Recent content by sparkie09

Like he said I had exactly the same problem a couple of months ago (for about a year !!) , the spade connector just needed a squeeze with some pliers to tighten them up.

As far as I am ware all 300 Discos came with central locking, which as said above is activated by the driver's door key (ie it shuts down all 5 doors), furthermore it is my recollection that they all came with a key fob for hands free operation. If you do take a door card off you will see the...

Both engines should be mechanically controlled so no nasty electronics there. You need to change the flywheel and its housing over to driveplate and its housing. You need a couple of brackets from the auto injector pump go on the manual injector pump (throttle and kickdown), and the only...

@ Series 71 Why do you ask?

There is a short hose coming off the T piece goes to the small round canister, which is what I suppose is the wastegate actuator, on two of the engines I have. On the one I am fitting there is a long piece of rubber hose where the sort piece was, and coming off the actuator, so it is as if...

Hi everyone, I am replacing an engine which blew on my Disco. It's all coming together well, but a question. There are two long 10mm or so rubber hoses coming off the turbocharger. The old engine had none and another car I know has none either. I do not know the age of the new engine, but I...

That was my thought too, as there is nothing wrong with my head gasket, I just thought 'well they would not recommend it otherwise...would they?'! Probably not very scientific, but it is only one bolt out of 10 or so!

Just made a bracket up yesterday! They were never fitted in the first place. Haynes manual suggests making a bracket up and putting it under the rear head bolt. It does not mention the front point, so I have just put an old seatbelt sling under the front timing cover where the alternator and...

No the sender does not do any filtering at all. I just did this last week, the pipes on the sender were easy enough to get off as was the wiring. The problem is that the sender is attached to the tank with a large plastic ring, sort of like a pickling jar outer ring, and the fuel lines are...

Pommie guy living the life in SE Australia, been here 10 years plus. Had a 200 defender Tdi in the UK, had a 200 Tdi Disco when I first came here, rolled it, bought another, sold that went back to the UK, came back here bought a 300Tdi defender without aircon, swapped it for a 1997 Disco, had...

Help, about to install an ex-manual engine to an auto, but having done some home reading the workshop manual. It tells me: Drive plate - refit 1. Check that bolt holes in crankshaft are clean and dry. 2. Position spacer, less original shims to crankshaft. 3. Position a straight edge across...