Thread: What happened to your Discovery 2 today?

Well scored a roof rack today (three day odyssey really) which to replace the cheap one I got to get the RRT home. The forward tray was too thin to mount the tent in so it hangs over the back door but is rock solid, pulling on the rack, the D2 moves not the bars and RRT. The front space looks like a great place to mount a top up solar panel charger when Edwards not in use. Let alone I can now mount a shade on with out worrying about integrity, and lights and...

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Sure makes a difference and must be about 2" lower.

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One thing though had to mount the tent to the rack before fitting the rack, just no room to get under the tray to do it.

Nice looking rack
A lightbar and a solar panel would be the goods on that front section

Originally Posted by RRT

Well scored a roof rack today (three day odyssey really) which to replace the cheap one I got to get the RRT home. The forward tray was too thin to mount the tent in so it hangs over the back door but is rock solid, pulling on the rack, the D2 moves not the bars and RRT. The front space looks like a great place to mount a top up solar panel charger when Edwards not in use. Let alone I can now mount a shade on with out worrying about integrity, and lights and...

Sure makes a difference and must be about 2" lower.

One thing though had to mount the tent to the rack before fitting the rack, just no room to get under the tray to do it.

I think I like your previous setup better, I wish I had a solid 3 bar no flat deck setup for my RTT, seems having a flat deck is more annoying, like I ended up cutting out 2 slats that ran parallel to the rack to allow my tent to sit down lower on the rack, essentially sitting on the horizontal supports. Plus also all the extra structure weight that is not needed when you can get away with 3 cross bars.

What annoy's me now with my tent is since fitting the 270 awning I have had to off set the weight and push it to one side to avoid listing when static but doing so I now have a gap on one side lol.. for any serious rock crawling or off camber 4wd stuff I take the tent off any way as that top weight makes me feel like I am going to tip over too easy especially with sway-bars disconnected, its a fun drive. The swag wins for those trips.




roof paint is on my to do list .... ha ha looks bad here.

So .... drum roll.... touch wood. No more oil leaks.



Did the rocker cover gasket, injector loom, and front cam seal. My only oil leaks. gave it all a big degrease and a long drive after, zero oil spots now. Hopefully lasts like this more than a few months haha. #landroverlife

Originally Posted by Four Loko

I think I like your previous setup better, I wish I had a solid 3 bar no flat deck setup for my RTT, seems having a flat deck is more annoying, like I ended up cutting out 2 slats that ran parallel to the rack to allow my tent to sit down lower on the rack, essentially sitting on the horizontal supports. Plus also all the extra structure weight that is not needed when you can get away with 3 cross bars.

What annoy's me now with my tent is since fitting the 270 awning I have had to off set the weight and push it to one side to avoid listing when static but doing so I now have a gap on one side lol.. for any serious rock crawling or off camber 4wd stuff I take the tent off any way as that top weight makes me feel like I am going to tip over too easy especially with sway-bars disconnected, its a fun drive. The swag wins for those trips.

roof paint is on my to do list .... ha ha looks bad here.

Those bars I had were in a word, crap, expedient yes, but crap! It was noted by the others at each stop on the tracks that the tent was swaying noticeably and agree that there was a top heavy feel. Even driving home this was reduced. Suppose with the SLS and ACE on the roads that rolling feel is mitigated somewhat but will have to see out on the tracks as to such feeling. The tray already has attachments for the awning so will have to wait and see as to how this effects the setup - your rack seems wider than this one by the way.

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The RRT Rack with 9" stays sits low and had to carefully place so as to not have to take off the standard racks but as I was having to put it further forward due to the front section, no problem and happy, very happy with the siting.

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The RRT is mounted directly onto the mesh, no modification and no gap whatsoever keeping the weight as low as possible. Did do the swag thing but even the larger kings one felt claustrophobic to me, let alone that it took up the whole back seat area and had to push the door closed with a hip and shoulder bump, well almost.

Leak finding, this is a job to be done, did have a sizeable leak from the cam seal from when we did the head, but there is still a leak from the head area, but where and may need to remove the cover and refit, good job to have done.

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Fitted this Smartbar over last couple of days.
Net gain of only 7KG over stock bumper, wombat bar plus a couple of recovery hooks I had added.. I was able to construct a air duct under to the stock air duct and bend the RH inner guard to fit the bottom, and add a bit to the LH inner guard to protect the washer bottle. Biggest hassle was that the indictor bulbs were wired incorrectly from factory, however a member stated why didn't I just put the LEDs in the bullbar which was good info as I had fitted the plugs with correct polarity. Obvious when you are not tired and ****ed off.

I have been looking for years for one and only 3 have come up over 8 years that I was able to find.

I had to drive 740Km to Warwick and back to get it but IMHO worth it. A member here sold it as was moving house. Thanks Don.
Regards PhilipA

Finally got sick of the sagging roof liner. Out she came! Was a bit of a tight fit out the door but i was lazy and left the daughters booster seat in.

Now the fun part of removing all the foam. Yay

Recovered the D2 from a side street where son had pulled up after engine died and was leaking diesel from the RHS of the engine a couple of days ago.
As I suspected it was the fuel hose that goes into the head from the FPR (EU3) engine.
Circled in the attached pic.

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Second time this has 'unscrewed' itself in about a year.
Prior to that nothing and the FPR was replaced about 7 years ago.

Happily a relatively quick fix roadside after I sourced the o-rings (LR list them as NLA)
O-ring on the pipe was broken when I took it off.
Absolute PITA tightening though even with our specially manufactured ring spanner from previous time.

Noted to check regularly at service times - any insights into this or if anyone else has seen the issue?