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lol i know im going to get a fair bit of stick for it, but i see it as educational!! will just drain and refill gearbox tomorrow me thinks.

97' 300tdi has r380 gearbox. was trying to fix (again) reverse light switch, decided to nip the 5 miles to shop to get new switch whist forgetting to put old switch back in, hence have lost some gearbox oil. how much am i likely to have lost in the roughly 5 miles of driving, cant check the...

tried creating an album but kept getting wrong file type error even though pics where jpg? anyway heres me disco, 97' 300tdi 7 seat pretty much as is from when i bought it, to busy throwing money at it to fix thing sthan to buy things for it, had new cam belt,new clutch, new swivel ball n...

97' 300tdi 5 door. replaced my reverse light switch about 3 months ago, it was working fine, noticed today reverse lights not coming on, tried pushing harder into reverse, still no lights, took switch out and pressed it myself, still no lights, havent got any tools to check if switch is dead but...

'97 300tdi 5 door disco trying to get her looking good for billing (hopefully!) tried back to black on the plastic trim that runs down the side, looks ok for couple of days but then goes greyish again, not sure where but was reading how some disco 1 owners have painted said trim using satin...

i have a similar prob on mine, at first i thought it was the channel but it turns out one of the scissor arms has somehow manage to bend and split. no idea how its been done, possible break in i think, because the scissor is bent its trying to lift the glass at a slight angle so its catching on...

i understand what your saying but before we had it to the garage we had no idea what was wrong, just new something in the swivel, we had to get rthe rac to pick it up and drop it at the garage and garage said they wouldnt know what was wrong until theyhad opened it up and looked inside. £400 has...

here the reciept stripped down n/s/r hub top swivel bearing collapsed chrome ball excessively worn replaced chrome ball seal,gaskets and bearings and rebuilt with road test x 2 £130.00 chrome ball £115 chrome ball seal£10 chrome ball gasket £1.73 one shot grease x 2 £14.74 swivel housing...

97 300 tdi posted this thread the other day http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f8/fluid-leak-swivel-joint-192386.html after having a better look at the problem, trying to wobble wheel at 12 and 6, the movement at 12 is the wheel moves in wards between an inch and 2 inch. trying to move the wheel at...

no, ok with my hands but not on something like that. off to the garage via the rac tomorrow!!!

it has about 2'' play when jacked up. i am no mechanic so what would i pay roughly in a garage. gutted as my money for billing will go on fixing this

its the bottom swivel pin bearing

there already is a drip on the bottom of the swivel without even cleaning it!! so does this mean new seal or can i just get some one shot grease?

had a quick look not too sure what i was looking at till i got my haynes manual out!! chrome didnt look to bad but i'll give it a better look over now. anything in particular i should look for. thanks

97 300 tdi have just noticed a large leak of fluid under passenger side front wheel. its stopped now but has dropped maybe a foot square patch on the ground. been under and looked and leak is coming from the swivel pin housing. been advised to drain the oil and refill with one shot grease. does...

96' 300tdi disco had problems with my drivers window same as this thread http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f8/disco-1-drivers-window-fault-85761.html now the window wont open at all although i can hear motor running, sounds like its come of the runners, could someone please give some advice on...

thanks mate, was the fuse.sidelights,radio and clock were still working though but fuse A6 is defo blown so i took another fuse to test and put it in A6 place n cig lighter worked.

97' 300tdi disco whilst in the process of removing the charger for my satnav from cigar lighter, the end of charger that plugs into cigar lighter decided to explode (not literally) i put it all back together but now the cigar lighter isn't working, before i take out the centre console is there a...

so your pretty sure its the sump ,i was worried it was more like an oil seal or something. thanks guys

97' disco 300tdi noticed a slight oil leak, dropping maybe a the size of a 50p piece through the night, have showe the pics to my brother and he suspects the sump gasket, what are your thoughts? pics are of the front of the sump and a close up of the rear of the sump and the bellhousing where...