Thread: What happened to your Discovery 2 today?

I don't know what temp it runs at but never moves from exactly half on the factory gauge once hot. I keep an eye on that.

No, the fuel heater is ok but there is stains at the back of the motor.

Originally Posted by Tombie

Because we can’t afford Rockets or Submarines.

You can have both with a D2

Do tell,,,

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

Do tell,,,

I have had the bonnet under water on a couple of occasions (submarine) and although the V8 is only 4l it takes off like a "rocket" when given a good dose of right foot

Originally Posted by Mickyg

I don't know what temp it runs at but never moves from exactly half on the factory gauge once hot. I keep an eye on that.

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No point. better to hide it with tape or something like that.
Mine is waiting for me to find the time to fix overheating(most likely head gasket).

I have no secondary coolant gauge yet, but relying on the nanocom.
I've had it sitting idling for over an hour, and it didn't budge past 60°C(nanocom reading, but it was cold day too tho), so I made plans to drive it to the garage to get the RWC cert to get it registered.
Drive it one last time around the block just to be sure, and sure enough it overheated .. so did more heat soak testing.
So middle reading on the dash gauge can be anywhere between 60-98°C!

Then it starts to climb at about 100°-ish and I've noticed it hit the red line at around 110°C or so, but on some occasions I've noticed it at 115°C by the time I've got back to the driveway to park it back up again.
I'm thinking that the nanocom's reading on the ODB port could be a touch variable too tho hence why sometimes I see 110° at the red line and sometimes as high as 115°

The thermostat currently installed is an 88°C type and I have a 78°C version I'm going to try one day to see how it runs with that.

Drove mine to Bright for the father in laws 70th. Didn't miss a beat

While u was replacing these broken, annoyingly vibrating parts -

This happened-

Resulting in drilling out the head. The rest of the bolt came out with my fingers!

Replaced my steering knuckle ball joints (at long last)

Was very concerned about this job, read a lot of posts about how difficult it was, broken tools etc!

In the end I came to the conclusion that its really not that hard, having the right tools, doing the right research and some common sense all goes a long way.

The biggest tip I have to anyone doing this is to make sure that the extraction tool is absolutely straight and everything is square and inline, once you do this the jobs a breeze