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Like most of you I find my Disco lacking in power quite often. There are a couple of threads on here that kinda got mr thinking. One was the 2.8 conversion, (very expensive), and the full length intercooler thread, (less expensive, but personally I'd be concerned about operating temps and...

Now all the crappy winter weather is out of the way, (hopefully), the Disco is back to being a weekend toy once again as opposed to a daily driver. The MOT and tax have also just expired. Over the past 12 months it has become increasingly down on power whilst fuel economy also continues to...

Anyone out laning around Derbyshire on Boxing day?

Changed the altinator / water pump belt and tensioner a few months and a few thousand miles ago. All was fine and dandy. Then on Sunday the belt pinged off the tensioner and punctured my rad. Any ideas as to why this would happen with no warning signs such as screaching from the tensioner...

Driving through Sheffield city centre this evening and I see one of those awfull G-Wizzes coming towards me. Driving it was a bloke who looked to be in his mid 40's. As this fella got close he started flicking me the 'V's Made my day that did :D Maybe when he grows up he will buy himself a...

Just a little curious here chaps. 1996 Disco 300TDI manual, running on 235/70/16 MT's. Drivetrain, engine and turbocharger otherwise standered as far as I am aware. On a pretty much flat road, I'm doing about 1100rpm in 5th. Just wondered how this compares to others, as i'm not 100% certain...

As per the title chaps. Is there one on each side or two? Having just suffered a locked / siezed bearing I'm guessing I am better off changing all 4 / 8 of them to be on the safe side? Cheers.

Another week, another problem Driving home from work yesterday evening, about 1/2 mile from home. Long straightish country road, doing about 40mph. All of a sudden thud, clunk, screeeeechhhhh. Hit the hazard warning lights, gentle apply the brakes. N/S/R locks up, even though I'm only gently...

Bought a new non genuine starter motor five weeks ago. It lasted four weeks before the soluniod started playing up, and today it packed in completely. Got the RAC round to give an engineers report that it was fecked, and going to try and get my money back in full from the parts supplier. The...

I have one, but I know that sometimes folk buy the snorkels second hand, but without the template. Well, if anyone wants mine they can have it, FOC. Either collect in person, or you pay for the postage. It doesn't really matter how old this topic gets, as it is just sitting in my garage...

I fitted a new thermostat yesterday, but the gasket that I had got for it was miles out. A quick call to the local LR main dealer this morning to let them know has resulted in a bit of head scratching. (I wasn't after a refund on a 55p part, just letting them know) It seems that the same...

Just a quick but stupid question from man idiot with little or no mechanical expertese. I have removed my rad and intercooler to clean them both of all the mud that was in them. To drain I removed the bottom hose. However, there is still some coolent left in the expansion tank. To re-fill...

I swear my Disco is a bloody woman. it simply doesn't matter how much I pamper her, spend almost all my money on her, and a large amount of my time, it's just one bloody thing after another :( So, this week, not only do we have the occasional overheating problems, but I now also have gear...

Vehicle has suddenly started to develop some strange coolent issues which I have yet to investigate. All will be fine and dandy, then after quite a length of time on the motorway it will suddenly run very hot, (but not into the red). Turning the fans on full blast and full heat soon brings...

I have a belt that squeels like a bitch, so I'm in the middle of doing the old 1 penny trick. However, the bolt that holds my tensioner in place is as tight as you like, even with a long bar. So, it is left for lucy on this isn't it? Or is it another arse about tit left handed thread? Cheers.

As per the tittle chaps. Went to fit my snorkel yesterday, pulled the bonnet release cable and 'ping!' the bloody thing snapped whilst the bonnet was shut. Car is a 96 300TDi Disco. I have already tried pulling the lever back from behind the grill, but it does nothing. Any other ideas? In...

The rear most starter motor bolt. What is it, some kind of a sick ****ing joke? The bastard ****ting thing is ****ing stuck fast. Almost a full canister of plus-gas, copious swearing and threats of death by fire and the **** still wont ****ing budge. Even with the bonnet removed, intake and...

Just when it was all going so well..... Yesterday was spent removing the intake and exhaust manifolds, due to a blowing exhaust manifold gasket. This morning was spent flushing all the gunk out of the intake manifold, whilst this afternoon was spent re-fitting everything. The Haynes...

Dear Land Rover, Having been a customer of yours for 2 1/2 years now, I'd like to make a few suggestions..... Firstly, wouldn't it be a jolly good wheeze to assemble your products using acomplete mish mash of both metric and imperial nuts / bolts. And why not take it a step further and...

I mean come on, just how hard can it be??? I know it was going to be one of those sort of jobs when I had to fanny around for ages making the gauge fit the pod correctly, but once that hurdle was over, I was confidant the rest would be childs play...... Below is a catalogue of my misery and...