Have you got a link to the battery?And the new battery's in. It's a little bigger than the old one but there's still room in the battery box and the terminals don't foul the top of the seatbox where it lives. The engine starts really quickly now.
Have you got a link to the battery?
Replaced the Servo unit with a shiny new one, bled the brakes through with fresh fluid and…….no difference at all, still no bite in the brakes! Pads and Discs are recent and the calipers are all free - so it’s back to not enough suck from the vacuum pump. That’s next weekends treat…..
Grrrr
More suction than a friendly Thai….
I’d post a pic but that privilege has disappeared for reasons unknown….
Does liquid gas take longer to turn to a gas when it’s cold? And your water been colder and the vaporiser unit not up to temperature could cause the problem.Drove it into town today to drop M off to pick the posh 1 up.
Checked LPG tank and mileage(KMs) before leaving yep plenty should get there and fill up somewhere on the way home, (Had 150 more before filling).
Got M dropped and off home I go (got to get a head start). Didnt go so well as it broke down (I should I say I broke it down) in 1 of the worst possibly places on a big 2 lane bridge out of town, managed to roll back 100yards to a safe space. Quick text to M just incase she had any thoughts of going shopping. 5mins later the Big Black L322 pulls up, quickly hook up the pre prepared tow wire and off we scoot, after I reminded M, I have hardly any brakes and hard steering, so if she didn't want her backend stoved in, to be gentle with me.
So off we tow 20kms to the next garage, pull up at the LPG pump and cross everything that this is the issue (even though we had more on a tank before and the gauge was still showing 1/4) Tank took 40Ls that's nowhere near empty.
Started up fine and drove the rest of the way home.
So apart from reminding me that I really should fix the petrol fuel pump, it has thrown up questions on the LPG now.
So the summer service + brakes list has just got longer with extras to investigate.
Still love it though and didnt swear at it once.
J.
Does liquid gas take longer to turn to a gas when it’s cold? And your water been colder and the vaporiser unit not up to temperature could cause the problem.Drove it into town today to drop M off to pick the posh 1 up.
Checked LPG tank and mileage(KMs) before leaving yep plenty should get there and fill up somewhere on the way home, (Had 150 more before filling).
Got M dropped and off home I go (got to get a head start). Didnt go so well as it broke down (I should I say I broke it down) in 1 of the worst possibly places on a big 2 lane bridge out of town, managed to roll back 100yards to a safe space. Quick text to M just incase she had any thoughts of going shopping. 5mins later the Big Black L322 pulls up, quickly hook up the pre prepared tow wire and off we scoot, after I reminded M, I have hardly any brakes and hard steering, so if she didn't want her backend stoved in, to be gentle with me.
So off we tow 20kms to the next garage, pull up at the LPG pump and cross everything that this is the issue (even though we had more on a tank before and the gauge was still showing 1/4) Tank took 40Ls that's nowhere near empty.
Started up fine and drove the rest of the way home.
So apart from reminding me that I really should fix the petrol fuel pump, it has thrown up questions on the LPG now.
So the summer service + brakes list has just got longer with extras to investigate.
Still love it though and didnt swear at it once.
J.
Does liquid gas take longer to turn to a gas when it’s cold? And your water been colder and the vaporiser unit not up to temperature could cause the problem.
(Used to get this problem with forklifts,if you pop the bonnet look at the vaporiser and they are normally frozen)
It wasn’t a particularly cold day, I actually had the “AC” flap open a notch.
Engine was up to operating temps, still wouldn’t start after sitting for 10-20mins, if it was iced up I would have expected it to have defrosted in that time.
As soon as the tank was full it started.
It’s parked in the naughty corner now and I took the 322 to the shop today as punishment.
It’s another 1 of them mystery Land Rover strops they have now and again.
J
@marjon, have you thought of pre-warming in the winter months with an electric garage heater [not a condense dripping gas heater]? They work wonders on older cars/Land Rovers, leave on for 20mins in the garage before setting off...may be have a cup of tea/hot chocolate whilst warming up. Turn the key and up they start. I once rescued the wettest most sodden Type35B Bugatti like this - the owner had driven down to Goodwood circuit in atrocious winter conditions with the Bugatti on the back of an open trailer, it could not be started. So out with the garage heater and extension lead in back of car, plug in and turned on for 30-40mins. The car fired up at near first turn of the starting handle