Thread: What happened to your Discovery 2 today?

Originally Posted by John_D2

So u think just 1 swing away? I hadn’t thought of that

One swingaway is so much easier if you regularly want to open the back door. I assume you have seen the Bunbury uni students system which opens the swingaway as you open the rear door - pretty neat!

Originally Posted by gavinwibrow

One swingaway is so much easier if you regularly want to open the back door. I assume you have seen the Bunbury uni students system which opens the swingaway as you open the rear door - pretty neat!

No I haven’t. Could u post a link pls?

Sort of like this idea in post number 53?

Building A Defender 90 Into An Expedition Truck
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I made my own rear bar so needed to keep it simple and light weight. I raised..flipped the std spare carrier and put one jerry can swing away to the left the missus can still use the car easily ..which with 2 swing aways would be too much!

More fuel can alway be put up top..if needed.

2 spares is very wide and heavy too.

Originally Posted by John_D2

No I haven’t. Could u post a link pls?

Sorry John. Been back to 2017 and could not find it so far. If I remember his moniker, will search by that. I'm sure he will post again before too long

Originally Posted by PhilipA

Changed the oils in the diffs and transfer case.

It's no big deal to get to the filler next to the handbrake cable. I used a 3/16 to 1/2 inch converter with an extension that was about 150MM long that fitted between the brake drum and muffler guard. The reason is that the smaller diameter extension fits more upright into the square drive hole when against the brake backing plate. It still can get a bit tight so its important to make sure it doesn't enter the square drive fully.

I first tried a short wobble extension but the female end of the wobble was hard up against the brake drum.

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Regards Philip A

Another option(depending on budget and stuff).

110Nm torque limiting extension in 1/2 drive size.
I recently got a set(about $60 for 6), my set ranges from 90Nm to about 200Nm .. the 90 and 110Nm tubes have a very slim tube/extension tube section.
About the size of a 1/4" drive extension.
The main one I got the set for is the 135Nm tube for the wheel nuts(specced value is 130Nm), and I keep it on the extension wrench and 27mm socket I use for the wheel nuts.
This tube is more similar in size to a commonly found 3/8" drive extension tho.

Length is 195mm in total, neck length is 150mm from the front 1/2 drive male end to about half way up the tapered end of the female 1/2 end.

My thinking is that the set will be useful somewhere/somehow, mainly got it for the wheel nut ratchet, and being 135Nm gives you an idea of roughly where to set tightness(I needed an extension anyhow).

Have had issues in the past with extension shafts being too thick to fit into other areas, and the slimmest 90Nm extension would be ideal for the TC fill plug.
Obviously you won't use these to torque the fill plug tho!

ps. these torque limiting tubes work quite OK in practise. You easily feel when they start to twist/bend, and accurate enough for stuff like wheel nuts, or suspension nuts/bolts .. etc.
Wouldn't use them for critical stuff like headbolts, and whatnot tho.
On my test with the wheel nuts, they come in within about 5Nm of what the torque wrench gets.

Well my D2 did its best ExxonValdez impersonation yesterday and so today was spent degreasing it, the trailer and driveway and street......

The screws on the centrifugal filter had walked out a bit and well you can guess the rest....

It was due for an oil change so my current theory is it became self aware and took it upon itself to dump the old oil.

Originally Posted by Wilyms

Well my D2 did its best ExxonValdez impersonation yesterday and so today was spent degreasing it, the trailer and driveway and street......

The screws on the centrifugal filter had walked out a bit and well you can guess the rest....

It was due for an oil change so my current theory is it became self aware and took it upon itself to dump the old oil.

Can't beat that self awareness!