Thread: What happened to your Discovery 2 today?

Finally finished the head job on the TD5 yesterday after months apart, took her for a test drive to a local boat ramp about 8ks away, i popped the bonnet at the ramp to see diesel spraying from the FPR, no spanners with me so i headed home and hoped for the best, Nope! ran out of fuel about 3 Ks from home, all sorted now with the help of my wife and daughter, ended up being a loose fuel pipe and it dumped about 15 litres of fuel all over the place.
The Td5 is running well now it's a idles lot sweeter than it was, probably the injector seals helped, I also did the starter solenoid, fuel cooler,aux belt, made the main harness respectable again and fitted a Provent and a few hoses also.

One thing i am disappointed in is my windscreen plinth? [bottom thingee], it was perfect before i started and now it's cracked from me leaning on it, I took the bonnet off and the front wheels and let her down as far as i could and still i stuffed it.
Next time i'll make a timber rail that runs from guard to guard so i can rest my arm on it

And there it is.. 150k on the way to buy a big breaker bar,17mm socket and a can of Loctite freeze release, so I can give it a service...

I re fitted the intercooler today, a painful job taking it out and putting it back. I also removed the EGR actuators, and piping. The electrical connections were removed by a previous owner. The EGR hole on the exhast manifold had been blanked off. The next job is to remove the EGR valve, as soon as I replace my lost 8mm socket.
I lost the bolt that attaches the intercooler bracket to the car body. An m8 x 16.
As I have fitted a Provent. I will need to clean the intercooler in about 380,000 kms. The engine has 310,00kms on it. I think that an intercooler flush is unlikely.

Sunday 31st December update. The EGR valve is out.

Just back from first beach trip at double island
Went great! Just need rear dog barrier so I can stack up higher
Few d2 and d1 gave the wave back

Finally drained water from front indicator and replaced globe holder which had corroded the terminals away, topped up washer bottle and re fitted side steps, happy days

Tried to drive to margret river from perth, got to bunbury, complete loss of drive - was able to get going again and get to the landy guy here, waiting to hear what the damage is $$$

Originally Posted by johnjohnson

Tried to drive to margret river from perth, got to bunbury, complete loss of drive - was able to get going again and get to the landy guy here, waiting to hear what the damage is $$$

If it's bad I have a good spare auto box in Margaret River.
Good luck
Nick

Originally Posted by Pippin

If it's bad I have a good spare auto box in Margaret River.
Good luck
Nick

Thanks nick! Lucky was just the airflow meter - back on the road