"New" perentie miscellaneous questions

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Originally Posted by Carzee

As for preventing or at least minimising electrical fire in these 25yrs+ vehicles, see Chris078's post (tonight), in this thread:

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/coil-sprun...our-meter.html

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yup. A job everyone should do is buy a can of electrical contact cleaner and pull all the fuses, clean out the contacts and replace with new fuses.

Also check if, like mine, they left the resistors in the wiring harness (they were supposed to be removed)
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/coil-sprun...hat-these.html

Not an issue if you don't leave the ignition in the 'ON' position as they only get hot when the battery light is illuminated. If, like me, you've wired up a secondary fuse box to run radio/fans etc that is triggered by a relay running off the ignition (so it's not always live) then it's a very big safety issue as they get too hot to touch after about 1 minute.

Here are some useful things to download and print out.

full parts list - Repair Parts Schedule (RPS) -REMLR
scroll down till you find the file: PUBR001 - Land Rover Perentie 4x4 Combined Parts Book V1.01
and download that.

(don't print this, but keep it handy to find part numbers)

this link Land Rover 4?4 |
from AFM
has the workshop manuals and service instructions. 3 workshop manuals (light, medium, heavy) and the service instruction, tech details and safety stuff.
you can take those to office works and for less than $80, get them printed and buy 3 binders and a box of plastic sleeves. Then just spend an hour putting them together.
(you're mechanic will love you)

this page Vehicle Wiring Diagrams - REMLR

has the wiring charts (3 of them) These are definitely worth getting blown up to A2 or A1 size if you intend to work on the wiring.

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Thanks Chris. Yes, I've seen these but have yet to sort through them. The service summary is quite useful....

Jon

Hi All,

I am a relatively new Perentie owner and this is an old thread, so hopefully someone can help.

I took it off road for the first time on the weekend and loved it! See attached pics.

I ran into a problem when on the beach... the engine wouldn't start. I was about 1km from the entry/exit onto the beach, so stressing out a bit!

When I turn the ignition the dash lights would come on but I would only hear a tick. I tried several times over a few minutes and then it came back to life.

After some further trial and error, it seems that the engine will go to turn over when I try to start it in gear.

Any ideas on what might be happening here?

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Almost certainly an earthing issue, apparently one that is affected by having it in gear, or more likely with the clutch disengaged, as it would be presumably when starting in gear. This suggests it is affected by slight engine movement and points to the chassis/engine earth. I'm not sure where this is on the Perentie, but on my 110 of similar age with the Isuzu engine, it is a flat braided strap across the LH engine mount. I also ran a separate heavy earth strap between the gearbox and the chassis.

there is also an obscure fault that ties into reverse gear but if you get that one the vehicle will only start in an obscure combination and one of them is you need to have your foot on the brakes to start the engine. Stopping can be achieved with either your foot on the brake, reverse gear selected or the primary lights on.

If you're a new school driver from a vehicle that needs you to have your foot on the brake and clutch to start it, you may be inadvertently doing this when you try to start in gear.

if so and IIRC its a fault in one of the multi connectors from the ign relay