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    Success Story, Non-Return Valve

    I've been driving a new-to-me 1999 Discovery 2 TD5 for about two months, manual transmission, and I've had a horrible time in city jams. The engine was just rebuilt prior to my purchasing, new heavy duty clutch and fuel air mixture adjusted after injector seals were replaced, but nevertheless I...
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    Disco 2 TD5 Rebuild? Advice Welcome

    I’m driving a 99 TD5 Discovery 2 manual that just had two significant overheats, both times due to coolant hoses bursting, and it’s looking like piston rings are shot. Excessive oil coming out the breather hose, MAF fouled due to it, very weak at low range (fine on highway, though), even to the...
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    Air Con Pipe Fittings

    Does anyone know what type and size fittings the air conditioning pipes are for a Disco 2? I’m assuming they’re British measurements, BSPP and BSPT? I’ve retrofitted rear air conditioning in a 1999 Discovery 2 TD5 S (originally a barebones white, UN model), and I have everything wired in...
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    Disco 2 TD5 Stalled in Traffic

    My vehicle is a 1999 Discovery 2 TD5, with a newly rebuilt engine and lots of other work done to it. Drove around town all day yesterday, several stops, then on the way home, with lots of sitting in hot traffic (I’m in Kampala, Uganda), vehicle threw the CEL for a split second, ran rough for...