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Have you joined the two small vacuum pipes that go into the egr together?

2002 4life 2.5 td

Air brakes? :)Mind you I run mine here in France at 3.5 (illegally) without problems, except the brakes catching fire going down the hill from home.

I am fitting the 312mm discs and calipers as part of the upgrade... if youve ever driven a landy... well L200's stop very well in comparison

or poly

Hi all,

I haven't done any proper problem solving yet or decided if I'm going to hand over to a garage yet - I just bought a Shogun Sport, left seller's house fine and drove fine.

5 miles down the road I put £20 diesel in as it was nearly empty, I get back in and start up, engine management light comes on and it's down on power. Turn it off and turn it back on, feels better but a bit juddery on occasion. Does same thing again about 7 miles later. While playing around I undid the battery and it cleared the code and light. I haven't got a code reader to hand unfortunately.

Drove it yesterday, started fine, idled fine drove it down the road and it's doing lots of little bunny hops, but as it warmed up it got less gripey. Got to a dual carriageway, got to 70 and then the light came on and it started powering down until it got to 60 then kicked in. Turned around about a mile later and it did the low power Thing, turn off and on again it seems ok ish, as I came back into 30mph of my village on light throttle it still seemed a bit gripey.

As I came home and turned engine off I realised I'd unplugged EGR valve control cable after the first journey, plugged it back in and it started ok and the management light went out...now I've taken the EGR valve off and it was well sooty so blanking panel ordered, but any other thought if that doesn't fix it? I'm wondering if the fuel is coincidental or a problem, I don't understand how it was fine then wasn
't after filling up...any thought gratefully received! Thanks!

I'll send you a personal message on this as there is a 'minor problem' you have to get around!

Air brakes? :)Mind you I run mine here in France at 3.5 (illegally) without problems, except the brakes catching fire going down the hill from home.

no need to replace the outer,  replace inner with stretch style not OEM

iv been told different things by every person I spoke to on this subject.

as some of you may know, my truck is going to be gaining a few kg's in the coming weeks, I want to uprate my axle weights, front and rear, unladen and laden weight, basically taking my truck up to a 3.5t instead of 2.8.

SVtech said "no idea"

DVLA said "talk to DVSA to get evidence that its "ok" to do so, then just change your v5"

DVSA said "nothing to do with us mate, talk to DVLA"

DVLA said (different person) "yea its fine, just get a certificate from a weigh bridge of its new weight."


so the last answer was very appealing to me, no engineers report or inspection of any kind?!   but this must be too good to be true, otherwise everyone would be doing it...

anyone KNOW anything on this?

for the record, I am doing EXTENSIVE modifications to make the truck safe with the new weight, so if thats your comment leave it out.