Hi Mike, My experience is a bit limited however I have found the L200 by far the easiest to work on. The Toyota's have the better reputation but I think that is just a repeated urban myth. I also prefer driving the L200 and off the road it has behaved it's self very well. Good luck, Jon

@wotjonsez2560 Thanks Jon

Thank you for your kind feedback. I have just started a new channel, Wotjoncooks. It's a while now since I have plucked a cold pheasant and I have developed a quick method of prepping the whole bird, my first video on this new channel shows this method. Best regards, Jon

Thank you. They are just brake pipe fittings. I have loads of them, bought them years ago. Salvage them from any old vehicle (with metric fittings) otherwise motor factors or ebay. Good luck , Jon

You probably could but be aware; chimneys are often very unstable structures and not necessarily safe things to secure yourself to. Be careful, Jon

@@wotjonsez2560 Thanks, I'm now thinking of knocking up a timber frame that will be plenty sturdy I only really need a bench to sit to render. I can run a rope over the roof to clip to.

Sorry, I don't remember it being difficult though. We drilled the pop rivets out and just lifted the plastic piece away i think. Have a look at our tub removal video. Good luck, Jon

Yes, that's why we had to replace it.

Dunno. Could have been done by a previous owner?

Hi, It's worth having a look at my other video, Genuine thermostart v spurious. I agree better through a relay and a separate momentary switch, the springs wear out in the ignition switches and the thermostart does not switch off and burns it's self out, thirty quid down the drain. Good luck, Jon

Don't know, try it and let us know. Thanks, Jon

Could be an air lock in the supply pipe or the small gauze filter in the lift pump (or a faulty pump). I can never understand why they do not fit a proper filter in the supply pipe before the pump. Good luck, Jon

Thank you. I have not come across a record trigger that new! I always find it a bit odd that manufacturers assume than we do not have driver tips for odd sizes and security screws etc. Regards, Jon

Be careful what you ask for! Regards, Jon

Just a dribble, the engine is not running when they are energised so there is nothing creating pressure (apart from gravity).

Me too, unfortunately we have them both! Jon

It didn't help that their common name was 'water rat'. When I was in my early twenties I took my Grandpa into an industrial area in Wakefield where we lived and happened to park near a bit of disused canal, he said "I haven't been here since I was a boy, we used to come here and watch the water rats." So we had a look and there was a water rat sitting on a bit of floating wood cleaning it's whiskers! Probably a great, great ..... grandchild of the one's that he watched as a boy. It was a 'moment'. Best regards, Jon

@@wotjonsez2560 Yup, very misinformed back then. I remember walking through the woods, Jays, Jackdaws and crows were hanging by their feet shot and hung there by misinformed scaremongers

The release of mink into the wild caused the rapid population decrease of water voles.

Yes my first one was a washer motor and a green grit (for tungsten) wheel which I found in a derelict building at a disused colliery. The funny thing was that the wheel wore down rapidly until I later put it on a faster machine when it held its grit and did not wear away as rapidly. I still have them both. Jon

I went to the tip a couple of years ago and one of the workers was just about to chuck a couple of carborundum wheels in a skip. I asked for them and he said, "The grinder's in the metals skip if you want it", Yes please, he had even bothered to put the nuts and washers back on the spindle but he had cut the flex off and put that in yet another skip! Regards, Jon

Thank you, it was more good luck, right place at the right time than skill though. Regards, Jon

Good job they sent two eh?

Cheers mate, it's been a while, I've got miles of recordings but struggle to find the time to edit and upload them. Regards, Jon

Anywhere on the chassis or the neg. battery terminal, it's there to complete the circuit.

You need an ammeter the thermostart should draw about twenty amps. A multimeter will not do the job, they normally fuse at ten amps. Or take the plug out and see if it is working, see my video 'Genuine thermostart v. spurious. Good luck, Jon

@@wotjonsez2560 Is there anyway to test, with a volt meter, if the single black wire that plugs into the thermostart is getting power when I turn the ignition switch to the heat position?

@@travisricks3436 Yes, if it's a negative earth put the black lead to ground anywhere on the chassis or the neg. battery terminal and the red lead on the thermostert terminal try the switch and you should see battery voltage - 12-13 volts. If it's a pos. earth put the leads the other way round. You don't even need a meter, with the switch on just try the wire to the chassis and you should get a spark.

@@wotjonsez2560 I had a mechanic test 2 thermostart plugs using lead wires off of a 12V battery. Both were bad! 1 wouldn’t heat up at all, and 1 wasn’t getting power at the terminal. I’m going back with a genuine OEM Perkins thermostart, part number 2666108. This is for a Massey Ferguson 231 tractor with the 3 cylinder Perkins AD3.152 diesel. Very happy that I now know what the problem is! Just gotta order the thermostart now. Thank You!

@@travisricks3436 I am glad that you got to the bottom of the problem. Best regards, Jon

Thank you. It is always nice to get kind comments especially if they make me laugh. Best regards, Jon

One less kind viewer said that I sound like Whinnie the Pooh! I did not take that one as a compliment.

Thank you. No volt drop because the test was from the battery to the end of the earth wire to check that the cable was good, if the test had been to the chassis connection on the chassis side there would have been a drop. I did a video 'Repairing car cluster light electrical problems' when we had a problem with the rear lights on the Audi which shows my repair, still good years later. I haven't been impressed with the Audi's electrics. Good luck, Jon

@wotjonsez2560 ah yes makes sense, so check continuity of the earth cable! I've heard about the rear lights modification, this, touch wood doesn't seem to be an issue on my rear lights, as mentioned I'm having a few intermittant electric issues in the engine bay, which would suggest a bad earth on the engine mount etc

Dave was a gun nut and over the years he showed me hundreds of guns both good and bad. He gave up his firearms certificates at ninety years old and did tell me that he had bought an air rifle for the grey squirels but he never did bother to show it to me so he probably did not think much of it himself. I also inherited all Dave's tools and equipment which I do treasure as the real parting gift. I really don't understand why you would think that I have 'screwed it up'; it is just as good after my investigations as it was before I started, some of us are capable of dismantling and reassembling things without damaging them. Anyway, thank you for watching, regards, Jon

Well mine is still working hard nearly two years later. Regards, Jon

Well it could be but wheel bearing noise does not usually sound like grinding. Check simple things like the brakes and the backplates and if it is a rear wheel drive check the prop shaft center bearings, they often sound like brakes ginding, good luck, Jon