Not at all but I do owe you for getting to the bottom of that rattle. It's been annoying me for ages

Nope. A good result and a blether is as good as biscuits. I forgot to even offer tea anyway 😳🤦‍♂️

I did not but I owe him some

Met @meego yesterday and had a look over it and found what seemed to be an embarrassingly simple fix to my steering rattle problem. Turns out one of the bolts on the top steering column UJ was loose as well as play in the front left side wheel...

I can check my PMs but I haven't been on here in years so probably best sending them through again please

I’m off now till Tuesday mate so no problem. Be here all day tomorrow probably, but I’ll pm my number and postcode. Unless you still have them ??

The left side is probably a wee bit heavier than it should be and the right is fine. Happy to pop round and give it another look over though if you want

Checked the preload twice now and its not made any difference.

Wasn't me that asked, I still haven't gotten to the bottom of my issue

Just as an update on this unfortunately the a frame balljoint being replaced still hasn't sorted the issue so at the moment it's been put on the back burner till I can figure out what else it could be

I'll replace them as a matter of course as they'll be original so just a bawhair off 30 years old at this point.

On the hoses - I have had a set of britpart blue silicon hoses in for at least 15 years - they are worth it if you need to buy hoses anyway

If that permanent live to the aux fuse board is coming straight from the battery then the draw from your glow plugs shouldn't have any effect on it. It seems much more likely that the cables chaffed on something and earthed against the bulkhead

I think the wastegate was seized a little so I've freed that up and I've also found that the right angle hose from the turbo is swelling under acceleration so I'll replace all the hoses. If still no luck I'll need to check the boost. I wanted to...

That sounds like the boost isn't getting through to push the plunger down on the fuel injector pump- forget it's proper name now. As too why it is intermittent that is a mystery - A boost gauge T'd in just before the pipe goes into the...

Why is there an 0.8mm cable being used as a permanent live to a fuse board? What's the fuse board for?

Certainly not expecting it to be rapid or drive like a modern car, I've had it long enough to know that but there is a noticeable drop and complete lack of power when under load. It never used to be like this so something must be causing it but...

Nope, and no EGR. Checked pick up pipe last night and that's clear, I also looked inside that tank and it's immaculate inside too. What I did find however is that when I removed the fuel filter I got a ton of diesel chucked out at me which isn't...

Well that made absolutely no difference. Replaced the boost control pipe and the air filter for good measure, im just back a test drive and unfortunately it's still exactly the same. I can hear the turbo spooling up in lower gears and I've no...

RIP Ozzy.

Me anorl, legend, definitely.

Saddened to hear of the death of music legend Ozzy Osbourne

Happy new shoes btw

Suspect this may be my issue then. All other turbo hoses fine apart from this, the boost control pipe from injection pump to turbo has at least 1 pinhole worn through. Going to get a new one today and see if that sorts it

All I can really find out it is the approximate build date was January. Unfortunately the Series 3 was still being produced until 1985 (although I don't know if that was at Solihull) so I doubt you'll be able to use the serial number from the vin...

What's your VIN

I'll have a look around today and check all of them. I think it is a turbo/boost issue rather than a fuel one

+1 on the turbo hoses, can be a leak, it disconnected or sinply desintegrated. As she did have full power before loosing it again, maybe a leak or a loose hose. Had that on one of our other cars, also a turbo diesel engine.

As far as I'm led to believe it's positive pressure so this shouldn't be the case. Only other things I could think of relating to this were that the wastegate is seized from being parked up and not opening fully, or the pipe I fitted is...

Ill need to start having a look around all the hoses and pipes as I can't think of anything else it can be