Recent content by hatzlibutzli

Clean it, weld it, beef up the radius arm bracket with sheet metal ... it is a common issue, especially when poly bushings in stead of rubber bushings are used in the radius arm. It is easyer, when the axle is not in place ... but it is also doable under the car.

There are those unbelievable physical wonders: produce 2000 W of cooling capacity from only 792 W of power input ... maybe the producer is aiming for the next nobelprice by challanging the principles of thermodynamics ... the law of conservation of energy was found by von Helmholtz some 150...

To get the physics right: 1960W @12 V = 164 A draw (not calculating the losses in maybe to tiny cables) ... thats in the region of a DC winch ... if you let it run for one hour your 280Ah battery has only 116 Ah left (if its LiFePo, where you can use all of it, when its lead, then you should...

Today I discovered my passenger side bracket is broken ... not a little bit, but the back part, where the stabilizer bar attaches, is off. Considering the fact, that I was observing a little bit of axle oil seeping since about 5000 km and the completely rounded state of the once crack ... i...

As long as you do not intend to move to rural Africa, central Australia or Mongolia ... stick with the 200 if it is your only vehicle

Update: Problem solved: Throttle position sensor was the culprid ... changed, now all 205 horses are back permanently. What happened: TPS is more or less a potentiometer, a variable resistor, where a contact slides on piece of metal of high electrical resistance ... so this gets grooved in...

I had a slipped harmonic balancer: the outer part was misaligned with the center, the rubber part ripped ... happened probably due to a seized AC-pulley. To find out confirm, that TDC indicated by the harmonic balancer is really TDC. If you skip tearing of the valve cover, remove spark plug No1...

47326-60180 r 47327-60080 l is what I find on Partsouq for 08.1992 - 01.1998 Models. Regards ... Simon

Found the exhaust gasket after the cat crumbled to pieces. Now replaced ... I will report, if it solved the problem permanent! Thank you for all your valuable comments ... Simon

CEL came first on while drivin heavy dunes, Throttle pos. maybe half, not more than 10 km/h (6,2 mi/h), gearbox locked in 2. gear (2nd start and 2) then again 2 days later, same conditions. Then 3 days later constant driving on highway 110 km/h (68,3 mi/h). That one was constant for 2 days and...

Thank you for your efforts. In the remoteness of the central sahara (comparable to the trails of central Australia) I maybe get a little obsessed with the reliability of my vehicle. Please be lenient ;-) I will try to uncover the mistery by dayly driving it here in central Europe! I will...

No vacuum leaks, no poor idling, idling @650 rpm, fuel consumption was ok with 23 Liters/100 km in heavy dunes and 16 l/100 km on the highway. Yes, I have all the FSMs. I would love to give you more, like a CEL-Code ... but they are not obtainable ... when I check with the paperclip method they...

Sorry, may I pop it up again. Nobody with an idea? Change fusible links on just suspect? Thank you for your brains!

97 FZJ 80, European spec., delivered to Finland, no OBD2, 1FZ with 360 000 km on the clock. for the last 2000 km (starting in the dunes of Grand Erg Oriental/Sahara desert) the CEL came on intermittendly. When trying to get a code with the paperclip method: continuous blinking and after...

And again! Regards Simon