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Half term report.
3 out of six done. Two mid pipes and LH rear. Sweating like a stuck pig so come upstairs to cool down for a bit and re-hydrate with water and a brew!
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Hi George!! I'm from Manila also. I have been subscribing to your thread since the start but I have sold my P38 before. Hope to meet you soon!!
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5/6th report and markedly slowing down.
Overalls now like a second skin. Entering Miss Wet Overall competition down LA Cafe later!
Front RH still to fit, but it'll have to wait until I've downed this litre of Coke!
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Nearly there? No?
Stop going on the internet and get back under the bonnet!
Seriously - hope it is fixed now George and that you have a destination soon.
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6/6! All hoses fitted. Hoo-bloody-ray!  . Now feel like I've done 10 rounds with Mr Tyson. Just come up for another re-hydrate and get my little helper, AKA the eldest Bottle Opener briefed for the bleeding. So far we've located 3L of DOT4, so I'll see how far I get with that.  The system's pretty much empty, so not much to flush out. Also seems that the driver has found me some secure parking. They've just got to evict someone first! |
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Hi George!! I'm from Manila also. I have been subscribing to your thread since the start but I have sold my P38 before. Hope to meet you soon!! Gucci, you should have shouted earlier! Whereabouts are you in this fine Metropolis? |
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Lots and lots of family innapropriate swear words!  So hoses all fitted up and ready for the great brake bleed. Step 1 in the workshop manual is to bleed the master cylinder. “Open bleed screw on booster, when fluid appears, close bleed screw” etc., etc. Reservoir is full but, I’m getting no fluid at the bleed screw. Here was me worried about leaks and I can't get one when I want it! Asked the guy who supplied the modification kit and also put a post on Rangerovers.pub. Let's hope it's something simple.  Times agettin' short! |
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6/6! All hoses fitted. Hoo-bloody-ray! . Now feel like I've done 10 rounds with Mr Tyson. Just come up for another re-hydrate and get my little helper, AKA the eldest Bottle Opener briefed for the bleeding. So far we've located 3L of DOT4, so I'll see how far I get with that. The system's pretty much empty, so not much to flush out. Also seems that the driver has found me some secure parking. They've just got to evict someone first! Nicely done squire. Onwards and upwards, nearly time for some liquid refreshment surely ?  |
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Nicely done squire. Onwards and upwards, nearly time for some liquid refreshment surely ? See above. Started on the liquids anyway! |
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Nicely done squire. Onwards and upwards, nearly time for some liquid refreshment surely ? See above. Started on the liquids anyway! Oh dear.... |
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Just waiting for my Little Bleeder to arise wraith-like from her pit before we recommence the task, leaving out Step 1! But while I'm waiting, I thought I'd have a few words about the guy at a certain brake hose manufacturer who thinks that 24mm locking nuts on the end of the hoses are a good idea. The mid hoses aren't too bad, the rears, well, we've got air bags, shockers, height sensors and on one side, an exhaust. But it's still doable. Now take your 24mm spanner and try and get anywhere near in the engine bay. It's bad enough with the 19mm on the hose, but there's no way to get a good purchase on the big sod. There's a reason for this and the location gives it away. Someone, thoughtlessly, put a V8 in there as well as the brake pipe union. Fancy that. The other problem is you can't just hold the 24 still and turn the 19 on the hose as of course the other end is a banjo fitting, which apparently work a load better if they are parallel to the brake cylinder rather than 90 degrees! Of course, I could have ruined a perfectly good spanner and taken a grinder to it (having gone out and spent the GDP of a small country on it) and cut it in half or, if I was a commercial vehicle garage, I'd probably have 24mm sockets or crow's foot, but I'm not, so I don't. So thanks, tosser!  |
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Last Edit: Apr 2, 2017 1:11:57 GMT by georgeb
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The Beast Roars Again! Or some such dramatic headline. It’s nine or so in the evening and I’ve just got a brandy (very large) and coke (not quite so large) as I sit down and contemplate a job well(ish) done. As you know, we hit a snag straight off as we couldn’t get past Stage 1 of the bleed procedure – which is a longwinded pig – so tried to move to the next, as that was the received wisdom at the time. No go. Nothing at the calipers at all. I could get fluid at the “high pressure” side of the mod after letting the brake pump run, but nothing at the “low pressure” side. Put my plight up on Rangerovers.pub and around 20 minutes later, just as I was refitting the reservoir to check that was correctly seated, a guy comes up with, give the modulator fork (which attaches to the brake pedal) a “wiggle” as it worked for him on a late model Classic, which has a similar system. Well, swipe me, it only went and worked. Disconnected the fork, gave it a “wiggle”, opened the bleed nipple on the modulator and was rewarded with a dribble of fluid. Just what we needed! From there on in me and my Little Bleeder went round the corners - well I did, she sat on her ass and did stuff with pedals - and we haz brakes. Not as good as I’d like, but I was limited on the amount of DOT4 available to me. It’ll get me where I need to be tomorrow and then I can re-bleed. But all the warning lights I was getting before have gone. After two days fighting, I’m a happy boy. |
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Hi George!! I'm from Manila also. I have been subscribing to your thread since the start but I have sold my P38 before. Hope to meet you soon!! Gucci, you should have shouted earlier! Whereabouts are you in this fine Metropolis? I live in Alabang but I stay along Taft Avenue during the weekdays because of its vicinity to where I study. I saw that you only live near here in Malate. Hoping to get a P38 within this year! |
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What are the chances of two guys on here being out there! Someone buy a lottery ticket!
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96 E320 W210 Wafter - on 18" split Mono's - Sold :-(
10 Kia Ceed Sportwagon - Our new daily
03 Import Forester STi - Sold
98 W140 CL500 AMG - Brutal weekend bruiser! Sold :-(
99 E240 S210 Barge - Now sold
02 Accord 2.0SE - wife's old daily - gone in PX
88 P100 2.9efi Custom - Sold
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I live in Alabang but I stay along Taft Avenue during the weekdays because of its vicinity to where I study. I saw that you only live near here in Malate. Hoping to get a P38 within this year! Correction. WAS in Malate. As of today I'll be sipping exotic cocktails whilst sitting outside my beach house in Tondo! Funny but if my port job ever wakes up, we'll probably shift down Alabang/Sta Rosa way. We'll have to catch up for a beer one day and if you need anything on the '38 front, let me know. You've got a good garage down your way at least. What are the chances of two guys on here being out there! Someone buy a lottery ticket! There was another, but he seems to have disappeared, and there was one who PM'd me a couple of times, but I don't think he ever actually posted. Or it could have been the same guy. Damned if I can remember! Edit: There's two Filipino p38 owners on Rangerovers.pub (which is a UK site) as well. |
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Last Edit: Apr 2, 2017 19:57:34 GMT by georgeb
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Yep! I already met Fritz a while back. Hope to meet you personally soon!!
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Finally! Good to see this sorted.
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Well done George! You deserve a beer - - or two!
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Finally! Good to see this sorted. Aye, it has been a bit drawn out hasn't it? Realised that yesterday was the first drive since before Christmas, and it felt good! Well done George! You deserve a beer - - or two! We raised a glass or two last evening to celebrate brakes and a successful move, but I'm not averse to following your advice and doing it again tonight! I left Malate at six-thirty yesterday morning as we needed to beat the number coding which starts at 7 (and now lasts all day - no window hours). Really enjoyed the run with little traffic around and safe in the knowledge that I'd be well inside legality, therefore no target for tea-money seekers, and actually caught myself grinning as I gunned it on a clear section. A bit later I'm chatting to Madam's driver who asked me what time I'd arrived. "Oh, ten to seven, plenty of time left." said ol' Smug here. "You know number coding now start at six, don't you?" It's true what they say, ignorance really is bliss. |
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. Now feel like I've done 10 rounds with Mr Tyson. 
The system's pretty much empty, so not much to flush out.
