Recent content by Madcal

It is looking more and more like an electrical gremlin somewhere. The light will come on when you start her up, if you turn off and on again then it goes out and all good. Did 200 miles with a trailer last weekend and all good. I will keep checking wires.

thank you, the pump is humming away when I tested today but then the light went out today.. I will check that when the light remains on; would be good if it wasn't as I am sure an easier fix.

OK embarrassment time... Of course it is viscous, thank you! Perhaps I should look under the bonnet before posting. Someone had nudged the (non functional) air conditioning on, it was the fan for that....

Afternoon all, Amongst the various maladies my 1990 has it has now decided to keep the radiator fan on permanently. Any ideas on what part I need to replace to cure? Electric thermostat somewhere? I am hoping it would be PRC7918P Just trying to avoid hours in books, thanks in advance!

So we are 5 months on and the light is back on again, same symptoms (no assistance, full body weight required even to stop creep in drive). Turn the car off and on again and the light goes off and it all works fine. I am thinking it must be electrical given it is intermittent. Going to do the...

Afternoon all, Firstly a massive THANK YOU for all the advice. The new accumulator arrived, £160. I have the workshop manual so followed the steps; battery off, press brake 30 times, wait 60 seconds then 4 more to get rid of the pressure. Then I tentatively started undoing the connections to...

It will be a couple of weekends before I can do it. Will post photos and experience in here for others to use in the future. Thanks again for all the responses, accumulator ordered plus ABS relay. Hopefully I don’t also need a pump.

Any tips for how to access it, given it is down low under a bunch of stuff on the classic rather than mounted on top like a P38?

I will go for it then. However it is an asymmetrical risk, the brakes sort of work at the moment. So I can drive it to the garage (slowly). If I do this and make a mess of it then it will be 100% un-driveable and I will need to get it trailered. I am handy with a spanner and have 2 Series...

That is all very kind and super fast responses thank you. Fluid was changed a year ago (500 miles) and done By a specialist not me. Brakes are perfect really solid pedal except when light on and then a lower down but still solid pedal except takes a body weight to stop the car instead of a...

Thanks that is a good shout. You can buy the accumulators. Will have a look

Afternoon all, My Range has developed a braking issue. The brake light (not ABS) sometimes stays on after starting, you have no assistance on the brakes and stopping when in drive requires almost full body weight on the pedal (so terrifying in traffic). After 5 minutes or so the light goes...

Afternoon all, to benefit anyone else who may end up swearing as much as I have... - Finally got it all together - Had to take off passenger side - Remove the two spring hanger bolts on the drivers side, so the spring was loose - Use a small trolley jack with a nice small head under the plate...

Thank you. The outside U bolt does, I will check the inside one today (the one closest the front diff). When I look with a mirror, with the outside U-bolt fitted, the inside one has both bolt holes around 5-10mm away from the actual bolt ends. It’s almost as if the U bolt needs to twist...

Thank you. Can I just check by dumb irons you mean the front chassis members? So you mean that maybe the spring mounts could be in the wrong place, moved forward or back through one of likely many bits of welding over the years? I am tempted to try mounting the spring to the axle when...