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To be fair, you have done something that probably hasn't been done before, on a Freelander anyway. I'm impressed with what you have achieved. Ok so there's been a few teething troubles, but nothing compared to those a manufacturer would have...

You could say that...... Or be honest and say Cockup sorting. :homer:

Yes mate. I now have the ignition providing 12V for both the coil of the latching relay and the latching contacts. Originally I had connected the latching contact to 12V permanent. 😮 I think this meant the relay stayed latched on after I turned...

That was lucky Ali. Can you reconfigure the system so it can't happen again?

I had to make the phone call of shame today. :oops: Followed by the tow of shame. 😢 Then the final push of shame. 😭 I was driving in slow moving traffic when I heard a bang, when I opened the bonnet I saw smoke pouring out of the HV junction...

Which one to play in today ?

Went for a drive and filled it up on the way home. Sometimes the easiest things in life please me! 😁

I like that. All week I have been getting in the F2 and enjoying the smell of the leather and wafting to work, knowing that, if I dab the right peddle, I can fly to work ;) Today, Mrs Grumpy can have choice of cars. If she wants the F2, I...

Just.... brilliant! Love this!

They could if I knew how to tell them to but no, they are all stand alone. Current Arduino count is 4 if you include the VCU which is a Due in a fancy board. 1, Due controlling charging but hope to add more functionality to it some day. 2, Uno...

Still great work! I was wondering about the change from a toggle switch to the knob...?

Cracking effort :)

It was always a shaft for a knob, just the first one was all wrinkly and hard (metal) and 4kR whereas the second is smoother softer and fatter (plastic) but only 1kR.

I love the way you said nifty and not neat cause neat it ain't. 🤣 But since nobody will ever see the inside I guess I'll get away with it. ☺️ Cutting the hole semi straight with a dremel was not easy and I used a little file to try and tidy it up...

Some photo's of the cabin heater controller. I don't think I've ever used the ash tray anyway. 😋 And yesterday I even managed to refuel my car using the sun.

status update:- before now this is just bare metal as welded and cleaned up. It'll look a lot better with the skim of filler and some stone chip on it. Now I have to do the other side. It seems to me that long term those protection...

Whoopi!! I'm glad it's up and running again, with a heater too. Excellent work Ali. I look forward to hearing about your many EV exploits in it.

So the great news is we are back on the road again after more than two weeks major organ surgery (cabin heater) and some plastic surgery to the LV junction box. The vac boost is working a treat and so far everything else is too. The cabin heater...

I just sorted out the cabin heater and tidied up the Low Voltage junction box so it was off the road for a couple of weeks. I really missed it as I get a real kick out of driving it. To change gear I just lift off the throttle completely and it...

My congratulations. It's a hell of a project! I'm driving an EV as a company car at the moment, and really quite enjoying it, to be honest. Presumably, you have to feather the throttle to get pretty much no torque passing through the...

Drove it. :) For the first time since taking it off the road almost three weeks ago to sort the heater and tidy the Low Voltage junction box. Everything that could go wrong did but I finally got the heater working and the newly tidied JB...

Apologies this is a 7 min chunk of a much longer video about the whole project .. so alot of me talking shi*! Might be interesting / useful for someone though.

Your boot door is in fantastic condition. Most cars of that era have a huge rot hole under the handle resulting in the handle pulling off. Well done for finding the fault.

If you want to do the springs yourself, get decent double-hook compressors like the picture below. I prefer to take the complete assembly off the car by undoing the top mounts & the two bolts on the hub. Do NOT undo the central shock nut until...

Maybe but maybe not. Lots of them are removed only because the support bearings have failed and removing the propshaft is the cheapest way to get it back on the road.

You might well be right but I don't think so. It was a 'surplus to requirements' vehicle for a recently retired couple, just got parked up and everything expired. But you're kinda missing the point ... I was looking for a cheap fun project. So...

No, I did what you said and with help from Nodge built a coupler to link the gearbox directly to the motor. Changing gear is no problem though, maybe cause I don't have regen. Everything Nodge said is correct although I won't be pushing the range...

Its all about gearing. I have the Leaf motor bolted to the Freelander gearbox so when I use 1st it is probably a lot lower geared than the Leaf would be. Normally I start off in 2nd which i think is closer to the original Leaf gearing but I then...

I got it installed after my last post and so far so good with the vac boost. :) Of course a couple of other issues have cropped up but hopefully should be simple to sort. I know what one of them is as I had the same problem before, when I turn...

I like the idea if a simple pressure switch for the vacuum. For simple problems, I like to keep the solution simple.