Something wrong with the Range Rover.

thanks-will look later

had a quick look at first site. No ecu on our Range Rover as it is a 1985 pre-carb engine.

looked at second one and would it apply even though we don't have lpg fitted?

Hi Nikki

Does the Rangie have SU carbs? The reason I ask is that I used to have a Maestro, which had similar symptoms, but also poor fuel consumption. After about the fith attempt at fixing the problem, they found that there was a tiny hole in the diaphragm in the SU carb.

Could your problem be something similar?

Graham Carter

Check that you have oil in the dashpots. If thats OK check that the linkages are moving freely and finally check the diaphrams

Regards

Thanks. Bruce is going to have a look himself. Its one of the things he had thought it might be himself - just wanted a few more opinions.

Thanks for the help. I've given Bruce a list of suggestions so far, all of which he said he'll check. The diaphrams are supposed to have been replaced just before Christmas, and it did run better for a few weeks, but its gradually got back to how it was when he took it in to the garage. Bruce is very suspect of their work since they told us the Discovery would need a new engine or a rebuild as we had really low compression on cylinder 7 - the compressions test he did himself didn't indicate low pressure on cylinder 7, and were all about the same reading. Bloody garages!

The SU's on our 90 (V8 range rover engine) dont have diaphragms but the Strombergs (CD175 I think) I took off did. I have just stripped down the SU's as it was cutting out, checked the floats for holes, float height, needle valves etc. The only thing I found wrong was a couple of droplets of water in the L/H carb. Richard

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Ahh diaphroms, taht'll be them cr@p ol' strombergs then.. Just been thru 3 sets on my rangie, last set was better, but not right.. Have just fitted su's (£50 inc manifold from lro board) & the difference is stunning, better starting, more power, no cutting out. All of a sudden I can drive it like a real v8, leaving it in 3rd at all times, unless doing a hill start on a mountain when I have to use

Stop trying to fix strombergs, remove inlet manifold with carbs attached & thwro into nearest skip. Find some su's (with manifold) . Then go & fish the old one out of the skip cos you'll probably want some bits off it (vacuume connections, blanking plugs etc)

in article snipped-for-privacy@posting.google.com, TheGhostOfSmokeyJoe at snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.co.uk wrote on 7/1/04 12:53 PM:

Right...I'll tell him. All suggestions are being looked into. Thanks!

This is sound and valid advice.

Martyn

On or around Wed, 07 Jan 2004 14:05:12 +0000, Nikki Cluley enlightened us thusly:

FWIW, the 84-vintage RR engine I've just put in mine has SUs on it.