Grrrrrr said:

Good tip there. The OBD plug on my scrapper does bugger all so I am going to have to have a look at it sooner or later.

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tomcat59alan said:

Well today I mainly played with the Bastid.the child bride went out to see her mother ,who's in a care home, for the first time in 5 months.I couldn't go because I'm not in her bubble.So I read what lucky @DanClarke did and tried myself, joined the earth and positive leads before re connecting .tried entering the eka and bugger me it worked.Call me lucky TC Alan. Alll doors open,and the engine no longer disabled.happy days. So I went on to try and find the reason for no power to the obd plug traced the Brown wire back to the drivers side A post connector, which had been cut out and the wires soldered.so removed the cooling expansion tank and opened up the loom the Brown wire runs from the obd plug to the yellow plug on the fuse box.when I cut back the loom binding the Brown wire came apart in my hands. I think it was rubbing on the brake pipe. Cut back soldered and heat shrinked job done.Too tired to carry on so had a Barbie and a few drinks. Tomorrow is another day.progress made.

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Datatek said:

Being a nerd, I brim the tank every time and reset the trip, all recorded in a little book, long term average last time I did the sums was 24mpg, I have seen 30mpg cruising on the Nationale at 60mph. When it had the power box, the dash would show 34mpg on a run and 28mpg local so it was 4 mpg out.

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tomcat59alan said:

Well today I mainly played with the Bastid.the child bride went out to see her mother ,who's in a care home, for the first time in 5 months.I couldn't go because I'm not in her bubble.So I read what lucky @DanClarke did and tried myself, joined the earth and positive leads before re connecting .tried entering the eka and bugger me it worked.Call me lucky TC Alan. Alll doors open,and the engine no longer disabled.happy days. So I went on to try and find the reason for no power to the obd plug traced the Brown wire back to the drivers side A post connector, which had been cut out and the wires soldered.so removed the cooling expansion tank and opened up the loom the Brown wire runs from the obd plug to the yellow plug on the fuse box.when I cut back the loom binding the Brown wire came apart in my hands. I think it was rubbing on the brake pipe. Cut back soldered and heat shrinked job done.Too tired to carry on so had a Barbie and a few drinks. Tomorrow is another day.progress made.

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Rubberknees said:

Fitted new Terrafirma steering damper. Only took 10mins, weird for me things usually take longer

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Mark Piercy said:

Used the bus to tow a dead bmw into and out of my garage.... Spot the problem with this one!!!
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Can you guess what's missing yet?
This is the result of a 600€ cash in hand job for timing chains and guides done without a guarantee..... Sorry, chains and most of the guides replaced.
The exhaust camshaft gear had loosened,
The inlet camshaft snapped in two places and the camshaft caps are in the wrong places also. The exhaust caps on the inlet side and so on...

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brianp38dse said:

That looks like an m47 lump or was

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52 classic said:

RRdt Thanks for your kind words about my truck. It was good to meet up. I'm still in awe of that lift kit of yours!

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brianp38dse said:

That looks like an m47 lump or was

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Mark Piercy said:

Yip, m47.... Pffffff pop...

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brianp38dse said:

I have a n47 in the garden that the oil pump went on , spun the bearings and seized, the oil sensor was connected wrong so no warning

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Mark Piercy said:

The engines are made rubbish and badly designed along with the audi vw group and Peugeot/citroen/bmw efforts as well. It scares me what to buy next tbh..

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RangeRoller dt said:

You have all the support you need here to keep your EAS working so shouldn’t need to resort to that level of savagery .
If I can ever help just let me know

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Mark Piercy said:

The engines are made rubbish and badly designed along with the audi vw group and Peugeot/citroen/bmw efforts as well. It scares me what to buy next tbh..

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tomcat59alan said:

Do you mean "if you ever need anything breaking"?

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