I must be insane

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Originally Posted by loanrangie

Its good to know a reasonable rwc tester , i know a local guy that i sent another forum member to after the last place came up with a new list after each visit.
My bro just bought a mint 97 C200 Merc wagon and it passed first time.

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That's not doing your job that's just being a **** put simply!!!!!


If you get a RWC what's on the list is what's to be fixed, there shouldn't be any extra work. I had a blue with a RW tester in QLD about that once on a Disco 1, each time we re-submitted it (you get 14 days to fix it up there) he would find more stuff. After the fourth visit told him to shove his roadworthy where the sun doesn't shine and went elsewhere, was easier to pay the $75 for the test than deal with that dickhead.


Passed first time no hassles.


Trav

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Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

I've got no qualms with them finding buggered bushes like that I've missed. The front swivels are weeping on this one. He must have seen it .... and ignored it. The mechanic there must know rovers "they all leak".
Shane L.

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I had a similar experience, the guy was very reasonable with the odds and ends of land rovers. He said he knows they leak but as long as he can't see any oil he will pass it.

Supposedly Queensland transport are trying to make it as difficult as possible to get old cars like these registered, even sending out inspectors to when you submit your roadworthy certificate to make sure everything perfect.

I'd have shopped around until I found someone that was happy to do old cars. Looking in his workshop when I pulled up I spotted a couple of old 60's model holdens. So figured he'd do.

It a shame Roy littlehales isn't still doing RW's in town. He was passionate about old cars and certainly new his ****. He got out as soon as the photographs and all the bull**** was implemented :(

The old Rangie sure is a ripper. My father took it for a spin and was so impressed he was off looking up carsales at late model ones "If this thing drives so well and it's 23years old with 280,000kms on it ..... How good must the newer ones be :o" .... I think he was less impressed with how much they are worth though :cool:

The Rangie towed the caravan down to the beach easily .... rolling along at 2000rpm in 4th a lot of the way (geelong is downhill from ballarat). It sure did use a ****load of gas though :o About 30L/100km by my guestimate.

There was no sign of overheating with the caravan on and A/C freezing the inside of the car. Gee's the A/C is remarkably effective for an old pommie vehicle. the vent temperatures are freezing on bang gas. THe best bit is all the vents blow on the front passneger (my wife who is the one that complains about how hot all my cars are to travel in).

BTW: LPG usage ? My brothers caravan is a lot heavier than mine, but his modern 24valve V6 pajero with injected gas used nearly as much as the Rangie did .....

seeya
Shane L.

Shane, you are running out of room in the shed, I am prepared to remove some of the scrap form there just to helping you.
Send me the Pallas and I will take it ven if I have to pay 1/2 of the transport cost.
The things that we do for friends :angel:

PS: I agree with you, the 407it is a zzzzzzz. Of the latest models IMO the 406 V6 Coup? together with the 205 GTR are the best

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Originally Posted by Chucaro

Shane, you are running out of room in the shed, I am prepared to remove some of the scrap form there just to helping you.
Send me the Pallas and I will take it ven if I have to pay 1/2 of the transport cost.
The things that we do for friends :angel:

PS: I agree with you, the 407it is a zzzzzzz. Of the latest models IMO the 406 V6 Coup? together with the 205 GTR are the best

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You have no idea .... there is 6 cars, 3 trailers and a caravan on the road now..... The VicRoads bills are hurting ... that's for sure. 4 of them are on club permits so only $70 a year fortunately. The red range rover will have to be sold. I'll wash it and take some piccies this weekend and put it up for sale.

Of course the cars listed above don't include all the parts cars and "projects" scattered around the place in sheds :wasntme:

seeya
Shane L.

I found out something new today :angel:

Bloody torrential rain and the kids have to go to swimming. We take the blue rangey (not a hope in hell would I let us go in the 407 .... you'd drown the bloody thing in a by sneezing near it.....). Wow there was some water across the roads, and a car crash to find my way around in the 4km trip.... I reckon the water at one of the round-a-bouts was 40cms deep...... half way through the Rangey died .... Yes the mighty 4wd can't drive through deep puddle of water on a sealed road :Rolling: :Rolling:

if felt like it was running out of gas, so I punched the button and it was away almost instantly. So the question is ... what is a gas system would stop it working when it gets wet :confused: I wonder if there is a gas solenoid underneath that you can submerge and kill :confused: I switched it back to gas 200meters down the road and it worked again.

seeya,
Shane L.

If it's humid the converter can ice up. This can exhibit those symptoms. Usually happens in winter though.

Quite simple, I think. Most basic LPG systems use the air filter element as part of the restriction to draw in the gas. If your element got quite wet it would increase the vacuum at the mixer and cause the mixture to go very rich. The MAF for the petrol system on the other hand would still read adequately. Once the air filter element lost its load of water it would run fine on gas again. I suggest you work out how to keep the water out of your air cleaner, a little more may pass further than just a damp element.

That's a great suggestion... I'll see if the air filter shows signs of dampness. Why in the hell would it suck a gut full of water in .... were not fording meter deep rivers here... :o :o I've taken the old red rangey through way deeper water (it's carbies with the air intake up above the carbies)... infact it's even broken a wave over the windscreen once when I didn't see the gravel back road I was on was flooded once..... she didn't even drop a cylinder and just plowed on.

seeya
Shane L.

Did you figure out the problem?
Also wondering, you said it had done 280000kms, has the viscous coupling been replaced?