Enough!

What would have to happen to your Disco for you to decide that enough is enough and sell it for spares or scrap it?

Id say the chassis if it got to a state of complete disrepair that would see her gone.

What’s happened

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marjon said:

What’s happened

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Nuffink, it was just a general question.

I have to agree with Henry, I think if I found my chassis was beyond repair because of rustyness, I don't think I could justify any more spent on it and would have to let her go.
Oh, and a catastroffic engine failure.

Sort of depends.

Sentiment is a damn hard thing to overcome, especially with old LR even with their issues, you tend to spend a fortune!
regardless, those little things add up!!

My P38 is a prime example of when do you call it quits?

Your head is telling you to pack it in, your heart is going just a few more issues to fix etc etc.

TBH if it was any other brand i'd pack it in when a fuse blows!!

Shimsteriom said:

What would have to happen to your Disco for you to decide that enough is enough and sell it for spares or scrap it?

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Have you seen my rebuild thread?

Had some of this



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Been back at it with some of this on the go this time around.









So basically it comes down to how much you can do yourself and how much money you are willing to commit to repairs/restoration.

I'm blessed with welding skills and can do it all by myself, I can do the wiring and the mechanical stuff too so I doubt this thing will ever go anywhere anytime soon or at least while the 200Tdi can soldier on and sip veg oil once the diesel dries up

Both my D1's are 200tdi 3door models so they are getting repaired, I'm actually looking for another

I've too many cars already (11?) so it's uncurable

Rich.

dieseldog69 said:

Have you seen my rebuild thread?

So basically it comes down to how much you can do yourself and how much money you are willing to commit to repairs/restoration.

I'm blessed with welding skills and can do it all by myself, I can do the wiring and the mechanical stuff too so I doubt this thing will ever go anywhere anytime soon or at least while the 200Tdi can soldier on and sip veg oil once the diesel dries up

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I have to admit that I have neither the knowledge or space to even consider taking on such a challenge.
I'd have sent mine to the scrap yard or sold it for bits long before it got to that state

Although, if I ever have a 200 series Disco that kills it's heatermotor again then I'm going to get it squashed

F'kin thing is a pain in the arse, did my '91 in january (been effed for 2 years!) and the motor I'd bought (2 years previously) was too small to fit the heaterbox

enter bodgeit&scarper engineering

jubilee-clip & cable-tie fix

Rich.

Zed. said:

Although, if I ever have a 200 series Disco that kills it's heatermotor again then I'm going to get it squashed

F'kin thing is a pain in the arse, did my '91 in january (been effed for 2 years!) and the motor I'd bought (2 years previously) was too small to fit the heaterbox

enter bodgeit&scarper engineering

jubilee-clip & cable-tie fix

Rich.

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I'm going to do mine next year as it's squealing a little now, new oilite bushes and a small cap with a piece of felt in it and an oil feed pipe to keep it lubed, the problem is the oillite bushings dry out from the nature of their fitment and wear away due to lack of lubrication and the softness of the sintered brass.

dieseldog69 said:

the problem is the oillite bushings dry out from the nature of their fitment and wear away due to lack of lubrication and the softness of the sintered brass.

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the one I replaced had siezed and the bushings were not worn oversized although I was expecting it to be a bit floppy and covered in golden dust
for ****s&giggles I heated the outer bush (next to brushes as it's accessable) and dripped oil on it to see if the bush would absorb any & 'free' but got bored & threw it in the scrap-pile

to be fair, removing the dashboard was not that bad, removing the heaterbox was easy BUT undoing the coolant flexi-hoses where they join the matric by the back of the cylinderhead / bulkhead bust my balls as the jubilee-clips were stubborn also the rubber pipes had glued themselves to the brass of the matrix
stripping the plastic heaterbox was also fun......

Rich.

"I have to agree with Henry, I think if I found my chassis was beyond repair because of rustyness, I don't think I could justify any more spent on it and would have to let her go.
Oh, and a catastroffic engine failure."

Ours is a 2003 TD5 which we have had since Oct 2007. Earlier this year I changed the clutch removed the fuel tank and got an auto-welder to repair the chassis which wasn't too bad and he only charged £60. Put it in for its MOT and passed. Sorted out one or two of the advisories. A couple of months later the engine blew up - piston ring which also damaged the bore. It had been leaking fuel into the sump which new injector washers and seals didn't cure. So now I am looking for a half decent engine at a reasonable price. I have also done the sunroof seals. Its my wife's car and she is going to sell it once its going. She doesn't have her horse trailer any more and we used it to tow our caravan down to the south of Spain in 2016, where we have left it. She is happy with the small hatchback she is using now and its a lot cheaper to run.

dieseldog69 said:

Have you seen my rebuild thread?

Had some of this

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Been back at it with some of this on the go this time around.

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So basically it comes down to how much you can do yourself and how much money you are willing to commit to repairs/restoration.

I'm blessed with welding skills and can do it all by myself, I can do the wiring and the mechanical stuff too so I doubt this thing will ever go anywhere anytime soon or at least while the 200Tdi can soldier on and sip veg oil once the diesel dries up

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F'Kinn 'ell mate, you deserve an award for perseverance. We've got three spare parts wrecks here in my mates paddock and none of them have rust as bad as that, there'll be more patches than original metal.

There are so many cheap Discos for sale at the moment, if only I had the money and the space to store them I would be buying them up and restoring them. The market for Discos has really slumped but they are future classics.

Gazbo said:

F'Kinn 'ell mate, you deserve an award for perseverance. We've got three spare parts wrecks here in my mates paddock and none of them have rust as bad as that, there'll be more patches than original metal.

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Yeah but it's a labour of love this thing, I started it in Belgium where anything green oval branded was mega money so this was worth the effort and then various countries in between brought me home to the UK where they are peanuts for relatively straight and running motors.

Admittedly this would have been scrapped a year ago had I found out that the rot in the rear passenger side back door pillar was as bad as it is but I'm more than 3/4 the way there now and no point scrapping it as it is so close to finish that I might as well plug on with it and get it 100% then just waxoyl it to death every year here after.

By the time you weld the last patch on, the first one you did will have gone rusty. I admire your determination and patience.

Col

Ironstrike said:

There are so many cheap Discos for sale at the moment, if only I had the money and the space to store them I would be buying them up and restoring them. The market for Discos has really slumped but they are future classics.

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Yes, over this way a good rust free D1 is becoming something of value, my mate just picked up another "spare parts" Disco a week ago for "take it away please" price, lots of good parts but plenty of rust. I'm keeping my rust free '98 until I die, I love it... Warts and all!

Colthebrummie said:

By the time you weld the last patch on, the first one you did will have gone rusty. I admire your determination and patience.

Col

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Oh it was well and truly tested today, set meself on fire, spatter burns all over my arms, pulled off the really rotten bit only to find a bit more rot behind it and my heart sank just that little bit more



Under the pile of rust is a lot more rot that needs cut out and fresh steel welded in.



This is my new conundrum though



This could take a while longer than planned

It seems to me that the poor quality steel used by Landrover is compounded by the numerous dirt and water traps in the design of the body. Having stripped the body to bits to fix the rot, isn't there something you could do to minimise the traps? You seem a very capable fabricator and welder.

Col

dieseldog69 said:

This is my new conundrum though

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This could take a while longer than planned

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both of my 200tdi 3door Disco's have roof rot, the '91 has it above the front findscreen & the '93 has it above the rear door / hinge pillar like yours (& maybe in the roof-skin as well )
think I'm going to get a parts-car & hopefully have body-cuts to repair (fingers crossed...)

no rest for the wicked I suppose...

Rich.