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    Freelander 1 Freelander EV

    Just.... brilliant! Love this!
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    VCU Torque test results

    My congratulations. It's a hell of a project! I'm driving an EV as a company car at the moment, and really quite enjoying it, to be honest. Presumably, you have to feather the throttle to get pretty much no torque passing through the drivetrain before you can change gear? It'll be...
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    VCU Torque test results

    No, I've no real reason to pop in here much these days. The Freelander still lives (my dad has it), but his driving days are well and truly numbered now. I did a service on it for him just after Christmas. It still drives quite nicely, really. Not that it does many miles these days. He...
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    VCU Torque test results

    I'll have to have a look. I don't come on here so much since I got rid of the Freelander. Surprised it's as good as 3 miles to the kWh. What did the Leaf do?
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    VCU Torque test results

    Understood, but I don't think I EVER got my TD4 to spin its wheels on damp tarmac, no matter where I dumped the clutch! I dd, once, get a wee chirp out of one (maybe both) front tyres when doing a hill start with a big trailer full of wood on the back, in the wet, but only for a fraction of a...
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    VCU Torque test results

    Gosh! So it still drives through the original clutch? Years ago, (about 10!) we converted a number of diesel vans to electric. (Definitely not our finest hour, it has to be said)! We bolted the motor straight to the gearbox input shaft, so you couldn't change gear unless stationary and with...
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    VCU Torque test results

    That's what I meant. Had it only been driving the front wheels, I wouldn't have given it much thought, but driving all of them and STILL breaking traction was indeed the bit that impressed me. A Leaf isn't THAT powerful. I don't know which one forms the basis of this conversion, but the early...
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    VCU Torque test results

    Fantastic achievement. I wouldn't have thought it would take off that quickly with a Leaf motor? Are you giving the motor more power than the Leaf would have done? Or is it the case that the Leaf's traction control system would have just intervened to back the power off when wheelspin was...
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    VCU Torque test results

    That's impressive! What EV motor and battery did you use in the end?
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    VCU Torque test results

    That's quite a range of times. I must admit, I'm surprised by those, as every time I've done it, they have been within (say) 5 seconds of each other. I've only ever done it with 5kg on the end of the bar, though, and they typically take 45-50 seconds, with the wheel rotating forward. (5...
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    What have you done to your Freelander today

    The rules are, indeed clear. A missing cat is a fail. "8.2.2.1. Exhaust emission control equipment You only need to check components that are visible and identifiable, such as diesel oxidation catalysts, diesel particulate filters, exhaust gas recirculation valves and selective catalytic...
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    Freelander 1 Euro 6 conversion? Charge?

    Indeed - and there are certainly plenty of people out there, who just hate cars. However, if we step out of the emotive arena and just take a cold, clinical look at the science, there's no doubt that transport emissions don't do us any good - particularly in cities. We kill about 10x more...
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    Freelander 1 Euro 6 conversion? Charge?

    VW got slapped - not so much because of false readings, but because the cars didn't meet the emissions requirements on the road. They were mapped in such a way that when the car detected it was on a rolling road (i.e. having its emissions checked, it behaved itself impeccably, but once back on...
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    Freelander 1 Euro 6 conversion? Charge?

    Something similar has been done in the past with taxis, but there has to be a pretty big market to get the development costs of the conversion back.
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    Freelander 1 Euro 6 conversion? Charge?

    I think it might have met the "in-service" limits on smoke for EU6, but that wouldn't actually make it Euro 6.
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    Freelander 1 Euro 6 conversion? Charge?

    The problem is getting the automatic number plate recognition system to recognise your car as meeting a different emissions level to what the DVLA database thinks it is. Obviously, you can write to DVLA, give them the new engine number and tell them it's Euro 6 now, but they're wise to that...
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    Freelander 1 Haynes manual question

    Update: All sorted now. Did the waterpump and thermostat before Christmas, but he had to wait until after Christmas to get the alternator. That's all now fitted and everything's back together and working as it should. (I'll just wait for the crank damper to go now)! Thanks to all for the...
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    Freelander 1 Haynes manual question

    Thanks guys. At least the engine mounting bracket was already off for the alternator! I can't begrudge him this. All the hours he put in on various "sheds" that I ran when I was younger, helping me out with absolutely any job, this is payback now. I owe him that much... Have a good...
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    Freelander 1 Haynes manual question

    So... that went well...:mad: Spent all day Thursday at my dad's place. Took the thermostat out, took the water pump out, gave the pulley a twiddle and said: "er... dad... this feels OK to me...". While he was examining it, I then decided to have a twiddle of the power steering pump and...
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    Freelander 1 Haynes manual question

    Meh... I've wimped-out and ordered another thermostat. This one was working fine, and was changed in 2019, but this is a job I really... REALLY never want to have to go near for the rest of the car's life!
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