On or around Sun, 4 Jun 2006 22:45:41 +0300, "Pantelis Giamarellos"
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[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:
>TonyB Hi,
>
>Even Defenders suffer from this plastic plug.
>It is there on V8, 200 and 300Tdi engined D90/110s.
>
>Actually this same plastic plug has also broken on BOTH my Disco (200Tdi,
>1993 and 1994 model year)
>
>Will be replacing them soon with brass ones made at a friends lathe.
can you actually get the brass ones still? lot of the earlier engines and
rads had the same plug in brass. if they're not to be had, then someone
ought to be in charge of savaging 'em all from the scrap motors. They had
'em on the earlier V8s, and also on the earlier 90/110 rads, I think. Same
plug but in brass and not subject to shearing off. 'course, if the threaded
bit of the plastic one was solid plastic and not hollow, it'd a) be less
likely to shear and b) still retain the water in an emergency without its
head.
typical crap costcutting exercise, again. what thread are they? 3/4" BSP?
Who's got a cnc machine with a bit of spare capacity, it should be possible
and worthwhile to organise a short production run of brass plugs, to the
same design as the plastic ones so they take the same O-ring...
>
>Take care
>Pantelis
>
>"TonyB" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> > Me? I'm sitting back laughing at how stupid the mod really is, it'll
>> rather
>> > take the word of one officer over 400 troops, then pull the blinkers
>over
>> > rather than admit it was the wrong decision in the first place. Every
>> other
>> > week I have someone in the garage telling me yet another tale of woe, or
>> > have I heard this, or did I know that such-and-such had happened....
>the
>> > more I hear the more I'm sure that I made the right decision, I'm glad I
>> > jumped when I did.
>> > Badger.
>> >
>> > Yup. Modern amangement. Some twit with a degree and no experience has
>the
>> authority to say " This is a good idea" and off it goes. The NHS is the
>> same. Although I do have a degree, it is relevant to the work I actually
>do
>> thank goodness.
>>
>> Back to the OP.
>>
>> Having just got the 300Tdi ES Disco I am amazed at how far they have come
>in
>> the four years between that model and my '92 Tdi Disco. The ES seems to
>have
>> lower suspension, side steps, air con and a slippery leather seat. The
>> steering wheel is smaller and the ride height lower. The tyres are wider
>and
>> lower profile. I would suggest that perhaps the last "proper" Landie (
>> neatly avoiding the hyphen argument) was the Disco I, which is eminently
>> "spannerable", yet still let down by modern gizmos like central door
>locking
>> and plastic tubery on the tank sender which failed. On the 300 the plastic
>> insert in the cooling system has just let me down ( See other post ) which
>> necessitated a recovery home and a an aborted parents visit. 0/10 for that
>> component. It disabled the vehicle and in the desert or some such may have
>> been a seriouse problem, unless some Araldite had been carried.
>> Some may argue that the Defender is the last peoper Landie ( or should
>that
>> be Landy? ). I wouldn't disagree too much.
>> TonyB
>>
>>
>
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