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Go to this site; www.discovery2.co.uk click on WORKSHOP, then intercooler clean, for a tutorial with photos. Helped me, but I do feel your pain, a cow of a job. Next time I do it, I'm going to make it worthwhile, remove the radiator,clean it, replace the thermostat, and hoses, and the viscous fan bearing, [ a bit noisy] Bob
After all this "drama queen" carry on about the intercooler flush I though it was time to bite the bullet and flush the damn thing.
The worst part of the job is that it is time consuming first time through. You don't need to hacksaw anything, you don't need to swear at things, and you definitely don't need a menagerie of pigs, dogs and cows to describe it.
I followed the revised RAVE procedure and the whole thing took about 2.5 pretty leisurely hours. I reckon if you follow the process to the letter you can't go far wrong. It's worth pulling the fan and lower cowling, and lifting the radiator out of the chassis mounts allows you to move the bottom of the radiator forward and gives a pretty decent amount of room to work in.
The intercooler came out with a little bit of manoeuvring and went in the same way. The drivers side locating peg is a fairly tight squeeze when you try to realign with the cutout in the radiator but only need a gentle push to get everything lined up.
I used a litre of shellite to flush (it did a wash and a rinse) and it seem to work reasonably well - there wasn't much in the way of gunk, and the rinse only had a faint taint.
Anyway job done and I have 80,000km to wait before I need to do it again.
I also picked up a damp swage on the Auto cooler line while I was doing the job - I'm always suspicious that disturbing the radiator triggers follow up hose replacements. Anyway if moving the radiator was enough to tigger a leak it was on it's way out so better to do now than on a roadside in the middle of whoop-whoop.
cheers
Paul
Good for you, just another job, sport, all you need is time, BobQuote:
Originally Posted by OffTrack
Why would one attempt to remove intercooler without first removing the fan:confused:
I had a wet fitting on the trans cooler quick couple connection, I found I could push the fitting on about 5mm more thus solving the leak!
Regards
Because people read Urban Panzer's site and follow his how-to's rather than reading RAVE:Quote:
Originally Posted by northiam
I'll have to double check on the connection. I had left the intercooler hose in place and I noticed it dripped a few times. I've got my fingers crossed that it just happened to drip on the swaged joint. I'll wash the engine bay and keep an eye on it over then few days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Urban Panzer
cheers
Paul
Clean them in place----great mate but how???:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Blknight.aus
I suspect for most people it will be simpler and quicker to remove the intercooler:Quote:
Originally Posted by greg smith
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Originally Posted by Blknight.aus
I followed Urban Panzer's way of doing it, and re-installed a D2a intercooler without removing the fan at all. It was a little bit tight and required some wiggling but went in without damaging anything. The biggest prickle was re-attaching the Davis Performance Landies auto cooler I have - needed the wife to start the small bolts holding it in place coz my hand are too big.Quote:
Originally Posted by OffTrack
But that's it. Do people find it hard to follow Urban Panzers tutorial? I thought it rocked. I have rave too but found his way much easier.;)
The only difference between the current RAVE procedure and UPanzers method is the UP doesn't remove the fan or lower cowl. For the 2-3 minutes extra it takes I can't see the point of not removing to be honest. You have far more room to work with the lower cowl and fan out of the way.
The problem I find with workshop shortcuts in general is more often than not you trade X minutes disassembly and reassembly time for spending X minutes or more messing about due to reduced access.
I will agree with that. While there is some things that you can easily bypass the factory method, mostly the procedure as in manual is the easiest. It may not always be the quickest but is often easisest in the long run. I long ago have given up on the hanging up side down in the engine bay like a bat :o For 1 thing my glasses fall off now!:eek::DQuote:
Originally Posted by OffTrack
The secret is dont do it until you have the time, nothing worse than trying an engine overhaul be4 brekky!
Cheers Scott