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You may find the ignition switch controls more than one circuit 🤔 If your goïng to remove it to replace it, you've nothing to lose trying to clean the contacts 👍

PM me with an email address and I will send you the info.

Oh! Might I enquire what that is? 😃

My steel rule method of final timing the FIP is easier and more accurate than the DTI method in RAVE.

Procedurally JLR doesn’t expect you to have a nanocom. It’s set to 1/1000mm or near as your patience eyes will allow taking into account wear on chains sprockets pump internals etc so it’s reset after any interference as a practice. It probably...

If you haven’t had the chains off or changed anything should be okay if it was good before. I’m fairly sure the woodruff key should be roughly vertical when locked at cyl1 tdc but not 110%, others memories may be fresher, but as you say it’s all...

Are you sure it's not just the top cover leaking as was the case on both mine? Easy job in situe if that is the case. The fuel runs down making it appear that there are other joints leaking. No timing problems removing the top cover.

Coming out of Tesco's this afternoon had to stop to let pedestrians cross. There were 2 oriental lads beaming and smiling at the Rangie. They both got their phones out and started taking pics. Then stood there giving me the thumbs up sign with...

Thankfully mine's been behaving for the last few weeks, busy going to and from night work, a couple of social events, mostly motorway work. I tend to get though about £100-worth of diesel a week, car says 27.8mpg. But that depends on whether me...

New expansion cap on. Now got normal pressure in the system!!

Good evening everyone, I have given up looking for the fault. I have reassembled everything. Will have to wait until the end of August. Today I tried to check the cables "at the back" but then I realised that the test with the lamp was...

Thanks both, I had the wheel off yesterday and gave the drive shaft a pull and it was defo out, so gave it a good shove back in, heard the click and all was solid. Wheel back on, test drive and it's as though it never happened. Thanks for the...

222000 on clock. Engine and gearbox have been changed during my 10 years of owner ship plus airbags, bushes , bearings and loads of other stuff :D

137k 1 set of HG's and lots and lots and lots of petrol...... ;) :)

A slightly narrow and slightly higher tyre... I'm not sure if there is a real gain there🤔

Disco 2's have traction control... The centre diff in the LT230 likes to destroy itself if it spins too fast/long :( If my Disco 1 wasn't such a ****box, I'd get Ashcroft ATBs front, centre and rear: Then it'd be like a proper AWD on the road...

Just to note, any difference in the position of the upper caps on the fip when replaced. If not exactly where you found it, it'll either not run and or idle very low or idle very fast, like very fast!! 😬

As long as the tool stays in place you can take the pump in and out with no issues. You'll have to time it up afterwards anyway.

The only reference you really need is the fip body relationship to the casing it's bolts too. Logic says as you have noted it should all be in place on the engine side. The only thing that can move is the fip drive shaft. Don't forget as the...

I was going to do them all and just get it over with. I guarantee If I did the quick job it would come back to bit my backside anyway. Oh, right. If you Mark everything off and nothing moves why do they need to be re-timed?

Are you doing the top cap seals, upper and lower caps? They can be done with the pump on the engine if you haven't gone to far dismantling the pump. The injector head can also be done in situ. These three are the most popular seal fail issues...

With Nanocom, you can operate the windows which will confirm if that is where the problem lies. Equally, you can check the operation of the switches. So for example, if Nanocom sees the switches operate and the windows operate from Nanocom, the...

So when the button is pressed on 5he switch pack is there a live present at the window motor plug? 🤔

Range assumes some mileage will be on the back of a recovery truck :rolleyes:

i will empty the tank before fitting new gazoline i put pure water (no glycol) in the radiator i prime the oil pump with the drill i give 2 rotations of the engine with a wrench i put back the dizzy i crank the engine and put an eye on the oil...

Filled the tank today.. 66.62ltrs, tanks trip said 325mi. Dash said 33.5mpg, the maths doesn’t agree. 22.2 😂

it is possible for the material inside a catalytic converter to crack/break apart and cause a rattle. this can happen if the exhaust is very hot and you drive through water, the sudden cold shock can damage it. in theory

i think you had the sequence the wrong way around

No battery management on 2005 and that year is not set up for AGM batteries best stick to lead acid.

i think what i'm trying to say is the what-ifs.. but call me paranoid. a fast first start is critical is critical in this case, you dont want it coughing/spluttering for a min while it warms up when you need to be bedding in a new cam.. for the...