Farm Fresh LAND ROVER - Troubleshooting a Rough Runner

[@m721ac]

Mate you need to do a show. Seriously you have a gift.

[@pbysome]

I know.

[@smoll.miniatures]

The gift of Aspergers 😊

[@mjallenuk]

Every minute spent editing was worthwhile. The evil possum will forever haunt my dreams.

[@jonathanfillebock9836]

Best Land Rover content on KZbin by far!

[@finren4308]

Love it! Great work, can’t wait to see what’s coming. We’ve all missed you!

[@Weq5ter]

I watch alot of youtube mechanics and the voice/presentation style is very offputting. cant watch it, feels like an infomercial. goes down well with those form the UK, they love this sh!t! instead of actual mechanical advice, sharing experience or knowledge (which this guy obviously has!) --> its just really bad jokes and trying to get you to laugh about how unreliable your land rover is. yay. clap clap.

[@lozl]

An excellent video as usual! Was beginning to wonder what had happened to you.... glad you are well and still messing about with old crap.

[@CROKERvsRover]

I have plenty of old crap to keep me going 😁

[@nicholashacking381]

I love the way that you describe youself as someone who paints things on KZbin, and then demonstrate that you really know your way around the 2.25 engines. My current Series III is a gutless diesel but I used to have one with a petrol engine. The acceleration with the petrol variant, from a standing start, is pretty impressive; all the way up to 25 mph. The fuel consumption is frightening however. For a while, I had to drive a 90 mile round trip to work and back and the only running vehicle I had was the petrol series III. I had to fill the tank two or three times a week. But, they are very forgiving engines. I once put petrol in a diesel 2.25 and it ran well enough to get ten miles to another petrol station, so that I could drain out the fuel and refill with diesel. The injector pump didn't appear to suffer at all, despite the gloomy prognostications of my Land Rover owning friends. I've also got a modern car and if the onboard computer detects a problem, then it's off to the dealer for a fix. It's all very comfortable and convenient, until it goes belly up, but it's not real *motoring* is it?

[@theaussienurseflipper.8113]

Time fot a turbo Barra, mate

[@cameronmurie]

I could not agree with you more. The main difference, between Analogue Cars and the digital age is Access to Information. Were it the case that your Toyota Hybrid Dealer / aftermarket guys could sell you a module and comms codes so that you can reveal the settings in the ECU or its subsidiary controllers, you could ID the issue and swap out the board. BUT that info is denied to the owner. Our Best hope is for a manufacturer who embraces Open Source Coding. You Buy the car, You buy the code.

[@threeboardsfour]

@@cameronmurie Pretty sure open source coding has been intentionally denied in the EU (and other regions) to stop consumers bypassing ECU controlled emissions restrictions. In the early days ECU's could easily be manipulated to not trigger engine warning lights for bypassed egr's etc, however anything like that now triggers the light and it's an inspection fail.

[@budycelyn]

yay, great to see you back, sneaky little VGG trope in there, kudos

[@surfshop7552]

Welcome back, waiting to see whats happening with your Landy rebuild

[@CROKERvsRover]

Coming. Maybe this weekend

[@jonajames-x7c]

Awesome bit of old school mechanics mixed up with some homour and mostly success. Loved this one.

[@marty922]

Loved the VGG shoutout :)

[@yknott9873]

The hesitation from idle to throttle, plus the stumbles on the road, suggest it wants more spark advance. This engine has no timing marks - but there's another way, one that tailors spark timing to the individual engine. This method was particularly valuable in North America in the '80's where the car companies turned their spark advance down to insanely low numbers (NO engine likes ATDC primary timing!!!) for Granny who never drives over 25 mph and is so badly carboned-up she's running >200 lb compression. And the method is fast, and simplicity itself. Familiar with pre-ignition? - that little 'pinging' under acceleration, that sounds like a cylinder might just have a few 1/8" ball bearings bouncing around inside. Warm your engine up, then work it hard going slowly (3rd gear (1:1 final drive on an '80's 3-speed automatic) at ~30 mph - difficult to do with an automatic trans because it wants to downshift), and listen for pre-ignition. If you don't hear it, advance spark timing until you do - if you do hear it, then back-off a couple degrees, tighten the timing nut and you're done. I used to keep my timing nut loose enough that I could just turn the distributor; and I soon found out which stations sold the highest-octane gasoline. No problem if you get the low-octane stuff (or the station manager has been adulterating his gasoline with naphtha to save a buck filling his tanks) - back the timing off a bit and you're good to go.

[@seberdee8824]

Probably 7:1 compression or maybe 8:1 no point running high octane designed to run on rubbish fuel

[@yknott9873]

Yeah - that's a small factoid about octane that not a lot of people know. Back in the 1910's the companies made insanely big engines for racing - we're talking 28 litres; look-up the Beast of Turin - because the only way to get more power back then was to make the engine bigger; "octane" hadn't been discovered yet, and raw gasoline can only support ~6:1 compression. Octane is a fraction of crude oil, like gasoline but it can support 8:1 compression. So once this was discovered, racers started mixing-in octane to their gasoline for more timing, i.e. more performance - the use of the word "octane" for high-performance fuels dates from this. But even running straight octane only gives you 8:1, and there isn't that much octane in crude oil anyways. So petrochemical researchers got-on with finding other dopants - the search goes-on today, and high-test AVGAS played an important part in WW2 aviation. Ultimately, you can get more power today from 1 litre than the "Beast" could get from 28 - that's almost entirely because of the better fuel.

[@MrButtonpresser]

Other content creator’s should weep. THIS is fantastic content and so very well produced. Subbed to both channels.

[@TheMarkmoffat]

Inform, Educate, Entertain. Nice work Geoff.

[@loewkr]

I do not own a Land Rover and never will. But I find your videos and commentary magnificent. Thanks.

[@Chau083]

Holy shit! A new video! He's alive!

[@glensmall9194]

You are really good at this stuff. Thank you for sharing. Rebuilding and fitting a spare carburetor to my 1976 S3 LWB pick up. The engine was swapped in 2000. Now runs a Holden 186. It runs smoother since an older school mechanic "listened" closely and adjusted timing. A new exhaust manifold might help too. Thank you for sharing the video. Very good editing from a clever fella. Hello from Wellington. All the best.

[@pauljenkins2501]

You did a great job there. The old "Series" Landys are great vehicles to learn car mechanics on. I still miss my Series 3........

[@marting1547]

Yes, I sold my Series 3 last year so I am left watching videos to get my Landy fix ☹

[@merykjenkins3274]

I reckon most of us on the other side of rhe ditch thought you had locked yourself in the sheep dungeon (hey, your words, not mine). Glad to see you back. What a bitza of a landy engine and linkage train! Some great tips in there for those diagnosing issues with their Landy. Thanks again!

[@stephenbuss9415]

@12:00 that is more or less a vacuum taking bad gasses out of the block/tappet area to be burned in the cylinder. On larger engines I believe its called crank case ventilation. The Zenith carb at the end I bet had something called Zenith Warp, A bunch of aftermarket ones were made that did not get reheated a second time? so anyways the 3 pieces that make up the Zenith carb warp after a while of being red hot to cooled down. I had to lap mine on a piece of glass with fine sandpaper several times over several months. Very, very annoying, and it also produced black soot everywhere, poor idle, dieseling, hard starting. For anyone else interested if you get a bad compression test, look up pressure test or maybe its called blow down test, anyway you can narrow it down to exhaust or intake valve or piston rings etc with out opening up the motor. I did it any was able to know I had a bad exhaust valve in #1, just saying if you wanted to know in general where the trouble is more precisely. Thanks for the awesome video! Its seriously is very helpful to me learning from you.

[@jeffwallace2201]

Great to see your work again!!!!

[@filmbluff99]

You have to love these simple engines, it takes me back to 1963 and my first car. Subscribed to the channel.

[@aaronbuildsa]

"Because .. Land Rovers are reliable!" - I'm glad you left the pause for us all to stop laughing!

[@jrodd999]

The king has returned!!!!

[@steffjones6687]

Really enjoyed the video. Glad you're not dead - Assumptions were made that you had become trapped under a Landy chassis and perished.

[@georgemoore2928]

Ive watched this video 4 or 5 times now as i struggle to get my 2.25 to run better. Very useful video. Thanks

[@alank247]

I was just thinking about your channel the other day. It's been far too long so, it's great to see you back. I don't mind the mix of Landy and machining stuff but, this is fine too. Nice shout out to VGG

[@KronoReaper]

Really missed your content, glad you're back

[@mwendakanyuru1051]

Its been long buddy... welcome back

[@vernonwhite4660]

I have a1983 range rover but learn a lot from waching these.As I have no mechanical expertise. Thank you

[@patrickmorrissey2271]

Just found this 2 months later.... Good to know you are still alive. One never knows... Nice job Sir.

[@johnkingston7244]

Glad to see you back - but TWO channels?? What was wrong with separate playlists? Perhaps I’m one of the odd ones that likes watching both Landrover AND general machining content….

[@lasskinn474]

I like anything he puts out

[@TheMarkmoffat]

Inform, Educate, Entertain. Thanks Geoff.

[@mrojas73]

I love your videos, this is another top notch one!

[@JohnTheRegis]

Excellent video, my rough-running 1972 series 3 now has a date with this vid as a methodical guide to troubleshooting! Minus the rigged throttle spring and no timing marks; fortunately! 😄

[@gpz550a2]

That was excellent! Informative and entertaining too. You're a prince among Rovers!

[@mbrown6930]

So glad you are back, great video as always. I have a Series 3 88" 2286 petrol in the same light green colour. It too had a copy carb and smoked a lot. Uphill it would hesitate although I could drive around it a bit by changing gear etc. Flat out at 80kph. Replaced the carb with a professionally rebuilt Zenith from the UK and new aramid carb gaskets from HNJ Engineering. Adjusted the carb as per the procedure on the Glencoyne Engineering website. It no longer hesitates on hills and will get up to 100kph on the flat - a significant improvement. I'm also sourcing an original professionally rebuilt Lucas distributor (there is a copy dizzy on there now - the bob weights calibration will be wrong) and replacing the nasty-looking HT leads. The choke even works now I connected up the correct cable (it has two choke cables for some reason). The mixture screw with the plastic shroud pointing to the engine I think is a later so-called 'anti-tamper' version - much easier to adjust the earlier version that points toward the front of the engine. The copy carb has gone in the bin.

[@richardhogben3776]

exceptional video

[@Ryan-lz8zm]

I really like your video style 👏🏻Happy to be your 7th subscriber (saw the post on patreon) 👌🏻

[@malerics3210]

HI Just wanted to say, I really miss your videos...IMHO, you have one of the best channels...no nonsense, a bit of humour and some great tips and anecdotes to make your eyes water. Keep up the good work, or should I say Kip up the good werk.. Doubly

[@karenmurray3098]

you are the funniest bloke on KZbin, love your work keep the videos coming

[@TheBasementChannel]

Thanks Geoff, now I have 2 favourite channels.

[@MichaelBrown-s7f]

This is an excellent reference video and highly entertaining to boot.

[@lowellfunk8974]

Whirly gig, the cheapest rover timing tool that you'll steal from your kids! ROFL. Great video as always. Cheers from Alberta Canada!

[@cameronpatrick7943]

Your humor always gets me, keep making videos as long as you can. Also I am one of the few people who want to watch land rover and tool shit

[@rickz9495]

well i'll be dipped. Subscribed These ye old 2.25 petrols can handle a skosh of extra timing on modern fuel(not goat pis). I run mine around 9 or 12 degrees at idle.

[@1963TOMB]

On 1098cc Morris Minors it's recommended that the clearance of the exhaust valves are increased by 2 thou. to compensate for the weasel wee.

[@rpederse]

I may quite possibly be your most auto-ignorant subscriber. Your stuff is fun to watch even though I have no idea what you’re doing. :)

[@davemedlyn071]

So glad your back......... I missed you.

[@casparberends2719]

I do wonder if the cheap new carburator had a too high float level, which would cause too rich running.

[@mattflannagan9769]

Loved the Vice Grip Garage reference! Happy to see you back posting again, was concerned you were sick or something.

[@flinrodgers1356]

So stoked this channel is a thing. Don't ever loose this stile you have, so refreshing and it's great

[@tonycortese2165]

That was great. I have an old series 2 which runs rough so I'll do what you showed and see how I go thanks

[@Ledrefoc1]

Your over editing is just amazing and I love it!

[@jaguarxj66]

An absolute wealth of land rover knowledge and skills. Keep up the good work dude

[@marcbostian1243]

Thanks Geoffrey! love all the content following both channels - appreciate the videos... really tough with a family and job.

[@sandralloyd838]

Thank you for such a superb video. The first one I’ve seen so easy to follow and inspiring me to take on my series 3. Please more of the same.

[@frankblack1481]

My heart goes out to the algorithm that has to add subtitles to this. “Tip did sinter”

[@bowesterlund3719]

Aaaahh yes! The wait is over, thank you

[@ThatPluckyBrit]

Can't wait to binge all these when its out

[@LittleAussieRockets]

I would love to see a bit of possum action. But totally understand if you chose not to show it. KZbin is a funny place. I only wish we had a possum season in Australia. Great content! I've recently subscribed to both of your channels. I'm really enjoying it.

[@davog1946]

VGG reference was excellent.

[@MegaSkypes]

Well between you and I let’s find out what the problem is with this brand new carb because I did have exactly the same scenario with my Series 3! Great video of information and entertainment well done 👍🏽 Thanks 🙏🏼

[@AlfOfAllTrades]

Love the VGG reference :D

[@ponsonbylad]

Bloody brilliant fella, Im just about to start on a 2A pick up, your stuff is perfect!@

[@kenrushing7945]

I'm a crossover from the other channel. Can't say I care anything about landrovers but I do enjoy the host's wit and humor, so here I am.

[@erhardt1477]

Well… In essence this video is a free class of car engineering… very nice indeed sir 👍

[@356Rover]

As a Land Rover owner this was an awesome video, should be a prerequisite to owning a landy. I've been taught to heat up spark plugs with a propane torch which burns off the carbon - gives you the opportunity to look at the electrode.

[@JoshuaJonah]

I love your Tony-style humour and editing.

[@adamjhons7088]

Welcome back thanks God you’re alive!,keep the great work up 👍

[@careymilicich]

Welcome back to the land of the, um...living/undead/KZbin? I have missed your regular updates. Excellent work as always

[@bp9749]

Missed you man!!! Glad to see you making vids again

[@WaynesWorld69]

Wow this takes me back to doing maintenance on my old 2A! Love it!

[@zukowski2023]

Oh, your back, I was beginning to think the worst (Quote from Herbert Moon, Red Dead Redemption). Awesome video Mr Croker, thanks for the Share! Glad to see you back on line turning out videos that we are all waiting to watch. Cheers!

[@pouyan225]

I love the new video! You're not an idiot my friend, far from it. You're a true talent! The skills, humor and wit involved in making this video is second to none. excellent!

[@philhyde2635]

Well worth the wait. Good to see progress.

[@tonyvega4755]

I love your work and am.so.glad to see your back. I was checking every week or so to see if you'd posted new vids. I've subscribed to the new channel and can't wait to see what you've got in store for the future

[@Utopiatwentytwo]

Absolutely love it! Great work 🙌

[@mrploppy73]

Great video but i feel you are mistaken on the rocker cover vent. it actually sucks crankcase gasses back into the engine via the carb inlet manifold. a primitive emission control system. I have a 1977 series 3

[@CROKERvsRover]

The vacuum in the manifold is much higher than the vacuum in the air cleaner. That’s why the pcv valve is connected after the throttle. The breather on the top of the rocker cover is connected to the air filter housing and the pcv valve should be connected to the oil filler tube.

[@paulcooper2897]

Goes to show .. rebuilding original is better than knock off parts. Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦

[@robj2704]

Often, that seems to be the case.

[@cameronalexander359]

Awesome vid. Thanks Geoff!

[@ljsxjr]

Awesome as always Thanks mate

[@applied.precision]

I get the channel split, no effort to subscribe to both, but I am surprised that there's not more crossover between the two themes. I love them both, I love mechanics, I love machining, hell I thought it was the perfect mix. Still great, and probably more efficient for you.

[@zawzawaung6789]

Have you ever seen the cheap kit that replaces points and condensor with a round magnet and sensor? Supposed to be a poor man's electronic ignition. I just put these on all of our trucks in Burma and makes a hell of a difference. The distributor will need some wiggling back & forth as it does change timing just a tad.

[@CROKERvsRover]

Yes I have used them before. Cheers

[@mattsmith9246]

Great videos! Super funny. I just finished watching the whole build series for the series 3. I am looking for a Land Rover now 😂.

[@CROKERvsRover]

That's the spirit! 😆

[@andresfernandezduran3281]

Brilliant! Love it, as usual!

[@caseyrobnett100]

Nice VGG reference!

[@peterwarner8541]

Great stuff, well thought out and presented.

[@knowhowmedia5889]

great video

[@krp6147]

Nice Geoff keep up the good work love watching the videos 🇬🇧 😎👍

[@DennisVrolijk]

Yeah great to see you back! Are you also going to use this channel to update us on the series restoration?

[@CROKERvsRover]

Yup. New stuff coming in about a week.

[@grenvillephillips6998]

Well worth the wait - great stuff!

[@cameronmurie]

Sir I am restoring or at least resuscitating a chopped half-arsed 109 truck-cab in my back yard, On occasions I feel like giving up and then watch one of your videos and think Oh God better get on with it and go out and do something, Your videos keep people like me going - Don;t change a thing, please. I would be very interested to find out if its possible to tune a Chev 4.1 (Known as a Holden) to run somewhat better economically. ( Rather than convert it to a boat-anchor) and install an impossible-to-find-diesel or some such. Cheers! Cameron South Africa.

[@johndavies2396]

The master is back 🔙🔨🔨

[@alhamedi66]

Amazing professional work waiting more. Subscribed

[@warbirdflyer7276]

Brilliant video! Some state the exhaust valves be adjusted to 0.025? I adjusted all to 0.010? Diesel runs great!

[@BogdanNicolaeManta]

Thaaank you! 😊

[@tor-bjornadelgren3517]

Nice to see some one who knows his trade Cheers :)

[@246-J]

really like it, I have an LR S 3 SWB 79, having trouble repairing the carburetor, where can I get the manual

[@billynunns]

Wwii jeeps had the clearances on them also. 🙌

[@TylerHicksWright]

If you don't want to do maths, you can do the valves by counting from one end and doing the valve the same number in from the other end. So if the third valve in from the left is open, you adjust the 3rd valve in from the right. Sort of like a mirror in the middle of the valves.

[@sheilalucas9154]

Only just found you. Brilliant video.