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Hi all, Just checking in to say that she's running sweet again: tried disabling all of the sensors one by one without any success until I gave the fusebox and relays a good clean! Funny thing is she used to do a *chuck*chuck*chuck* sound (much like a old train engine) that's now gone! The ABS...

Water in the round socket was my first thought and I've checked that while out on the field. Your explanation makes perfect sense so I'm going to trace the cables as water may have gotten in at some other connector. I'm still waiting for her to be delivered by the rescue company (Sunday, bank...

Hi all, After almost 7 years of P38 ownership and 5 years of relative hassle free motoring, my DSE decided to throw a fit yesterday. We were green laning with a group of friends and after a water crossing, the P38 started revving madly. Whenever I started it, she would start to splutter and...

Hi. I've read one of your posts about having problems with a P38 which was showing up the message "FUEL FLOW VALUE OUT OF RANGE". Can you give me some pointers on how you've fixed it ? Cheers!

Ah, I get it now. I recon the sump will be heavy. My idea is to use a block of wood and a trolley jack to position it near the bottom of the engine, apply Hylomar, put some bolts on (maybe longer ones ?) to ensure that it goes in place and then lift it up.

I have an oil leakage from the engine sump gasket in my 2.5 DSE. I read through RAVE and it looks like a straightforward job but it mentions to "fill front and read openings in gasket with sealant". Since I don't have the gasket yet I'm assuming that what to fill will be clear and that a...

For what it's worth my 98 DSE does the same thing. Would be interested in what you find out about that.

Hi saint. Could you please post a small drawing with the measurements of your fabrication? I also need to make one and don't have easy access to a model.

Waze is a pretty nice concept, it's a sort of community based nav/traffic system. I don't use it for long distance navigation but it's awesome to use in the city. It tracks it's users and then gives you traffic information based on their position/speed and reports (users can report accidents...

Oil level is OK, near maximum capacity. I think I'm going to remove the valve cover to see if I can fix the broken plastic part and clean the metallic mesh before the breather and I'll clean the mushroom looking breather valve while I'm there. Cheers!

Good morning! I left my DSE for two weeks but she started fine this morning, so I took her for a spin and wash. After coming home I popped the bonnet to have a general look and noticed that there was some smoke coming from the connection between the valve cover and the oil breather (the...

For those of you who have a diagnostics kit, what's the highest engine temperature that you've witnessed, in a diesel P38 ? When doing long travels i usually plug in my nanocom in diagnostics mode. After finishing a 350km trip, the highest engine temperature that was recorded was 96ºC and...

Turbo overboosting and the ECM goes into failsafe mode?

Electronics isn't certainly my area of expertise and you're far more knowledgeable about it than me. I'm just trying to explain that, from my experience yesterday, the system seems to be running fine, with nothing of its normal operation affected when you plug in the nanocom.

You see exactly what the EAS shows under other conditions and the system still self levels. I can't comment on the statement that you won't see any faults though (but I see no reason for them not getting logged). Actually, it seems that the system enters diagnostics mode only very briefly...

Sorry, but that's incorrect. You get full live sensor readings (I could perfectly see the values of the left and right wheels shift in accordance to the curves I was making, as the car tilts and there's some weight transfer) and I could also see some very small activity in the valves and compressor.

Yes, you can monitor it in the highway, in fact I just did that yesterday. Took it out of instruments mode and moved into the EAS mode. It beeped briefly when the nano com accessed the EAS but no problems whatsoever.

And here in Portugal too. If you have fitted tyres/wheels that are not present in our equivalent to the V5 it will fail our MOT. Same goes for engine upgrades, which are a forbidden. Basically, around here, if you have modified anything from what is stated in the MOT (seat numbers...

TYB500120 seems to be the current part number. Island, paddock, lrdirect they all stock them.

And standard drain plugs are?