Range Rover P38, for the use of.

red5 · Post by **red5** » Sat Apr 17, 2021 9:47 am

Good morning.

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Brought out from 'storage' having purchased a month or so ago.

Poor starting, clag, clunk etc etc.

AMCrebel · Post by **AMCrebel** » Sat Apr 17, 2021 9:47 am

red5 · Post by **red5** » Sat Apr 17, 2021 9:56 am

Quick check over and to the MOT station as already noted. Passed with advisories as per.

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Needs both front arm axles bushes doing and a pair (set) of lower ball joints.

Clunk from prop? and axles, gearbox and transfer box oils doing.

brandersnatch · Post by **brandersnatch** » Sat Apr 17, 2021 9:59 am

Great colour.
Huge testicles! (I know nothing about P38s, only the internet rumours. Nobody tells lies on the internet do they?)

mercrocker · Post by **mercrocker** » Sat Apr 17, 2021 10:03 am

I have the popcorn and cola ready for the next instalment.....

Mate had one - this is the fella that got my Cowley through the MOT after 9 years in a scrapyard and revived a dead Silver Shadow from behind a farmer's house. His P38 managed to break him, utterly. To the point he now drives a Hyundai......

red5 · Post by **red5** » Sat Apr 17, 2021 10:04 am

brandersnatch wrote: ↑Sat Apr 17, 2021 9:59 am Great colour.
Huge testicles! (I know nothing about P38s, only the internet rumours. Nobody tells lies on the internet do they?)

No, it's all true. The lizards, anti-vax etc etc.

Same people who laughed when I bought a D3 with ALL of the warning lamps on except oil and alternator. You know, tuts, laugh, my mate says, etc etc.

mercrocker · Post by **mercrocker** » Sat Apr 17, 2021 10:05 am

It's OK buying P38s now. It is when they were ten grand that the pain was most acute.

NorfolkNWeigh · Post by **NorfolkNWeigh** » Sat Apr 17, 2021 10:06 am

Will I never learn?
For years, people were giving P38s away for peanuts, did I want one then ? No, of course not, same with S Class Mercs, I never like them when they’re cheap. As soon as the values firm up they start to look attractive to me.

The logical thing would be to go out and buy a £1000 L322 and a £1000 S500, I won’t I’ll wait until they’re £5000 and you can’t get cheap parts.

I particularly like that colour and orange indicators.

red5 · Post by **red5** » Sat Apr 17, 2021 10:09 am

So..

At some pint it was servcied. Ha.

If you don't bother to fit the air filter element actual 'in' the recess for it, the lid for the housing doesn'tfit properly - moreso if you just ham-fistedlt force lid on. it bends the two guides on the lid.

Thusly

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it can allow damp/water in to the element. Which was dry, but had been wet at somepoint.

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it now fits, seals and filters. Takes literally the same anount of time to do it right.

Scruffy Bodger · Post by **Scruffy Bodger** » Sat Apr 17, 2021 10:37 am

These are such a good looking motor. A mate had a well specced one in some sort of Imperial blue years back, cream leather, V8 on gas, nice place to be.

I'm pretty sure that a nice one of these should be a safe bet on appreciating nicely because of all the horror stories about them that circulate. I expect their numbers have been decimated over the last few years. If I was to take a punt on one it'd be the same as you've got with the derv in it as it's a well known, relatively simple engine.

Are these the ones that it's critical to have a tip top battery on or it can cause untold electrical maladies?

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