Has anyone near Bristol southwest got the air suspension calibration blocks for 1998 p38. I have done it measuring axles to arch before but blocks would be so much quicker and easier. Im Looking to borrow for an hour or two, in exchange for whatever your poison is or I have some spares knocking...

I would test the battery due to the low temperatures and Test alternator output, i've had many strange intermittent becm/locking faults due to this. (But not this one) Corrosion on below carpet wiring and in connection blocks around becm especially on this old motor and following historic heater...

A troll 'casting aspersions' I am not. I was however enquiring if other types of vehicle are usually found at this event or if it is a really 'hardcore' defender event. In the same way that when you organise events, do only t0ssers attend.??

This appears to be a defender only day out, after looking at the pictures of last years show..I ain't got a problem with exclusivity but its just nice to know. Will anyone in the more comfortable and less tractor like be visiting this show ??

Probably not.... Few years back I went to one in okehampton, it was alright. Been looking for a while but I guess to promote ownership and enjoyment of a landrover breeches too many EU health, safety and mental disability rules... Sh1tters.

Fair play. Between my two p38s nearly everything works. Good luck

Wow she's really up together as you have spent thousands on her and no doubt, lots of blood sweat and tears. A really comfortable ride, everything works, as new, low milage, top motor. Why are you selling it.? You can't put so much into a bitch of a car just to sell it.

Just done my roof lining and a,b,c pillars in a foam backed velvet material. Proper foam backed stuff fits into all the nooks and crannies nice and easy. 3 Metres by 1.5, fine for my P38 in beige. £25 2 spray tins of trim fix £15 And a day in the sunshine cus I did it on my drive. Pix if...

I have a R reg p38 box if that's any good for you..

A small wire attached to your starter by crappy spade connector may be the culprit if wet and covered in mud and cow sh1t. It's the starter motor 'trigger'.

Bingo.... Gotta say if any cylinders were low I'd do the gaskets anyway but you may save some time and money cus you would be nuts not to check / skim heads at the same time, if the engines overheated.

Air lock - drive up a bank or verge putting top of rad highest point/rev engine..a bit. Blow through small return pipe from top of rad to reservoir (sometimes blocked at res end.) Compression test cylinders to id head gasket fault may have been fitted badly.(then check head bolt tightness and...

this is quite a revival.....im sure lots has happened in the past year and a bit....and probably didnt involve them doing time, being shot or fined. 6 months suspended would be my guess.

Thanks for input Flossie...yes they are a bit different to other brakes have done. No hammering metal rimmed seals in or using a press.

You know that warm feeling of satisfaction when you achieve whatever goal your aiming for.. I had it briefly with a moment of realisation that fitting new seals and sliding the piston with ease into the caliper, can be done in about 15 seconds each. Well done to land rover, they put a bit of...

Bloody things, getting the polished and lubed piston past the bottom fluid seal is not a problem.. Fitting the top dust seal into the caliper groove 1st, fitting the piston shears it off, Fitting dust seal into piston groove first, then can't get to the caliper groove to press in seal without...

You may be onto something there, maybe I need to use more lubrication.... 'The wetter the better' applies to many things.

As the title suggests, i am having a nightmare refitting the front brake caliper pistons back in without trashing the new seals. I have refurbed the lot and need to ask if any one has a idiot proof way of getting the pistons back in, straight, with only a large engineers vice, some red grease...

'Everything else works' ... not now it won't.

No really, it's fine, this ones only flat at the top.