Thread: What happened to your Discovery 2 today?

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

What a great idea!
Well Done That Man!

I have that style of set up on mine.

I just have a dry sensor placed in an eye terminal that has been crimped a bit to fit snugly and covered in BluTac to reduce conduction from the air on one of the housing bolts.
It is accurate within about 0.2-0.5C and not much trouble to fit.
The whole setup costs about $20-25 on ebay.
Regards PhilipA

Originally Posted by V8Ian

I recently had to replace a blown ACE line and used a hydraulic hose outfit. As the repair was urgent, I used a local mob. I later found out that the hoses and lines are available from the likes of Roverlord Off Road Spares, MR, British Off Road etc. at half the price of hose makers.

For comparison, the replacement of the broken flexible part of my rear ACE pipes was approx half the cost of any replacement I could find delivered to Melbourne.

The past few days the car has had rumble vibration. I'm trying to think what it could be. Tonight, coming home from basketball, one of the kids says the wheel is squeaking. I stop and check. Three of the wheel nuts are loose!!
Tighten them up, squeak and vibration has gone. And yes I did change the rear pads about 2 weeks ago!

Originally Posted by Bohica

The past few days the car has had rumble vibration. I'm trying to think what it could be. Tonight, coming home from basketball, one of the kids says the wheel is squeaking. I stop and check. Three of the wheel nuts are loose!!
Tighten them up, squeak and vibration has gone. And yes I did change the rear pads about 2 weeks ago!

Listening to kids can be a PITA sometimes, but their ears are way better.... Just wish they'd use them more often.

Originally Posted by Bohica

The past few days the car has had rumble vibration. I'm trying to think what it could be. Tonight, coming home from basketball, one of the kids says the wheel is squeaking. I stop and check. Three of the wheel nuts are loose!!
Tighten them up, squeak and vibration has gone. And yes I did change the rear pads about 2 weeks ago!

Looking back at your pics the wheel stud threads certainly look clean and corrosion free. Just the addition of a smear of oil or anti seize to each stud would aid achieving spec wheel nut torque. It’s prudent to drive a short distance and to re-check the wheel nuts rather than relying on 🤞🏽

Just saying ......

Took Crumby for a visit to the Farrriers for some new shoes and added some refurbished 18’s, had to add 3mm to the steering lock stops, new tyres are RoadCruza 1100 285/60R 18. 150km on Blacktop feels nice tot too loud

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Hopefully over working on the D2 for a while...[/QUOTE]

Originally Posted by Tins

Good luck with that..

Why did I even put that in writing!
Got the ACE system back together then took it for a drive to bleed the system...
Came back to see coolant dripping out and found that stupid plastic return nipple that I had carefully glued on had broken away!

The worst design imaginable from a failure mode perspective. Will do it properly with a new radiator which I read is not a fun thing to do.