Rick the Spud

cheers guys - you were all right! the main culprit though was the steering linkage, plenty of WD40 and spray grease after, and all was good again. thanks alot...

hi guys i've noticed my power steering getting worse. first it was just a bit lumpy, now it's got some really stiff spots when u turn the wheel, a bit of a whine coming from the power steering pump (i think!), and when i check the PAS fluid, it's all frothy! i straightened the front steering bar the other day (cos it was properly bent after some abuse) and thought that was the cause, but it wasn't. any ideas?

someone said something about the light on the dash (which never comes on) being a factor?

so it is still charging - just only a bit?

Hi all going on a recent 4x4 excursion, started my disco as normal, went scrabbling round in the usual fashion, stalled after about 1.5 hours, and the battery was too dead to restart! from then on, had to get a tow start everytime i stalled. got home, checked leads, nothing obvious, charged battery, started up, all fine. suspect - alternator. now, as far as voltmeter values go: engine off - 12.70 volts engine on - 12.80 v turn on heated window, lights, blower - slowly drops to 12.30v, but no lower turn off all electric things - slowly climbs to 12.70v engine off - 12.7v ish. obviously a good alternator should be pushing 13.5V+, so what's going on here? is it half knackered? i thought dead was dead! any ideas? Rick

Slindon and Boxgrove definitely - Boxgrove is on this Sunday (10th May) http://www.4x4driving.co.uk/ownersdays.html

come along this Sunday, 10th May - http://www.4x4driving.co.uk/ownersdays.html

it is an 'off roader' after all! and probably one of the best in standard form...

i had water up to the headlights - not a worry! just remember to put your wading plug in! - see topic - http://forums.lr4x4.com/index.php?showtopic=38715&st=0

nowhere near lincolnshire - but our local place charges £3 a car to go in and park, and make use of the toilets and burger van. i second landman, go and have a go. my disco is bog standard on low tread road tyres, and it goes everywhere, embarrassing plenty of people in modified stuff. just take it at your own pace!

who me? mine's up and running - did you not see my other post?

yeah - wading plug is in! tony - my only thing is you still may have to unscrew it to drain it, but like you say, you should be able to see any stuff in the bend!

yay! did the timing yesterday - and she started on the button! pig of a job getting all the pulleys off, mainly bottom pulley, crankcase off, belt off, clean mud out of everywhere, line up timing marks on crank and cam pulleys, put 9.5mm drill bit in injector pulley at about 11 o'clock, new belt on, new tensioner on, test start, re tension, put it all back together. also junked the aircon rad while we were there - stopped me cleaning out the front of the normal rad, and the aircon never worked anyway!

good call!

cheers for the info. so that's still a timing job then? any easy way of doing this?