Thread: New Disco and some Questions

Gday mate, Nice ride. Regarding the factory bar I had one on my last TD5, if your brackets are sort of part of the bar be carefull snatching off it as I did this when I was broken down on Bribie beach and the force nearly pulled/pushed the top of the bar into the bonnet. If its like mine was I would'nt use them. I nearly made an expensive mistake that day.
I have those arb steps on mine and no I would'nt jack by them mate.

Steve

Welcome to AULRO crog.
Nice looking rig
The plugs are IIR for a heated demister in the windscreen glass fitted in over seas markets.
There are lots of spare plugs as one main loom fitts all was easier for adding the market driven accecories.

I'd prefer to see the bars in person before passing a comment.
Having said that feel free to join in on any trip, look in the up comming area reguarly.

If you can't find what you need for the service in The Good Oil have a look at this site....
http://www.discovery2.co.uk/
It includes a piture tuturial on servicing, http://www.discovery2.co.uk/oil_change.html

Cheers, Kyle

Thanks for welcome guys really looking forward to doing some overnighters up around Thompson here in Vic my favorite place is Otooles flat, not to hard to get to but couple of creeks which make it a little more difficult and you dont get the weekend carloads

As to comments

Gday mate, Nice ride. Regarding the factory bar I had one on my last TD5, if your brackets are sort of part of the bar be carefull snatching off it .

No they are not part of the bar they are physically seperate and protrude through the plastic bumper and are bolted to brackets which appear welded to the chassis the second last pic shows the recovery point head on and the bracket it is bolted to which appears fixed to chassis rail and welded. Might put my snatch on around a tree and give them a pull and see if bull bar moves but I cant see how the rails are attached

Cheers for links and help i will introduce myself there and hopefully me and boy can grab the swag and do an overnighter as I am only a couple of hours from the Vic high country and have only ever scratched surface around Jamieson, Heyfield and Walhalla

It's a stock bar, and the mount looks to be standard. The "points" are part of the bar mount, and shouldn't be treated as anything better than a relocated stock tow point.

Thanks Off track, looks like I need to get some fitted

Just looked at the UK site all I can say is the pictorials are awsome

Thanks guys

The centrifugal oil filter is no sweat mate. I think there is two 10mm bolts and thats the lid off. Then the filter and don't forget to change the o ring as well.

Originally Posted by Walky

The centrifugal oil filter is no sweat mate. I think there is two 10mm bolts and thats the lid off. Then the filter and don't forget to change the o ring as well.

Just be extremely careful with those 6mm bolts (10mm spanner) as they are prone to stripping the threads in the housing so don't overtighten.

The full flow filter is awkward to access - I place a plastic shopping bag around it when removing and this then catches any oil that spills while manouvering it out and around the exhaust pipe etc.

HTH

Originally Posted by crog

Thanks for welcome guys really looking forward to doing some overnighters up around Thompson here in Vic my favorite place is Otooles flat, not to hard to get to but couple of creeks which make it a little more difficult and you dont get the weekend carloads

As to comments



No they are not part of the bar they are physically seperate and protrude through the plastic bumper and are bolted to brackets which appear welded to the chassis the second last pic shows the recovery point head on and the bracket it is bolted to which appears fixed to chassis rail and welded. Might put my snatch on around a tree and give them a pull and see if bull bar moves but I cant see how the rails are attached

Cheers for links and help i will introduce myself there and hopefully me and boy can grab the swag and do an overnighter as I am only a couple of hours from the Vic high country and have only ever scratched surface around Jamieson, Heyfield and Walhalla

Ok sorry I could'nt tell in the pic. I only tried it that one time and never again with what was on mine. Was terrible!