Salisbury Nick
Well-Known Member
GOT MY P38 BACK!
After more than a year away she has returned. ‘Upgraded’ - ish. Added a 2” body lift, new air bags, new EAS control unit, new EAS pump, new manual air valve kit for emergencies, new EAS valve block, and monster tyres!
As always though, things have not gone smoothly. She left the workshop in Wales with everything in perfect working order, but on the way down to Dorset she flatlined, EAS fault dropped her to the bump stops. New ‘emergency’ manual air override proved invaluable immediately. At the garage after pumping her up again - No ignition, completely dead. A booster pack got her going again then a brake calliper fell off and locked her up. She arrived home on a recovery truck again. This is her default method of getting home!
The brake callipers mashed the CV Boot too, so we had to replace the cv boot and re-affix the brake callipers to get her going again.
Did some lanes on Saturday and she was great in the lanes, but the big tyres seem to be affecting the gear changing and she holds on to a lower gear for too long on the road stretches and can overheat. Wasn’t expecting that. @Datatek - feel free to say ‘I told you so’ about pretty much any of the unanticipated side effects of the over large tyres!
Then the gear box over heated because the bracket holding the transmission fluid rad’ in place broke and the cooling fan wasn’t working.
So all I have to do now is fix the EAS again, fix the transmission rad bracket, fix the transmission rad fan and work out how to stop her overheating at 40 mph on normal roads.
Life is back to normal.
After more than a year away she has returned. ‘Upgraded’ - ish. Added a 2” body lift, new air bags, new EAS control unit, new EAS pump, new manual air valve kit for emergencies, new EAS valve block, and monster tyres!
As always though, things have not gone smoothly. She left the workshop in Wales with everything in perfect working order, but on the way down to Dorset she flatlined, EAS fault dropped her to the bump stops. New ‘emergency’ manual air override proved invaluable immediately. At the garage after pumping her up again - No ignition, completely dead. A booster pack got her going again then a brake calliper fell off and locked her up. She arrived home on a recovery truck again. This is her default method of getting home!
The brake callipers mashed the CV Boot too, so we had to replace the cv boot and re-affix the brake callipers to get her going again.
Did some lanes on Saturday and she was great in the lanes, but the big tyres seem to be affecting the gear changing and she holds on to a lower gear for too long on the road stretches and can overheat. Wasn’t expecting that. @Datatek - feel free to say ‘I told you so’ about pretty much any of the unanticipated side effects of the over large tyres!
Then the gear box over heated because the bracket holding the transmission fluid rad’ in place broke and the cooling fan wasn’t working.
So all I have to do now is fix the EAS again, fix the transmission rad bracket, fix the transmission rad fan and work out how to stop her overheating at 40 mph on normal roads.
Life is back to normal.