My Disco 2 td5 project thread

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kimmy123

kimmy123

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Bought her back in August 2013 as i live on a farm and hate to stereotype but I decided i must own a land rover! After lots of looking around I found a photo online of a highly modded gold disco and decided that's what i wanted (what a regret that turned out to be but more on that later) I will apologize now for the pic heavy thread. I like to take photos even though nothing much has changed!

Heres a photo of when i first bought it. A lovely thundering & Lightening Afternoon




Here she is a week later! got into a lot of trouble for leaving oil all over my dads newly laid car park!



Spent £450 on getting the oil leak fixed and decided i hated the thing! Start as you mean to go on and all that. But touch wood not had any more issues since November! After a bit of grumbling i fell back in love with the truck and went out and bought myself some Cooper STT tyres on some black modulars and set about making myself an offroad beast! Silly me bought them on disco 1 modulars. -_- so decided id take it offroading on my 18" hurricane alloys after all its a disco it wont get stuck! ha! not fun. 4 defenders it took to get me out.



After i finally got the truck cleaned off i got some disco 2 modulars for xmas and put them on. oh marvelous they dont fit (265/75/16) would appear my bumper wasnt straight and we tried and tried and it just wouldnt line up to allow me to turn left. Considered where i could get to with just right turns but that was limiting me! So went and bought a 2" lift kit and a nice trim of the lower bumper and there on!










Happy Kimmy!

After a month of that the new parts feeling wore off again so i went and treated myself to a straight through exhaust, she sounded well but god she was slow with these big wheels on. even after blanking off the egr.

Also i did a swift headlight upgrade to HID's & i flyeyed the rear lights along with fitting some pressed plates.









I went last week and got a big intercooler fitted, a boost box and a remap from Alive tuning in which my request of I want it to go as fast as it can and smoke as much as it can was greeted by a stunned Gary. Safe to say he delivered! Goes like a train now and deposits a nice cloud of smoke with every foot plant. Im lucky as its just a toy so mpg doesnt phase me. So as she stands now below!















Plans next:

Ive just ordered a 22" Cree LED light bar to replace the 2 wipac spots on soft A Bar, and ive just ordered a 52" Cree Curved LED light bar for the roof to replace the light bar.

And i am just in the process of choosing a garage to repray the truck in Land rover bali blue because gold is too bland for me

Any comments are welcomed!
 
YO :5bseeya:

Gotta tell you Kim that looks like a clean ass disco!

Plus you seem like a smart girl who knows how to write a good story :)

Looking forward to it!
 
Beautiful pics and very nice DII - not sure about the change of colour though.

You do something REALLY classy with that gold paintwork as a background.


Dave
 
mikes lr said:
just remember if you do get a puncture dont drive it with that spare it will wind up the transmition
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Not sure on this.. There's no difflocks on stock D2s, unless it's one of the later ones (centre differential lock). Even then you wouldn't (shouldn't? :) ) be using the difflocks on tarmac. The normal differential action would mean that transmission wind up would not occur. However, if the rolling diameter sizes are so far out that the ABS sees the difference in wheel speeds and tries to activate traction control (thinking the smaller one is spinning)... then that might be a problem.

Oh, beautiful photography Kimmy! :cool:
 
that looks very nice on those wheels and I dont think there is nowt wrong with the colour either.

some really good pics in there - nice job!
 
Well diff, it wouldn't exactly wind up the transmission like you would if you had a viscous centre box and/or that stupid part time 4wd like some jeeps had, but it would still take out the differential in rotation across the, urm, differentials.

This is not good for them at the best of times, simply increasing temperature and wear.

Would be acceptable for lower speeds though, and probably acceptable for short motorway journeys.

The planet gear cross pins in the centre diff are cross hatched to allow plenty of oil in between the pins and gears to slow down wear/overheating/welding of the gears to the pins.

Not a method that was employed in stock 2 pin axle diffs for some reason

Some folk (not just land rovers) turn a spiral into the cross pins on diffs which often prevents welding and exploding, although that's a problem caused by wheelspin whereas landy 2pin diffs tend to break through shock torque not wheelspin welding the planet gears "we think" ...

Lecture over :p
 
Nice car & some interesting pics & subtle HDR. Another hobby? North Yorkshire would be ideal for photography.
Have fun with the Disco.:cool2:
 
Just had these arrive for me today at work! a 50" cree curved LED combo light bar 27,000lm and a 22" Cree LED light bar to replace the 2 round wipac spots on my soft A Bar. Very Happy and should be able to stand in for the local lighthouse if it ever breaks haha!

 
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