Well I've set a new record for Landrover ownership...

Ouch!!! At least it will be right.

Looks like Morph needs a ballast resistor, thats whats causing the popping, farting & misfiring. A bit cheaper than you I'm afraid.

Nige

Nige uttered summat worrerz funny about:

See if you can get some instructions off someone with a luminition kit fitted. If I recall correctly Morph also has a Luminition Coil. You need to be sure they need a Ballast resisitor and vice versa. The kit was fitted when I got him. It'll probably say on the coil if you can crane you kneck far enough to see it.

If it was that he needed a ballast resistor I'd expect he'd been getting 12v pure instead of 6v at the coil in which case the coil would have cooked and he'd be dead (assuming a ballast dependant coil being used on 12volt) ... least thats my though process anyway. Would be nice if it is something that simple though.

Lee D

Fitted new ballast resistor, £25 later, job done & fine.

bloody hell, im sure the one i had off Richard was about £10!

Mine used to run fine without a ballast resistor and with 12v on the coil all the time...

|| On or around Thu, 9 Nov 2006 19:19:52 -0000, "Richard Brookman" || enlightened us thusly: || ||| ||| Last time I used the RAC, the S2 had shot its waterpump about 300 ||| miles from home. I phoned the RAC, told them what had happened, ||| and they took my word for it (I was quite surprised - no "we'll ||| send a patrol to make sure", no "do you know what a waterpump is, ||| Sir?"). Flat bed on scene within 30 minutes, and home before Di ||| was expecting me, due to the higher cruising speed of the flatbed. ||| :-) || || yeah, they shift, those things. Last time I was involved (someone || else's car) the bugger beat us back, mind, we did stop for a pint || and a meal on the way. || || I sometimes wonder what the flatbed drivers use for stayawake juice. || I used, when I were young and foolish, to be able to drive all night || and half the day, but not now.

This guy was middle-aged and a big Landy fan as well - he told me he was on the 4pm-4am shift. VERY aggressive driver, though, nastily so. I did't much enjoy the trip.

Nige uttered summat worrerz funny about:

Good stuff! I'd never have linked the popping to a ballast resistor , guess thats why I'm not a mechanic :-)

Lee D

:-) £7.05 inc VAT And I'm not saying anything about Lee's bill....

Richard

It's a favourite amongst the Comp. Safari boys - they always seem to foget the 6V electrics. Happily......

Richard

Yeah, but there was labour to find & fit it, i took it in for a tune up you see!!

On or around Fri, 10 Nov 2006 19:47:55 -0000, "Richard Brookman" enlightened us thusly:

I can imagine that coming onshift just in time for evening rush-hour could make one like that.

||||| I sometimes wonder what the flatbed drivers use for stayawake ||||| juice. I used, when I were young and foolish, to be able to drive ||||| all night and half the day, but not now. ||| ||| This guy was middle-aged and a big Landy fan as well - he told me ||| he was on the 4pm-4am shift. VERY aggressive driver, though, ||| nastily so. I did't much enjoy the trip. || || I can imagine that coming onshift just in time for evening rush-hour || could make one like that.

Dunno - he seemed laid back enough, but took a perverse delight in tailgating cars that were "in his way" (and I mean twelve inches or less from the back bumper) and flashing his lights until they gave him what he wanted. He also drove straight at the driver's door of a car that wanted to get on the motorway (slow queue) until the lady backed off in terror. Her face and mine were probably less than four feet from each other. Chat-wise, he was good company for a few hours. Driving-wise, he was a c*ut.

I had some twerp do that some time ago to me in a big artic, if it happens to you, wait until a steep hill comes up then while you're on it, slow right down and if possible stop, they'll still be on it 10 mins later building back up to 5MPH :-)

|| On 2006-11-11, Richard Brookman || wrote: || ||| Dunno - he seemed laid back enough, but took a perverse delight in ||| tailgating cars that were "in his way" (and I mean twelve inches or ||| less from the back bumper) and flashing his lights until they gave ||| him what he wanted. || || I had some twerp do that some time ago to me in a big artic, if it || happens to you, wait until a steep hill comes up then while you're on || it, slow right down and if possible stop, they'll still be on it 10 || mins later building back up to 5MPH :-)

Just slow enough the lose the turbo :-)

On or around Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:51:26 -0000, "Richard Brookman" enlightened us thusly:

yer want to watch out playing games like that. You've seen "Duel", I suppose?

some of the modern trucks are capable of (in theory, grip permitting) pulling full weigh ton about a 50% gradient - the top-end units are over

The only reason they don't all cruise at 80-odd is legislation.

hehehe - watched it last night, how odd!!! Superb film.

It's more the bazillion gear changes it takes to get them to more than about walking pace up a steep hill, most truck drivers would sooner throw five quid notes out the window than scrub off an ounce of speed, hence the tailgating in the first place. Mind you I don't know if technology has caught up in the last 5 years, auto gearboxes?

Despite plenty of people talking about truck drivers being "highly trained" and "expert drivers" etc, it's funny how come they have to resort to draconian measures to keep them to reasonable speeds eh. Well trained for sure, some of the reversing feats I've seen beggar belief but some of the driving I've seen from truck drivers scares the bejayzus out of me.

One of the Volvo 44 tonners I was loading last year was auto but the driver didn't rate it, it also got stuck very easily ;-(.

AJH

I didn't see the programme but I know that around here, while the roads aren't crowded it's very common for HGVs to outnumber cars on the small twisty roads. Very scary when they come round a corner very quickly on the wrong side of the road. There was an accident in a nearby village some time ago so the truckers all got on their CBs to warn each other and to suggest a route around, unfortunately the suggested route was a single-track road, you can imagine the chaos when two queues of HGVs with unsuspecting suckers (e.g. me) interleaved travelled along the single-track road in opposite directions from opposite ends. Thankfully where I was in the queue was close enough to a tiny side-road for me to hoof it down the verge in the landy and escape.