Thread: Help! Mechanic URGENTLY Needed! 94 Disco tdi

This temp over flow, is it still the highest point in the motor?
Have you bleed your cooling system?
Oil level fine?
Checked to see if the water is flowing? Or a pressure test?
No water in the oil or visa vera indicating a blown seal?
Blocked rad?

Just my 2cents.

You need Dave, Blknight.aus on here. He's in Ipswich & is the Yoda of Land Rovers.
He may not be able to help too fast, mind you as he's usually pretty booked up. Send him a PM & see.

Good luck.

Sticking or failing thermostat?

If you can't get Blknight to have a look before the weekend, I'll gladly come up and see if I can diagnose it for you on Saturday.


Willing to help a fellow forumite when I can.

Originally Posted by jboot51

If you can't get Blknight to have a look before the weekend, I'll gladly come up and see if I can diagnose it for you on Saturday.


Willing to help a fellow forumite when I can.

That would be totally awesome, jboot51 as Blknight has said he can't get to us 'til March (as he's the mechanic we'd been getting help from). Be more than happy to pay you for your trouble too - I never expect anything for nothing!

rb30gtr queried a sticking or failing thermostat and my hubby seems to think that a 'sticking' thermostat could explain the troubles we've been having since December with the overheating.

There are other 'issues', even though Blknight said ours wasn't the 'worst' Disco he'd seen and I know some of the parts we need to get (Karcraft have quoted us on over $700 worth, and we have the funds), I'm just not sure what we really need and don't want to bugger it up, basically!

Much appreciated jboot51 I can PM you with our address etc and will be eternally grateful as the Disco is our only means of transport and I wouldn't want any other vehicle, couldn't imagine driving anything else, it just wouldn't be the same!

Too easy, shoot a pm and we'll work it out.

Thanks to jboot51 who diagnosed a blockage in our cooling system (and cleared it) for us, so at least we're not over-heating anymore!

No success with Blknight, he's not got back to my last couple of PM's nor text messages, so I must presume he's done trying to help us

Can anybody recommend a Diesel/Land Rover Mechanic anywhere within cooee of Ipswich (Qld)?

As my Disco is my only means of transport (and I'm unable to walk unaided more than a few metres) I'm really stuck; have only been driving locally (within 8km of home) since Christmas (can't even get my daughter to school, she's training/busing it)!

Immediately we need the Timing Belt replaced, and we've a list of hoses/pipes to get (as I've been reliably informed that the radiator will need flushed etc) and am more than happy to get the parts (o'night from Sydney); long as we do need all of said parts.

I know we have other issues with the vehicle, the transmission will need attention post the timing belt replacement and cooling system hose/pipe replacements (some of which was done when we did the head in 2009), we've 'airy' brakes, a temp., fuel hose, shoddy shockies etc etc ...

I really need to find someone who can help us out. I know Blknight is the Yoda of Land Rovers but he's seemingly up to his eyeballs and as we've more than one issue to be attended to, it won't be a one off fix, we need someone who can provide ongoing maintenance (maybe for another 20 years ... my Disco'll be 20 this August)!

HELP!!

Originally Posted by Dragonfan

No success with Blknight, he's not got back to my last couple of PM's nor text messages, so I must presume he's done trying to help us

let me re-give ya a bunch of hints...

• since Im still waiting to get that information from you...
• Have advised you on no fewer than three occasions to chase me for info just in case Its slipped through the cracks or if Ive been too busy and have simply not gotten to it
• you were advised of my schedule well in advance of my schedule when you missed the afternoon I cleared for you (and even then I still squeezed you in on another afternoon for a quick look which is when the auto dipstick and refailing hose on the fuel supply line was identified)
• if you've sent a text much after say the day I went overseas with work I wont have gotten it as my phones not got intentional roaming

your presumption is now self fulfilling and correct.

I hope your apparent "relative who is a mechanic" that you were pumping me for information for you to palm to him knows his stuff.

Dont forget you still need to

• redo your suspension bushes (primarily shockies, steering dampner and pitman arm)
• your fuel lines
• service and flush the auto
• replace or repair the trans filler tube
• you're overdue for the lash adjustment
• the diesel is delaminating/softening your right hand engine mount and quite possibly is getting back to the trans mount.
• you have rubs on the top radiator hose where its not correctly restrained
• I was suspicious of your bottom hose on the intercooler going spongy
• the crank case vent oil seperator needs cleaning and its got weeps on the pipe
• the rocker to sump vent hose is going bad and weeping
• the rocker cover gasket needs working on
• your battery is on the way out and undersized
• your earths and terminals need cleaning up
• your Tcase output seals need doing and its either the sump seal or intermediate shaft seal thats also leaking and in need of repair

I'd ask you to bring back my spare expansion tank and I'll refund it so I still have the one for the missus car but I'll file that under "if you lend someone $20 and never see them again it was worth it" and buy another one.


Hey, best of luck and all but dont bother calling again.