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This thread saved me a lot of grief. My TD5 developed the squeal after I discovered that the intercooler had burst. Just on the output side where the aluminium fold over the plastic part is, the flange had cracked open and the O ring seal was poking out. Choices.. Ebay £120 second hand...

I've had similar problems in the past which were cured by flushing out the system with clean fluid. The steering box is quite a complex arrangement with a number of seals in the the valve arrangement and a torsion bar which regulates the amount of pressure applied. Any muck in there, made up...

Nearly 1.5 amps is a quite a lot of drain current. Try setting up your ammeter in series with the main battery terminal and removing the fuses one at a time and noting any change. I have heard that the rectifier / voltage regulator part in the alternator can cause a drain in some...

Inspiring work! God knows how your truck got that dirty, must have had a hard life. I have resorted to removing the ACE from mine and I'm about to fix up the PAS pipe work, all rotted away behind the AC condenser. Taking the air con off too. It lost all gas when the radiator was replaced...

Only an hour, reckon you will be back soon :)

Last spring and summer I tried running with veg oil in my older disco (300 Tdi) by mixing rape seed oil (34p a litre) into the tank with normal diesel. I reckon I got up to about 75% veg oil to 25% mineral diesel with no problems. Moved back to 100% diesel for winter and changed the filters to...

First time this occured on my TD5 it was the wastegate regulator, the electrical signal out to the ECU was cutting the power. Next time it was a split in the intercooler hose. Hope that gives you a clue.

There's a useful tyre circumference table on www.discovery2.co.uk so you can work out what happens to the speedo etc if you change the wheel/tyre size.

Will take a look around at the usual suspects place down here. Useful info on the the suspects 90. Thats a very distinctive winch on your mates truck cab, can't be many about. I'm sticking to Discoverys after they tried to nick my lady's 110 off the drive by winching it onto a recovery...