Other what have u done on ur disco today

EGR delete kit arrived in this mornings post... should I fit it today..

And now replaced the other door latch.

Well, I just had to do it. Found out it looks like the PO had tried to remove the EGR. One of the bolts to the exhaust flange was rounded off inside, and the two yellow pipes had been unplugged and capped off, at the solenoids. Looks like he gave up and left the old EGR in situ. Had to use a set of reverse spiral bolt sockets to grip the rounded off nut, and it easily came out. All removed now.

Is it good practice to take the plugs off the solenoids? or just leave it connected up....Does it make a difference. Be nice to rip out all that redundant kit, and leave it tidied up. I made get the none EGR pipe, and do it properly. What happens to the pipe that goes to the air box, just rip it out ? Does it need blanking off at the spout on the airbox ?

cleaned up my engine.

The Viscous fan had caught some dirty water and threw it everywhere!



And after a good clean..

Finally getting to the end of the engine replacement. Connected up the last of the electrics and plumbing today. Filled with oil and coolant. The coolant poured straight out via an outlet/inlet at the bottom of the radiator. Checked and saw that I had connected the pipe from the fuel cooler to the upper one instead of the bottom one. Connected it to the bottom one but can't find anything to connect to the upper one. There doesn't seem to be anything on an EU3 TD5 engine. Filled it up with coolant again and after purging a few times it started up. Try again in daylight on Sunday if the weather is good. Not a great video. A lot of smoke came out first. Is that normal?
https://youtu.be/Ys4bK2PzFxs

Replaced the aux belt tensioner.... had four new Grabber AT3 tyres fitted, and replaced a lamp in the headlights... and gave my wastegate a few turns oh what fun.

Ordered some fabric loom tape, to tydy up my wiring. Already have some loom plastic sleeving, so should look nice when done....

After a jolly around Hampshire hunting down parts and visiting every hydraulic hose specialist in Portsmouth to fix the oil cooler pipe problem I took it for an MOT and it passed

dieseldog69 said:

I took it for an MOT and it passed

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Excellent - chuffed for you

Ordered some silicone 6mm bungs to cap off the solenoid valves, and airbox spout. Just for the hell of it...

Disco1BFG said:

Excellent - chuffed for you

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Cheers, been a mission and a half but finally there with it.

Just gave it a bath and washed all the green algae off so we are not quite so eco anymore lol

Finally got round to replacing the drivers door lock actuator. Only took 5 months, but at least I can get in without manually opening the door with the key now...

Time for new discs n pads all round on the commercial. Repaint the calipers swop out the brake fluid.
Not me but my mate John.

I repaired some more leaking window seals on my Discovery 1. It spent the first part of it's life in southern California, so the window seals are all dried up

Getting there. It's almost ready to get back to work.
Bodys all bolted down on the donor chassis
Everything's working so far.
Hopefully get it outside by the end of the day

Air suspension stayed up over night success.
Got all brakes finished off.
Exhaust mounted.
Only 1 disaster the pas fluid to pump pipe leaks when the motors not running.
And it's got a very squeaky drive belt.
It's so close to being drivable again

Popped off inlet manifold to clean the accumulated gunk after an EGR delete. Left it to soak and now having a beer. Finish off tomorrow.

Drove it for a couple of miles for the first time in months after changing the engine. Temperature gauge not reached operating temp. but I can exchange temperature sensor if that persists. Seems smooth enough but time will tell. Fingers crossed.

Had to change my exide EA1000 battery because it went flat , again

so popped down to halfords and bought the yuasa YBX5019 with a 5 x year warranty , also got a trade card

100 Ah , 900 Cca

https://www.yuasa.co.uk/batteries/a...r-high-performance-smf-batteries/ybx5019.html

was £143 plus £15 fitting as I didn’t want to lift it , after discount £120 all in

took some Vdc reading so will see how this one does

had around a 50 miles drive , waited till it warmed up nicely then gave it an Italian tune up , ticked over lovely after and all I saw was a puff of smoke out the exhausts for a little bit then cleared up

went like **** off a shovel

I installed a cheaper £10 air filter element from eBay for my V8 as an oil catch container for the intake.
I can now see the results of this filter keeping the sludge out of the intake. It is quite impressive and yet disturbing after driving less than 100 miles.