Recent content by dapper_dog

I had a goog look at the part at the weekend and Wammers was correct. The knuckle holding the U/J was full of stress fractures adn it was made of **** steel. Every thing looks ok but mechanic will have a good look when insurance is sorted out. He reckons it is fine to drive as a 2 wheel dirve...

In answer to Wammers question I didn’t know you could replace the UJ so I got a whole shaft. The splicer broke and that caused the flange to split. Island 4x4 said they would replace it or give me my money back but the need the shaft back. They will not give money towards the repair so...

There was a small bit of vibration but no noise. I thought it was my wheels and was going to get them balanced when i got home.

Hi, I had my front prop shaft on my 2000 p38 replaced 8mts ago with a britpart one. I was on the motorway yesterday when it failed catastrophically. It put a hole in the floor and cracked my gear box. I was lucky though, as the rear hardy spicer failed first, if it had been the other way...

Don’t know but if i had to put money on it i would say it was the mechanic who had it out to fix the injector pump. The thermostat was gone and he didn’t even bother to replace it said I might like to do it so as far as I am concerned he damaged it while disconnecting it or...

got the car back, drove it 6 miles and the rad went, sent ti back and he fixed it, got it back and the compressor failed, fixed that and drove 2 miles and the rad burst again. All fixed now apart from the heating. Does anyone know if someone around the midlands in Ireland has software to reset...

I have no injector light on mine so i cant say, though if i had it would have made it easer to fix

pump was replaced and the tank was cleaned out, fan replaced, return lines replaced and water pump replaced. And yes No holes were cut in the car. low pressure on two injectors and hot start problem so i would say that the only solution is sort the injector pump out. By the way the hot start...

fuel injector gone needs reconditioning.

From the real Capital "Dublin" but stuck slap bang in the middle in Athlone. Good to see there is a few of you around.

New fan going in this afternoon so I should know tomorrow. Hope he is right as it is a relatively cheep fix. Will let you know the outcome. Peter

It looks like the viscous coupling in the fan has gone and is causing the engine to shut down to protect itself from over heating. New fan being installed and hopefully that will be the end of that. Peter

Hi Adam, The car is being taken away on Monday to have live data read when the problem occurs. The guy doing it rebuilt a P38 and reckons that the problem is with the thermostat as it wasn’t replaced when the water pump was. He said that RR recommend replacing the two along with the...

Had fues box out at weekend and all looks fine with it, no corrosion. I have been told that the fuel filter housing can give problems and suck in some air when hot could this be causing the problems outlined above.

Pulled the relays and no corrosion on them. From what i can see with out stripping the fuse box down all looks good. How strong should the fan run when the engine is hot as when the gauge is at 12:00 the fan is only spinning slowly? Could it be something to do with the temperature sensor as...