Welding cars stuff that, my mate is a nuclear welder/fabrication manager basic pay is just under 70k + overtime & shift allowance ect. He started when he was 23 as a welder & walked in at 30k starting pay, now he's on rock star wages & he's 33...
I would suggest that you keep your current starter motor and look to have it reconditioned as I had starter motor issues and 2 new starter motors failed in short order, apparently this is a well known problem. I still had my old starter (original...
I'm thinking a tank removal happened at some point and it was a plug. But would have been fairly hard to miss when it went back together. That said it was screwed in a long way.
The question is what devilry was the PO trying to cure when he stuck the screw there in the 1st place?
Now it’s gone, 3 months down the road you’ll no doubt figure out what the bodge was trying to sort - just after you’ve forgotten you removed it...
When I did mine when I had diesel knock when you slackened the faulty one it still ran whereas on the good ones. It stalled. I also disconnected suspect injector swung the pipe round so you could see spray pattern and it was more like a single...
@dag019 might have a few tips,
Brake cleaner good but a fiver a tin and great for finishing off , if oil mixed with sand or hard crud then it won’t touch it then it’s scraping thick off with screwdriver , for that occasion I’ve used wire brush...
Yeah. I understand that a leaking fuel
Pipe is a fail. But it was
Ever so slight Enough for me not to spot it. And I had recently changed the fuel
Lines Not many friendly garages around these days. I have used the same workshop...
3 inch dia circle of oil on the floor after a few minutes is a fail, but if it dripped on the testers head you are going to fail!
I hate mots, not the pass/fail bit just the bloody inconvenience, and I say that as someone who gets approx 40...
Looking at the diagram, you realise how electrically dubious the stock wiring on a Series is! Half the circuits are protected by only three fuses, and the other half aren't protected at all. And no sign of any relays to take the load off the...
Figures show [ forget where I saw them ] that Series and Defenders have one of the lowest level of fatal and serious injury numbers for accidents on the road. It is just not the strong chassis but the fact it is not a fast vehicle and is...
They do tend to rattle a bit when testing in landy without load through the gears with no prop connected but once on the road mine was ok after rebuilt gearbox.
You should be able to select gears and turn brake drum gearbox off engine
The bulb is no 15 and you might be able to measure continuity across the thin wires at ballast resistor to see if it’s blown, have you the original wired in series pigtails or newer parallel heater plugs
Something like this for holding the battery down is ideal.
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That one. The ring terminal going into the starter itself will spin the engine over if you put a jump Lead onto from the battery. I would favour bump starting if it was not a 19j. My 200tdi takes so little to start that I can get it loving...