Good work mate. Have fun in the old veedub.Ha, she passed! Off to get rego and ctp and go for a looooong drive.
Congrats! The interior looks great and the rear grill brake light is very awesome!Ha, she passed! Off to get rego and ctp and go for a looooong drive.
Old Herbie is back to life, good on you.Ha, she passed! Off to get rego and ctp and go for a looooong drive.
Hahaha, landrover, V8, cheap.....
So I bought this 1995 Land Rover Discovery 3.9 V8 as a cheap bush basher/hunting rig.
What, two 4x4s stuck in the sand in the little desert and you've buried the spare for the 5th time to whinch off and the beers run out is no longer fun?
So I bought this 1995 Land Rover Discovery 3.9 V8 as a cheap bush basher/hunting rig. It was $1000 and is pretty straight. Most things seem to work but the engine needs a little love.
I've already added Ironman off-road suspension with raised springs and foam cell Pro shocks.
Next will be registration and some mud tyres. Then the back seats will go and I'll make a storage unit and put the Engel in. I'll put some lights on it and a bull bar if I can find a cheap one.
It's on lpg but lacks power. I'm dreaming of an LS1 conversion buy that's unlikely at this stage.
This is my first 4WD and my first V8. I'm not that interested in extreme four wheel driving but just want to be able to handle some rough terrain. I don't plan on going out and trying to get stuck. I'm too old for that shit.
I was going to say the same thing but didn't want to sound negative.Hahaha, landrover, V8, cheap.....
They could've paid you a $G to take it off their hands, and it'd never be cheap.
That said, they're awesome rigs.
I have a series 2 td5, I speaks from experience. He won't need to go bush to get stuck, plenny of freeway maroonings to look forward to.I was going to say the same thing but didn't want to sound negative.
I worked on a heap of them in my past life and things broke that were very uncommon. The concept is fine but the way it all works is not. FFS who uses a fragile fibre gear set on the input shaft of a manual gear box pump and as soon as the seal shows some sign of wear they piss oil everywhere. When I mean piss everywhere, I mean all over the clutch plate.I have a series 2 td5, I speaks from experience. He won't need to go bush to get stuck, plenny of freeway maroonings to look forward to.
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Thats pretty much a D2 specific issue with the Double Cardan joint on the front prop. Not an issue really on the earlier Discos which don't have a DC jointPiston, if the previous victims, errr, owners haven't had to already, I'd seriously look at changing the prop shaft to one with serviceable unis, the oe units have a habit of letting go, and causing serious carnage.
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I've read this a few times and it still doesn't make sense to me...I worked on a heap of them in my past life and things broke that were very uncommon. The concept is fine but the way it all works is not. FFS who uses a fragile fibre gear set on the input shaft of a manual gear box pump and as soon as the seal shows some sign of wear they piss oil everywhere. When I mean piss everywhere, I mean all over the clutch plate.
That looks messy.I've read this a few times and it still doesn't make sense to me...
The oil pump on the manual gearbox (r380) is driven from the end of the layshaft at the very back of the gearbox and is a steel gearset.
This is the same basic set up in all r380's from the Disco1's through to the last of the Disco2's. It is no where near the bell-housing / clutch.
Here is an image showing the oil pump I broke properly after snapping a layshaft....
Eeeek! You should end up with some really good diagnostic skills for Rangies after this. You will become the official 'Rangie go to man' in the town.I work at a dealership that was a Land Rover dealer a few years back. When I brought mine in the service manager started having flashbacks and started talking about them all lined up at the gate after long weekends. He would swing past on a Sunday night just to see how many had been dropped off on tow trucks over the weekend.
Mine has started playing up already. I drove it on Saturday and it was fine. Sunday it was completely dead.
Believe it or not they're actually a pretty good forbie, when they are running that is. Lol!
You should only have about 1/10 of problems experienced by other off-roaders.