Thread: preparing a 03 TD5 Discovery for water crossings

Hi,

yes your right, even after all the messing / mods I have done with my car, and because I have not "yet" had any issues with the Auto box, never even crossed my mind LOL.....

I would think the Gearbox ECU would not enjoy to much of a swim lol, but tbh your door seals would have to be very bad to let it fill up that much, or you would have to be stuck in deep water for a long time........

Remember it can all go pear shaped, like what happened to me while attepting the return crossing of the Wollindilly River.


Baz.

Originally Posted by Urban Panzer

Hi,

yes your right, even after all the messing / mods I have done with my car, and because I have not "yet" had any issues with the Auto box, never even crossed my mind LOL.....

I would think the Gearbox ECU would not enjoy to much of a swim lol, but tbh your door seals would have to be very bad to let it fill up that much, or you would have to be stuck in deep water for a long time........

here are the exact words out of the owners hand book that came with my disco 2 "severe electrical damage may occur if the vehicle remains stationary for any lenght of time when water is above the door sills"

wading depth at .5 m as per hand book on a standard disco2 is around door sill height anyway




as said by baz,it doesnt take much for things to go pear shaped.

i got stuck in a creek which was shallow,around door sill level,on our last cape trip(will have to find the pics).by the time we had winched the car out,the carpet was soaked,but the water had not reached the auto ecu as it is mounted about an inch above the carpet,luckily.


most of the creeks up there on the old tele track are around half way up the doors or deeper,so if you stopped in any of those for whatever reason,& had an auto it might be all over.

surely it could have been mounted somewhere else.




cheers

[quote=Tombie2;791235]

Originally Posted by Urban Panzer

If its Auto then theres a small black ECU under there.

Yep, there is also about 3 behind the PS kick panel also.

Originally Posted by Redback

Remember it can all go pear shaped, like what happened to me while attepting the return crossing of the Wollindilly River.


Baz.

Thats because you was not in a Land Rover

Some nice pic's + video's off deep wadings

But is was wondering if you guys have wading kits on your Disco 2?
Is it necesarry or just trowing away your money?????

Have already fitted a Airtec snorkel but want to know what else to fit before coming to Australia and do several water crossings.

Hope to hear from you.

technically...

Deep wading is anything over 500mm deep.


IMHO you dont generally start to get problems till you clear the 750mm mark and thats only if you stop... from 500-750mm you should be considering your breather locations for the axles and the wading plugs for the engine and bellhousing

snorkles arent needed untill you go to about 1m but a blind is required for anything in the 750mm-1m range and you should also be considering the breathers for the gearbox and tcase. (waterproofing ECUs for the electronic engines)

from 1m-1.2m you are at the limit for without snorkles and its also time to be considering the crank case breathing by this stage you will also be starting to encounter "landrover boyancy" so its also time to calibrate the plimsol marking.

Thanks for the usefull information.

Is this information for all sort off Discovery models like v8's/ td5 manuals/td5 auto etc.

I'm driving a td5 manual myself.

Hope to hear from you.


Jeroen