TOO BL**DY COLD TO START!?
After a full week of -3 to -9 Deg.C and Trigger just sitting and going no-where I decided I needed Trig's to haul a kingsize mattress down to the tip.
Last weekend I rigged up a feed just from the dieso tank before I do the full Pevekoil valve mods. I also had to charge the battery for around an hour before the engine would turn over fast enough to kick. After the weeks weather it was even more reluctant this time and I gave up after 10 minutes. The engine was so could it had frost over the whole block!
In the end I put the battery on a charge overnite and this morning it was down to 1 Ampere. Fired on the second press of the starter :)
The issue is both one of temperature and I expect the fact that Trig's hasn't done enough mileage to force sufficient charge into the battery. Now assuming the battery is OK (blue top Bosch around 5 years old) I will stick a 'smart' charger from the bike on for a few days and see how that goes. It should show whether there are any battery issues?
OTHER
Not much has happened with the Pevekoil mods. I have the material for the bracket ready to cut and form then there are the holes in the bulkhead to blank from the hand valves.....and the electrikery changes. All this before the valves go in and the pipework connected up.
Front slidey window seals replaced for a bargain rpice opf £7 - delivered.
And the mattress ended up in the log trailer being towed by the boingy (which gives me another job...the trailers electrics are dodgy!) Mmmmm.
05 February 2012
23 January 2012
21st January 2012 - Air in the diesel supply
Twizzle and I were in transit to the Monday bank holiday ramble about Salisbury Plain with the Series 2 club when Trigger started to lose power while cutting across the back of Bulford ranges.
After pulling over to take a quick look the problem could be seen as soon as the hood was lifted. With some foresight all the fuel lines were run in clear 8mm hose so lumps etc. could easily be seen - and there was a tell tale stream of bubbles hitting the injection pump inlet. Not good.
So we limped home and had to take the Defender on an outing instead, much to the other leafers dismay (ended up recovering one ;) .
The source of the issue was found later in the day. I fitted manual ex-mil fuel selectors fitted (at great expense) to both the dual tank supply and returns during the rebuild. The problem is the supply selector - even fitted a new cork seal before it was bolted in but it is sucking in air. Now I had been warned that this 'may' happen but believing that even then this 'won't happen to me' I carried on and went for what I believed was the KISS principle ;) Now they don't wanna work too well on dieso and SVO!
Both of these military selectors work fine on petrol systems and I have overhauled and fitted new switches so they should fetch +£50 on 'the bay'. This will go towards the new Pevekoil fuel selector valves I have just had landed on the dining room table. These will be switched via a fused supply from an DPST switch on the dash which can also select the relevant fuel sender. This also gets around the usual issue on the microswitches with them seizing if not used for a while! Cost for a pair of valves and a few fittings was £90. A quality looking component but I am a bit concerned over the bore size/restriction through the valve. One port is only 4mm dia. and my current pipework is 6mm ID.
Initially the fuel system will be rigged up to the dieso tank and the changeover carried out gradually. I am finding grabbing enough time on one chunk is a bit strained at the moment ;)
After pulling over to take a quick look the problem could be seen as soon as the hood was lifted. With some foresight all the fuel lines were run in clear 8mm hose so lumps etc. could easily be seen - and there was a tell tale stream of bubbles hitting the injection pump inlet. Not good.
So we limped home and had to take the Defender on an outing instead, much to the other leafers dismay (ended up recovering one ;) .
The source of the issue was found later in the day. I fitted manual ex-mil fuel selectors fitted (at great expense) to both the dual tank supply and returns during the rebuild. The problem is the supply selector - even fitted a new cork seal before it was bolted in but it is sucking in air. Now I had been warned that this 'may' happen but believing that even then this 'won't happen to me' I carried on and went for what I believed was the KISS principle ;) Now they don't wanna work too well on dieso and SVO!
Both of these military selectors work fine on petrol systems and I have overhauled and fitted new switches so they should fetch +£50 on 'the bay'. This will go towards the new Pevekoil fuel selector valves I have just had landed on the dining room table. These will be switched via a fused supply from an DPST switch on the dash which can also select the relevant fuel sender. This also gets around the usual issue on the microswitches with them seizing if not used for a while! Cost for a pair of valves and a few fittings was £90. A quality looking component but I am a bit concerned over the bore size/restriction through the valve. One port is only 4mm dia. and my current pipework is 6mm ID.
Initially the fuel system will be rigged up to the dieso tank and the changeover carried out gradually. I am finding grabbing enough time on one chunk is a bit strained at the moment ;)
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