Whilst I'm very pleased for you, this level of bragging has brought up some feelings of jealousy.
Nah, I'm over it. Good for you my friend. Good for you!
The glow plugs were cheap, from one of the usual UK suppliers directly from their website. I couldn’t tell you at this stage what brand they are.
I don’t really think it’s a glow plug problem. The signs I learned to look for from my experience...
Were the glow plugs good quality ones ie Beru, NGK or the like or the cheap ones off the bay. The ones from the far east are very poor for starting as I can vouch from past experience
Some places have a shaker type thing that sits on a normal 4 post lift. Watched one being used once to try and find a knock. Car is shook and the fitter feels about until his touch finds the noise.
Old gal been stud for over a week whilst away on holiday. Dropped a little bit but thats just self levelling as is normal where parked. Fired up first go and straight up to normal height so tret her to a run to Sheffield to my mothers so as to...
Sooo, I skipped training today and attacked those harnesses!
Good new first: all colors on the Autospark one, so far, are the same as those in the repair manual (only exception in one in the engine bay). That is quite good! The rear loom is...
Rear harness almost in, engine harness connector labelled and routing figured out, dashboard removed, all after market wiring ripped out. Seems I have to pull out the heater unit as well, as the main harness passes behind it. There goes my TÜV...
Hi mate I'd just like to thank you,
I've rebuilt the valve block and after some fiddling around with a split compressor pipe it air up extremely quick .
Cheers 👍👍
Last time I went for parts from my Landy dealer the kid pointed out the car was considerably older than he was and he generally only sees JLR cars still under warranty because the dealer prices are so high. Fair point!
There's enough guides and YouTube videos I should be fine, and t I be honest this forum has helped me more than anything.
Better than my local landy specialist who refused to work on my car , due to " no experience with p38s"
Take the little exhaust filter out & check if there's air from the port while pump is running. If there is, then the diaphragm valve is leaking. That valve is on the same 12V that the pump uses, so it should engage together with the pump...
I changed the ignition coils with new BOSCH units. problem solved!!!!!
by the way , I suspect that the problem came from a small leak from the Throttle Body Heater Plate damaging the plug , lead, and the coil for the cylinder 1 [exactly where the...