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Looking for helpful resources in / around Brussels. Eg a shop that could rebuild a final drive or source a used transfer box. Ideally in Brussels, but if I gotta do some driving so be it. Recommendations and thoughts appreciated! Matt

Lots of good advice out there on how to fix non- or semi-functioning electric Disco windows. But I didn't see a post that points out something that - now that I have done it backwards and wrong - seems obvious. Start with the quick and easy stuff. Assuming that there's no nasty noise coming...

1998 Disco 1 with 280-ish km. Many of them offroad: lots of desert and riverbed miles on this drive-train. So a couple of weeks ago I changed the UJ bearing by the transfer box on the front propshaft, and now - after about 750 mostly highway miles - there’s already a little play in it. What’s...

1. Valve clearances. 20 minutes to a sweeter sounding engine. Probably the best-spent time so-far on this vehicle from a pure satisfaction point of view. 2. Swivel seal. The seal itself was nice to do - no more dripping (well, from there anyway!) - but with the correct swivel pin pre-load she...

This isn't too relevant if you live in the land of readily available Landy parts, but out here a brand-new aftermarket windscreen (Plan A) for a 20-year old Disco is pretty well impossible to find: everybody said they had one, but it always turned out to be a Disco 2 windscreen - about an inch...

So there's two sorts of dust seal for the front timing belt cover. There's bearing (after VA560897) and non-bearing (before). Anyone know if they are interchangeable? I've got an after-VA560897 300TDI, but only have been able to put my hands on a non-bearing seal. It looks and feels like it...

I'm halfway through changing the timing belt cover, it's all simple and easy except how do you get the A/C idler pulley off the old cover and onto the new? There's a threaded hole in the new one, but no obvious (obvious to me anyway) way to lock the wheel in the old cover and unthread it.

I need some shocks and / or a water pump dropped if possible. Cold beer naturally offered by way of appreciation.

So if you have a 1998 Disco 1, there are two candidates for rear shock absorbers. Up to LA081991 there's Type #1 and after MA081992 there's Type #2. Does anybody know what changed on the chassis to necessitate this change? I'm in Morocco and I have a post-MA081992 Disco and can only find the...

Just opened up the swivel pin housing (Disco 1, 1998: just one hole on top for filling, no level plug, no drain plug) and found what looks like the remnants of grease. It's dark and pretty stiff. I put a piece of wire down to the bottom and it came back pretty well dry - just a few globs of...

Just wondering if anybody has replaced bearings / seals in a 300tdi PAS pump (not the steering box: the actual pump). Replacement with a new unit seems automatic. Is it that much a pain to source the parts? Or is it hard to get open up? Anybody out there given it a try and willing to talk about it?

Had some clunking and shuddering going on, so I got underneath to give the prop shafts a shake. The front UJ on the front prop shaft has lots of slop if I hold the differential side of it steady and wiggle the prop shaft side of it with my other hand - I'm guessing that it's time to replace it...

The leak in the old steering box has recently turned from a drip to a pour, so it's time to either rebuild it or buy one out of a breaker's yard here. (I'd love just to get an Adwest rebuild from Paddock, but the thought of shipping to Morocco makes me break out in a cold sweat). So I'm looking...

I put my Disco 1 up on axle stands to check if the Diff Lock was engaging (just bought it and it hasn't been off-road in living memory, and there's no diff-lock warning light, so I was expecting the selector to be seized), but I don't understand what the h*ll is actually going on. First, there...

So I got a waterfall down the front of the engine - seemed to start up behind the water pump housing. The heat gauge never got over normal, but I was down about 8 litres of coolant before I noticed! So maybe it got hot enough to cook the HG or even the head? Anyway, a fast flip through the...

I just bought a 1998 Discovery 300Tdi in Morocco and I'm taking advantage of a family trip to London to pick up some bits for it. First thing are balljoints on the drag link and the track rod (they're shot - rubber hanging off them like spider's web). Questions: 1. What's the best place to...

I just bought a 1998 Discovery I 300Tdi in Morocco. It's the first thing I've ever owned that drives through more than 2 wheels and it needs some fixing up, so I've been combing the Landyzone archives. I think there may still be a few questions though.