Recent content by Disco lad

Yeah, thats it. After 4 landcruisers the disco 4 was a revolution in terms of comfort, power, gear box and excellent with my 14' trailer but it takes a days labour just to get at the engine to do any work. By all accounts the new defender is worse. Real shame

Well then perhaps you have Covid There were metal shavings in the fuel filter so all pipework, injectors and fuel tank had to be replaced or sonically cleaned. Would you risk a half job and then having to do it all again, never the day of labour just to lift the body up. Get real my friend, have...

We also changed all belts and chains and sonically cleaned all rails etc...

Hi all, just an update on my fuel issue. The fuel pump broke down with steel shards going through the system.So far we have changed all fuel related parts, tank, injectors, fuel coolers, hi pressure pumps and all pipe works, totaling circa 5K. Now the engine has a very irregular idle rev, the...

So that could be a timing chain, however we did spray some quick start into the breather and it started and ran smoothly enough until it had burned out the quickstart??

Would this accurate, The fuel rail sensor is also only showing 3 volts - I'm told that the brain won't let it start unless it's reading at least 5??? May be a broken sensor???????? https://www.turnermechatronics.com/land-rover/discovery-3/discovery-3-4-non-start.html

HI all, I had my 15 Disco 4 serviced last Wed. It was normal, no fuel filters etc however, and I paid and collected from the garage on wed evening. I did a lot of towing on Thursday. Whilst going home from work on Sat the engine just stopped in the middle of the road. It was turning and not...