Thread: hey all, I'm back - some questions after a trip to sydney

Originally Posted by matthewk

but back to the question in hand could it be that the radiator is junked up that she gets so hot?, now on the way home from syd passing another 93 disco owner had said thes have a bad habbit of junking up inside and the tanks need to be pulled off and cleaned out etc is this true?
could this acutally fix alot of the problems with the disco?

Matthew .... ALL cars suffer sooner or later with blocked radiator cores .... Tiss the nature of the beast

ALL cars should have their radiators removed every 5 years, and have their cores rodded
Also .... ALL cars need to have the externals of the radiators cleaned of bugs blocking the airflow thru the radiator ..... Especially after doing mud runs

To clean the external airflow of your Disco ... You have to undo the side retaining bolts of the radiator .. carefully push the radiator back, remove the top rubber seal, and push a water hose between the gap of the rad and the front cowling .... Have a look at all the bugs and junk being washed to the ground

You can't run the hose thru the front grill to wash .... as the Aircon rad is in the way, BUT you need to wash the bugs & junk off it also, Do this by removing the front grill

IN short, Yes, Remove the radiator and get it cleaned & rodded by a radiator repair centre


IT doesn't matter what brand of car you own ..... you will have to do this regardless of what brand it is ......

It is standard maintanenance

Originally Posted by matthewk

im not having a laugh guys i dont think its funny i think its crap im not having fun with the car at all, and im not trying to poke fun at landrover at all


and trying to get up a rock walll that the patrol took 2 go's and was up i couldnt even get it off the first part

I see that the Patrol has 15" rims with much taller sidewall tyres, So not quite stock, and your Disco is the stock as a rock version



Now onto your ride height and flex



I recon YOU could benefit from a set of 2" Dobinson's springs and it will transform your ride (with a different tyre choice) into the killer machine that you desire


But, personally, that car should have stepped up OK ....


By the way .... How much tread is actually left on those tyres??? and what was your tyre pressure set at??


Mike

Originally Posted by discowhite

the time i did the cv and axle in the 90, that was the track but we were not even close to that rock cutting.

cheers phil

no that looks like the climb we did when boxehead (Rob) went up.....dug a hole as it was a fair climb, I went up fell in his hole and then josh came up behind me and said I made a meal of it...

I remember the rock face off to the right in that pic like a wall all the way up next to it...I'm positive I have been up that bit

Originally Posted by discowhite

the time i did the cv and axle in the 90, that was the track but we were not even close to that rock cutting.

cheers phil

neverr been to menai first time,
i been to appin when i had my GQ i walked all over appin no worriesin the GQ back then it was 2inch coils and 33s and that was it
we went out on the 26 and for you sydney people would know it was raining both 25/26 so was quiet wet

that photo was wet, i tryed going up the right like the partol but just wheel spinn and tryed the left if i had gone to far right it ends up in the big v cut into the rock
in that photo i slipped off the edge anyways and that photo was the 6 time well after been pulled up that rear bumper has seen better life now
and the qauters need to be cut i bent and tore them on the cooper muddies which were thin 265

i did prado hill
i did 80 sires hill all of which need a highway built before i could go anywhere i just got stuck


i do all my own work cheaper, everytime i fix one thing somthing else would bust up
before i went up i replaced

alternator
axle housing
rear diff pion seal
thermal fans
window sissor arms
rotor button, leads, plugs,
oil, and its still clear after almost 2-3000ks of driving pritty happy about that
replaced wires on feul pump
glove box broke off

during sydney

radiator hose top it blew off in sydney will replac the bottom one shortly
she over heated several times
some how snapped a wheel nut just driving to sydney
rear windows now somtimes dont want to go up
drives crap on gas now again

thats about alll i can remember at this stage i dont want to remember the rest i'll just cry at the money been handed over lolol

Originally Posted by matthewk

neverr been to menai first time,
i been to appin when i had my GQ i walked all over appin no worriesin the GQ back then it was 2inch coils and 33s and that was it

we went out on the 26 and for you sydney people would know it was raining both 25/26 so was quiet wet

that makes rocks a far bit tricker

that photo was wet, i tryed going up the right like the partol but just wheel spinn and tryed the left if i had gone to far right it ends up in the big v cut into the rock
in that photo i slipped off the edge anyways and that photo was the 6 time well after been pulled up that rear bumper has seen better life now

and the qauters need to be cut i bent and tore them on the cooper muddies which were thin 265

I dented and busted mine even with a camel cut and I'm only running 245
i did prado hill
i did 80 sires hill all of which need a highway built before i could go anywhere i just got stuck


i do all my own work cheaper, everytime i fix one thing somthing else would bust up
before i went up i replaced

alternator
axle housing

rear diff pion seal

this has been done on mine 3 times

thermal fans

if you mean for the aircon yep mine need replacing now

window sissor arms

had three of those in one door
rotor button, leads, plugs,
oil, and its still clear after almost 2-3000ks of driving pritty happy about that
replaced wires on feul pump
glove box broke off

during sydney

radiator hose top it blew off in sydney will replac the bottom one shortly
she over heated several times
some how snapped a wheel nut just driving to sydney

rear windows now somtimes dont want to go up

has happened to mine recently still propped up actually
drives crap on gas now again

thats about alll i can remember at this stage i dont want to remember the rest i'll just cry at the money been handed over lolol

your not alone infact I could ad a hell of a lot more to your list that has been done on mine...I just see it as my car is 13years old I take it off road what can i expect..did you know who owned your car before you...could just be that it wasn't servied well by previous owner

Originally Posted by mike 90 RR

Matthew .... ALL cars suffer sooner or later with blocked radiator cores .... Tiss the nature of the beast

ALL cars should have their radiators removed every 5 years, and have their cores rodded
Also .... ALL cars need to have the externals of the radiators cleaned of bugs blocking the airflow thru the radiator ..... Especially after doing mud runs

To clean the external airflow of your Disco ... You have to undo the side retaining bolts of the radiator .. carefully push the radiator back, remove the top rubber seal, and push a water hose between the gap of the rad and the front cowling .... Have a look at all the bugs and junk being washed to the ground

You can't run the hose thru the front grill to wash .... as the Aircon rad is in the way, BUT you need to wash the bugs & junk off it also, Do this by removing the front grill

IN short, Yes, Remove the radiator and get it cleaned & rodded by a radiator repair centre


IT doesn't matter what brand of car you own ..... you will have to do this regardless of what brand it is ......

It is standard maintanenance





I see that the Patrol has 15" rims with much taller sidewall tyres, So not quite stock, and your Disco is the stock as a rock version



Now onto your ride height and flex



I recon YOU could benefit from a set of 2" Dobinson's springs and it will transform your ride (with a different tyre choice) into the killer machine that you desire


But, personally, that car should have stepped up OK ....


By the way .... How much tread is actually left on those tyres??? and what was your tyre pressure set at??


Mike

3tyres at 50 - 60% and the other tad less

that patrol next to the disco his tyre were the same or less

the white patrol in the back didnt even have tread ??????????????? on 35s

as for radiator is it just a matter of undoing all oil lines and waters hoses??????? to pull out the radiator? then clean out everything get rad back from center then reenstall?

but also i will ask this how have you guy keep the dizzy clean and dry??????????????????????????????????

I just had my radiator rodded. To remove it you:
Take the clip on top part of the plastic cowling off.
Remove the rest of the cowling and lay it back over the fan.
Remove the radiator hoses from the radiator and let it drain.
Once drained remove the oil lines and then plug/cover them up on both the hose and the radiator end.
Undo the two top brackets.
Pull the radiator up and out.

Takes about 10 minutes.

Cost me $110 to get it rodded. Was told it was 15-20% blocked.

Refitting it took longer as I replaced the hoses and tested the thermostat.

Haven't taken it for a proper test run yet as I only refitted it yesterday. Mine only got hot once on a mega hot day towing the camper trailer up hills.

If you actually blew the radiator hose off the fitting then are you sure you don't have a blown headgasket? Something is quite wrong there.

You have to cut your guards to fit 31s so if they are 32s you have would have mangled the rear guard pretty good.

Another thing is that if yours has stock suspension then it is probably sagged to buggery and much lower than standard. About $300 will sort that problem.

Your Disco sounds like in needs a bucket load of TLC. Not much point bagging LR out as it appears to be a pretty poor example of the breed. Although the list of bits you replaced seems pretty standard for any car other than the axle housing.

Originally Posted by Utemad

I just had my radiator rodded. To remove it you:
Take the clip on top part of the plastic cowling off.
Remove the rest of the cowling and lay it back over the fan.
Remove the radiator hoses from the radiator and let it drain.
Once drained remove the oil lines and then plug/cover them up on both the hose and the radiator end.
Undo the two top brackets.
Pull the radiator up and out.

Takes about 10 minutes.

Cost me $110 to get it rodded. Was told it was 15-20% blocked.

Refitting it took longer as I replaced the hoses and tested the thermostat.

Haven't taken it for a proper test run yet as I only refitted it yesterday. Mine only got hot once on a mega hot day towing the camper trailer up hills.

If you actually blew the radiator hose off the fitting then are you sure you don't have a blown headgasket? Something is quite wrong there.

You have to cut your guards to fit 31s so if they are 32s you have would have mangled the rear guard pretty good.

Another thing is that if yours has stock suspension then it is probably sagged to buggery and much lower than standard. About $300 will sort that problem.

Your Disco sounds like in needs a bucket load of TLC. Not much point bagging LR out as it appears to be a pretty poor example of the breed. Although the list of bits you replaced seems pretty standard for any car other than the axle housing.

cheers for that i was quoted 99 bucks here in dandy to pull tanks apart clean it out,

on closer inspection the top radiator hose wasn't in good condition as i first thought it had streached and thined out

iv replace most of the cooling system apart from the raidator
after the radiators done i with throw some cemi-weld throught it to clean up any extra smal hole or anyhting else that could be wrong


then i will wrorrie about the gear box

If you are going to have your radiator cleaned out I'd do the chemiweld thing first. That way it will do its thing inside the motor and anything that gets stuck in the radiator will be getting cleaned out anyway.