Hi all, first post 
Bought a 140k disco 2, pre face-lift a month or so ago, paid 1k for it, and to be fair.. he saw me coming, but with rose tinted specs on, I was never going to not buy it.
HGV mechanic by trade, so not scared of doing the work needed to get her right. She obviously had a 'magic MOT'.
Within the few months I've had it I've had to replace the ;
Pwr steering pump,
All 4 tyres,
All brake pads,
All Discs,
Watts linkage bushes,
Rear crank seal.
I even had to put a new (good second hand) gearbox in, as she crunched in first and second, and the big peice of syncro which came out the drain plug during oil change confirmed the worst.
Anyway, babble over.. during the gearbox swap, I stuck a new clutch in, as even the slightest touch on the pedal started to slip.. turned out it was the slave rod which had broken, thus not giving me enough travel.. oh well. Still put the new clutch in when the box was out. The spigot bearing was in peices in the bellhousing, and the hole in the crank for it was now egg-shaped and wouldn't even hold a new one bit of a bodge but my only option at the time was to centre and bond the spigot bearing into the crank.. while there and the DMF removed, I checked the wear, and to be fair it was within spec. It had a few hot spots but nothing to get worried about. But I did notice a bit of outward motion (you could almost rock the fluwheel plate towards you so far).. never even seeing a DMF before (bear in mind, hgv's don't have them, and I rarely touch cars ) I presumed this was normal and put her all back together.
All is well, aside from the horrible graunchy noise at about 3k revs, its louder while driving, but is still there when stationary, in gear or in neutral. So not a drive train issue.
The clutch pedal vibrates somewhat as usual but goes berserk at those revs, leading me to belive ive dropled a bollock by not replacing the flywheel when I did the clutch.
Sorry for the wall of text, but has anybody driven with a worn out DMF and are my symptoms the same?
Cheers
Bought a 140k disco 2, pre face-lift a month or so ago, paid 1k for it, and to be fair.. he saw me coming, but with rose tinted specs on, I was never going to not buy it.
HGV mechanic by trade, so not scared of doing the work needed to get her right. She obviously had a 'magic MOT'.
Within the few months I've had it I've had to replace the ;
Pwr steering pump,
All 4 tyres,
All brake pads,
All Discs,
Watts linkage bushes,
Rear crank seal.
I even had to put a new (good second hand) gearbox in, as she crunched in first and second, and the big peice of syncro which came out the drain plug during oil change confirmed the worst.
Anyway, babble over.. during the gearbox swap, I stuck a new clutch in, as even the slightest touch on the pedal started to slip.. turned out it was the slave rod which had broken, thus not giving me enough travel.. oh well. Still put the new clutch in when the box was out. The spigot bearing was in peices in the bellhousing, and the hole in the crank for it was now egg-shaped and wouldn't even hold a new one
bit of a bodge but my only option at the time was to centre and bond the spigot bearing into the crank.. while there and the DMF removed, I checked the wear, and to be fair it was within spec. It had a few hot spots but nothing to get worried about. But I did notice a bit of outward motion (you could almost rock the fluwheel plate towards you so far).. never even seeing a DMF before (bear in mind, hgv's don't have them, and I rarely touch cars ) I presumed this was normal and put her all back together. All is well, aside from the horrible graunchy noise at about 3k revs, its louder while driving, but is still there when stationary, in gear or in neutral. So not a drive train issue.
The clutch pedal vibrates somewhat as usual but goes berserk at those revs, leading me to belive ive dropled a bollock by not replacing the flywheel when I did the clutch.
Sorry for the wall of text, but has anybody driven with a worn out DMF and are my symptoms the same?
Cheers
