Masked Marauder

The amplifier is standard, it is mounted on the roof above the window with the aerial in. Built into the radio is the device that sends the POWER to the amplifier. If you change your radio you lose this, and need to use a plug in device that replaces the 12v supply, normally taking the 12v from the electric aerial feed from the back of the radio. Similarly you may lose this if you use any other devices between a standard radio and the aerial cable.

There are another 2 rows of fuses at the top of the fuse box above the relays.

Fuse 23, 20 amp.

Not much more complex, but ABS means you have to clamp off the brake pipe and open the bleed nipple when you wind the calipers back in.

I am with SK on this one. Cut the wires further up, slide on some heat shrink tubing concertinaed up, solder the wires back together and spread the tubing out and heat it up.

Hi Kieth, I am aware of cold cranking amps etc, but simplified things for my demonstration of how you can't shove 100+ amps through a 10 amp fuse! I also used a continuous cranking example of 5 minutes, in reality you would likely get about 3 at best from a 50 amp calcium or hybrid battery. But in reality you would not crank continuously anyway!

My bammer does not have them and I would love some. I wonder how much that upgrade would cost to retro-fit with used parts....

Car batteries are rated by their Amp Hour Capacity. So a 50AHC battery typically found on a petrol Galaxy can provide a continuous current draw of 50 amps for One Hour. So if a fully charged 50AHC goes flat after 5 minutes of continuous cranking then the current draw is in the region of 125 amps a minute. So can that kind of current be supplied through a cigarette lighter socket that is protected by a 10 amp fuse? I think not......

The 3KWh booster heater uses 0.38 of a litre of fuel an hour on high setting and 0.19 of a litre on low heat. I have no idea what the 5KWh uses, but at a guess 0.63 of a litre an hour at high output and 0.31 of a litre at low setting. So to use about a gallon of diesel on high output with a 5KWh heater would be about 7hours 25 minutes of running time.

No it's not..... YOURS maybe rubbish but mine isn't. Regards - JB Mine is good too.

What other MP3 players have you tried?

You missed "Expensive" out of your list of superlatives...... I am hoping to get into model rocketry in the near future. Whoosh, there goes another

That will be your flexible coupling chap, or the bush where the steering goes through the floor. Undo the two carpet buttons and pull the carpet out of the way and spray it all with a silicone lubricant spray.

The pump continues to circulate the coolant to prevent hot-spots occurring and damaging the cylinder head. The turbo has no coolant connections.

I am going to speculate something different. Perhaps your water pump is not circulating the coolant efficiently at idle? This would cause the booster heater to overheat the water in it's heat exchanger and go onto reduced power or off all together. Then when you rev the engine you push the hot water out and it re-lights. The puff of smoke you see when it lights is perfectly normal. But the soot could be reducing the airflow, and it won't harm to clean it out the exhaust. Try running the heater with the exhaust and air intake off, you will know it is working then, it is so loud!

No, I have checked all the wiring digrams.

I drove 10 miles to work this morning, booster heater working, and the temperature never went over a quarter of the way up. At running temperature it is in the centre. That was at speeds of up to 70mph, total drive time is about 10 minutes

The wires to the connector for the glow plug is only crimped onto the connector and look fragile. It could be that.

the PD oil filter is a paper filter that fits in the housing that sticks up like in the right of this picture: http://www.bigtrucker.co.uk/gifs/pdfilter.gif The non-PD engine has a traditional screw on metal cased cartridge filter that points down at the bottom of the engine in the right of this picture: http://www.bigtrucker.co.uk/gifs/nonpdfilter.gif

Look at the oil filter. Does it have a cartridge filter down the front centre of the engine?

How old is your drive belt? Have you checked the PAS fluid level?

Resistance is futile, come, join the collective......

If it is working full blast (it has two heat settings) then the exhaust will be too hot to touch. But the best sign it is all working is the whistling continues for a few seconds when you take the keys out!

YES THERE IS! What year is your car?

The PATS ring on the barrel is just the antenna for the PATS system, it does not come with the new barrel.