Simon_CSK

My wife is in Moscow and she too has to get a permit to go out. Her mum who is over 65 is not allowed out unless for a medical appointment. I hope all sorts itself out soon. Filip I have one P38 I intend to strip the bits I want and weigh in the remains. Am going to have a clear out. Intend to sell on Discovery soon once it is fully running.

Bowie I put the wheels on myself but never heard of felt anything in all the time I drove it until the very end when I moved it into the paddock. As I said the wheels were tightened with a 2ft powerbar. They are the correct alloy wheel nuts. My 2 Disco's and my P38 all have Hurricane alloys with standard 27mm nuts

I took the from wheels off my (black) Disco 2 with the intention of replacing the front axle because there was a rattle that I couldn't get to the bottom of. The NS was no issue however when I got the the OS while the wheel nuts were done up tightly, I always use a 2ft powerbar, the wheels were moving causing the rattle. What I foundwas the wheel nuts has enlarged the holes in the alloy and ground down the steel on the wheel nuts. Never seen this before, has it happened to anyone else?

Filip You are worse than me. At least mine are all on wheels even if they are disabled.

I did the same thing last week and didn't really find it that bad a job. In my case I just took my time and plodded along over two or three days. I have most of it back together but have a problem with the HEVAC controller so left it and fitted a new engine to one of my Discovery 2's One we tip for you when putting the dash back in. Put tape on the windscreen at the location of the rear bolts it gives you an approximate location and saves a lot of time feeling for the holes.

Well this lockdown period while being financially crippling is giving me time to sort out my fleet. In the last two weeks I have removed the dash on my P38 and replaced the heater matrix and o rings. I have fitted an LPG tank and fuel lines ready for the engine bay and changed most of the woodwork on the dash from walnut to polished piano black. This week I have so far changed the engine on one of my Discovery TD5's and today started it with no issues. Got a few bits to finish like the intercooler and a small hole in the chassis and it is good to go. Next job to do is my mini convertible which needs a new gearbox, was thinking about scrapping it but now there is time and have the major components I may as well get it on the road for the summer. If there is still time then my Black Disco 2 could get the gearbox and front axle changed as well. How is everyone else getting on?

David Understand why you would ask if the bulbs were working and that was my first check, the bulbs were checked with a multimeter.

Have taken the dash out and in the process of reinstalling and how have 2 HEVAC contollers that don't illuminate or work. Can I test them off the car? Are they coded to the car?

Taking the dash out is not as horrendous as I thought just time consuming now for the heater matrix. This means now dropping the support frame to give me access. Question for you. The dash only required me to release one 8mm bolt. Do you think the dash has been removed before?

The good news is that the blower motors are fine. I just needed to change the HEVAC controller so I will now explore the dash in place option for replacement of the matrix

I think I am going to need it 🙄

Filip I have seen a video on Utube about removing the matrix without removing the dash however we are in lockdown and I have plenty of time to play with it so will take my time and strip the dash out. I also need to replace the blower fans and all the wood trim I am replacing with Piano black that I recently aquired so should get easier access,.

The heater matrix is goosed. I rigged up a bicycle pump and filled it with water and pressurised it a little and it wouldn't hold pressure very long. So out comes the dashboard.

Good idea Steve. Basically fit the new o rings connect it up and blow air into it while one pipe is blocked off. Works for me will try that tomorrow

I had the usual wet carpet on the drivers side on my P38 so obviously I though the O rings were gone. Stripped the car down and got the pipe disconnected very easily to find that the o rings appear to be fine. Great I though put it back together with new rings and all will be good. Here's my dilemma. Do I assume that the o rings were leaking as the screw holding them in came out very easily and may not have been tight enough to hold the pipe in give than the car was not in use for 3 years or do I assume that the heater matrix is knackered and set about replacing that to be sure. I don't really want to have to do the job twice and am not sure at all if the screw holding the o rings in was tight enough because of how easily it came out. I never has a problem with the heater in the two years that I used it regularly. But was put off the road because I cooked the engine. So may have been leaking and I didn't notice. Again I cooked the engine because I hadn't topped up the cooling system.

Elbekko I agree with you so perhaps someone has changed the rocker covers at some point for earlier/classic RR ones.

As Griff has said the TD5 doesn't like to cook. I have fitted an auxiliary temperature guage to mine and that tells me exactly the condition of the cooling system and has saves my latest engine from cooking on more than one occasion. I found my head gone and the gauge never went over midway. I don't think it will be good news.

my brother is in the motor trade and he told me a story of him having 14 vehicles on private land being clampped by DVLA. Some were his and some where other traders. Either way the authorities were trying to hold them to ransom and wouldn't accept that they were on private land. In the end my brother got tired of the argument and lack of progress so he cut the clamps off. They couldn't trace the owner of the vehicles as they were not registered to anyone and my brother got the scrap value for the clamps.

Thanks BM my thinking was that it covers all V8's not just Discos and there are many on here that are doing mods using injected V8's

Giorgier Welcome By barrels do you mean cylinders? basically the container the pistons go up and down in? If the spark plugs plugs are getting black that would imply and over fueling issue and as it is a 2003 it will be fuel injected. perhaps a kind moderator would move this thread to the international board as this is a V8 issue more of the guys will see it. Unfortunately I don't know how the fuel mixture is determined but the first thing I would look at is the air filter, is it clean or the air flow metre is it working properly and is the air flow clear?

Don't know sorry. i know on mine I don't have a remote and have disconnected and reconnected the battery multiple times without the immobiliser activating. I don't think when I have had the message flash up in the past the key has disarmed it and it has a;lways been disarmed by the remote.

No you need to use the blipper

If the BECM is not picking the signal up from the receiver how can it disarm the immobiliser?

The back wheels are too close together so my guess it is just an overlap of the pictures creating the image or 6 wheeled Range Rover

Steve It is under where I have said around the area of the seat catch.