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Just sat in the Disco without the engine running and noticed ( for the first time) that I can move the wheel about 20 degrees in both directions. When I start the car it tightens up - is this normal? Had the car a year and never noticed this lol

Is there a way to test for diesel in the oil? The other day I noticed that the dipstick was reading high - wasn't sure if it was my fault or not so I did a quick drain and refill - the oil in the bucket looked, well just like black engine oil. No film floating on it etc. When I refilled it with...

Any ideas? When driving at 60 ish every so often I get a loud high pitch squeal from the front right wheel. If I touch the brakes it goes away and if I put a small amount of left hand lock on (for example going around a bend) it also stops. After a while it completely disappears, only to return...

I'm not really up on the older diesel engines such as my TD5 Disco 2 - have had Merc diesels etc which are much more refined but I do like my TD5....however... in the morning, when the engine is cold, as soon as you tickle the throttle it sounds like what I can only describe as a crackle. On a...

So I noticed that my oil level is slowly rising - not dramatic yet but over 1000 miles it rose about 5mm on the dipstick. So I am going to replace the injector seals but does anyone know where to buy the correct injector removal tool or a copy?

Disco 2 TD5 - runs great with new road tyres. Once it gets to about 55mph it starts to drone and a definite vibration starts under the seats. Steering has zero vibration. Am I right in thinking it's likely to be a propshaft UJ? Is there one in particular or will it be obvious when I crawl...

I have a 2000 D2 and currently tow a 2.2m wide caravan. We are looking to upgrade and have found some continental 6.4m 2000kg vans that we really fancy. But they are 2.5m wide (the legal limit) Has/does anyone tow a 2.5m wide trailer and how difficult is it - any issues/problems that you have...

Am driving a friends 1999 Disco 2 TD5 Automatic and it's a little different to mine - some good and some bad. Trying to work out what's wrong with it - any ideas? Got it on the Nanocom and found a dead MAF - swapped for another working one Engine blows blue smoke on startup and inlet and...

So out driving today and tried to use the Auto setting on the system to cool the air - set temps to LO on both sides but just ambient air coming in. Hooked up Nanocom and under Inputs I could see that all of the AC (Clutch, Fan) etc were set to OFF - nothing I did would set them to ON I tried...

I have had a dynochip reflash and given the engine a full service and it seems to be solid with 160k miles. The PO had made all sorts of adjustments to the turbo, modulator etc so I have reconnected the modulator, cleaned the MAP and MAF and put new hoses in, but now need to adjust the...

So I cleaned the MAP on my Discovery 2 and it was absolutely caked in oil/crap/crud/black oily stuff. As you know it's mounted in the air plenum thingy so I am assuming that the whole thing is fully of all this nasty stuff. Is it something that I should worry about and should I take it all to...

I attended an auction today and picked up 4 x 5 litre cans of Molyslip 2000G Gear additive. I have used the 2000E in my TD5 engine but have never used the G Does anyone have an experience of it in the differentials, the transfer box and/or the manual gearbox? The university of Google seems to...

I have got hold of another rear glass for my Disco 2 as mine has been scratched by the little feet on wiper blade by the PO - we removed the new one from a scrapped car so just used screwdrivers to lever it out without worrying about the door. Is there a technique to remove the old window and...

I'm going to a truck that is being broken tomorrow to remove the thick rubber door trim/bumpers but not quite sure how to remove them without damage so I can refit them to mine. Are they just glued on with 3m tape or similar? Any idea of the best way to safely remove them?

Can anyone help on removing the rear springs on a D2 - they seem to be different from the write up on the D1. I have jacked up the truck, removed the rear wheel, supported the chassis on axle stands and undone the shock absorber bottom bolt, undone the antiroll bar drop link and installed a...

When using the Nanocom on my Disco 2, when I check the inputs on the ECU it shows the Low/High transfer box as Low when it's in High and High when it's in Low. Anyone else noticed this?

I don't know if this will be useful at all but I have just installed my nanocom into the D2 so that I can monitor live data and I was trying to find somewhere to install it. As you can see I found a way to do it quite effectively using an old mobile phone holder that opened wide enough to hold...

My Disco 2 has 161,000 on the clock - d'ya think I can assume that someone has already taken care of the oil pump sprocket bolt or is there evidence of it affecting high mileage trucks also? Don't want to drop the sump and risk oil leaks etc unless there is a real need.

I wish I hadn't :)