What’s Wrong With This Range Rover Classic? | Highpeak’s ‘Restoration’ 

Made my night, got all giddy when the notification popped up, I even turned the golf off to watch 😂

New set of plates and buff the headlights. Job done. Cracking job so far.

Thanks for mentioning my Channel guys! A bummer that the previous owner welded it to the rocker cover! haha! Great video!

Onwards and upwards. Matt has found the A Team, and you both will be able to sort out the running and get it roadworthy and working. Another brilliant video

Great work guys, she’s getting there! Not a mechanic but have seen plenty of people talk about checking the stepper motor for the vacuum system and also resetting the throttle potentiometer? If the flame trap was choked as in the video the stepper might be the same? Fingers crossed guys, looking forward to hearing the outcome! Keep up the good work guys, videos are great and you have a whole community hooked on this Rangie!! 👍👍

Cracking job lads, it's coming along nicely. I hope these Sunday morning coffee runs Matt is wanting it for, there's a few cuppas coming your way.

All my experience with classic range rovers and land rovers has been with the 3.5 v8 and all on carbs. The maf not being Lucas sound's like a good shout especially if the covering of the intake makes a difference. Its not my money but if it was id chuck a new one on and its future proofed it becoming an issue down the road. Keep em coming fellas 👊

Brilliant, fascinating video guys. It will be a cracking LR once it’s done. Matts going to be ‘massively overspent’ but well worth it.

This Range Rover is really coming together now, excellent restoration , well done guys. Hopefully the engine running issue will be resolved soon ❤.

Its getting there hopefully you figure out what it is, keep up the good work

11:37 is that a South Africa 🇿🇦 accent, im from South Africa 🇿🇦 too bro 😎 well now I’m in the UK 🇬🇧 too. As always boys keep up the great content and hard work.

Another great watch keep it up lads

So frustrating for you guys I was willing it to run perfect! No doubt you’ll sort it though I’m keeping everything crossed it’s a simple cheap fix 🤞🤞

Great Video guys ... keep them coming

Love the attention to detail you guys put into the car. Keep up the great work lads. 🎉

Great video. Love watching these

Its come so fat, l to love a TVR notification & save it till l can watch in peace, like waking up at 6am & hit it.

Can’t wait for the before and after photos of this car it’s looking amazing 😻

Alright chaps, nice progress on the RRC the underside is looking lovely. As I mentioned in the last video regarding the AFM, those cheap ones aren't fit for purpose what's happening when you put your hand over the intake and rev it is it's starving the engine of air temporarily improving the way it runs because that AFM will be leaning out the mixture. Mine came fitted with a non genuine AFM and it ran really rich as it had completely failed I replaced it with another non genuine one and it ran exactly like yours does in this video, extremely lean and un-drivable backfiring through the intake. This had me thinking up all sorts of issues like worn timing chain/cams, dizzy etc... I acquired the Rovergauge software to read live data and that's when it became apparent what was going on with my non genuine AFM. At idle on a non cat car the voltage should be approximately 1.5v and it was 2.2v on mine, I adjusted it on the screw which by the way is just a screw soldered to a variable resistor and not even connected so turning it made no difference I had to pop the lid off to adjust it to the correct voltage and still no improvement. I took a gamble and bought a second hand Lucas/Hitachi 3AM unit on eBay and it instantly fixed the problem🙄

My 1991 Sl300 has the same issue after winter storage. Lumpy idle and engine cuts out if it get to much accelerater. After running it on the motorway for 1 hour it frees out and runs sweet. Might be work leaving it idle for an hour with fresh fuel and fuel additive. Love the videos and the project 👍

That sounds like trouble with the mass flow air sensor. Hope you can borrow a Lucas one to test out this theory.

Another great video update lads 😁 Almost upset there's no bazzin' though! 🤣🤣 Do you regret the rebuild yet? 🤣 Are we going to find out how much the rebuild costs in the end - to see if it's viable or not? Looking forward to the next enthralling episode guys! Keep up the good work 🖖

Matt!! Please go all in on this project!! I know it's costing a fortune! But it will be so much more better... Than just a half resto mate

If its an issue of the engine stumbling when cold, maybe try the coolant temperature sensor (not the sender for the gauge), or, failing that, maybe the fuel temperature sensor.

If I were working on this engine I'd be doing a smoke test on the inlet system to rule out 100% no unmetered air getting in, if the smoke test didn't show any leaks I'd be buying an external fuel pump and running it from a fuel can. This engine is a little before my time but principles should be the same, have you considered timing with a strobe light may just need the dizzy cap base advancing or retarding :)

Cracking video lads

Shame about the rough running hopefully a Lucas maf may sort the issue,if not I’m sure you’ll sort it,great work with the front and underneath it looks great 👍

Amazing video again lads, first on my watch list of an evening 😊

That Range Rover is going to give the most rewarding sense of accomplishment when its done given the head scratching moments it has presented so far.

Top work as normal, guys. Is there a follow-up video on the white van conversion? Cheers.

Church House Classics. Is a youtuber. He works on Land Rover - Range Rover. Of the same vintage, as Matt's one. May even have a video in his library archive. He's not local to North West though.

Nice job guys..keep em coming 👍🏻

If it’s not the MAF try changing the fuel pump and filter it seems to run fine on tick over but starve when demanding fuel

Just tell Matt he’ll have to massively overspend. I’m sure he’ll understand 🤣

Love the channel boys. And more uploads. Hope your both well. And the team 👍🏼👏

Nice lads

Another great video. Love the dodgy ramp trick to get under the rangie.

Sometimes I wonder what happens inside Matt's head when he wants to save cars like this one. I think he needs a new hobby like a pony, a fish tank with exotic species or maybe diamond painting? 😂

Great video as per usual lads. 👍 As someone that is not mechanically minded, I personally think that she sounds an awful lot better than she did at the start. It's just a shame that she's just that wee bit too old for your OBDEleven to diagnose the problem 🤔

Boom

good vid

So have the lads finally admitted this is a restoration project and not the "recommission" they said? It's always *looked* like a full restoration to me, given the quality and depth of work they've gone into. It may not be a concourse job, but concourse cars are just Garage Queens, a restoration that makes an old car useable every day is a much better thing.

Needs ignition timing set then would run fine.

You're getting closer every time! Bang a new air freshener in. Sorted like a Manchester postman.

You guys are great i can remember buying one of these from a scrapyard in South Yorkshire for 600 quid been stood for 9years i rebuilt it took me 13months i had it painted in Plymouth blue like yours looked amazing then sold it like a dick head 😊i really enjoyed rebuilding it like you guys great job

Love the channel, hope you get to the bottom of the Range Rover not running right. 🍀🍀🍀👍

My Mint 1999 BMW E38 can do the same one fault leads to finding changing loads , when its good its realy good my baby Bently but when it breaks it drives me mad .

You Guys!! "You Raise Me Up".👆⬆️🆙🔝☝️

How does ot run with the MAF disconnected now all the other stuff is sorted?

Great video lads nice to see Dave aswell was wondering if ya dad would be keen on helping

Would have been better using black wax oil

Top work has to be air you proved it and it’s making a funny sucking noise

Throw a replacement engine in it. You might have better luck with that lads

Reach out to tom lenthal ltd he does all of auto alexs tatt.

Calling this a restoration is unfair to those cars which have been sympathetically restored. Covering it in Schultz and tarting it up is not a restoration.

Richard at churchhouseclassics if anyone can help it's him