V8 noise on startup

Yes.

Followers, £47. Plus a cam, gaskets and labour. False economy to throw a set at a used camshaft. FWIW, my own 110 tends to sit for weeks at a time and it always gives a little tappet rattle on cold startup, has done for years, since the fully rebuilt 4.0 went in!

Take it you mean re-gas? Yep, that might well do it. Might need a new receiver-drier unit if its not had gas in it for a while, they tend not to work afterwards for some reason.

Check for split and perished vacuum hoses to the cruise control vacuum modulator that's connected via a rod to the throttle linkage. Common fault. have fun, Badger.

On or around Tue, 4 Jan 2005 23:07:23 -0000, "StaffBull" enlightened us thusly:

has it been standing for a while? If so, it's likely that the hydraulic tappets had drained. the fact that the noise went away is good...

if it does it every time you start it, then you might want to look into it.

sounds good. what was the eBay item number, so we can have a look at it?

Hi Austin, it's this one

It's immaculate apart from the usual bubbles on the back door ( to be taken care of once the engines sorted) the LPG conversion runs great even though it's a single point system (Leonardo) cheap as chips as they say!!

The engine does the "rattle" on start-up from cold every time but goes once the engine has warmed up! knowing my luck it's buggered - but I don't mind spending £1500 - £2K on the engine to get it sorted as it really is in first class condition on the outside and if I would have needed to fit LPG that would have set me back more than a grand anyway. I'll take it to the place I've serviced the 300Tdi and see what they think.

Cheers, I've just sorted everything on the 300TDi disco I have and now I buy this one - must be mad, but bloody hell do I like it., big motorized sofa with all the toys!!

On the cruise control is a vacuum operated actuator on the throttle. Its likely that pipe has split where it pushes on. It happens on ours about twice a year. Also we had a split on the T piece thats behind the washer bottle. Cut an inch off and its fine, (tubing getting short now!! lol). Air con: could try a regas. When we had ours done they didnt put enough in so it was not as cold as it should have been, regassed again and its fine. You may need a new drier, we had to have one on a Carlton a few years ago. It was cheaper to buy it from sercks rather than Vauxhall. Tapping noise: could be cam followers, if it runs fine and goes away every time I wouldnt bother too much - at least for now Richard

On or around Wed, 5 Jan 2005 19:06:11 -0000, "StaffBull" enlightened us thusly:

If it pulls OK and runs smoothly, I'd leave it, apart from making sure it's serviced regularly with decent oil.

Hi Austin, I think I might just take you're advice - it seems to be running fine apart from the start-up rattle ( but it did not happen today !) and I will start on renewing the suspension as they are all original components.

I am thinking of lifting the car 1" when renewing the shocks & springs, there are a few complete kits out in landy mag world for around £400 are these OK or would it be better to get branded more expensive items, it's only going to be used for some gentle to mild greenlaning - I would hate to bend it !! ( incoming flames!!! :-) )

Cheers - and still grinning :-) :-)

On or around Thu, 6 Jan 2005 21:53:30 -0000, "StaffBull" enlightened us thusly:

to be honest, what I did to mine was to fit RR diesel HD springs, (the lesser of the 2 types, NRC2119 or somesuch number) and HD 90 rears. The rears required a 1" spacer on the axle as they turn out to be pretty much the same as standard disco rear, for which I couldn't get data.

if you google a bit you can probably find some messages about it. Since then it's been treated to some of David "Llama" 's nice 1" lowered front turrets which should restore normal travel but more to the point passed the MOT.

On or around Fri, 07 Jan 2005 07:29:28 +0000, Austin Shackles enlightened us thusly:

I suspect it ought to have modified rear damper mounts as well, but it hasn't got 'em. I expect Llama do them, as well.

It's booked in to my 4 X 4 specialist for a full service and a suspension kit £650 in all. open wallet surgery here we come - but I love this car!!!