Disco 2 Martin's ACE Thread

[MJI]

Been working fine now since Thursday, even with the thin pipes.

Valve block is for sale when I swap the original back.

£125 which is less than it owes me.

 

[MJI]

I spent today rebuilding my old block, primed, painted, laquered, really annoyed no Icelandic Blue so aluminium.

Nicely done machining.

Fitted valves, pressure sensor, the hose fittings.

Fertan coated the solenoids and will paint them tomorrow.

Next dry day refit original block and new pump hoses, and reroute one front hose where the plastic cover I put over is starting to wear.

Next phase will be SH front bar, new ram, new bushes.

Next year most likely

 

[MJI]

Original facelift block and thicker pipes fitted.

Parking space covered in CCF

All seems to work fine.

Hit 160Bar on a roundabout, then hard the other way to leave it

 

[MJI]

Been to Bath today, fully loaded on way back.

Took the tight bends on the A46 brilliantly, both near Nailsworth and near Cranham.

No CCF lost either,, last trip took 1/4l of CCF

 

[kvnsmth]

thinking i may be doing something very similar soon, what was the problem with the other block? pipes to thin?
could be interested in the block mine seems to have an intermittent drip from the rear feed pipes at the block
unless its coming from the bit above were it has the electrical connection ,
will have to wait until i move house next month new place has a garage with a pit so should make live easier

 

[MJI]

Surface rust so no point modifying 2 ports for the rest to leak.

Also £18 per fitting vs £20 per new pipe

 

[kvnsmth]

Surface rust so no point modifying 2 ports for the rest to leak.

Also £18 per fitting vs £20 per new pipe

been looking round cheapest i seen was about £110 for pipe?
am i looking at the wrong parts?

 

[kvnsmth]

looking round and doing a bit more reading
i think i need 2 of these plus pipe

http://www.island-4x4.co.uk/pipe-seal-valve-block-rvw100010-p-4789.html

and probably other bits that o rings etc but unsure cant seem to find a recent thread with pics on or a description of whats needed

 

[MJI]

looking round and doing a bit more reading
i think i need 2 of these plus pipe

http://www.island-4x4.co.uk/pipe-seal-valve-block-rvw100010-p-4789.html

and probably other bits that o rings etc but unsure cant seem to find a recent thread with pics on or a description of whats needed

I got six pipes made for £110

£60 for machining

Plus 4 ACE nuts and 8 ACE Dowty washers

If you exclude the cocked up pipe and the early block and the new ARB because it was cheap, around £200 for pipes, machining and fluid

 

[kvnsmth]

seen a guy on you tube replacing a pipe with a copper one with a straight union ,what he did not show was if the 10mm pipe went straight into the ace block
i will keep digging as the copper pipe fix seems to be cheaper option rather than orig pipes ,cheapest for the 2 i got down to £163 plus the other bits
i can cut the pipes under the body a bit back from the block and rejoin if its only a matter of pushing in the 10mm pipe and using orig fittings

edit found a thread that said 3/8 then another saying 10mm, seeing the difference is around 0.4mm should the 10mm still fit

 

[MJI]

seen a guy on you tube replacing a pipe with a copper one with a straight union ,what he did not show was if the 10mm pipe went straight into the ace block
i will keep digging as the copper pipe fix seems to be cheaper option rather than orig pipes ,cheapest for the 2 i got down to £163 plus the other bits
i can cut the pipes under the body a bit back from the block and rejoin if its only a matter of pushing in the 10mm pipe and using orig fittings

edit found a thread that said 3/8 then another saying 10mm, seeing the difference is around 0.4mm should the 10mm still fit

Don't waste your time, machine block to take 1/4" BSP fittings (they are not £18 per hole) and replace all 4 ram pipes (2m) with hydraulic and use compression onto the pump hoses somewhere in the wheel arch area, 900mm to 1m long