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Well ,decided day off work and good weather i'd do the pcv valve, so all was going well until trying to undo torx bolts on pcv,bloody things are made of cheese :mad: anyway visegrips eventually got them out and slowly prise it off,only for the very bottom hose to fall off,got a spare just in...

Hello All, Driving home from the shops yesterday and Engine Failsafe Prog lite up on the message center, but no loss of power or anything. So got home and put multimeter on the battery and got a reading of 12.25v. So decide new battery time anyway mrs went to use car today and got the...

Hi Guys and Girls, Bought a L322 V8 HSE about a month ago now and very happy with, it was too cheap to say no:). Changed over the wheels from my P38 and checked it over and i must say very impressed, but only time will tell eh. A lot better drive than the P38 , seems more comfortable...

Have noticed that the cars been losing about half a litre of coolant per week recently(last 3 weeks), so had a good look around today,checked everything,hoses,rad,heater o-rings only to find this after removing bottom engine cover:mad:. So the question is, has anyone else ever come across this...

I'm in the middle of changing the above along with pipes and came across this (picture somewhere on thread) on the side of the cooler after removing it. The screws holding on where fubarred so drill them out but my question is what is it because it's just screwed to the side of cooler and...

Right, where do i start, done all the searches but none relate to this problem. Only happens every now and again and when it does it wont rev over 2000rpm and there's total power lose,seems like its struggling to pull its own weight. But if you pull over turn it off and wait 10 minutes,there's...

Advice needed please,planning on changing mine soon so done the searches and been on fleebay and there is a huge difference in price for the fuel pumps,ranging from £50-£150. Now obviously i dont want a ****part one but can anyone recommend a supplier of a decent one,cheers

After months of the odd night and weekends stripping the series 3 back to its chassis, finally started on the rebuilding work today. First job was to sandblast the chassis and treat with Ferrozinc. Got up nice and early and pushed chassis onto the drive ready for my mate to sandblast it. Apart...

Got home from work(sunday) and whilst reversing into the drive and admiring the RR i noticed a big stain underneath it :mad:, so crawls underneath to investigate and atf dipstick pipe has a bloody tiny hole right on bend just before it goes into gearbox sump. So opens bonnet and the dipstick...

:) Hi everyone on the series section, this is my first post on this part of the forum,usually on the P38 section so be gentle. Anyway been looking on here and learning over the past few months and have acquired a series 3 that had been in a garage for 10 years and is in need of some TLC. So...

Decided to change the glow plugs today, amongst other jobs, because its been needing 2 cycles to start recently. Anyway off with inlet manifold too get the them and this is when the fun began. What should have been an easy job ended up been a nightmare,all but 1 of the power feed nuts had...

:) Can anyone help? Just bought a secondhand PSI Powerbox and it has 2 no connections the round plug is obvious but it has a pipe with a t piece and i've no instructions and i cant get hold of the guy i got it from to ask where it connects to . It's for P38 DSE the first type they made...

Hi everyone, Had been mulling over buying one of these for a few months and after recent threads was abit apprehensive, but bought one because i hate paying someone for a job i can do myself, so did the maths and will save money in the long run. Which is what every P38 owner wants...

Hi everyone, pub quiz time. I currently have a set of 255/50/19 tyres on my p38. Now the question is can i put some 265/65/18 tyres onto it. I know your supposed to only increase your size by +/-2.5% but fitment of these tyres would increase it by 8.67%. So has anyone fitted this size tyre...

Hi all, general rant really.Had to go to main stealers today to order a spare key for DSE and had to pay £148 straight away otherwise they wouldn't order it.So thought fair enough paid the said amount and was then told "ok sir thats now ordered it should be here in 6-8 weeks".At which point i...

Hi guys, i,ve been trying to find a link about the climate control. The link to do with the fix for the distributor flap fix with self tap screw. I cant seem to find it and i've checked RR.NET but maybe i've missed it.The problem i have is open book on hevac and the dash vents operate as follows...

:) Can you run a 1.8 Freelander without its exhaust manifold heat shield. Because i accidental broke mine:doh: and back orders are about 2 weeks. Looking at the manifold yes it gets hot but it shouldn't melt anything especially when you get cold air rushing in from the front of vehicle. So does...

Some time ago i wrote a thread about converting a coil pack engine into a distributor type engine. Well tonight finally i got to turn the key and after numerous late nights and weekends working on the fookin thing it bursted into life once again. It was like listening to your favourite record a...

Hi Everyone, Can anybody tell me what this connector is for . It's on a year 2000,1.8l freelander. I've searched the rave file and can't find it and there isn't anything to connect it to in its vacinity,although it must have to connect to something.There's nothing on the air intake either and...

Hello Everyone, Another newbie with a question. Can you change a 1.8L coil pack engine into a distributor type engine. I've been told you can but i'd like to know how to do it. Is it just a case of changing the camshafts from donor engine over or is it a bit more in depth. All help would be...