Thread: What happened to your Discovery 2 today?

Added dual battery to brothers TD5.
Plus some power ports to the rear.

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Handy little blank plates out back there.
My V8 has the audio controls for the rear passengers.

Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares

just some advice, I read on here somewhere that glue doesn't work when making a provent bracket.

Oh but i heard they build cars with glue
No stress im handy on the tools i will fab something sturdy enough that will out handle a Lotus

Originally Posted by discorevy

Chris , you probably already know this , but if you got the manual one you will need to relocate your gearbox cooler, Brit versions don't have one

Yeah no probs i had read that and will be prepared for a bit of fab work

Washed it so it looks nice when the man test drives it tomorrow
Hopefully he falls in love with it and buys it or at least makes a sensible offer

Originally Posted by land864

Washed it so it looks nice when the man test drives it tomorrow
Hopefully he falls in love with it and buys it or at least makes a sensible offer

And if he doesn't then
Best of luck for tomoz.

Know thy enemy(they say)


Fuel Pressure Regulator!

.. is an enemy I don't want to know about any more!

Ouch!... bloody hell .. and what kind of imbecile(s) designs such a brainless setup?

SO brother and I were due to hit the road at about 12PM today.
I head to his place, he tells me "I can smell diesel".
Long story short ... FPR is leaking at the rear.
He has a kit already .. 'lets do it before we head off' I tell him. (OK, so now I know better).

First fit of the FPR was a total disaster. Not my area(TD5) of interest to be honest, but thought how hard can it be.
He had no idea either, and so we both didn't see the O ring on the head .. so the inevitable massive leak ensued on the first fit.
Quickly retrieve second gasket and O ring this time, fit FPR, not only a simple PITA .. but a truly monumental PITEBP(Every Body Part!!) trying to get it in and secured.
Anyhow .. managed that, finally, no diesel gushing between FPR body and head... we do the priming sequence and we now have a leak from the fuel spill return line at both compression fittings(which weren't there at first).
No problemo I said ... it's up top there, nice and easy to get too(of course little did I know).
Obviously didn't want to remove inlet manifold and make more work for ourselves .. infamous last words!

Curious if anyone has managed to remove and refit the front connector successfully without removing the inlet manifold?
Tried the crows foot tool, ground it down to the barest minimum material left to get it to fit within the non existent space allocated there, but still no luck. Dropped the alternator for more room, nothing!
Without a totally modded tool of some type, inlet HAS to come off me thinks .. but I do have a new plan of attack for it tomorrow.

So details of todays ordeal(instead of driving towards the sunset and taking a couple of days off):
started at 12, I finally had to concede defeat at 10PM.
12-4PM was to finally get the FPR body not leaking(including the 30mins to retrieve another new gasket and O ring and to replace the rounded bolt with new 13mm(headed) flanged bolts).
4-10PM was wasted unable to remove the top spill return pipe(front union).
Mind you this included no food until 9PM, 3 shower periods and freezing cold southerlys

I removed the inlet manifold.
Next time I will again do that, although it has now been 4 years so I must have done something right.

Regards Philip A

Packed it, heading to the breach to camp.
It hasn't been used for weeks, at last it started this morning!