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Spent a few hrs yesterday with a friend helping to fit a second hand blend motor to his 38 drivers side. Learnt quite a bit as did he. Ebay motor only had 2 wires, the original one had 4, looked identical outside though just only 2 wires. Insides...

Wasn't deliberate :vb-lol:. I had one, dad died and I inherited his amongst other stuff, then a friend died and left me the contents of his shed which contained another. Only one is a true dremel, the others are an aldi one and a wickes one.

That rings a bell. The GEMS is much more closely tied in to the BECM. I have a vague memory it wouldn't engage but Marty realised the diesel and Thor are different and tied a wire in somewhere or grounded it and it all started working.

Nah, about right for a v8! Rear crank seal; front crank seal; front cover gasket; valley gasket; sump gasket; sump drain plug washer; oil cooler pipe unions; oil cooler; rocker gaskets. Use Sh!tpart and you can have endless fun replacing them...

You seem to be having too many oil leaks. I suggest checking your crankcase breather system. If its not venting vapours/pressure, you'll find oil leaks everywhere...

No, I didn't. That's just another part of the overall system but it cannot affect the max output from the alternator. It will of course affect how much is drawn down from that max. What you're suggesting is that if you put a bigger load on an...

The power cones from the number of coils - that's roughly what is causing R[esistance] in your formula, albeit with a bit of feedback so it varies on demand. Volts times amps is watts (power). If one goes up the other goes down but the power...

There's something different in the way GEMS ties into the HEVAC. Thor and diesel are different. I cannot recall now what it is because I have had too much beer but it'll come back to me. And yes, early models were driven direct rather than by a...

While we're on it I tried some later versions of his software for the the v8 L322 on a diesel model and most of the modules on that also worked.

That's the part that is different. As far as I am aware the rest is the same but I may be wrong. Marty knows a lot more about HEVAC as he's had a lot more apart.

Could it be replaced with heat wrap? Like you use on exhaust manifolds

The P38A is modular so each computer works separately. Most systems are the same across diesel and petrol with the exception of the EMS and the HEVAC on the GEMS and even then I think the way the HEVAC communicates with diagnostics is the same.

Hawkeye and then that Britpart thing whose name escapes me. Might be Lynx? Edit: forgot the Storey Wilson paid for software. Tgat probably does it.

Made a boot divider to stop the big lump of a dog we've rehomed squashing the slightly smaller lump of a dog we rehomed a couple of years ago. The frame is 16mm x 1.4mm square box - about £8.50's worth, the mesh was repurposed from a L319 boot...

Hawkeye possibly, maybe could borrow one off a Disco owner?

Unfortunately Turner's rebuilds have been the subject of comment for some years now. V8 Developments seem to be the preferred choice at the moment, albeit they have something of a waiting list issue.

Iv realised iv not updated this for ages so a few things iv done so far and a few still left todo. I picked up a set of refurbed wheels so swopped the new tyres over to those glad I did as iv just not had time to sort the original curbed ones. I...

Injector screws into the ally head. I've got a feeling RAVE says 60 nm in one place and 70 nm in another. Pretty sure I went 60 nm on mine and they've been fine. I didn't even anneal mine, just torqued them up on the new head.

Yep. Early v8s had a smaller alternator too, I think.

I think the 150a was for the v8 and 105a for the diesel which is strange as the diesel I would have thought required more grunt to start 🤷

The max power is set by the number of turns on the coils. Only rewinding the alternator will change that. Volts go up, amps go down.

The company also did a kit to do it yourself for about £30

@Slooby rebuilt his with a kit from here https://www.turborebuild.co.uk/webshop/prod_3444877-Turbo-Repair-Rebuild-Service-Repair-Kit-fits-TD04-Mitsubishi-Turbocharger-Bearings-and-Seals-Flat-Back.html its in this thread and remember one of the...

None of my injector copper washers would come off. I suspect the new ones might not fit tightly enough around the injector.

I seem to recall a member on here getting a replacement cartridge for not a bad price. Easy to do. @brianp38dse might remember who it was.

13.8V is the old alternator set point. Not enough for a calcium battery. You can replace the alternator regulator to give 14.3 or even 14.5V but it will only have the same power so takes longer to charge a big 1k CCA battery. Replacing the...

How many miles?

I have a 2000 4.6 auto Petrol P38 Icelandic Blue Vogue Code 621 colour built on 30th August 2000 left the factory with 18" Hurricane wheel rims and has done 98,000 miles.

If it won't unlock then it's the one on the tailgate that is about the size of an old tape cassette, if it's the keyless start not working, then it's the one above the headlining. Intermittent faults can be the worst to nail down, try tracking...

Spunds like part of yhe can-bus system? @Saint.V8 played with that on his L322.