Thread: TD5 manual or auto

Originally Posted by AK83

We used to have a really nice downhill test run in the Mt Disapointment

For me, the only true downside of an auto is that you can't push start an auto if (say) the starter packs in, or battery(s) all give up or whatever and you're stranded alone miles from anywhere.

How often do you go to mt D? I've only gone once it was on the fly and really struggled to find tracks. I found the ladder and that's about it.

And i completly agree with the starter thats the only real worry I've had I've been meaning to get a spare. Everything else you can generally bush mechanic your way home.
I had a rodeo 98 with a cactus starter solenoid and I drove it for almost a year like that. Worked every 1000 time so i just either keep it running or park on a slope. Generally it would fire 1st time at a servo (it must have known I would burn it)
When it didnt I'd just tap the starter with a hammer and put a few more dings in the door and it would eventually start.
My even older rodeo had the same problem, I'd start it with a screwdriver bridged over a couple of wires on the starter.

I miss having a manual for play but I drive into melb everyday so I had to make life easier on myself a little bit. But it's the v8 so she's a glutton.

I often short shift the 5 speed in the 4.6 and you wouldn't know in normal traffic. 1st...3rd...5th or 2nd...4th. Love the 5 speed. Couldn't prise it from me. And quick too...and let's face it sometimes we like to shift the beast along quickly.

Cheers

Originally Posted by LRJim

How often do you go to mt D? ....

A few short years ago, I used to go almost every Friday(I'm about 30mins drive up the Hume.
Take the Clonbinane exit and immediately past the fwy, turn left, then you hit a hairpin. This is now the Spur Rd.
Once over the really steep section(great views) it then gets into the gravel roads in the state forest.
Main Mountain Rd then Two Tees Rd to Camp 1(or something like that). From No. 1 Camphead north(and a bit east-ish) up Murchison Road. Nice smooth gravel. Past the Falls turnoff, then you see Tunnel Hill track(dead end, not much to see).
Then maybe a few hundred meters north of this(on the RHS) is a couple of newly formed tracks.
Not long ago, there was a track that wasn't a track that lead almost vertically down the 'cliff' through some farmland and out the gate, over the Strath Creek, and onto Falls Rd and into Strath Creek 'town'.
They're done some works, now this track heads down, has quite a few erosion ramps, but still steep in a few sections.
The track that wasn't there last time I was there, is now called Sailor Jack Track. Quite steep between trees rutted and loose shale like surface.
Lots of fun on bros locked D2(but no CDL .. yet). Didn't really trouble the D2 tho.

if you use OziExplorer I can upload a short tracklog to show the old track, which is close to these new sections.
But the gate onto the easy Falls Rd and into Strath Creek is now closed(no entry sign). So it's steep down into nothing and back up again.

Really appreciate the feedback guys, some great points. Im still looking at the moment and think i will happy either way clutch or no clutch.

Busting to get my Disco, then received a message from a fellow forum member who will have a stella D2a available in a month or so. Its hard being a bloke and trying to exercise this stupid thing they call "Patience" .....I want one and i want it now!


Will keep you posted.

Matty P

Originally Posted by LRJim

went down a really really steep hill, all engine brakes gone never been so scared off road. Lucky LR have the transmission brake which saved the day made it labour enough to get some engine brakes back.

Is there a particular figure which we apply in ft/lbs on a torque wrench when it's applied to tightening the sphincter nut. Say between 10-100ft.lbs

. . . Do the manual drive have the same TR selections, plus hill decent, as the auto has and with speed control on the + - steering wheel switch ??

Originally Posted by Salt grinder

Is there a particular figure which we apply in ft/lbs on a torque wrench when it's applied to tightening the sphincter nut. Say between 10-100ft.lbs

. . . Do the manual drive have the same TR selections, plus hill decent, as the auto has and with speed control on the + - steering wheel switch ??

Ohh i think it was well passed 100ft.lbs I had the wife in the car and I was sweating bullets she thought all was good till she looked at me hahaha. I have ABS that helped also to stop skidding but I don't know how good it is for it.

I have a D1 auto no HDC and never had the manual you would have to ask someone else who has one sorry mate!