Cold Start Procedure of my Diesel 1976 Land Rover Series 3 88"

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Just a quick video taking you through the cold start procedure of my 1976 Land Rover Series 3 88" diesel Enjoy!

[@charlescrisp2814]

beautiful land rover

[@EphemeralProductions]

I had to use captions to understand most of what you were saying. lol. Between the accent and fast talking. But, it was a really cool video! I loved the startup process. It’s amazing the good condition that it’s in for its age! :)

[@restosaga]

Thanks for watching! The LR has had a lot of attention over the last few years, just to bring it up to scratch again

[@stco2426]

Nice! The LR is looking lovely. Thanks for making and sharing the video. There are ways to test the functioning of the alternator at lower speeds, but once the engine is started I'd expect your electrical demands are minimal until you put aux loads on like lights, wipers etc. I think until the alternator is creating juice just keep the demand low and typically don't idle to raise temp. I think, once the oil is circulating, then gently get temps rising and load is the best way to do this, but gently. Once you're at road speed and revs I'd expect the alternator to be happy. If you put a bit of demand on the battery until then no dramas. Hey, you've been driving this for ages so don't mean to teach you what you clearly already know.
Didn't realise the LR took endless draw on the pre-heat. My old (early 90s, so not that old) diesel fun bus has a timer / temp cut out on the heater plugs. One cycle (~10s) is almost always enough so I thought 30s is quite a long time, but I don't know S3 in temp conditions. Unsure if your crank was a bit short of if you might have a dodgy glow plug, or was just unlucky. Again relatively easy to test these. Great vid!

[@restosaga]

Thanks for the comment! I think I just didn’t give it long enough on the starter, but good to keep YT real haha. Yeah, I’ll stick with this alternator for the moment and just work with it. Would be nice to have 12V from cold idle though!

[@peugeoting]

Alternator doesn’t charge at idle for a lot of older vehicles. It doesn’t matter because it’s a mechanical diesel - even down to the fuel stop, which is electric even on cars from the early 80s. You could have a completely dead battery and keep driving but it could get worrying at night!

[@restosaga]

It’s this specific alternator unfortunately, the last one charged at idle easily. Ah well, I’ll replace it in due time!

[@edwardharrington678]

Looks in very good condition. What is the miles per gallon?

[@restosaga]

Thank you! I average about 24mpg in this 👍🏻

[@npet6842]

Don't know whether it's your phone camera adjusting for brightness , but my old Landy glow-plug light started off dim and became brighter as the plugs heated over a few seconds .

[@restosaga]

I had another comment to this effect, I think it’s the LED bulb I have in is bright even at low voltage. Thanks though!

[@npet6842]

@@restosaga LED . That foxed me ;-) Cheers .

[@restosaga]

Took me a second to figure it out myself! Now thinking an old fashioned incandescent bulb may be better though…

[@npet6842]

I like traditional bulbs . They've given me clues to low voltage from alternators and low oil pressure at idle . Had a 1970 series III in the mid eighties and the diesel engine was far from new . Burnt oil like a destroyer , but would read fine until tickover , even when it needed a litre or more added . Don't miss it . Thankfully enough money for new stuff these days . LoL .Stay well ! :-)

[@restosaga]

@npet6842 Good point, my low pressure lamp is very sensitive!

[@mkent1213]

So on the 76 the mirrors always go on wing? Or is it just wjere u plonked them

[@restosaga]

The wings had the holes in them, so I fitted them. I like the look but can’t say my knowledge of year specifications would be good enough to say this is the way they definitely were.

[@eddieMurphy11111]

wish i had a series to start up i would love to come over to Ireland and travel around it we are coming over next week but in my Freelander td4 ,just clean battery terminal and put some gell on you can get it from car shops also i have a new spare wheel that would suit that with a new tyre on thanks for the video

[@restosaga]

Thanks for watching! Yeah, clean and gel is the first step, batteries are so expensive at the moment. Have a grwat roadtrip!

[@spratnk]

My Series 3 2.25D the glow plug light starts off dim then gets brighter , prob 20secs and it fires first time.

[@restosaga]

Interesting! I wonder why this happens? I think I have an LED bulb in there, maybe explains it being bright? Usually does start first go to be honest, standard TH-cam filming faux pas!