Recent content by Dylan353

To be honest I couldnt be bothered with garages in the future unless its very serious. A blessing in disguise really since i'm the only one that's going to treat the vehicle with the same level of care that I would want given to it, and on the plus side of that, i'll learn how to do this stuff...

Yeah I thought it was a funny one alright, however that being said he didnt fail it of even give advisory to the holes in the bulkhead and a fairly sizeable hole in the chassis. Ive got the paper though and more time to fix all that sort of stuff!

So after I thought all was well it wasnt. I was even on the phone to the local garage and it was working one second and not the next. Just to wrap up the story in case anyone has the same issue in the future. I clean/replaced all the earth connectors around the vehicles including the rear which...

For some reason there's no earths coming off the back of them. I suppose I am lucky owner No. 13 after all :P

Although the earths around the vehicle are a bit crummy and will need attention as soon as, I found the problem, it was the instrument panel lights. On the wiring diagram it shows them to have an earth wire but no sign of that in my truck unless maybe the earth into the dash itself. Either way...

The indicator is working though just not when the side and headlights are on. I pulled the indicator warning lights out and still it won't indicate with the lights on and the relay fuses buzzes when just the side lights are on.

Just going to try that now! The lights are their usual brightness and dont appear to change when the indicator is used. I just wired the indicators straight from ignition live just to see if something was getting confused on the fuse box but no.

So this morning I cleaned the contacts on the indicators and tested the earths on them and all is well. However the issue of the indicators not working when the lights are on remains. The earth on the flasher unit is good, ive cleaned all the contacts etc. One thing that has me confused is why...

I remember seeing in a few other threads and people were talking about the 2 and 3 pin flasher units, but i've got a 4 pin. What i'm going to do today is rewire the fuse box and put it back to as standard as possible. Then start testing for earths and see where the earth from the flasher unit is...

I would normally do this but seeing as they've caused the fault and ive not been impressed with their work to date its not worth bringing it back to them. They are the sort of lads that would rob the wire they needed from a crusty junker and put it into mine in the hope it would all work.

So, George passed his MOT (apparently) and have a lovely bill to suggest a lot of work was done from the last visit to the garage. However, now ive got indicator problems..... even though they were fine before. The vehicle had been wired so the lights would work of ignition live but this has...

Perfect! Considering there are new plugs in it and its wired in parallel then it makes the resistor redundant although how can I have the cold start bulb lighting?

Hi all, just got my Landy back from the garage for the MOT and asked for a glow plug switch to be plumbed in. I was surprised to see when I got home that the plugs are being powered straight from the battery to a switch and then straight to the plugs, bypassing the coil on the bulkhead. Is this...

I thought I recognised that wagon :) Looking well and a lovely day out!

One of the lads had a bunch of them for sale. One for 4 quid and a few for a tenner!