Thank you Hamboy and Philip121. I surmised that there must be something wrong when oljamesyboy and lax2wlg were mentioning GL4. I will use ATF in my auto box and I will wait until I have it running to find out the direction of flow for the cooler. I intend to use this vehicle for towing so I will ...

I may have got this wrong; you say that you use GL4 gear oil. Is this GL4 a Automatic Transmission Fluid? I have had a look on eBay for GL4 and the results come up as being a EP 80W90 Hypoid Oil as used in manual gearboxes and rear axles. Is it the red ATF oil that is used in auto boxes? I am in the ...

Place a piece of fine wire mesh over the hole. That should stop a lot of debris getting in and still allow the air to circulate.

HTH

the 2 stroke oil sounds interesting. might have to research into that.... While you research into 2-stroke there is another additive that you can research, Acetone. There are a number of people that use Acetone in the diesel. I am told that the Acetone breaks the surface tension of the diesel and ...

If you reckon that the pump is more noisy there may not be sufficient lubrication in the bio-fuel. To compensate for this you could add 2-stroke oil to the mixture at a rate of 300:1 (it does not have to be exact). Apparently there used to be sulphur in diesel oil but the oil companies don't add ...

Mine does exactly the same totally unpredictable. Unfortunately for me, I have to get mine fixed as the yearly test here (MOT) expects all instruments & lamps to be working or it is a fail.