Thread: What happened to your Discovery 2 today?

Just be careful as the alternator can be damaged by a poor connection.
Funny, I bought mine from a young guy who reported to a mechanic that The steering had gone heavy and all the lights on the dash lit up. the mechanic charged him $650 to fit a new idler and check other things.

On my way home on the first day of ownership, the steering went heavy and the dash lit up. BECAUSE THE ENGINE HAD STOPPED.

I wiggled the battery terminal and lo and behold all was fixed.

I then went to an auto electrician and he fitted a real battery terminal not the stupid vertical ones.

The alternator soon went from a combo of the bad connection I guess and oil from the camshaft plug had fouled the brushes as well.
Get a new battery terminal.
Regards PhilipA

Must have been the week for batteries. I got rid of the little golf kart battery my d2a came with and put a real one in. Also chopped off the god awful connections on the leads and put a pair of nice Projecta terminals on the battery.

Originally Posted by shayne86

Must have been the week for batteries. I got rid of the little golf kart battery my d2a came with and put a real one in. Also chopped off the god awful connections on the leads and put a pair of nice Projecta terminals on the battery.

Well done - plenty of reserve there now, I have a 1000CCA too. I see the new neg cable, did you renew the two positive cables as well ?

Originally Posted by onebob

Well done - plenty of reserve there now, I have a 1000CCA too. I see the new neg cable, did you renew the two positive cables as well ?

That's the original neg cable. The two positives are original as well. I wanted to renew them but i have no idea where to find that 90° connection that terminates in the fuse box. So left it all alone for now

It got taken away on a trailer,,, which in itself is not that unusual...
but this time to a new home...
first time since 1997 I have been V8 discoless....

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

It got taken away on a trailer,,, which in itself is not that unusual...
but this time to a new home...
first time since 1997 I have been V8 discoless....

Commiserations Pete.

I'm sure the new love of your life will more than fill the void, even if it is a rattler

Originally Posted by rick130

Commiserations Pete.

I'm sure the new love of your life will more than fill the void, even if it is a rattler

Now that's a bridge too far, Rick.

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Well I am scratching my head, so I buy a cleaned up skimmed head (including injectors already refitted), they obviously had to remove injectors and glow plugs to skim it.

So dumbo me assumes they would have replaced washers and O rings on reassembly.

NOPE.

So today I got the mojo back up and learnt how to do it. Not too hard, they lifted out very easy with a 5mm allen key (120mm long was plenty for clearance and leverage) changed rubbers and washers and refitted. Did the 5 times accelerator thingy and then looked for leaks around the injectors as the pump was cycling, all seemed good to go so fitted the rocker cover and attempted to start it.
Well it just wound over and over and over again. Then I remembered the guy on youtube saying to hold down the accelerator while cranking coz it supposedly injects a richer mixture, so did that while cranking and after a bit a few pots started to fire and about 10 seconds of that and all good idling sweet, big white cloud in carport but it cleared up.

Started it briefly twice more to make sure it wasn't a fluke and all good for tonight.