Hi everyone, i have just put another TD5 into my discovery following the oil pump bolt killing the last engine which was a great engine by the way! (Bloody bolt)
So i swapped everything from the original engine onto the donor engine as i knew it all worked except the injectors (they are part...
Hello everyone, I've swapped out a td5 into my 99 Disco 2 and want to get the injectors recoded as it's not even starting. Engine has sat for quite a while but I don't fancy swapping injectors.
Can anyone help in the Hook, Hampshire area for some beer money?
Thanks
Josh
Hello everyone, I have since removed the dead td5 engine from my disco after oil pump bolt failure!! God sake!! So I now have a donor td5 ready to go but wanted to know in all your wise experience the best things to replace on the engine whilst it's out I.e water pump / core plugs etc?
I...
Hi Everyone,
So this weekend just gone on the Friday morning at 04.00am we boarded the eurotunnel to embark on the 1250 mile trip we had planned around northern europe. All serviced and issues fixed i thought the Disco was ready to go.
We then went through France, Belgium, Luxembourg &...
Hi All, finally got round to fitting the lift kit I bought ages ago this weekend and wow what a difference. Was really easy to fit and have now got rid of the old airbags which were pretty perished so wouldn't have been long before they started leaking anyway.
The truck now sits really flat...
Hi all I'm just after some info any photos of your trucks would be great.
I've got a td5 1999 that I've bought a terrafirma +2 lift kit and have some cooper discoverer stt 275/65/R18 that I want to fit to the standard hurricane wheels.
Lining them up they look huge and I'm wondering what I...
Hi All my d2 td5 has started intermittently misfiring whether cold or hot.
It shakes violently and produces large amounts of blue smoke.
So far if I pull over switch off wait a few minutes then restart it's fine.
After about 1000 miles I've checked the ecu plug etc very clean no oil...
Hi all,
The faults are slowly coming through now daily on new ownership of my td5 but it's a land rover and you can't help but love it. And after years of 200 tdi' sand v8's I love the td5!!!!
As you can see in the below pics I have an oil leak and after much reading about the 3 seals that...
Hi All,
i have just purchased a nice 1999 Disco 2 TD5 and after not long of picking it up the usual land rover qwerks are starting to come out!!!
When the engine is either hot or cold it doesn't matter there is a high pressure jet of air con refrigerant sprayed out of the bottom of the...
I'm in need of the following:
Carpet set for floor
Rubber mat 1 piece that covers gearbox tunnel and floor
Rubber mat set that covers seat box
Gearbox tunnel and adaptor to bulkhead for lt85 v8 gearbox
I also currently have series style doors with sliding windows but would like to swap...
Hi everyone, my 3.9 has finally now had a couple of trips out and I've put 100 miles on it since the rebuild.
What it has started to do though is show the oil light once it's warm when at idle and just above idle, then once pulled away or revved it clears.
Is this just another v8ism or is...
After doing everything else to my Landy and whilst going to the mot station for the fourth time my indicators decided to stop working once I had got there.
I then began to investigate and after removing the dash discovered lots of cables that had melted, 50 amp fuses from the 70's and cables...
Hello everyone, I'm hoping you can help me I have had to do a bit of welding on the battery box for the MOT and by the time I cut the rust off there was nothing left!
Went to mr Gott and bought a replacement for around £40.00 bargain but as I cut most of the old one out, offering the new one...
After doing a test run of my 3.9 efi conversion I found a large amount of vibration coming from the rear axle and a lot of violent shaking.
Checked the handbrake housing all free and the rear axle spins freely so took the prop off to inspect and found this:
Does this mean I need a...
Acquired this gearbox for a bargain of £20 and have worked out its a 4 speed with reverse bottom right does anybody know what type it is and what it's come out of?
Also what does the black knob do with the vacuum pipes etc?
Hello guys hope you can help me. After putting a v8 in my old ex n/a I have bought an aftermarket temp gauge and sender for the v8 as they are different from the diesel sender etc.
My question is what are the normal running temperatures for a 3.9 and what is getting on for too hot and when is...
Hey guys does anybody know what the size of the exit is on the MAF of a 3.9 v8 1989 I'm trying to get a silicone hose connector for my snorkel and can't seem to find the size of what hose needs to go on to exit the MAF.
Thanks very much
Hi All,
I have a radiator that has a tiny pin hole leak on one of the channels that goes across the radiator to carry the water, is there a good way of repairing radiators yourself as the hole is the same size as the end of a biro pen or is it a throw away job and start again?
Many thanks
Don't think my alternator is charging my battery as when I put multimeter on terminals and run engine batt stays at roughly 11 volts and doesn't increase when run up.
Main brown cable goes from alternator to starter then from starter to battery pos
Any suggestions how I can prove its...