Thread: What happened to your Discovery 2 today?

Yeah thats probably true, Ill put another axle in and see how long that lasts,

Is it worth taking the other one out and swapping it? The left? Also how much for HD cvs?

I think also the previous owner who had the lockers on his disco had 33's so the CVs could of be stressed from that and i finished it off haha.

Originally Posted by Kaaaiju

Something odd too, looking at my bros dashcam, The moment the disco broke the CV an puff of black smoke come out and the engine light came on.

I cleared it with the nano com and it was fine

I didnt know if something happened from the engine side?

Yes, all explainable...

Light is because a feed to Slabs has just failed.
Smoke is likely the tyre as it suddenly gained the grip that destroyed the shaft.

This is extremely easy to do and explain...

Packed my D2 up as the family rig for a quick jaunt to Western Victoria to see the inlaws. Haven't got around to fixing the territory's air conditioning mixing fault (heater on full on the drivers side all the time due to snapped mixing rod). "What's that honey? The territory is still broken? I guess we're stuck with the Landy then." Yippee! Might have to leave the territory broken for a while....

Originally Posted by Tombie

Yes, all explainable...

Light is because a feed to Slabs has just failed.
Smoke is likely the tyre as it suddenly gained the grip that destroyed the shaft.

This is extremely easy to do and explain...

Thanks for the response and explanation, but here is the video from my bros car.

As you can see the puff of black smoke from the exhaust when it failed

Disco CV Snap Black Smoke - YouTube

Puff of smoke is probably just the engine fuelling from the sudden loss of load and the electronic governor reacting to reduce and reapply power for a moment. I wouldn't read much into it.

^^ this

Towed the Jayco camper out to West Bay Campground in Kangaroo Island & was chatting to a diesel troopy owner later. He asked me how I went driving in up the steep incline with the hairpin at the bottom.

Me: no issues, barely spun a tyre

Him: wow that’s great I had to stop 1/2 way up, lock my hubs, engage low range, then could keep going!

Love the Landy!

Dumped the coolant, did a flush with citric acid, dumped and flushed that, then added Cummins Tecinfinity coolant.

We'll see how the temps go, they were getting a little high under load.

Cleaned the plugs on the ECU and out of the head, plus the fuel water sensor plugs after having the warning lights and check engine lights come on.