Monday, March 31st, 2008
I noticed a new engine noise on the way home from work the other day, so spent today investigating. There was an intermittent plastic knocking noise, which emanates from the snorkel top. I inspected the turbo with the ducting removed, removed the snorkel to check for contamination or damage and checked the filter, but found [...]
Monday, September 24th, 2007
The 109 is still running well, and I have been running it on vegoil for the drive to work. It doesn’t seem to consume any noticeably larger quantity than it did diesel. There is still no detectable performance difference, and the engine is still running smoother, quieter and with less smoke than on [...]
Friday, August 24th, 2007
I just thought you might like to see what 75L of vegoil looks like before dropping it in the fuel tanks! I got this from Tesco, and it woks out at slightly less than half the price of diesel. I still intend to use waste vegoil, but my garage is full of tools [...]
Saturday, July 21st, 2007
I spent a very wet Friday at the Billing show, and took Helena and the kids again today as the weather was better. It was good to meet several members of a Land Rover forum I use a lot – www.landrovernet.com – a couple of whom came back to the car park to have [...]
Thursday, July 19th, 2007
I have now fitted the fuel heater to enable the engine to run on vegoil (SVO). It’s fitted between the fuel filter and Kenlowe Hotstart, and uses engine coolant running to the cabin heater matrix to heat the fuel to over 80oC. This means I can now take advantage of the UK government’s decision to [...]
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