Thread: New member with a new Disco

New caliper and pads went in.



This explains why when the brakes were wet or muddy they didn't provide much stopping force.



Up for a RWC next week now.

Replaced the rears too, and lucky I did. When I pulled the rear tyres off I confirmed a suspect oil leak from my rear left hub.


Appears the bolts had given up. Not great! Managed to pull the snapped bolts out and the two remaining bolts had very nearly given up too. That one top bolt was actually stretched even more than the pic as it was pushed back together before the pic.

The rear brakes were also rooted...

Adjusted the handbrake and gave the car a clean by hand for the first time since I've owned it. Came up pretty nice in my opinion. Road worthy wasn't a problem. Sorted!


So looking at new discs too. Only 90 bucks an end and I think I'll enlist Daves help with slotting in new rear bearings and make them oil fed rather than grease. The oil in the rear is in poor shape, as is the grease on the bearings.

The missus has gone away for the week and figured seeing as how I've had the car sit on its guts in mud and water for hours at a time, combined with the leaking hubs, I was due for an oil change. Front and rear diffs on the disco. Rear looked like this.. And the oil (no that's not a shadow, that was some left over oil in the tub mixed in).



Replaced the bolts too with some high tensile ones. Gold. That's gotta be worth 15hp.



The front at least still looked like oil.



The Mitsubishi Delica I recently gained has a magnetic plug and caught s heap of sludge and filings. The transfer case had a bit too on the plug but nothing major, only issue is the oil smells and 'feels' like ATF. Not great. But at least it was clean-ish.

Musta been a lot of water in the axle for the oil to be that colour.....nasty!! So glad I dont drown mine.....haha

Originally Posted by theNEWT

Musta been a lot of water in the axle for the oil to be that colour.....nasty!! So glad I dont drown mine.....haha

I agree. I've lost a bit of oil out of the hubs, and gained a lot of water back. When I removed the filler bolt oil started flowing out as the pic shows. I'm running this lot of oil for a few tanks of fuel then I'll swap it out again. Hopefully not major damage has been done as a result. I really should make the breathers a higher priority too.

I got out for a few hours. I wanted to check out a beach and potential camping spot over the dry. I only got stuck once as I diff'd out! Which if you know me is a miracle and I was recovered straight away.

Anyhow a few snaps from today.

Damn Land Rovers! I swear you only get about 200km between problems. Today I have the gearbox/TC temp light come on and stay on. Is a fault though as it was when the car was cold. Oil in both TC and GB are in good condition and right levels.

I need to check the two temp sensors for shorts or faults. If they are a pain I'll just disconnect them. Beats having a faulty light on. I've drowned them all pretty well so no surprises as to when they are dead (if that is the case).

nice hard sand on that beach. over here its like talcum powder. nice place though. any crocs there?