Thread: What did you do with or to your Disco today

Forgot to mention the brakes did get properly bled and are now quite good (for what they are/this vehicle is).

Replaced the front sway bar end links with whole new units as the bushings were utterly shot (there was 10-15mm of play at least in them) and the ball joints looked a bit ragged and seemed to have some play in them though it was hard to tell with the bushing end already having so much give in it so I figured for ~$20 more why not just replace the whole thing (they're likely original anyways). Wow, holy reduced body roll batman.

Repainted my roof rack and added some rubber trim to the bottom where it sits in the gutter rails.

Installed and wired up a pair of Cibie Super Oscars. Mucho mas light!

Installed and wired up an auxillary deep cycle battery with a nice little isolater that has an override function/switch to recharge the main battery off the second should it go flat. I'll hopefully be wiring up an inverter to it today.

Along with wiring up the inverter I hope to get a shelf built in the rear to create a sleeping space when the seats are folded down but not all the ways forward.

Didn't fully wire the inverter today. Couldn't get the stuff for the shelf so I couldn't pay around with where I'm going to mount the inverter and get that finalized.

So instead I wound up installing a couple of brass fittings with nipples for 1/4" hose to the two holes where wading plugs go. Running clear hose from those fittings and from the axle breather lines and"T-ing" them all together along the way and running the single line up into the engine bay where it resides zip tied up behind the washer fluid reservoir.

This is probably more than a sufficient increase in potential wading depth, especially considering I have no desire to drive through water any deeper than the top of my tires (245/70r16) and will avoid deep water crossings if possible, but I'm probably going to plug a small fuel filter into it and run a small black bit of hose from it up to the top of the snorkel. Because 'why not?'

Ripped the rear bumper and plastic ends off and have the rear guards a massive trim.

Have been in the process of fitting a after market oil gauge. Found that the V8 oil pressure sender has a 1/2 unf thread, so got a adapter only to find it fouled on the serpentine belt tensioner. Problem solved today. Made up a 1/2 unf banjo bolt from a standard bolt. Then using a piece of 25 square x 100 long aluminum I made a adapter. The original sender screws in at the end and the new sender screws in on one side.
Cheers Hall

Today I listened in horror as it suddenly started making some horrible low but loud humming noise from the front left wheel area whilst on the M1.

It only comes on when over 60kmh and doesn't seem correlated to engine speed, clutch or brake application. Going up hill it is slightly more pronounced than when going down, but otherwise doesn't seem to change much from varied acceleration/deceleration or varied loads. I'm guessing wheel bearing but it's late and ****ing rain down on this little rest stop I've managed to limp it to, so further investigation and speculation will have to wait until the morning (at which point it will hopefully be sunny and dry out).

With all the love and attention I shower this blasted thing with you'd think it would reward me not punish me with new and constantly mounting problems.

Originally Posted by DeepBarney

Today I listened in horror as it suddenly started making some horrible low but loud humming noise from the front left wheel area whilst on the M1.

It only comes on when over 60kmh and doesn't seem correlated to engine speed, clutch or brake application. Going up hill it is slightly more pronounced than when going down, but otherwise doesn't seem to change much from varied acceleration/deceleration or varied loads. I'm guessing wheel bearing but it's late and ****ing rain down on this little rest stop I've managed to limp it to, so further investigation and speculation will have to wait until the morning (at which point it will hopefully be sunny and dry out).

With all the love and attention I shower this blasted thing with you'd think it would reward me not punish me with new and constantly mounting problems.

Could also be a uni. Going up hill it will be under a little more load and hence noisier.

Not today but the weekend. Took the D1 for its first test run up around the Grampians.

Got it dirt cheap, completely stock apart from rangie alloys and bullbar. Gave her a service and a tidy up, put her back on factory alloys with a steel spare and spare cover plate..... then took to the hills!

She went really well on road biased tyres at road pressures climbing some very wet, steep sections. Impressed with the auto box on the climbs although not as good as a manual tdi when it comes to engine braking.



Good old TDI, great value these D1's

Received my wireless winch controller from ebay, will try and fit over this long weekend if i get my head all done.