional down there. Get back up here and I have my hill-climb/sprint car to work on plus others and family duties of my own.

The P38 was always just going to be a tow/snow vehicle, and it's never got further than shunting my trailer about. I now have a Sprinter 519 Cambulance that can do the job of towing (7 tonne Gross Train Weight and I have the licence for it) and camper in one to take the hill-climb/sprint car to events and double up as a place to hide from the elements, which makes me even less likely to get to the P38.

I was going to give it a wash, takes some pics and maybe have a look at the pump over Easter, but alas when I got down there I found that the Tractor wouldn't start, the ride on was cutting out and the grass was out of control. So I ended up loosing all my time to diagnosing a faulty ignition switch and knackered wiring (Tractor) then making a new loom for it (that included salvaging the unique giant spade connectors) and getting hold of a new switch, then doing the mowing of the big areas, followed by rolling out the ride on, swearing at it, draining the carb because my dad said the float was sticking, swearing at it some more because that didn't kick the pump into life, taking the pump off and finding noithing wrong with it, swearing a lot more, smacking the relays and it starting...mowing the smaller areas for a bit, then rinse repeat swearing and hitting the relay...oh and then when trying to get a slow puncture repaired on the dummper truck finding that the wheel rim had rotted out...yay more stuff for me to fix....
 

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