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I sold my D2a to a couple of young blokes on a neighboring farm for 3K saving myself $900 a year in rego and on average $7000 a year on upkeep and maintenance .
We sold the van so I had the choice of either keeping the D2a or the 79 Series, The choice was obvious.
I do miss the disco But I couldn't justify keeping both tow tugs..
My D2 Td5 took me to Melbourne (and actually brought me back too !) start of the month towing a furniture trailer to pick up my wayward youngest.
I started off with my custom tune ecu and the V8 trans controller and had a stock tune ecu and the Td5 trans controller with me, swapped things around for the first few hundred kays and added to my knowledge base.
What went wrong was at some point b4 I got to Melbourne it started whistling like it does when the exhaust manifold leaks (been there heard that), but started to kangaroo when I put the foot down too much/fast, having had this problem when I first got it and it was plumbed with the wastegate modulator bypassed, I thought it had stuffed itself again or was leaking from a split hose so carried on to the next fuel stop and found that the pressure hose going to the bottom of the wastegate modulator had popped off.
Of course no end of putting it on while driving kept it on and being hot on the hands and tedious to keep pulling over I gave up and feathered the throttle the rest of the way to Melbourne, loaded up and headed straight back to Adelaide.
I had left home at 7pm, had tools but not much I could do throughout the night other than change back to the stock tune ecu which alleviated the overboost kangarooing, so knowing the issue I drove all the way back to Adelaide gingerly rather than worry about why it kept popping off, and got home a bit frustrated I couldn't cruise up the slopes without a big slowdown but a good test of the vehicle on a decent run.
I replaced the hose with a new longer piece so I could fit it with the wastegate modulator unbolted and eyeball that it was fully on the modulator inlet and all good from then.
Lessons learnt is that my rough (understatement with how I have butchered the fuel tables) amateur tuning is pretty good and makes a goodly amount of grunt but that the V8 trans controller which I love around town as it lets me cruise around at 1350 rpm at 60 km/h is an oversensitive frustrating thing when towing even trying to nurse it .
I am now back to the Td5 trans controller around town and to my surprise with the tune pushing it up the revs quicker it changes quite nicely and quickly gets into 4th just doesn't lock the clutch which I do miss.
My opinion now is that next upgrade is a V8 torque converter.
For anyone who read this far and remembers I keep removing things the removal of the fuel 'cooler' has not caused any issues and on the long run there was no heat creep upwards, fuel was never closer than 5 degrees below coolant temp (and never has been even in the high temp days around town) and in the last few hundred kays in the wee hours when outside temps were down it was 15 degrees cooler than coolant temp.
And I replaced my slightly weeping turbo drain pipe gasket yesterday[smilebigeye] .
NO I AM NOT GOING TO REMOVE AND BLOCK OFF THE TURBO DRAIN PIPE TO PROVE YOU CAN DO WITHOUT IT !!
I am not THAT determined to minimise things hanging off the donk [tonguewink]
Well, replaced cracked centre dash surround and instrument binnacle, replaced x5 missing wheel nuts & cleaned and repaired door trims. Also found the worlds worst speaker wiring patch job, replaced aftermarket with factory rover speakers. Thank you wreckers for replacement parts!
i reckon if they'd let the tyres down it would have made it or not[bigrolf]
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Originally Posted by trout1105
:eek2: rebuilt engine every 2nd year, and rebuilt transmission on the alternate years?
Whyatts will no longer be able to maintain one of their islands in the Carribean [bigwhistle]
You'll be staying on though ?
Replaced the fuel pump today. 8 years ago I replaced with a new genuine VDO complete assembly, so was a bit surprised it failed recently.
So this time I replaced just the pump itself with a genuine VDO part for $295 incl Mahle filter. Bit fiddly and you need to be careful unclipiing the assembly and reattaching the HP hose ( also supplied new in the kit).
Was it a slow failure (ie. you knew it was coming) or sudden expected failure?Quote:
Originally Posted by simonmelb
Only asking as its on my shopping list when funds allow. I have an 04 v8 and i have no idea if its ever been done so trying to do a little future proofing, if that makes sense
Was an unexpected failure - the old pump would run only for a short time then stop with a whack of a rubber mallet on the underside of the fuel tank.
Lucky it failed 1km from home, not up at Mt Hotham 2 days prior with my son driving!
A rough replacement guide is 150k km or 10 years.
I would replace the whole assembly if funds allow.
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Originally Posted by shayne86
The V8 is a different pump. I believe, like the D1, it shares the same basic pump as a Commodore. Procure a cheap Commodore pump from Repco or whatever parts joint you use, and just change the electrical terminals.Quote:
Originally Posted by shayne86
I drove up Monument Track to see Craig's Hut. Low range first gear, nice traction control action. Drove along Mitchell's Track, Masters Track and Symes Track. 28 degrees descent and 30 degrees ascent. I felt that the car would tip over backwards!
I am really loving the Disco on these tracks.