Hi Leo. The diesel will not float it will simply combine and dilute the engine oil. You can however use the diluted engine oil as fuel so don't throw it away. When I made a suction tube I made it so that when inserted into the dipstick hole a cable tie around the tube stopped it at the FULL...

I unfortunately have to agree. It looks like a mobile sauna. Each to their own but I can't help feeling it would appeal to a wider audience of potential buyers and fetch more money without the wood. As an aside....... how does anyone get into the back to sit on the bench? It looks like you would...

Helicoil would be my choice as once in place the threads are much tougher than tapping direct into ally.

Try running a temporary earth cable from the battery -ve to the ecu earth point.

That seems clear enough to me. It seems our agitated friend is flogging the proverbial dead donkey in terms of the Portugese authorities allowing the registration and importation of the offending vehicle in it's current format. I'm now going to lie down in a darkened room and exercise my...

The fact that a V8 90 can be legal in the UK is not in dispute. It is easily verified. However a home grown V8 90 is not the same as a factory produced one. Hence the SVA/IVA requirements in the UK if you build your own. I can not conceive of any bona-fide government authority, having initially...

I'm bored with this now.

From what I can work out you have a 90 with a V8 fitted but the original car was registered with a 2.5Td? Not an uncommon modification for Land Rovers. Where and who fitted the V8? If it was done here in the UK the vehicle would have needed to go for an SVA single vehicle type approval...

For somebody that is new to this forum with just five posts (including this one), and who has asked for "unusual" help to say the least, you are seriously failing the attitude test at this point. An MOT on a vehicle in the UK so that you can register a completely different vehicle in another...

Have a look at BFG T/A KO2s as they are more road friendly but also have an aggressive tread pattern for the sticky stuff. They are an "all terrain" tyre rather than a pure "mud terrain" one. They are not noisy at all and seem to handle OK in the rain on tarmac. Duty cycle is advertised as 50%...

Send the pictures to Gary at Alive and he will tell you what you have.

As per the title the only TD5 spare part I have left is a good 10p EU2 (no external return pipe as on the EU3 15p engines) fuel pressure regulator complete with the fuel temperature/pressure sender. Free to a good home. Contact me if you want it. First come first served. Cheers Shifty aka Steve

Thanks for all the interest - and the pennies. The last of my TD5 spares have now gone. It has been emotional.

You only live once.

Well Gary certainly knows his stuff. If he can't fix it then nobody can. Fingers crossed.

At least you got to the bottom of it. Nothing worse than an intermittent or untraceable fault. Can't help with an ECU but give Gary a call at Alive Tuning as he often has some for sale or may be able to repair your existing one. http://www.alivetuning.com/landrover/

Something sounds not quite right to me.

It will cause the ECU to reduce fuelling by changing the injector timing hence affecting the energy in the exhaust gasses spinning the turbo. At least that's what I reckon. I can't see how else it could do it without a boost modulator like the Discos have.

OK. Thinking about it when I changed engines EU2 to EU3 I never touched the air box. So I've been referring to the MAP sensor on the inlet manifold with the AAP sensor in the air box - DOH!. AFAIK the MAPs are the same on all TD% variants. However when I changed out the oily loom from a 10p...

You may be right but when I changed out my 10p engine for a 15p crate engine it came with all sensors and I never had to modify the AAP to fit the 10p loom. In fact I was not aware there were different AAPs available, It was virtually just plug and play except for a few cooling hoses.