If it's a three door, there could be a chance it's coming in from the seal between the hardtop and the body as well. If there are no obvious tears or kinks, I've found that just giving the seals a very good clean, and rubbing some silicone on them has cured it on the couple of occasions I've...

I had the grand idea of retrofitting the webasto FBH to my TD4 a few years ago. I started buying the bits. But it's slipped to a lower priority job, as I've had other things to do. Maybe I'll get around to fitting it next year. ...he says. Anyway. Here on some photos that might help. As others...

Thanks and will try that. Reading your thread on the subject a while back, I have to agree that temperature plays an important part. Once I'm up to the magic 88C it's no longer present (so far). It's not going to be a high priority problem to tackle as we go through the winter months, but any...

Thanks Richard. All looks good, and will help me as I experiment with trying reduce the the infamous TD4 2k misfire. The grey Freelander 2 looked great BTW.

The original BMW MINI has exactly the same mechanism/actuator module, so maybe that is easier to come by? Alternatively Gentlememenofsalvage seem to have some Freelander 1 solenoid modules. Alternatively 2, it is possible to repair these things yourself. I did mine, when the scrappy one I...

90 rubble sacks full of bad quality soil / bricks disposed of at the tip over 8 trips on Thursday. My back is still sore, today! Should have hired a skip, but I was being tight trying to recoup some of the money spent on getting the Freelander running again recently.

Hopefully you've sorted it now. It could have been a nice big bang and some unplanned welding had that positive lead been touching the metalwork. :)

I did try doing the first bit of that injector overhaul initially, stripping down the lower half of the injectors and putting in the ultrasonic bath. This achieved a nice clean spray pattern coming out with carb cleaner. But although I took extreme care to keep all the parts in order, and...

This and the related posts are all very true! So, never to disappoint, after going out on half a dozen trips yesterday with its newfound freedom, I had the MIL indicator come on twice as I turned the ignition off. - So I have myself the ongoing gremlin. I noticed that on both occasions before...

They were £130 each from Bearmach. Supposedly remanufactured by Bosch...

It's been a long drawn out process of changing and cleaning things. But it seems to be sorted. I think the critical things that solved the issues were: 1. New turbo core, (and unsticking/cleaning the vane mechanism) 2. Two duff injectors, so replaced all four with refurbished ones. 3. Fuel rail...

After 18 months of being off the road, finally got it MOT'd and taxed :-) ... for once, paying £340 to Her Majesty's Government didn't seem to hurt so much. With all the smoking and fuelling problems I've had while its been out of action my heart sank as I set off to the garage this morning...

Try doing a leak down test on that cylinder to find out where the air is leaking from before condemning the piston seals. You can buy a leak down tester to do it, alternatively, even if you can get compressed air into the cylinder alone, then rotate the engine so the valves are closed, you...

The ECU for the powerfolds is very much like a relay tucked up in the wall next to / underneath the glove box. I wonder if over the years too many wet boots etc. in the footwell area might have just made the 'relay' connectors a bit tarnished, and they just need a wiggle and a clean to get a...

What vehicle is it for? FL1, 2? 3-door, 5-door?

Successfully launched a missile from the TD4 cylinder head. I forgot that last week, after removing the glow plugs, I put them back in just hand tight, to stop crud from falling into the holes. So as I was starting the engine today… with a loud pop and a puff, a glow plug is airborne. No sign...

So it’s at least £3k over the odds for that sticker, and a bunch of poorly hacked mods, and tatty front bumper. Doesn’t even have the ‘magical’ cup holder, or the rear parcel shelf.

If you have a manual gearbox, the cruise control lines will be redundant on the rotary assembly, so you can check the continuity on those, which of good, you can swap the horn wiring over to use instead. The problem with these rotary assemblies is that the copper tracks fracture over time on...

Glow plug removal success. After squirting WD40 on the glow plugs nearly every day over the past week, today was the day to see if it had worked. I ran the engine so the temperature gauge was midway, and donned the gloves to tackle the glow plugs using a long 10mm socket and t-bar. Pleased to...

https://www.instructables.com/Repair-Mini-Cooper-Electric-Door-Lock-Actuator-L/ Same mechanism and actuators. Towards the end of the description, shows how to clean the motors. I did it on mine successfully. no need to take the handle off