Recent content by Brendan1213

Hello, After taking doors side steps etc off to respray my passenger door so far has about 1mm clearance at the top and 15mm at the bottom, have tried adjusting the door to death. Have googled for an hour to realise that the large outrigger bolt I removed may of had shims in it to align the...

Flashers ok, have had to cut off the top 4 prongs from the switch just to give me indicators to get me home tonight and then will try another (3rd) switch, I think its the switch and I'm that unlucky but should know by end of the week, was hopefull I just oit an incorrect tyoe switch and that I...

Hello, My hazard light switch packed in a few weeks ago, fitted a new one (cheapy off fleabay) and after a week the switch was playing up only allowing r/h indicators to flash when the hazard switch was depressed unless you push the switch in a little then you could get both side hazards to...

I thought that as well, i had disconnected all cabling and tested to see what was going on to find the 1.5v back fed seemed to only happen when i had the alternator battery warning light connected, disconnect it from the voltage regulator and no problems it stops when needed. Just i couldn't...

Hello, My 1984 landy was converted to a 300tdi some time ago and its now developed a really random problem. The engine will stay running with the key removed and ignition lights out! Only light that would stay on was the battery warning light so I though bugger the fuel.solenoids playing up...

So how many times does it take to get the seal changed succesfully? I am now about to put my third seal in soon due to repeated failure. Have done it once with the gasket and once with just RTV, have used a bearmach seal with the gasket and a victor reinz with rtv for the recent one, shaft the...

Ok no replacing the wires didn't fix the problem :-( An hour later I found that the only other bridge from the 6 white wires is a brown/yellow with a voltage regulator from the ignition warning lights. Disconnected the multi plug at the back of the warning lights and engine now starts and stops...

Yes found the ofending wire, must of just been squashed against the bulkhead and earthing out. Will teplace the wire tomorrow along with the ignition switch since that decided to pop off during the investiagtion works

thought i would just strip the top section of dash, only took 20 minutes. As i thought it looks like a blind person with a case of the shakes put most of it together, have never seen 6 cables joined together with a couple ounces of solder but thats done by the manufacturer apparently :-(, i...

From the ignition or from the easier run fuel sender unit?

Well I'm slightly stumped, I recently bought a 1984 90 with a 300tdi lump in it. It recently decided it didn't like to stop the engine once the ignition was switched off, usually just needed a little tap on the injector pump to fix. Changed the solenoid and the problem still there, if I...

Well wasn't the cylindet head, jesus if I don't fix this soon the wife is going to take away my.bank cards :(. So instead of it spitting oil out it could most likely be fuel, so with it being new injectors I can only assume I may be running slightly retarded (checked timing earlier several times...

Yep, ran the engine with the inlet and turbo manifold off to find it smoking bad on cylinder two and a little on one and four. New head it is then. Again!

Nope no bung left in the turbo (never simple) took inlet manifold and turbo off this morning and all 4 exhaust ports are drowning in oil, its a new head so I thi k I'll have to go back to britpart. Not sure what would have to go wrong for all 4 cyclinders to be burning oil though, had already...

Greyish, no sweet smell. When I split the exhaust pipe flange I am met with a thick film of gunged up oil. When taking off the exhaust manifold all 4 exhaust ports are covered in oil. Is it possible that the turbo oil drain hose may be blocked causing the oil to push out the seal and into the...