Thread: What did you do on your Perentie Today.

This is my first photo after picking 48 627 up from Adelaide.

I decided to check valve clearances today as noticed a lack of power on trip to the city yesterday-not easy to crank engine over by hand (without resorting to removing glowplugs) to line up pulley mark at TDC - it's a bloody big nut on the end of crankshaft pulley and can't really get a socket and bar on it -is there a special tool for this job? Anyway-valve clearances seemed okay so problem must lie elsewhere- I'm thinking maybe injector issue? Might do a compression test when i can borrow a tester.
I also decided to bleed the fuel system in case there was air in there- the only problem is when i operate the hand primer pump fuel leaks out the top -i assume there's a sealing washer in there-is that replaceable or do i have to replace the whole primer pump-if so anyone know the part number and where to get one?

Originally Posted by paulak

It was the right way up before.

Looks great with the new tyres and rims. The tyres look like a Mud Terrain ? what brand tyre are they ?

Gday cinan. The tyres are a Maxxis Bighorn 762. A preferable tyre would be BFG KM2 or Interco TRXUS MT but both were unavailable at the time. Paul.

Originally Posted by paulak

Gday cinan. The tyres are a Maxxis Bighorn 762. A preferable tyre would be BFG KM2 or Interco TRXUS MT but both were unavailable at the time. Paul.

285s or 255s?

Just cruised through Rego inspection, Paid up for another year
Mechanic was impressed very clean and no oil leaks



Donaldson Vacuator P10-6593 - Direct replacement $19 from Burson's

Now where to take it on the weekend!

My perentie gearstick knob(LT95) had been loose for a while but today it just came off in my hand changing gears-The rubber insert had fallen apart- i noticed that the end of the gearstick is threaded so when i got home i found a nut that fitted that thread and ground down the outside of the nut with bench grinder until it was almost round and really tight fit inside gear knob-i actually used the bench-vice to press it in so it was super tight and then just screwed it on to the gearstick- works a charm and much better than trying to use messy silicon etc. I don't understand why Land Rover never just made a screw on gear knob in the first place.

Originally Posted by mattmac

.... I don't understand why Land Rover never just made a screw on gear knob in the first place.

Two reasons - acts as a vibration damper for the gear lever, and reduces labour in assembly.

I replaced the rubber on mine that had disintegrated years ago with an inch of heater hose. Then last year did pretty much what you have, except I turned the nut down to a loose fit, and then fitted a thin rubber sleeve on it and used bearing lock to make sure it stayed in the knob. Also provided a locknut to allow it to be locked with the gearchange pattern correctly oriented.

John