Advice please 570 miles after having the engine/flywheel/clutch swapped at a Land Rover specialist for a low milage unit. My flywheel has now gone again. Rattling like hell when you set off and turn the engine on and off. It just suddenly went driving home. One little rattle putting away and...

only for me to stare at it with a blank Expression

Plums into that then.

wonder why it’s not working then. I can’t imagine I’ve already got an ECU chip as it does feel slow and about the right power

Ah thanks for clarifying. In that case the vac line plumbs into the MAP vac line.

forgive me for being stupid. But what does the vac line from the ally intake manifold go to? Attached to fuel filter housing

It’s a non descript black box. I only got it off a friend of a friend because it worked on his which has same engine and management. plugged it it fires up but causes the worlds biggest loping idle

aware there’s ones for different years. But a 1996 and 1997 in theory should be the same?

Next thing. Purchased a tuning box off a friend of a friend (also with a cast intake - R reg) comes with a male and female connector for the FIP. And then a vac line that T junctions into the MAF vac line. Drive home, fitted the box (with engine warm - ouch) and turned on. Fired up but...

Happy days as far as P38 electrical problems go. Let’s hope it’s that!

Alternator and battery from previous engine

One last thing. second time this has happened. Doesn’t happen in the morning but in the afternoon. When I go to start the car (cold). I get a alternator error message and battery warning light. That instantly disappears the second I move forwards. move driven it probably 20 times since the...

I should also point out they put my significantly newer FIP on the new engine so the timing and setting up of that should also be perfect

110k - on the new engine Here’s the good part they put my water pump, new tensioners, pulleys, belts, glow plugs etc on the new engine. All of which had less than 1000miles on them. So we should be good! I can’t describe what a difference the flywheel and clutch has made too. It’s a...

Two months later the car is sorted! Took it to the local Indy. Nothing came up on diagnostics. Turns out the timing chain was so slack the pump was pretty badly out of timing. Tensioners worn too. It was apparently too far gone to even adjust timing. Anyway that and the combination of the...

You have sent me that! It’s in the works. Just keeps getting put on the back seat when more imminent problems pop up! It’s the p38 life! Love and hate it!

I’ve done the water pump this year with a metal impeller version. New belt and tensioner. Along with one of the pulleys. I’ve had a look at the crank pulley damper before and never seemed to find much wrong with it. I’ll ring up and get it booked in tomorrow. I really am swaying towards...

Never had a fan shroud. I’ve run it before without the belts. And it royally buggers up the idle. Makes it 10x worse

it’s more of a slope side to side as opposed to anything. here’s a video of it running warm to compare too

No it’s a relatively new issue. That’s why I’m thinking in tank pump. I’m staying with my parents helping out during lockdown (mostly because they’ve a garage and I’m building a GPz550). Their drive is on a massive slant. If I pull in forwards, in the morning my fuel level is massively...