Dr Mark's Tardis

That worked out well. I bought a compressor off eBay for £30 from a BMW E53 X5 with air suspension. I'd wondered if it would perform better than my tired old one and be cheaper than even a refurb kit would be. It's great.Waterproof too, with a 10mm pipe for air intake. Quickly got up to my normal 4 bar pressure.and now adjusted up to 8 bar, so that should be good for the pneumatic seats if I ever get to work on them. I fitted an air filter: RangeRover P38 (£5.99 from Ebay) on the end of the inlet pipe.Which sits about 300mm above the chassis rails.

Wow that's bright. It is actually very hard to chose ad LED light bar. The adverts exaggerate the power and the brightness figures are usually missing. On the bright side ha  ha ... the reviews are always pleased with how bright they are. It was tempting to get one the full width of the roof, but for me the unflated power levels were a turn off. A high current draw is bad for me and severely limits how much I could use on without the engine running. So I bought a 30" 198W bar from Wow LED on Ebay. I did not wnat curved ones and preferred post mounted rather than end mounted. Wiing is not trivial. It needs a relay and a cable from the battery feed at 30Amp (actually even a 10 Amp fuse was fine - so much for 198 Watts). Wires to the roof, but a switch inside. Not rocket science, and eventually completed. I went for mounting on the cab roof. I had considered the bumper. Low is supposed to be better for snow and bad weather, but mounting on the bumper would make it more vulnerable...

A very satisfying project. How to improve the music in the cab. With a cheap ldi radio and tinny mismatched speakers things coudl only get better. The Radio I used to have cheap radios, like you get from Aldi or Lidl for £20 to £30. With the front cover broken I searched for a new one and was persuaded to up my budget to about £100. Excellent advice. Still a mean old git I bought a refurbished unit from used car stereo on eBay.   SONY MEX-N7300BD / DAB+ / FLAC / Bluetooth / USB / AUX / microphone for  £89  Great buy, and a good company to deal with (I bought another one from them for the camper). Good points: The sound is great 55W per channel. I definitely need more than 30W in the noisey truck. DAB radio that's a nice to have. Microphone for hands free phone calls - I had not appreciated how good that would be. Can load the CD without moving the fascia (that removes one frequent failure mode) Takes input from high quality bluetooth codecs and Android mode. U...

I had a very erratic rev counter, particularly at low revs. On investigation the  wires were frayed coming out from the sensor. It was irreparable. Very easy to see the fault. I bought one off ebay with a good part number that looked the same.  It’s on the passenger side, RHS as you look from the front. On mine the wire damage was obvious and too close to the sensor to fix. My first fitting gave no signal and then I screwed it in one turn and it was OK. Adjustment  needs care because it needs to be screwed in close to the flywheel without hitting it. IVECO 4861291    The first one up on eBay is £43 and looks like mine.  Bear in mind that my engine is a 2.8ltr and my clutch housing and clutch is from a 6.5 t  

November 2020 Update See notes further down for the latest. The Iveco has a cold start system, or so I thought. But the pattern of flashing lights when I started was not the pre heater, but an error code. The cold start system was not connected. It is now. Our engines don't have glow plugs. Instead there is a single preheater that heats up some diesel fuel and squirts it into the air inlet. It works below zero. The unit does so diagnostic tests and flashes the pre heat light to show the outcome. Normally the light goes on for a couple of seconds and then off. The electronic manual on Ivecodaily4x4@groups.io posted by Hugo has an invaluable diagnostic guide. There is a module behind the fuse box that takes the signals in and send power to the preheater. In my case the main power cable was missing. Also the crucial temperature sensor was faulty. A new one solved the problem. No error codes now. Iveco Daily Genuine Iveco Coolant Temperature Sensor Part No.4857248 5010293265 £18 from V...

We have a new forum. Yahoo inexplicably closed down all their groups. Unbelievable. For a small fee we did a transfer to groups.io. All in place and looking good. Many thanks to Hugo for leading us and many other users for contributing. https://groups.io/g/Ivecodaily4x4

This was never really in the plan. Yes it did have a small fluid leak wetting the inside of the gaiters, and some discoloration of the steering fluid. But nothing serious. However the engine mount project required the rack to be dropped (the ball joints stayed in place.) So it seemed an opportune time to remove it and send for refurbishment. I used in Steering Specialists Wakefield   because they had done a good job with a picanto caliper, and they were really easy to communicate with. No regrets. Collection and return of the rack was so easy. I strapped it to a plank of wood and put it into a cardboard box. They removed all extra bits liek ball joints and returned them loose.  ACS in Walsall  have been used by other Iveco people and get good reports. I found it very difficult t install. I tried repeatedly with the steel ppes attached because they are so hard to reach once installed. But eventually i gave in and put the rack in first and used a short spaner to conect the ...