Thread: What happened to your Discovery 2 today?

Originally Posted by PhilipA

That is an enormous amount of blow by.
How many Ks on the car?
I would be lucky to get 10Ml after say 8KKm.

Regards PhilipA

My engine has done 407600kms, however, PROVENT filter elements are also very efficient compared to plain mesh. What type filter are you using?

Well it was yesterday, not today.
We went over to see my mother in Moonee Ponds and on the way over we managed to be able to sit in the posted speed limit until we hits King St (Melb CBD). We thought that was pretty remarkable. On the way home (Moe) we again magaged to sit on the posted speed limit from the start of the Burnley tunnel to Home. Even managed to use cruise control just about all of the trip - both ways.
Fuel consumption for the day ? 9.6 l/100km.
Remarkable...

Today I replaced the camshaft cover gasket aka rocker cover. The front camshaft bore cover seal. The 13 grommet-sealing things. The gasket had gone hard and was leaking. The same for the grommet-sealing things. Sad as these were new in September 2015. I also replaced the injector loom as a preventative measure. I did intend to replace the rear camshaft bore cover, but did not have enough room.

rocker cover.jpg

Injector Loom.jpg

It took three tries to get the camshaft cover back on, it is a bit fiddly. A torque wrench is for me a necessity, 10Nm is not much and very easy to over tighten.
The best part, the engine started!!!!
The existing injector loom was sealed with silicon, so I guess I have a spare.

My engine has done 407600kms, however, PROVENT filter elements are also very efficient compared to plain mesh. What type filter are you using?

I have had both a filter and mesh and never had more than say 10-20Ml.
I posted some photos a couple of months ago when I took off the manifold to replace the FPR hose and the inside was dry.

It's understandable that you would have lots of blowby at over 400KK, but the poor old engine is quite worn .
Regards PhilipA

Basically in this case None, no sign at all other than a vibration through the vehicle when hot which ive been chasing for some time. I suspected the bearing but when id test it from cold it would appear to be fine not notchy at all. But determined to find the problem i gave it a good run getting up to temperature then removed the viscous fan etc and retested which then revealed that it was buggered. Fitted new bearing today and all is good in fact best its ever been, engine feels smother and doesnt feel like its being held. I have replaced the engine mounts, exhaust front pipe, the harmonic balancer for a Ross Performance full metal jacket type $$$ and gone through a whole load of alignment adjustments chasing this vibration. So im happy now to have resolved it.

Originally Posted by PhilipA

I have had both a filter and mesh and never had more than say 10-20Ml.
I posted some photos a couple of months ago when I took off the manifold to replace the FPR hose and the inside was dry.

It's understandable that you would have lots of blowby at over 400KK, but the poor old engine is quite worn .
Regards PhilipA

.......that's quite an assumption that you make.

...unsurprisingly, my TD5, like all the others out there will have some combustion blow-by, but the engine doesn’t consume (burn) an abnormal amount of oil between services as a worn engine would, and in addition there is no fuel dilution of the engine oil or evidence of crank case over-pressure in the form of gasket leaks etc. The oil in the catch can is no more than evidence of efficient crankcase ventilation and scavenging of aerosol oil mist and vapors. My diesel mechanic son says that synthetic oils are more stable and have less volatile components than the full mineral oils that I like to use, further adding that I should expect to see a change if i moved to a fully synthetic engine oil which is in fact recommended by Land Rover for the Td5. I think I’ll take his advice and also benefit from a longer oil change interval.

BTW Flashlube / Terrain Tamer recommend to drain the catch can at 2000Km intervals.

peace
onebob

I charged the battery. Otherwise it sits in disgrace.

Cheers

Story against myself.
Yesterday I tried another cure for my noisy AM radio, in that I replaced the trigger wire to solonoid with a shielded wire grounded each end. seems to make little difference. I however now have worked out that it is the ECU, as when I turn off, there is this whine starting high and diminishing downwards. The capacitors!

Another job was to fit a small plug on my Numberplate light to feed a couple of LEDS on my Bike number plate. I blew the numberplate light fuse so replaced it with a spare 10Amp fuse.( I don't really know why I did this as it is unlikely that I will ever have the bike rack on at night, but you never know with some officious cop)
When I moved the car yesterday the SRS light stayed on. So read up last night on causes ready to dig around under the seats. Tried Nanocom as someone posted that showed fault, as when I tried yesterday it said could not connect to ECU.
Well this morning I looked in the manual again and see the SRS fuse is number 35 and that is up at the LH top of the fuse array, and that is what I thought was the spare fuse.
Refitted and fixed.
DOH!