Recent content by Ultraweasel

Hi all, Last year my crankshaft pulley decided to delaminate the rubber between the two halves of the torsional damper. Noticeable when turned off, the rattle / clatter was not nice. It was a Friday evening, and had to drive ~250 miles on the Monday. No time to buy or replace the pulley, so...

Well, Despite your best efforts to give me a coronary with your tales of woe (although Bobdogs does make me twitch a bit :o) I got the cooling system parts and everything is now good. Until the next thing... ;) Cheers, Ultraweasel. PS - No 'popping of weasels', yet.

Whoa! There was no overheating or anything - It's been fine, it was just a regular fluid level check when I noticed the level was lower than it should be. I then noticed that the header tank seam was opening up. It is nearly 18 years old, after all. I'm not really surprised that a plastic tank...

Hi neilly, Thanks for the welcome. No, luckily I caught it before the coolant dropped too much! Phew! Cheers, Ultraweasel.

Hi, Been lurking, thought I'd join the community. Got a 1999 Disco 2 TD5 Auto (Epsom Green - LR's have to be green, right? ;) ). Had it about 4 years now. Love it! Very few problems so far...main ones being: 1) Serpentine belt idler collapsed 2) Crankshaft pulley de-laminated - made a nice...