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Apr 23, 2024 16:57:41 GMT
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Don't do it! Step away from the diesel...
Assuming it's just bad quality control on that valve that's caused the problem and not some bigger issue of something being in the chamber and breaking the valve then it is pretty easy to sort out.
With all 8 running it'll be sweet!
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Apr 11, 2024 18:59:25 GMT
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Looks good! One thing though, with the back of the unit so close to the wall it *might* hamper it's ability to draw air across the heat exchanger? Try it and see I guess.
When I fitted mine I had high temp exhaust silicone on hand so I sealed the exhaust pipe to heater body joint, I didn't want any CO leaks inside the garage. Having said that there's probably loads of people who haven't sealed theirs and who aren't dead.
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I've got one in my freestanding single garage. It's single skinned brick with a flat roof and no insulation. When it's around zero outside it can daily easily get the garage up to 15 or so degrees in an hour or so. I bought a "triclicks" branded kit, which is mounted to a board screwed to the wall inside the garage. Combustion air intake and exhaust gas are routed out through the wall. On full chat it sounds like a small jet engine from the outside, inside it's like having a large fan on. Things I have changed so far: The standard silencers really do very little to silence anything and are literally just have a spring inside and a tiny sheet of some kind of silencing material. I drilled out the spot welds, stuffed with rockwool and rivetted back together. This made a marked improvement to the noise. The standard ribbed exhaust also doesn't help. After reading about on it, I swapped this for some spiral walled tube which is more like the legit weber/eberspacher hose. This cut noise a bit more. I bought an "afterburner" control unit for it. This is the best thing I have done as it gives you all kinds of control, including remote monitoring. From the afterburner stats I can see that I use on average about 240ml an hour (running pump diesel). David mcluckie has a lot of interesting stuff to watch on YouTube.
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Love the cars in this thread- and it seems that Scalextric isn't dead! I got a set from my wife a few years ago (I'd said how much I loved it as a kid), and I decided to get it down for Christmas... One thing lead to another and I've made the jump to digital with Arc Pro - changing lanes and having proper timing information on a big screen (with the Magic ARC app) really adds to the fun! My wife and two daughters loved it with the four of us racing at the same time. Now planning to build something in the garage if I can...
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MTF94 helps a lot on these boxes, you can get it pretty reasonably (or at least you used to) from smith and allan. Lovely car
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Jul 26, 2023 15:22:48 GMT
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Nope read that again. Postponed = pistoned.
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Jul 26, 2023 15:22:08 GMT
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*postponed = reconned. Flipping phone!
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Jul 26, 2023 15:21:25 GMT
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Love this!
You've had the same start as my entry into p6 ownership, mine too had sat around for ten years after its previous owner had passed. Mine is also my daily, and up until a couple of years ago was doing sterling service on a 75 mile a day commute.
Brakes, check the rear calipers- they are known to leak after sitting. You can get recon stainless sleeved and postponed ones from a few places like wins, jrwadhams, mgbd etc. Mine actually worked for a while after getting back on the road and then gave up.
Good luck!
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Jan 23, 2023 15:57:08 GMT
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Hello all, I normally commute to work by train, but due to the landslip at Hook a couple of weekends ago I had to come to the office part of the way this morning in my beloved (and slightly rusty already) Rover P6. As you can imagine it is now covered in horrible salt. So my question is what methods do people use to remove road salt after a journey like this? I am thinking that I should probably stay away from the pressure washer for fear of forcing it into any overlapping panel joints etc, but any other tips would be greatly appreciated. Pic of said rusty car below when I parked it up this morning for interest Thanks!
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A great read as always, and making big strides too! Your plumbing shenanigans inspired me to finally get off my and do something about the hideous plumbing all over the walls in our downstairs loo, so thank you! We now have one tidy pipe which I can box in, instead of three of the things snaking all over the place... Carry on! James
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Nov 23, 2022 20:25:18 GMT
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Looks good! One minor change is that the rocker cover shouldn't have the plastic oil filler cap, it would have had an oil filler neck bolted to the drivers side of the block like this:
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Nov 19, 2022 22:53:38 GMT
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Ha! Pipped by James!
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Nov 19, 2022 22:52:52 GMT
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Yeah it would have been a 2.25, same as any other series vehicle, although pretty much identical to the 2.5 from the outside apart from the carb and intake manifold and probably breather arrangement I think?
Pete- might be worth asking on lr4x4.com as they are a very helpful bunch. I have two 4 cylinder petrols but both are at my parents about 25 miles away (one in their garage, and one installed in my series 2 swb which is kept over there).
Interestingly the one in the garage came out of my very early 90 so it has the later carb setup, and I *think* Landover marketed it as a 2.3 at the time to try and make it sound different to the series engine, even though they are the same 2286cc displacement...
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Also loving this thread, the place looks great and you are cracking on with it too! Wish I was a tenth as quick...
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Jun 10, 2022 21:44:58 GMT
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Literally starts on the button. Beautiful! Love reading your posts, but I don't say thanks as often as I should, so thanks! Great to see it back up and running again.
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Apr 19, 2022 13:20:15 GMT
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Love an SD1! Carry on
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Last Edit: Apr 19, 2022 13:20:35 GMT by quaggers
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Just seen this! My dad has two of these, a general service and a radio-bodied one. Let me know if there are any particular dimensions you need and I am sure he could help.
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Love this! I have a Scania R470 and the same trailer. Built it yeeeeeeaaaaaaars ago and its been sat on a wardrobe at my parents house for at least 7 of those years. Initially it went there when my wife and I moved to our second house and I wanted it out of the way for the move... Now on our third house and two kids later and after seeing this I am thinking perhaps I should bring it home! Please keep the updates coming
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Sept 30, 2021 14:03:15 GMT
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I know what you mean about the size and room everywhere on one of these!
My daily is a P6, and some years ago I was lucky enough to get shown around the Met police traffic car depot at Hampton before it was sold off for redevelopment. They had some of the old cars there (which was why I was there) and that included an SD1 and a P6. They also had a cut through/sectioned rover v8 on a stand that had been donated to them which was very cool...
Compared to the P6 there is loads of spanner room!
Nice car, keep the updates coming
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Sept 25, 2021 13:38:22 GMT
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What a bummer! Loving the thread so far though. My brother has the engine from one of these in his lightweight Landrover, and that is scarily fast!
Good luck with the gearbox
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