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Coil negative connector.

I'd change/test the ignition amplifier. The symptoms sound a lot like a problem there.

Both DM8 and DLM8 have been used on RR.

I had a 1986 RR, which had DM8 dizzy.

The current 1990 has DLM8, which replaced the DM8 in 1987 - if I remember correctly.

Both have the same vacuum advance unit.

Most definitively!

Ralphh85 wrote:eerr what fuel expansion tank? never herd of it!


Ralph

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In and out for fuel expansion tank.

Check CTS as suggested by Chris. AND: Do you have the correct tune resistor fitted in the loom near the ECU? Green for the non-lambda set up. If not, then the ECU will go into the fault fuel map (since you have no lambda's fitted), which makes the mixture ridiculously rich (get home-mode). The value...

A-frame balljoint is a good candidate. Other could be the gear box mainshaft vs t-box primary gear splines. It's common with Rangeys and Discos with LT77 and LT230 - a known lubrication problem. Not so sure if it exists with B&W t-box, but the chain slack surely does. A friend of mine blew his LT77 ...

That is SICK!

ppyvabw wrote:
Hahaha, you're quite welcome to come and do the current calculation I am doing for my PhD then because at the moment, I am just pissing into the wind with it.

Upwind, I guess? I know the feeling...

Or is the correct term headwind

I disagree on the use of the term mass extinction. But that's only a philosophical difference in a point view. This lump of rock has a self balancing system as you guys described earlier. The problem is not that the system would run into a uncontrollable state (not that I can imagine of, but I can b...

I would argue the ozone layer (O3) protects the earth from harmful rays emitted from the sun, and is damaged by so-called 'greenhouse gases', therefore potentially contributing to global temperature rises. Temperature rises also slow the natural 'repair' time of the ozone layer. So you are incorrec...

However, I'm sure some decent sunblock would make it just about bearable for us humans :lol: How sunblock relates to global warming? Global warming has nothing to do with the ozone layer. The problem with the nature is not the actual temperature change per se, it's just the speed of change, which s...

ChrisJC wrote:Good point about the propshaft splines.

Thinking about it, the 3.9's almost certainly had 24spline half-shafts, which are less prone to wearing.

Older 3.9's have 10-spline half-shafts. The newer 24 spline came relatively late, around 93-94 - if I remember correctly.

The common factor might be the alternator playing up.

It's impossible to get an idle below 1400rpm without the engine stalling, on gas, or 1500 on petrol, with or without the vac. If I measure the revs usin a 'Gunson Testune' borrowed from a neighbour, it shows 1400rpm idle, fine. That's a fast idle. Have you also checked and re-checked for possible a...