For those who missed the end of my self pittying whinge thread, I fixed it.
The electrical stumbling was down to the new bigger cone filter I fitted either shorting, or blocking air flow to the coil when the bonnet was down.
Some cardboard (an old sparkplug packet) and relocating the filter sorted that.
The LPG idle is also sorted thanks to a minor fit of genius. I swapped the hoses on the relocated vacuum sphere. Suddenly, the flap opener worked but wouldn't quite hold open at idle. So I shoved a washer system one way valve in between the T piece and the electrical vacuum switch. Now the valve holds the pressure while the swith is energises, but the switch releases it when powered down. And the system works.
After that, it idled much better on petrol, but still "adjusted" itself. I set up the LPG next and now have a beautiful clean idle on gas.
Then I tackled the petrol idle. There appears to be a little play causing an air leak in the idle screw on the plenum. a jiggle rather than a turn caused it to die or race. So, I set it up as best as I could, then filled over it with white silicon sealer as an anti tamper plug. Sealed the air leak and means it can easily be removed should I need to adjust it. I does now idle a touch high (about 800) in neutral, but spot on at 500 in drive. Now it is steady if a little high, I'm not going to mess for a while.
Also , cleaned all the curse word off the top tail gate and removed seal and refitted that with contact adhesive, so that cured a few rattle.
Then I managed to get the Cheap VR3 headunit paired as a bluetooth handsfree so I can now use the car speakers and Headunit amp to hear a call if it comes in, over the V8. And I can use it to play albums off my phone onto the headunit through bluetooth too. Tom Tom on my phone doesn't interupt the music on the headunit though, so I get Ozzie swearing over the top at full volume when I need to turn.
Still, a very good weekend, and back to work with a smile.
The electrical stumbling was down to the new bigger cone filter I fitted either shorting, or blocking air flow to the coil when the bonnet was down.
Some cardboard (an old sparkplug packet) and relocating the filter sorted that.
The LPG idle is also sorted thanks to a minor fit of genius. I swapped the hoses on the relocated vacuum sphere. Suddenly, the flap opener worked but wouldn't quite hold open at idle. So I shoved a washer system one way valve in between the T piece and the electrical vacuum switch. Now the valve holds the pressure while the swith is energises, but the switch releases it when powered down. And the system works.
After that, it idled much better on petrol, but still "adjusted" itself. I set up the LPG next and now have a beautiful clean idle on gas.
Then I tackled the petrol idle. There appears to be a little play causing an air leak in the idle screw on the plenum. a jiggle rather than a turn caused it to die or race. So, I set it up as best as I could, then filled over it with white silicon sealer as an anti tamper plug. Sealed the air leak and means it can easily be removed should I need to adjust it. I does now idle a touch high (about 800) in neutral, but spot on at 500 in drive. Now it is steady if a little high, I'm not going to mess for a while.
Also , cleaned all the curse word off the top tail gate and removed seal and refitted that with contact adhesive, so that cured a few rattle.
Then I managed to get the Cheap VR3 headunit paired as a bluetooth handsfree so I can now use the car speakers and Headunit amp to hear a call if it comes in, over the V8. And I can use it to play albums off my phone onto the headunit through bluetooth too. Tom Tom on my phone doesn't interupt the music on the headunit though, so I get Ozzie swearing over the top at full volume when I need to turn.
Still, a very good weekend, and back to work with a smile.
Well done!!!
