[Potential problems after long tick over?]

Not had Rusty running much for a while and it was almost 2weeks since last start up and tonight I decided to move him back round for some other small jobs.

Thought in my head, start him up, go for coffee, you know, a bit of time warming up and charging the batteries. Thing is, really tired and I sat in my chair and he had been running on tick over for around 2hrs before her in doors woke me up when she came in.

Already noticed that the leak off pipes are now leaking (they were dry before!!) and there now appears to be a ticking noise from aroun the vac pump towards the front of the engine.

I did drive him round the yard after and revved the engine hard and all seemed well.

what can I have damaged in my 200Tdi with my epic mistake?

[fitting 33's to a disco 1]

EXTENDED BRAKE LINES WILL ENSURE YOU'VE RETAINED THE ABILITY TO STOP

[300tdi rear prop conversion questions]

I have had to jack the body off the ground a little before now to enable sufficient length in the joint for compression, as for the noise and vibration, replace both the UJ and the doughnut with a good quaity one and it will be fine for another 100,000+miles.

As has been said, don't bother with the diff flange and replacement shaft unless runing a lift, the "cush drive" coupling is very good at it's job and unless replaced with cheap pattern parts they will carry on doing so with minimal if any trouble.

[another project]

That is ever such a familiar sight, now off for a lay down as I am having flash backks and my PTSD from my own rebuild is making me anxious and sweat is now forming on my brow

Really nice work there All square I hope

[body shake on early disco]

Corrugated highway and speed, sounds like suspension, time for new springs and dampers, whether it is liked or not, dampers have around a 80,000km life on road and the environment you drive, I'd say half that. Springs fatigue with age and hard work, once fatigued they sag and soften the ride, ok for corrugations but shot dampers will not help slow the spring rebound energy.

[Changing Wheel Bearing Oil - Coiler Axels]

Correct Mikey, it was the same on early Discovery 1s also until the advent of the 24 sline narrow hubs where they became greased bearings, this coincided with the move over to one shot CV grease too. Not sure of the change over point but it was shortly after 94 or 95 that they changed the swivel housings and gave only a fill plug and did away with level and drain plugs.

I circumvented the half shaft oil seal in the stub axle to give me oil lubed bearings, I think there is a lot of sense in having an oil lubed bearing and enabling oil to keep the half shaft splines lubricated and rust/corrosion free, reduces the chance of rapid wear and failure if it stays in perfect shape.

[another project]

I am praying you took lots of measurements and put some bracing in the back somewhere???

You will be amazed how much the shell can shift when you cut the rot out!!!!

[replacing Hydromat unit with airbag ?]

I had thoughts about this when Reb78 was having his Boge strut on the 110 reconditioned.

It was indeed the tight space to fit it that put me off and made the thinking of air springs on the back axle with ride height sensors to level the load, but then again, if you're going to do the back might as well go full air front and back and have the lift for off roading at the flick of a switch and then back to road height agin.

I always did wonder why LR never fitted the self levelling to the 7 seat Discoveries like they did the 110 CSWs and RRCs???

[The EBay Christ I fancy that 4x4 + its cheap thread]

Lovelly little find there

But you really ought to look up salvage rights as I am pretty sure the picture shown sets that as marine salvage :hysterical:

[The EBay Christ I fancy that 4x4 + its cheap thread]

"re-abandoned project" :rofl: :rofl:

[LT 230 input gear splines]

I remember something from pirate where they used a spacer and spud shaft to mate a different transmission to an LT230, even think Dirty Diesel did something similar????

[LT 230 input gear splines]

That is the same as the LT77s box I have laying out the back, looks to be ten spline too.

I never knew there was a difference in the input shaft splines only the input gear itself either being solid or cross drilled

[eBay Moral compass]

I am just wondering HH whether the seller was just as peeved as it is possible he made an out of auction agreement and some tool renaged on the deal??? If that were the case I can only imagine he'd be pizzed just as much as you ;-)

[eBay Moral compass]

Best bet, make no deals or a buy it now price and let it run to the end.

I got more peeved by the idiots not coming to collect, saw mates getting caught out on paypal disputes and not getting paid so insisted cash on collection.

No he does not have a right to be aggrieved but it won't stop him ;-)

[Disc damage is it dangerous]

I bought one for mine and it was 14mm 12point. you need a 13mm 12point for the brake caliperbolts on later axles, earlier 200Tdi ones had 6side hex head bolts mostly but as always with LR, they liked to mix and match

[Disc damage is it dangerous]

New disc time by the looks of that one.

I wrote a piece on swapping them out in my build thread in the "members vehicles" section, wander in there and look for "project rusty" .

Not a difficult job at all, the bolts that hold the disc to the hub can be rusted badly but with patience and good quality penetrating fluid you can get them undone.

[Liability/responsibility????]

I am going to talk with my insurer but I am not sure how it works over here, expensive is one word, extortion is closer to the mark though

[Liability/responsibility????]

Just wondering here and throwing it out there, but who would you persue in any possible claim? Recovery agent? I seriously doubt I would try to do this through my insurer as I think they'd be biased as paying out the lesser €2,500 would be in their interest and case closed surely? I totally get the percieved value Barry, but there is value on paper and then the blood sweat and a heck of a lot of tears in my case that went into our vehicles!

[Liability/responsibility????]

I have issues with this and have had a bit of thinking to do about my own vehicles safety should an event transpire.

Like most here, I have invested considerably more money into my truck than I ould ever recieve from an insurance claim, I am €8,000+ deep on a 22yr old Disco1, which might get around €2,500 at best if it was deemed a total loss!!!

If it were to be fundamentally damaged further as a result of recovery I would be a little bit annoyed to say the least.

In a past life as a professional I had to do such things as risk assessments and method statements for the companies, recovery of plant and equipment was not uncommon and it was company policy that as little further damage as possible was to be inflicted upon any machines being recovered. I am wondering about how to safe gaurd my investment, yes it might have to go to a court of law to be proven, but if I can get back my investment then it would be worth it!!! I get the whole "reasonable force to accomplish task" contract, but this has to be exactly that, reasonable, I'm not saying that all recovery companies are irresponsible, just that I ant to find the best way to cover my vehicle should a numpty of a driver decide a coffee and a big mac are more important than the safe and undamaged recovery of my vehicle.

Anyone here tried and won against a bad recovery service???

[Liability/responsibility????]

Thanks to a thread in the video shack (unable to post link on this antique POS!!!) I am posing a hypothetical scenario on your pride and joy being recovered from an incident, be it a vehicular accident or an off road mishap(as happened to our very own poor CJ1 recently).

I saw a comment from Ross on the RRS thread where a D3 was recovered for repair only for the owner to find it had been recovered with a chain through the doors this was the damage that turned an already costly repairable vehicleinto a write off.

So who is ultimately responsible for ensuring that no further unnecessary damage occurs during the recovery process????

And this leads me to the other point of liability? Is there any come back on sloppy recovery outfits who turn a vehicle that could be repaired into a write off due to their recovery techniques?

[Air Needle Scalers]

We had one on the farm, great bit of kit for old scaly rust on farm machinery we bought cheap to do up and sell on for a few extra pound, but I tell ya, after a day or 5 on the end of one you might not enjoy using it so much!!!

I think they have a place in a rebuild but limmited use for it beyond chassis and axle refurbs puts me off buying one!

[MIG torch light]

I went with velcro and a cheap head torch on the top of the mask, worked great for me. Think it was one of the Energizer ones with two light intensities and qujte slim lined so not too bulky.

[Shipping Steering box]

When I ordered the new one it came direct from adwest in a heavy duty card board box and had extra card taped over sharp bits, although it came with the small steel pipe bent and buckled, but I just re-used the old one off my original box.

[Seriously rich V8efi - 6-7mpg!]

When I had my Discovery delivered to me by a friend of a friend from Portsmouth to middle of Belgium, he likened the fuel gauge to the count down timer LOL, he said it really was a real time visual thing watching it drop

I sat thinking about it and browsing the interweb and almost bought a brand new manifold and carb set for it, but then the sense suddenly kicked in, replace the suspect parts and enjoy a better MPG from the EFi than you'd ever get from the best tuned carbs.

Good luck.

[Seriously rich V8efi - 6-7mpg!]

I suffered similar poor economy with a 3.9, I replaced the lambda sensors and fitted a known good second hand MAF and it went from 10/11mpg to 18/19mpg and ran a hell of a lot better, further improved economy with replacing the worn out timing chain and sprockets.

The 3.5 in the Disco was hot wire and needs the lambdas to run properly if I'm not mistaken, it is the O2 sensors that tell the ECU what state the mixture is along with the other sensors that feed it info to perfect the running.

I would be looking to getting the EFi system back to as near factory spec as possible and going from there, if it's been hacked about, that is usually a sign of a fly by night mechanic who doesn't know anything about the system they are working on, if they did, they would be replacing parts, not simply removing them.