Recent content by Balbas

A TD4 Freelander.

Despite fixing the dreaded Golf one more time (and so putting off buying a replacement), this may now be happening and I've found what appears to be a good 'in locally. Just out of interest what sort of MPG should I expect - say on a dual carriageway at a constant(ish) 70mph?

No real need. 1) the breather hose runs into the intake system before the intercooler, so any excess oil ends up at the lowest point 2) they're known for it 3) I don't care if the hateful thing dies.

I'll have the intercooler pipe off for a look then, thank you. As an aside, my wife's doggy old VW Gold TDi was leaking oil out of it's intercooler bottom hose recently, so I may get my 'rebuilding a turbo' wish granted anyway. The 'dub is a lot more difficult to work on though - everything...

Oh well, you've spoiled all of my fun. I've never taken a turbo apart before. I may have to get a secondhand one and do it anyway, just so I've got one 'on the shelf' in case I need it. On a slightly more serious note - thank you. You've probably saved me many hours of skinned knuckles...

I've got a 2000 TD5 disco. And the clutch fork went. Mine went with a 'bang' and the pedal went pretty stiff. I gave it a kick (as I was mid gear change at the time) and it moved about a cm and went solid. I was just around the corner, so I switched off, got it into gear, moved into low...

I was poking around the Land Rover the other day and took the inlet air hose off the turbo to take a quick look. There's a little bit (couple of mm at most) of movement in the end shaft on the inlet side of the turbo. I'm thinking its toast and needs a rebuild before it eats itself - the...

As I said, my memory is hazy on the issue - I ave a D2. What's the recommended interval for a change get of fluid then? And what's the going rate?

I'm no expert, but what I've heard is that the auto box is generally reliable if it receives an oil change (every 100k or so IIRC). And the manual is expensive if you need the clutch / DMF doing. Personally I think that engine suits the auto box well.

I have a nasty suspicion that I'll be separating the transmission this year as I have a very grumbly release bearing. Whilst I'm in there I guess I may as well replace the DMF and clutch. Given my recent grumblings about the use of the term OEM* and given that there are a thousand and one...

No dramas with that at all. But to say 'don't use OEM only use a LR boxed item' is clearly a bit silly, because anything in a LandRover box which wasn't made by LandRover is OEM by definition... I'm just being nit picky really, but it would have been more correct to say 'only buy a LandRover...

Not trying to get into an argument, but do you know what 'OEM' means? An awful lot of stuff that comes in a LandRover box is OEM - or do you think that LandRover make every single component themselves?

Massively helpful when required of course, but mildly depressing and worrying when thinking about what might break next! So as a counterpoint I'd just like to say that my cosmetically 'challenged', old, leggy, tired Disco TD5 has been absolutely epic recently. She took us nearly 1,000 miles...

I put dunlops in mine in the summer. They're doing fine so far.

I kept the ones I'd removed. And then in the autumn (just before I found out about the new MoT rules) I had a garage tidy up and threw it out.:(