Recent content by Tail Happy

Great write up. Many thanks. I did this successfully at the weekend only the 2nd hand latch I fitted has the same symptoms as the original :-( A question I should have asked first is what are the typical symptoms. My passenger door suddenly stopped unlocking with both the remote and the...

Hi everyone, I bought a 1999 Disco TD5 at the weekend and wanted to say thanks for all the help I got from searching these forums. I have a couple of noob questions which I'm sure someone can probably help with: 1. My car has a button to raise the suspension but other than a brief whirring...

I'll check out the actual setup at the weekend tacr2man. I've junked the EFi in favour of the carbs of my last v8 that lunched itself so this could be the simplest answer. Thanks again

Thanks groenendael, does the suffix only specify the different EFi system then? Any ideas why this isn't listed on all the websites I found? Cheers Brian

Thanks tacr2man, much appreciated Brian

Hi all, I've recently had a "new" V8 fitted to my SIII 109 after the oil pump failed on the last one and I'm trying to identify it from the engine number. I have spent hours looking at all the lists on numerous web pages but the number I see on the engine has a "C" suffix which doesn't seem to...

Thanks guys, that's superb, I can continue my search with more confdence. Cheers

Thanks Accywingy I think that helps because I'm assuming the 1989 Disco I'm looking at is prior to the 200 range. What where they called prior to this? Was the centre diff lock an option on these earlier models? There must be a potted history of the model line up somewhere on line! Any...

Hi Everyone I'm a newbie so please forgive me if this is the wrong place to ask this, but I am considering buying an early disco (after missing my Series 3 which I sold 3 years ago) and I can't seem to find out if they all have a centre diff lock. I understand that it is an option on some...