Recent content by spn

Please accept my sincere apologies for being imprecise. :p There's a bit of road near me where traffic slows and creeps along slowly with a lot of stop start due to traffic lights - far less than 15mph. When approaching it I'll let the car coast for a bit rather than drive slowly with the...

V8 symphony from 30 or less? really? Creeping along in trafffic when the clutch is slipping is one of the things that wears the clutch out.

I believe it opens it fully, not to the PIS. The PIS point is used to start engaging the clutch exactly in the same way that you'd bring the clutch up to the biting point to move away on a manual. If it sat at the PIS, you'd kill the clutch really quickly, as in tens of stops. If the positions...

When you put your foot on the brake pedal, it opens the clutch so unless it's dragging, no wear.

Glad you've found the problem. It does suggest that your LSD needs a service though, as it sounds like it's behaving like an open diff. I think the 4200 only has a 40% lock in a power on direction and surprisingly more when decelerating, presumably to keep rear straight under lift off but I...

Hi Neil, Looks Like you've got a solution now but as Phil said the Pro s seems to be the way to go. I bought a Texa system as it was the cheapest available at the time but the Launch is much better value. The Easy MAS looked like it could have been a good option but sadly the price just doesn't...

Sounds like they thought you were asking for them to take the pi55 not reset the PIS... Shouldn't take anything like that long. Buy a Launch X431 as used by many on here and do it yourself. Cheers, Simon

Have you checkd the fault codes? Mine does this occasionally and as tulit has suggested, it enters a limp mode (no CEL though); the fans run when you start it, throttle is a bit dulled and gear changes are rough. There's a fault code stored (can't remenber the exact one - warmup issue), when the...

Do you actually need / want a tracker? GPS and GSM jammers are freely available, so there is probably a very small proportion of the theieving ba$tards who may steal your car where the tracker will be effffective in helping recover the car. The low tech ones are probably the type who will do no...

Black oil from a gearbox isn't usual, would suggest excessive heat, do you know if the correct grade was used? Could be due to the LSD, was there a lot of metal in the oil?

I removed the rear wheel well, unbolted the driveshafts from the gearbox but didn't remove them, unbolted the gearbox from the torque tube and moved it back. There was a guide kicking about somewhere, not sure if it was on here or ML, I did it in 2015. Nothing is particularly difficult, just...

You need to move the gearbox back to get the back disconnected, the tilting was to make it easier / for clearance at the engine end IIRC

When I did mine (on axle stands in the winter) I just replaced the Flywheel and the clutch. I didn't bother with the spigot bearing because it was fine and the thrust bearing appeared ok so I didn't bother changing that either. Five years on, it's still ok. Unless you know someone who can skim...

None of the clutches sold now should need balancing. With the early versions (up to "component 9044" according to the service manual) has a loose intermediate plate which could be removed along with the friction plates to allow the housing / pressure plate to be dynamically balanced on the...

Thanks, looks good at night as well, was worried there might be too much light bleed but that looks OK. Cheers, Simon