Recent content by sim303

An update - (belated!) - on the above issue for interest. (Unfortunately I couldn't do much over the winter months, but I'm back on it now)... After the last report, the CEL finally returned - as well as the bad running. I also notice that actual diesel (or some non aqueous liquid) was...

Thanks @Dave I replaced the fuel filter (for another Crossland I'm afraid as I'd already bought it a couple of days ago!). To avoid any chance of the new filter getting clogged if there were something unsavoury in the tank I also drained the tank completely. Nothing untoward came out. I put...

Oh, that is an interesting angle. I never knew that diesel bug were a thing, until now. I've seen that happen in screenwash and it's pretty nasty. My filter is a Crossland from ECP. No biocide. The fuel tank is near empty at the moment so I might just drain it completely as well as check /...

Hi all Some background first on a fault I am now investigating. Maybe it'll help someone some day: My 1HD-FTE started acting up during a touring holiday a couple of weeks back. The first signs were when parking up one evening and the engine sounded intermintently rough whilst idling and...

Ah - rivnuts! I saw them on youtube a while back and thought "where have they been all my life?!" But I never think to try them. Thanks!

Can't blame you Bob - I think I'd rather be swapping the engine on that than dealing with rust and broken bolts! Very odd how they mix studs and captive nuts.... The only reason I can think of is to make factory assembly a fraction of a second quicker by allowing the workers to locate the...

Ah, that is interesting to know, about the potential for a larger size. I'll look into that! Mine does struggle a bit in cold weather ( < 5C) especially if it has been left a few days. I would like a bit more in reserve! I have been looking underneath for potential mounting points for a third...

@knicko - just to say, I keep a good stock of s/s bolts and routinely use them when reassembling anything on my truck. So many of the original bolts have given me grief that whatever the potential issues are with using stainless fixings on non-stainless metal are, it can't be worse than what I...

Thanks Bob - I've seen your sill-renewal thread and I raise my hat to you for what you did there. I too am not thrilled by doing bodywork. (I do have some bubbling at the front of the rear sill which I must deal with - I am praying it's not as extensive as yours!). After I posted my message...

Where are you planning to locate your third battery Sparra? I reworked the standard dual-battery setup so that the left one became the leisure battery, and the right one did the normal car duties. This worked ok, but one battery for starting can be marginal in my experience, so I would like to...

Hi all I need to sort out my side-steps which are rattling and insecure. I started removing the brackets from the body (with a view to renewing them) but some of the bolts were totally rusted and sheered off in the process. So now it will not be possible to bolt new brackets in place. Would...

Old thread, I know, but for what it's worth... When I renewed my AHC rams (not an AHC-delete) I just about to managed to remove one side with a LOT of struggle. For the other side I opted to drill the hole and make my life 10 times easier. I know it's not the factory method, but it's twenty...

I managed to upload one of the two videos at least. This one shows the movement in the front prop when turning it back and forth by hand: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fYOGjAaxOH6ouPbrC-IeaVK5omtmoJPv/view?usp=sharing

Thanks for the suggestion uHu. I've just emerged from under the car and, unfortunately, it's definitely not the prop or UJs. With the car on the ground (i.e. wheels unable to move) and the transfer box in N, centre diff unlocked, there is a marked difference in the amount of free rotation...

Hi My Cruiser makes a disinct clonk when coming on and off the throttle. It's not grossly offensive, but does detract from the ride. I had a quick look in to it a few years ago (thread here: Driveline Clonk (rear diff?) - [Leaving Land Cruiser Club]). I later found that the front hub splines...